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Physical, inorganic and organic across five papers - and a two-hour practical exam where marks are won or lost on observation and technique. We tutor the full 9701 assessment, including the Advanced Practical Skills your child sits at the bench.
A simple four-step approach designed to build confidence, close gaps and improve exam performance.
We confirm the syllabus code, exam series and paper route for 9701. Everything else depends on this.
A diagnostic against the syllabus topics tells us what's secure and what isn't, so we teach the gaps rather than the whole book.
The same tutor teaches each week around school. Concepts build step by step, with the school's pace kept in view.
Past-paper questions begin early, followed by full timed papers marked against the published mark scheme.
Expert, vetted Cambridge A Level Chemistry tutors who have taught the 9701 specification. Past-paper work is reviewed against published mark schemes, so your child can see where marks are awarded and where they are being lost. UK-qualified teachers are available on request as a premium option.
Not "cambridge a level chemistry in general" - this syllabus, this tier and these papers.
Your child learns where the marks actually are, not where they feel they should be.
Shared whiteboard, worked solutions and lesson materials saved to review after the session.
The same tutor every week - and if that changes, we tell you first.
Cambridge A Level Chemistry is assessed across five externally-marked papers taken together in one series. Papers 3 and 5 assess practical skills, and Paper 3 is a live experiment where qualitative observation and titration technique are examined directly.
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AS - PAPERS 1-3AS chemistry multiple-choice recall and application
1h 15m
40 marks / ~15%
Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAS structured chemistry, calculations and explanation
1h 15m60 marks / ~23%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsLive practical work including titration and qualitative analysis
2h40 marks / ~13%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsA LEVEL - PAPERS 4 & 5Full A Level structured physical, inorganic and organic chemistry
2h100 marks / ~38%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsExperimental design, uncertainty and data analysis
1h 15m30 marks / ~11%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAS Level can be certificated on its own, but the A Level papers are normally sat in a single series.
Figures shown for 0580 and 0980 syllabuses for 2025-2027.
ASPAPERS 1-3AS content
1h 15m40 marks / ~15%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAS
1h 15m60 marks / ~23%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsLab exam
2h40 marks / ~13%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsA LEVELPAPERS 4 & 5A Level
2h100 marks / ~38%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsA Level practical skills
1h 15m30 marks / ~11%Build fluent methods without calculator shortcutsReview mark-scheme working with timed past-paper questionsAS Level can be certificated on its own, but the A Level papers are normally sat in a single series.
Practical skills in Papers 3 and 5 carry roughly a fifth of the marks. A clean Data Booklet and Periodic Table are provided in the relevant papers.
None of these are about ability. Each one is a mechanism in the exam, and every one of them is trainable.
Paper 3 examines qualitative analysis and titration technique live - colour changes, precipitates, precise readings. These marks need supervised, corrected practice.
Curly arrows, conditions and reagents have to be exact. Nearly right mechanisms are where able students quietly bleed marks.
Paper 5 tests experimental design, uncertainty and data analysis, not recall. It is routinely under-practised.
Four A Level papers land in one series across physical, inorganic and organic. A weak branch on the day pulls the whole grade.
Paper 4 is built on secure Paper 1 and 2 knowledge. Students who move past AS and never return find the A Level papers harder than they need to be.
These are the main syllabus strands your child is expected to cover. We teach all of them, starting with the gaps that are costing marks first.
Tuition stays aligned to the exact paper or unit structure, so revision time goes where the marks actually move.
Share your child's details and syllabus code. We'll match the right tutor and arrange a free 30-minute demo session.
Five papers: Paper 1, Paper 2, Paper 3, Paper 4 and Paper 5, normally taken together in one series.
No. Cambridge is effectively linear, without the unit-by-unit banking that Edexcel allows.
Through Paper 3, a two-hour bench exam covering qualitative analysis and titration, and Paper 5, which tests planning and analysis on paper.
The full A Level is graded A* to E; AS Level, if certificated separately, is graded a to e.
June and November series, with an additional March series in India.
Yes. Candidates get a clean Data Booklet and Periodic Table in the relevant papers.
We replace them - free, and with no argument - and hand over the syllabus progress and known concerns so the new tutor continues seamlessly.
Yes. The chemistry content overlaps heavily; the difference is structure - Cambridge's papers-together model with a live lab exam, versus Edexcel's modular units with written practical papers.
