Specialist GCSE Science tuition from a qualified teacher and practising examiner. Combined or Triple, all four exam boards, online across the UK.
Genuine GCSE outcomes from students taught by Shakib.
Grade 9 in all three sciences
Could revise for hours, then freeze whenever a question was worded in an unfamiliar way.
Taught how to read what a question is actually asking, and how much detail each answer needs.
Grade 9 in all three sciences
Three separate sciences, each becoming clear at a different point, with the worry of falling behind.
Patient work through every question, however small, across all three subjects.
This is the single most common thing parents tell me, and it is almost never a revision problem.
Often the first real signal. A mock tests exam technique as much as knowledge, and technique is rarely taught explicitly.
Knowing a topic and writing an answer a mark scheme can credit are two different skills.
Combined and Triple both demand all three. One weak subject drags the whole grade down.
Extended answers carry a lot of marks and are the most commonly mishandled questions on the paper.
I mark exam papers for an awarding body. Here is what that changes for a GCSE student.
No advance knowledge of future questions. No confidential exam content. No inside information. Mark schemes are published by the boards; the advantage is years spent marking against them.
A system, not ad-hoc tutoring. Every student follows the same four stages; what changes is what the diagnosis finds.
Short pieces of past-paper work across Biology, Chemistry and Physics show which subject is really costing the grade — and whether it is knowledge or technique.
Rebuild the topics that aren’t secure, properly, from first principles.
Questions from your exact board and tier, Combined or Triple, under exam conditions.
Analyse every dropped mark, track progress across all three sciences, adapt the plan.
Students in Years 9–11 sitting Combined or Triple Science who are working hard without the grades moving, or who are capable of more than their mocks are showing. Biology, Chemistry and Physics, taught by one specialist.
More than a weekly lesson — every month includes
Programme terms — holidays, rescheduling and notice — are set out on the terms page. Everything is billed monthly in advance.
AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. Tell me your board and tier and lessons follow that specification exactly — the content, the required practicals and the command words all differ between boards, and it matters.
Combined Science and Triple Science are both covered, at both Foundation and Higher tier.
Each of these is drawn from what the student said themselves. Their full review is shown underneath so you can check it.
Could revise for hours, then freeze whenever a question was worded in an unfamiliar way.
Taught how to read what a question is actually asking, and how much detail each answer needs.
Mocks stopped being a source of panic.
Grade 9 in all three sciences
“I could revise for hours and still freeze the moment a question was worded in a way I hadn't seen. Shakib taught me how to read what the question was actually asking and how much detail to give, and after that mocks stopped being terrifying. Ended up with 9s in all three sciences.”Sophie, in full
Three separate sciences, each becoming clear at a different point, with the worry of falling behind.
Patient work through every question, however small, across all three subjects.
Never made to feel behind while the three subjects caught up with each other.
Grade 9 in all three sciences
“Biology, Chemistry and Physics all clicked at different times and Shakib never once made me feel like I was behind. He was patient with every question, however small it was. I came out with 9s in all three.”Sarah, in full
Genuine reviews from students taught by Shakib.
“Biology, Chemistry and Physics all clicked at different times and Shakib never once made me feel like I was behind. He was patient with every question, however small it was. I came out with 9s in all three.”
“I could revise for hours and still freeze the moment a question was worded in a way I hadn't seen. Shakib taught me how to read what the question was actually asking and how much detail to give, and after that mocks stopped being terrifying. Ended up with 9s in all three sciences.”
Both. Tell me which your child is sitting and which tier, and the programme follows that specification exactly. The content and the required practicals differ, and it matters.
That is the most common pattern I see, and it usually is not a revision problem. Marks are being lost between knowing the science and writing an answer that a mark scheme can credit — command words, precision, structure, showing working. That gap is fixable, and it tends to move quickly once it is identified.
Yes. Biology, Chemistry and Physics at GCSE, taught by one teacher who can see how the three fit together and where a weakness in one is affecting another.
AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC. Tell me your board and tier and lessons will follow that specification exactly.
A live video call with a shared whiteboard, so your child watches the working build up line by line and can write on it too. Notes are saved and sent after each lesson.
Yes — an enhanced DBS certificate, which I'm happy to show any parent before lessons start. I'm also a qualified teacher, so I work to the same safeguarding standards I would in a school.
A short piece of past-paper work across a few topics, which tells me far more than a conversation about which chapters feel hard. From there you get an honest plan: what needs rebuilding, what only needs polishing, and roughly how long it should take.
Twenty minutes. We work out where the marks are going and what to do about it.
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