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Typical UK rates: GBP 25-40/hr for GCSE, GBP 30-50 for A-level, more in London and for specialist subjects: university students tutor at GBP 15-25 and are often superb for exam technique (they sat the papers recently). Online tutoring shaves 20-30% off in-person rates. The highest-leverage weeks are the exam run-in: a term of focused past-paper work often beats a year of general top-up.
What The Tutoring Cost Calculator Works Out
- Total cost: hourly rate multiplied by hours a week and weeks of tutoring. An hour a week for a school year at GBP 35 is GBP 1,365 per subject. GBP 25 to GBP 40 an hour carries most GCSE work, A-level and specialist subjects run GBP 30 to GBP 50, London adds a layer, and university-student tutors undercut at GBP 15 to GBP 25.
- Per month while it runs: the weekly cost multiplied by 4.33, the figure to set against the household budget for the months the tutoring is live.
- Per subject context and cheaper routes: each extra subject repeats the whole bill, which is why most families tutor the one blocking subject, usually maths or a science. Schools' revision sessions, past papers with mark schemes and the exam boards' examiner reports are the free tier.
- Subjects (advanced): multiplies the hours and sessions by the number of subjects being tutored, with the per-subject cost shown.
- Custom weeks (advanced): replaces the dropdown with any run length, such as 20 weeks from January to the first exam.
- Delivery (advanced): online tutoring typically costs 20% to 30% less than in person because travel disappears; the calculator applies 25% and prices the alternative so you can see the gap.
- Format (advanced): small-group sessions run at roughly 40% to 60% of the one-to-one rate (50% applied here) and capture most of the benefit for exam-technique work.
- Extra run-in hours (advanced): additional sessions in the final weeks before exams, where timed past papers and mark-scheme literacy buy the most measurable movement.
- Travel or platform fee (advanced): a per-session charge for the tutor's travel or an online platform's booking fee, added to every session and shown in the all-in hourly figure.