Doing the revision but the grade still won't move? Our Leicester GCSE tutors trace it back to the topic that never properly landed and rebuild from there, well before mocks decide anything.
From £37/hr · rates agreed directly with your tutor
FROM A 5 TO A 7 IN LEICESTER
Leicester's GCSE results sit a little below the England average, though the city has been closing that gap year on year. What a headline like that hides is the individual student: a Year 10 who lost a term of Maths to illness, or an English set that moved faster than one reader could follow. A Leicester GCSE tutor finds that specific gap in the first session and works out from it.
"My son, who is in Year 10, really struggled with English and was completely disengaged from the subject. After six months of tutoring, he has improved from a grade 5 to a 6/7. He now looks forward to his lessons. Through one-to-one tutoring he has learned effective strategies that help him approach English in a way that resonates with him."
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MEET THE TUTORS
Our Leicester GCSE tutors have worked with students heading for WQE, Gateway College and the sixth form at Beauchamp. Only about 3% of tutors who apply make it onto the platform, each one interviewed by the founders. Browse the roster, or let us match your child.
Arianna Seraj
Tayyaba Hussain
Avery Goldie
Emily Lowe
Kailash Balamurugan
Layla Sarakbi
Ashrith Agastyaraju
Zainab Iqbal
Elias Araye
Sayyeda-Zainab Rajabali
Francis Isaac
Will Turner
Frances Averre
Niamh Elizabeth
Emir Akcay
Luke Nixon
Nicole Major
Lucy Bowyer
Nicolas Baez Bano
Rebecca Hanna
Joshua Ramsdale
Yasmin Thomas
Ritu Patel
Josiah Bejide
REAL RESULTS, REAL FAMILIES
Parent of GCSE Student
My son, who is in Year 10, really struggled with English and was completely disengaged from the subject. After six months of tutoring, he has improved from a grade 5 to a 6/7. He now looks forward to his lessons. Through one-to-one tutoring he has learned effective strategies that help him approach English in a way that resonates with him.
GCSE Student
Has definitely helped me increase my grades from an E to a B.
Parent of GCSE Student
I was really pleased to discover the Degree Gap when my daughter needed help getting the grades she needed for GCSEs. The team offer a really personalised service and I felt really well looked after from the start. There are lots of tutors to choose from and all subjects are catered for, with great flexibility on timings. Highly recommend.
Parent of GCSE Student
My daughter was struggling with confidence in Maths GCSE and we decided to get a tutor. We were given a selection of tutors to choose from and told that if it did not feel like a good match we could try others. Our tutor was a complete star, listened, made it simple, set good homework and gave my daughter her confidence back. Highly recommend.
GCSE Student
Helped me a lot and really showed me what I need to improve on.
Parent of GCSE Student
The support given to my son by The Degree Gap's tutors was fabulous and he passed all his GCSE subjects. They provided experienced and organised tutors. Tutors provided resources targeting specific areas of difficulty. The website is easy to use and tutors were polite and on time.
Parent of GCSE Student
Very good tutoring for my daughter and good communication with parents. My daughter passed both English and Maths GCSE.
GCSE Student
I was helped with both Maths and English for my GCSEs and passed both subjects with great results, which gave me the foundation and confidence to go on to succeed in my A-levels and complete my degree.
Parent
My daughter found the tutors were very helpful for her GCSE. Thank you.
Parent of iGCSE Student
The Degree Gap gave our son the support he needed for his iGCSEs, especially in Maths and Economics. Lessons were clear, engaging, and built his confidence. Highly recommended.
Parent
Our tutor is simply amazing with our daughter. He understands her completely and her sessions are helping her with her school work so much. We cannot thank him enough.
Parent
This company helped us find a tutor for Geography and my son has excelled so much in just a few months. Our tutor has gone above and beyond, demonstrating incredible patience and encouraging my son to believe in himself. He also manages neurodiversity effectively.
Grandparent
My granddaughter uses the Degree Gap tutoring services across a few subjects. She is not only improving academically but really enjoys the setup and structure too. I would recommend to anyone.
Parent
The Degree Gap was fantastic. Their knowledge and guidance helped my son find direction in both his studies and future plans.
Parent
The Degree Gap has exceeded all my expectations. They have gone above and beyond to pair both my sons with the appropriate tutors, all of whom have been exceptional. Both my sons exceeded their expected grades in their GCSEs and A Levels and got into their first choice universities. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
Student
Very engaging lessons that helped me improve my grade in maths and successfully get admitted to university.
WHAT COULD BE NEXT
Most Leicester students land on one of three routes after Year 11, and here's what each one opens up.
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By working on the exact gap between where your child is now and the grade their place depends on, nothing wasted. In Maths that's usually the topics they quietly avoid; in English it's essay structure and writing to time. WQE, Gateway and Leicester College each publish their own requirements, so the tutor aims at the specific grade the offer needs.
Most technical routes want a solid grade 4 to 5 in Maths and English, and the science-heavy ones lean on strong GCSE Sciences too. A tutor can steady the Maths and Physics that gate the more competitive schemes. The employers publish their own requirements, so we work towards the grades the route actually asks for.
Often, yes, because that belief usually traces to one topic that stopped making sense, not to ability. A tutor starts with a diagnostic, finds where the thread was dropped, algebra or fractions or something earlier, and rebuilds it one step at a time. The confidence tends to come back once the marks start moving.
From £37 per hour, with the rate set by the subject and the tutor and agreed before anything is booked. Most Leicester families run a weekly hour through Year 10 and 11, then add a second session in the weeks before mocks.
