AS-level Geology tutors
1 of 1 UK tutor teaching Geology at AS-level.
Geology is a single-board subject in UK schools — GCSE Geology is offered only by Eduqas / WJEC (spec C480QS), and A-level Geology runs at Eduqas / WJEC and at OCR (H414), with OCR withdrawing the qualification (final first teach September 2026, final A-level assessment June 2028). It covers minerals and rocks, plate tectonics, geological time and structural geology, with substantial fieldwork — the Eduqas A-level requires a minimum of four days in the field. Tutoring helps most with rock and mineral identification (which rewards lots of practice with real specimens), the quantitative side at A-level (cross-sections, dip and strike, thin-section interpretation), and the essay-style questions on Earth history. School provision is thin and tutors are correspondingly scarce; geoscience graduates and Earth science teachers are the realistic pool. There's a meaningful adult-learner and university-support cohort here too — Open University earth science modules, mature students sitting GCSE or A-level privately, and undergraduate fieldwork prep.
AS-levels are the first-year sixth-form qualification (Year 12, age 16-17), taken as standalone qualifications worth half an A-level in subjects where students don't continue to A2. Since the 2015-2017 reforms decoupled AS from A-level in England, AS marks no longer count toward the A-level grade — students sit fresh A-level exams at the end of Year 13. Wales and Northern Ireland retained the older modular structure. Tutoring at AS focuses on consolidation through Year 12 to set up A-level success; in England, the AS exam itself is now optional and increasingly skipped. Confirm the actual route the student is on.
Filters:
Read up before you book
Plain-English guides
About Geology
What Geology covers across UK levels, where tutoring usually helps, and what to look for in a tutor.
Exam boards
AQA, Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, CCEA, SQA and Cambridge International — what each is known for.
Parent guides
Cost benchmarks, online vs in-person, when to start, choosing a tutor, and knowing if it's working.
Also explore