A Level Chemistry Tutoring, for Every Board
A Level Chemistry is three subjects held together by calculation: physical chemistry needs confident algebra, inorganic chemistry needs explanations in terms of electrons and forces, and organic chemistry needs mechanisms drawn exactly. Most students are strong in one branch and weak in another, and the boards examine them differently — AQA and OCR split papers broadly by branch before a final paper across everything, Pearson Edexcel sets modular units, and Cambridge International adds a practical test sat in a laboratory.
Short answer
A Level Chemistry is offered online, one-to-one.
A private lesson runs 90 minutes and starts at USD 95 per lesson; lessons are booked singly or in packages.
No group class runs for this exam.
From USD 95 per lesson
Your lessons are taught by Laura Bennett, who teaches A Level Chemistry.
- Structure shown for AQA, OCR, Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge International
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
- From USD 95 per lesson
How A Level Chemistry is assessed, board by board
4 awarding bodies examine this subject, and they do not examine it the same way: different papers, different weightings, different practical arrangements. Find your board — it is printed on your school's timetable and on past papers — and read that block. Nothing on this page describes one board's paper as though it applied to all of them.
AQA
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1 — Relevant physical chemistry, inorganic chemistry and relevant practical skills | 35% | 2 hours | 105 marks | short answer and extended response |
| Paper 2 — Relevant physical chemistry, organic chemistry and relevant practical skills | 35% | 2 hours | 105 marks | short answer and extended response |
| Paper 3 — Any content: 40 marks practical techniques and data analysis, 20 across the specification, 30 multiple choice | 30% | 2 hours | 90 marks | structured questions, data response and multiple choice |
| Practical endorsement in chemistry | — | Assessed in school | — | practical work and reported separately from the grade |
- The practical endorsement is assessed by the school across the required chemistry practicals and reported as pass or not classified. It carries no marks towards the A Level grade, and universities do look at it.
Checked on 22 September 2026
OCR
OCR A Level Chemistry A (H432)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Periodic table, elements and physical chemistry (01) — Modules 1, 2, 3 and 5 | 37% | 2 hours 15 min | 100 marks | structured questions, extended response and calculations |
| Synthesis and analytical techniques (02) — Modules 1, 2, 4 and 6 | 37% | 2 hours 15 min | 100 marks | structured questions, extended response and calculations |
| Unified chemistry (03) — All six modules | 26% | 1 hour 30 min | 70 marks | structured questions and extended response |
| Practical endorsement in chemistry | — | Assessed in school | — | practical work and reported separately from the grade |
- The practical endorsement is assessed by the school across the required chemistry practicals and reported as pass or not classified. It carries no marks towards the A Level grade, and universities do look at it.
- The same board also awards Chemistry B (Salters) (H433), which is examined differently. Check the specification code on your syllabus before assuming the structure above applies.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Pearson Edexcel
Pearson Edexcel International A Level Chemistry (YCH11)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1: Structure, Bonding and Introduction to Organic Chemistry | 20% | 1 hour 30 min | 80 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 2: Energetics, Group Chemistry, Halogenoalkanes and Alcohols | 20% | 1 hour 30 min | 80 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 3: Practical Skills in Chemistry I — Written paper on the experiments done in units 1 and 2 | 10% | 1 hour 20 min | 50 marks | short answer and calculations |
| Unit 4: Rates, Equilibria and Further Organic Chemistry | 20% | 1 hour 45 min | 90 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 5: Transition Metals and Organic Nitrogen Chemistry | 20% | 1 hour 45 min | 90 marks | multiple choice, short answer, extended response and calculations |
| Unit 6: Practical Skills in Chemistry II — Written paper on the experiments done in units 4 and 5 | 10% | 1 hour 20 min | 50 marks | short answer and calculations |
- This is a modular qualification: units are sat in January, June and October, can be taken in stages, and can be re-sat, with the best result counting. That changes how a two-year plan is built — and it is the main reason a Pearson student and a Cambridge student in the same class need different revision schedules.
- Practical skills are examined on paper, in units 3 and 6, rather than by a school-assessed endorsement. The experiments still have to be done — the questions assume the student has done them.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Cambridge International
Cambridge International AS & A Level Chemistry (9701)
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1: Multiple Choice — AS Level content | 15.5% | 1 hour 15 min | 40 marks | multiple choice |
| Paper 2: AS Level Structured Questions — AS Level content | 23% | 1 hour 15 min | 60 marks | structured questions |
| Paper 3: Advanced Practical Skills — Experimental skills, sat in a laboratory | 11.5% | 2 hours | 40 marks | practical work and structured questions |
| Paper 4: A Level Structured Questions — A Level content, assuming the AS content | 38.5% | 2 hours | 100 marks | structured questions |
| Paper 5: Planning, Analysis and Evaluation — Experimental design; contexts may sit outside the syllabus | 11.5% | 1 hour 15 min | 30 marks | planning, analysis and evaluation |
- Cambridge examines practical work in a timetabled laboratory exam rather than through a school-assessed endorsement. Papers 3 and 5 together carry 23% of the A Level, which is more than most students allocate to practical preparation.
- There are three routes through the qualification: AS Level alone, AS then A Level in two stages, or all five papers in one series. Which route a school uses changes when each paper is sat.
Checked on 22 September 2026
Specifications are revised periodically. Each block links to the specification it was read from and gives the date it was checked; if your school has moved to a newer specification, that document takes precedence.
What A Level Chemistry covers
The syllabus areas most boards share. Which ones appear, in what order and on which paper differs by board and by specification code — your own specification is the final word. Topic names are left in English, as they appear on the paper.
Physical Chemistry
Atomic models, electron configuration, ionisation energy · Thermodynamics: enthalpy, entropy, free energy · Kinetics: rate, Boltzmann distribution, catalysts · Chemical equilibrium and Le Chatelier's principle
Inorganic Chemistry
Periodic trends: Group 2 and Group 7 · Transition metals, complex ions and their colours · Redox reactions and electrochemistry · Catalytic properties of d-block elements
Organic Chemistry
Alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones · Mechanisms: nucleophilic substitution, elimination · Aromatic chemistry: benzene, Friedel-Crafts · Polymerisation, amino acids, proteins
Where A Level Chemistry marks are usually lost
Curly arrows that start in the wrong place
Organic mechanisms are marked arrow by arrow: each curly arrow must start from a lone pair or a bond and point to where the electrons go, with partial charges and intermediates shown where the mechanism needs them. Students who learn mechanisms as pictures lose marks for an arrow from an atom, a missing lone pair or a misplaced carbocation. Mechanisms must first be understood as electron movement.
Losing marks between the method and the answer
Calculations on moles, enthalpy changes, equilibrium constants, pH and electrode potentials carry many marks, and the losses are often mechanical: units missing or wrong, an inappropriate number of significant figures, a mole ratio skipped. Students who round at every step drift away from the accepted answer. Setting out each step and keeping full values until the final line prevents most of these losses.
Describing a trend instead of explaining it
Questions on ionisation energies, boiling points, group trends or acid strength ask for an explanation in terms of particles and forces. Marks go when students confuse intermolecular forces with covalent bonds, write “stronger bonds” without saying which bonds, or restate the trend in other words. A good answer names the structure, the force or the factor, and says how it changes across the series.
How we teach A Level Chemistry
A tutor plans the three branches separately but links them constantly: energetics with equilibrium, redox with electrochemistry, bonding with spectroscopy and organic synthesis. Mechanisms are drawn by hand in every organic lesson until arrow placement is automatic, and reaction pathways are built into maps the student redraws from memory. Calculations are practised in short, frequent sets with full working. Practical preparation follows the board: the required practicals behind the endorsement for AQA and OCR; the core practicals behind Pearson’s two practical-skills units; and for Cambridge, titrations and qualitative analysis for the practical test, with experimental design for the planning paper. Mass spectra, infrared and NMR are practised as puzzles to solve, because structure-determination questions reward a systematic method more than memory.
Your starting point is reviewed before the study plan is finalised. The exact method depends on the programme and is agreed on the intro call — for some students that means a timed section, for others it means reading a recent score report or a piece of marked work. We will tell you which applies to you before you book anything, rather than describing a process here that may not be the one you get.
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