Student learning online with a dedicated tutor through a laptop screen
Online Tutoring

One-to-One Online Tutoring, Done Properly

This is one-to-one online tutoring done properly: no travel, no group of twelve, no rotating cast of tutors. One student, one consistent tutor, one lesson built entirely around your child — from your own home.

Why One-to-One

Why One-to-One Online Tutoring Beats the Alternatives

vs Group Classes

In a group, the lesson moves at the group's pace and your child's question waits its turn. One-to-one, every minute is spent on exactly what your child needs — which is why an hour of it outworks several hours of group teaching.

vs In-Person Tutoring

Same tutor quality, none of the friction: no travel time, no stranger in your home, a far wider pool of tutors to match from, and lessons that survive bad weather, illness-recovery days and busy family schedules.

vs Big Tutor Marketplaces

Marketplaces hand you hundreds of profiles and leave the choosing, checking and managing to you. We do the matching and the progress tracking — you get one point of contact on WhatsApp instead of a job to manage.

Tutor and student working on the same problem over a live video lesson with a shared whiteboard
What Lessons Look Like

Inside a Tutormint Lesson

Lessons run live on video with a shared screen or whiteboard, so tutor and student work on the same problem at the same time — writing out solutions, annotating texts, sketching diagrams. It's the closeness of sitting side by side, without anyone travelling. Lessons follow the UK national curriculum and your child's exam board, and each one ends with short practice so progress continues between sessions.

Wondering whether a screen really works as well as a tutor at the kitchen table? We set out the research either way — including the findings that go against online — in online vs in-person tutoring, along with the children for whom we would recommend in-person lessons instead.

How It Runs

How One-on-One Tutoring Runs, Week to Week

One-to-one is not just a smaller class. It changes what a lesson can be used for — and the arrangement around it is what keeps that working past the first month.

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Matched to one tutor

You tell us the level, the subject and what is going wrong. We match one tutor to your child rather than handing you a list to sift — and that tutor is the one who teaches every lesson, so nobody starts from scratch each week.

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A fixed weekly slot

Lessons run at the same time each week, chosen around school and family life. One hour is the usual starting point; families closer to an exam often move to two. Plans can be rescheduled free with notice, so a bad week does not cost a lesson.

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Taught from where the gap is

The first lessons are diagnostic. A tutor working with one student can see exactly which step breaks — and teach from there, rather than from wherever the scheme of work happens to be that term.

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Told what actually happened

You get an update after lessons on WhatsApp: what was covered, what landed, what still needs work. One point of contact, not a dashboard to check.

The longer version of the matching and first-lesson process is on how it works. If what you actually need is help getting through the week's set work rather than a full teaching plan, that is a different service and we run it separately as homework help.

What It Costs

What One-to-One Costs, and Why the Hour Goes Further

Rates start at £15 per one-hour lesson for KS3 and the 11+, £20 at GCSE and from £25 at A-Level. There is no contract and no joining fee, and the first lesson is a free demo class with no payment details taken.

One-to-one looks more expensive than a group class per hour and usually is not per unit of progress, because none of the hour is spent on other children's questions. It is also why we compare honestly rather than by headline rate: a cheaper group hour that moves at someone else's pace is not the same product. Full per-level rates, lesson lengths and what is included are on the pricing page, and what a tutor costs in the UK sets our rates against the national picture, including why an in-person London quote is not like for like.

Who It's For

From KS3 Foundations to A-Level and the 11+

We tutor Maths, English and Science across KS3, GCSE, A-Level and 11+ entrance exams — one-to-one, at times that fit around school and family life.

For the full picture, see every subject we offer on the Subjects page, every stage we cover on the Levels page, and current lesson rates on the Pricing page.

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Try It Free — Then Decide

One free demo class shows you more than any page can. No payment details, no obligation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

For one-to-one teaching, yes — the shared screen and whiteboard replicate sitting together, and what research consistently shows matters is the one-to-one attention and tutor quality, not the room. Online also removes the two things that quietly kill in-person tutoring: travel time and a small local pool of tutors.

One-to-one lessons hold attention far better than classrooms or group calls — there is nowhere to hide and nothing passive about them. The tutor is asking your child questions and working problems with them the entire lesson. Parents are also welcome to sit in any time.

A laptop or tablet with a camera and internet — that's it. Lessons run in the browser with nothing to install. A cheap headset helps in noisy homes but isn't required.

Yes — lessons follow the UK national curriculum and, for exam years, your child's specific exam board and specification, so tutoring reinforces schoolwork instead of running parallel to it.

For most children, yes, and the reason is arithmetic rather than opinion: in a group of six, your child gets roughly a sixth of the teaching and none of it is aimed at their particular gap. One on one, the whole hour is diagnostic — the tutor sees which step breaks and teaches from there. It is also why we do not run group classes at all.

Yes. A-Level is where one-to-one tends to matter most, because the gap is usually one or two specific topics rather than the whole subject, and a tutor working with one student can find them quickly. See the A-Level page for exam boards, Year 12 and Year 13 coverage, and what we tutor at that level.

One hour a week is the usual starting point and is enough for most children working steadily through a year. Families closer to an exam, or catching up on a specific gap, often move to two. We would rather start at one and change it once the tutor has seen your child work than sell you a bigger plan on day one.

Tell us and we will match a different one. The free demo class exists partly for this — it is a real lesson with the tutor you would actually get, so you can judge the match before any payment details are involved.
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