13+ Ancient Greek tutors
1 of 1 UK tutor teaching Ancient Greek at 13+.
Ancient Greek (OCR at GCSE and A-level) is rarer than Latin and covers translation, comprehension, and set texts in Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides, Sophocles, Euripides and others. School provision is concentrated in independent schools and a small number of state grammars; tutors are correspondingly scarce. Tutoring helps most with the language load — Greek's morphology is heavier than Latin's, and most students need more practice on accidence and syntax than school timetables allow — and with the dialect variations in set-text authors. Look for tutors with a classics degree and explicit Greek (not just Latin) fluency.
The 13+ is the entrance test for independent senior schools (those starting at Year 9 rather than Year 7), sat in Year 8 — typically ISEB Common Pre-Test in Year 6/7 followed by Common Entrance or scholarship papers in Year 8. Some senior schools (Eton, Westminster, Winchester, St Paul's, Harrow) use their own papers. Subject coverage is broader than 11+ — English, maths, science as core, plus humanities, languages and often Latin for scholarship candidates. Tutoring helps most with the breadth, with specific past-paper familiarity for the target school, and with the interview preparation that scholarship rounds usually include.
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