A Level Politics Tutoring, for Every Board
A Level Politics is largely about the government of a country most students in Africa have never lived in — the UK, compared with the USA or set against global politics — and it is examined through current, specific examples rather than textbook generalities. Both boards covered here, AQA and Pearson Edexcel, also study political ideas through named thinkers and expect essays that weigh arguments and reach a judgement.
Short answer
A Level Politics 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.
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- Structure shown for AQA, Pearson Edexcel
- Live online lessons of 90 minutes
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How A Level Politics is assessed, board by board
2 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: Government and politics of the UK | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 77 marks | extended response and essay |
| Paper 2: Government and politics of the USA and comparative politics | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 77 marks | extended response and essay |
| Paper 3: Political ideas | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 77 marks | essay |
Checked on 22 September 2026
Pearson Edexcel
Pearson Edexcel A level Politics (9PL0) — UK specification
| Component | Share of grade | Length | Marks | Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Component 1: UK Politics — Political participation and core political ideas | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 84 marks | source evaluation and essay |
| Component 2: UK Government — UK government and one non-core political idea | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 84 marks | source evaluation and essay |
| Component 3: Comparative Politics — USA or Global politics | 33⅓% | 2 hours | 84 marks | essay |
- This is the UK A level rather than an International A Level — Pearson does not award Politics as an IAL. Schools across Africa that offer it enter students for the UK qualification, which is examined only in the May/June series.
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 Politics 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.
UK Politics
Electoral systems and reform debates · Political parties and ideological differences · Pressure groups and the role of the media · Models of democracy and political participation
UK Government
The Constitution and constitutional reform · Parliament: Commons and Lords · Prime-ministerial power and cabinet government · Judicial independence and human rights
Political Ideologies
Liberalism: classical and modern · Conservatism: traditional and the New Right · Socialism: democratic and authoritarian · Other: feminism, ecologism, nationalism
Where A Level Politics marks are usually lost
Examples that are out of date or out of place
Strong answers rest on recent, accurate evidence: a particular select committee report, a named Supreme Court ruling, a specific election result. Students outside the UK often rely on textbook examples that events have overtaken, or slip a US example into a UK question. For some topics, such as prime-ministerial power, AQA sets the period the examples must come from, so the evidence file needs updating throughout the course.
Summarising an ideology instead of using its thinkers
Questions on political ideas expect students to use the ideas of key thinkers, and Pearson Edexcel states this explicitly for its core ideas questions. Weak answers summarise what liberals or conservatives ‘believe’ in general terms. Strong ones show where thinkers within one tradition disagree — classical and modern liberals on the role of the state, for instance — and use those tensions to answer the question that was set.
Comparing without explaining the difference
Comparative questions ask why political systems differ, not only how. At AQA, the UK and the USA are compared through structural, rational and cultural approaches, and Pearson’s comparative component includes a compulsory question on comparative theories. Students lose marks by placing two descriptions side by side; credit comes from explaining a difference through a theory and judging which theory explains it best.
How we teach A Level Politics
A tutor treats the course as two parallel tasks: learning how institutions are meant to work, and keeping a record of what they have actually done recently. Each topic — Parliament, the Prime Minister and cabinet, the judiciary, elections, parties and pressure groups, then the US institutions or global politics — starts with the formal rules and moves on to current cases the student can cite. Political ideas are taught thinker by thinker, with the disagreements inside each ideology mapped out. Exam technique follows the board’s own question styles: AQA’s ‘explain’ questions and essays; Pearson Edexcel’s source questions, which ask for comparative analysis of a single source, and its essays. Plans are written to time, and full answers are marked against the board’s levels.
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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