EPQ Ancient Greek tutors

1 UK tutor who teach Ancient Greek at EPQ.

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 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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