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IGCSE Combined Science tutors

7 of 7 UK tutors teaching Combined Science at IGCSE.

Combined Science (also called Trilogy at AQA, or Double Award) is the GCSE route most state-school students take — two GCSE grades covering biology, chemistry and physics, with reduced content versus the separate triple sciences. Tutoring helps most with the breadth: students often arrive solid in one science and shaky in another, and the exam papers don't let you specialise. The required practicals carry disproportionate weight in the questions. Boards (AQA, Edexcel, OCR Gateway, OCR 21st Century, CIE) cover similar ground but differ on practical lists and paper structure — match the tutor to the spec the school is teaching.

IGCSE (International GCSE) is offered by Cambridge International (CIE) and Edexcel International, and is taken by international-school students worldwide and by some UK independent schools that prefer the IGCSE syllabus to GCSE in particular subjects (often maths and the sciences, where IGCSE retains harder content). Universities treat IGCSE and GCSE as equivalent. Tutoring needs are similar to GCSE — exam-paper technique, content consolidation, board-specific past-paper practice — but the spec differences are real, especially in maths and the sciences. Match the tutor to the actual board (CIE vs Edexcel International) and the year of the spec being taught.

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