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EPQ Politics tutors

1 UK tutor who teach Politics at EPQ.

Politics is offered at A-level (AQA, Edexcel) and covers UK politics (parliament, elections, parties, pressure groups), UK government (constitution, executive, judiciary), political ideas (liberalism, conservatism, socialism, plus an option), and a comparative or global politics component. It's essay-heavy and rewards specific contemporary examples — exam answers using stale references lose marks. Tutoring helps most with essay structure, with the political-ideas content (where students confuse thinkers if not taught carefully), and with keeping currency on the comparative or global unit. Look for tutors with politics or PPE backgrounds and explicit Edexcel or 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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