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EPQ Accounting tutors

1 UK tutor who teach Accounting at EPQ.

Accounting is offered at A-level (AQA is the main board) and as GCSE/Level 2 routes through some boards. It's the most quantitative of the social-science-tier subjects: double-entry bookkeeping, financial statements, ratio analysis, cost and management accounting. Tutoring helps most with the technical mechanics (double-entry confuses students for longer than they expect) and with the long-form financial-statement preparation papers, where method marks compound. School provision is patchy, so tutors are often the substitute rather than the supplement. Look for tutors with accounting qualifications (ACA, ACCA, CIMA part-qualified or qualified) and explicit AQA spec experience.

The Extended Project Qualification is a Level 3 standalone qualification taken alongside A-levels (typically in Year 12 or Year 13) and is worth half an A-level (up to 28 UCAS points at A*). Students choose their own topic and produce either a 5,000-word dissertation, or an artefact / performance accompanied by a 1,000-word report, plus a production log and a viva-style presentation. AQA's spec (7993) is the largest by a wide margin (~40,000 entries/year in England); Pearson Edexcel (Dissertation P301, Investigation P302, Performance P303, Artefact P304), OCR (H856) and WJEC / Eduqas also offer it. Tutoring on EPQ is closer to academic-research mentoring than subject teaching: research-question scoping, source evaluation and citation discipline, dissertation structure, statistical analysis where relevant, and viva preparation. Look for tutors with degree-level research experience in the project's topic area; subject-specialist A-level tutors don't always cover the dissertation craft well.

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