A-Level Maths tutoring.
One to one, online, with tutors who sat these papers recently and came away with top marks. Full curriculum coverage across pure, statistics and mechanics, taught alongside the mark-scheme thinking that separates an A from an A*.
Founder’s A-Level Maths
97%
Tahan Islam
Cambridge Medicine
Taught by people who sat the same paper.
Every ILE tutor sat these exams recently and came away with an A*. They know which questions catch people out, because those questions caught them out first.
Recent, high-performing tutors
Current top-university students teaching their own best subjects. Not career tutors working from a textbook they last opened a decade ago, but people who can still remember what the hard part felt like.
Understanding before procedure
A method memorised is a method that breaks the moment the question is phrased differently. We teach why it works, so an unfamiliar question is a variation rather than a wall.
Mark-scheme thinking
A mark scheme pays for method and accuracy separately, and the order matters. Knowing where the marks sit changes how you write an answer, and it is worth grades over a full paper.
Past papers, marked properly
Timed papers with feedback question by question, naming the mark you dropped rather than the score you got. Dropping method marks and dropping accuracy marks need different fixes.
ILE was founded by a Cambridge medic who took four A*s and an AEA Distinction, scoring 97% in A-Level Maths and 99.3% in Further Maths.
The whole specification, in the order it makes sense.
A-Level Maths is pure plus applied, and the applied half is where most marks quietly go missing. Every topic is mapped to your exact board.
Pure Mathematics
Roughly two thirds of the A-Level
- Algebra, functions and proof
- Coordinate geometry and sequences
- Trigonometry and identities
- Differentiation and integration
- Exponentials and logarithms
- Vectors and numerical methods
Statistics
Including the large data set
- Sampling and data presentation
- Measures of location and spread
- Correlation and regression
- Probability and distributions
- Binomial and normal models
- Hypothesis testing
Mechanics
Where the diagrams earn the marks
- Kinematics and graphs
- Constant acceleration
- Forces and Newton’s laws
- Connected particles
- Moments and equilibrium
- Projectiles and friction
Edexcel, AQA and OCR.
Boards differ in more than wording. Edexcel’s statistics questions lean on the large data set, AQA spreads the applied content differently across its three papers, and OCR runs two separate specifications. Sessions are taught against the one you are actually entered for, and if you are not sure which that is, it is on the front of any past paper your school has given you.
Four stages, starting with a free hour.
The same process every ILE student goes through. How we teach
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Diagnostic
A free 60-minute lesson, not a sales call. Bring a paper you have already attempted and we go through where the marks went, map the gaps, and align to your exam board.
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A plan with a target
A clear goal and a sequence that puts the highest-value topics first, paced to how quickly things are actually landing rather than to a fixed syllabus calendar.
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Weekly sessions
Structured hours combining teaching, timed practice and technique drills, with progress tracked so improvement is visible rather than assumed.
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Into the exams
Past paper drilling against the clock and pre-exam sessions on the topics most likely to cost marks on the day.
Most students arrive at one of these points.
- Year 12 building foundations. The step up from GCSE is steeper than anyone warns, and the gaps it opens are the ones that show up in Year 13.
- Year 13 finals. Content largely covered, marks still going missing, and not enough time to work out where without help.
- Struggling and falling behind. Predicted below where you need to be, with each new topic harder because the last one never settled.
- Chasing an A or A*. Already strong, but losing marks to method and presentation rather than to not knowing the maths.
- Mock preparation. A defined block of work before a specific paper, rather than an open-ended commitment.
- Wanting to understand it. Tired of memorising procedures that fall apart the moment a question is worded unfamiliarly.
Students taking Maths usually take these too.
A-Level Maths, answered.
Edexcel, AQA and both OCR specifications, A and MEI. Sessions are taught against the board you are entered for, because the applied content and the style of question differ between them.
Yes. A full 60-minute lesson with your matched tutor, with no card details and no commitment. It is a real session rather than a sales call, and most students bring a paper they have already attempted so there is something concrete to work through.
Online, on Google Meet, anywhere in the UK.
Yes. Plenty of students come for one thing: integration, hypothesis testing, or mechanics before a mock. The diagnostic lesson is where we work out whether a targeted block or full coverage is the better use of the time.
No. A good share of the work is with students already on an A who are losing marks to method and presentation rather than to the maths, which is usually the difference between an A and an A*.
Year 12 is easier, because the step up from GCSE opens the gaps that later topics are built on. Year 13 is still very much worth it, and the C to A* above was a Year 13 start.
We link to every one the exam boards publish, free and with no sign-up, on our A-Level Maths past papers page. Sessions use them alongside your own school papers.
The first Maths hour is free.
A full 60-minute lesson on whichever paper is giving you trouble, free and with no card details. You will finish it knowing where the marks are going and what it would take to reach your target.