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GCSE Biology tutors who help students gain more marks
GCSE Biology tuition tailored to your child’s strengths, gaps and goals, with a strong focus on exam performance.
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Is this right for your child?
A quick fit check before you book a call. GCSE Biology requires students to know a large amount of content, but the marks often depend on how well they can apply that knowledge in an exam.
This is right if your child is...
- ✓ In Year 10 or 11 preparing for GCSE or IGCSE Biology.
- ✓ Working towards a particular grade and needs focused support to get there.
- ✓ Learning the content but still losing marks when applying it to exam questions.
- ✓ Finding topics such as genetics, homeostasis, ecology or bioenergetics difficult.
- ✓ Struggling with practical questions, data interpretation or longer written answers.
- ✓ Taking Combined Science or Triple Science and needs targeted Biology support.
This isn't the best fit if...
- You want group classes or cram sessions. We only do one-to-one.
- You’re looking for homework supervision without targeted academic support.
- You want a generic revision course that is not tailored to your child’s exam board, current level and individual gaps.
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Tutor matched
A subject specialist chosen for exam board and personality fit. Every tutor is reference-checked, DBS-checked and trained in our approach.
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Programme begins
Sessions at home, at our Lions Campus in West London, or online. Written progress reports after every session.
What we cover
Sessions are tailored to your child’s exam board, helping strengthen both subject knowledge and the skills needed to apply it in exams.
Cell biology
Cell structure, microscopy, cell division, transport in cells and the biological processes that underpin the rest of the course.
Organisation
Covers tissues, organs, the digestive system, circulatory system and how the body’s main biological systems function.
Infection and response
Pathogens, disease, immunity, vaccination, antibiotics and the body’s defence systems.
Bioenergetics
Photosynthesis, respiration and the processes organisms use to transfer and release energy.
Homeostasis and response
The nervous system, hormones, temperature control, blood glucose and the ways the body maintains stable internal conditions.
Inheritance, variation and evolution
DNA, genetics, inheritance, variation, evolution and selective breeding, including the calculations and terminology students need to use accurately.
Ecology
Ecosystems, biodiversity, food chains, environmental change and the relationships between organisms and their surroundings.
Required practicals
Understanding the method, variables, results and conclusions behind required practical work, as well as how practical knowledge is tested in written exams.
Past papers and exam technique
Students practise applying their knowledge to unfamiliar questions, interpreting graphs and data, using biological terminology precisely and understanding what the mark scheme is looking for.
Specialist SEND support
Academic ambition, adapted to how your child learns.
Many of our tutors are experienced with dyslexia, ADHD, autism and other learning differences, without lowering academic expectations.
Results & reputation
Results parents can feel.
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of Lionheart GCSE students improve by at least one grade within a term of regular tuition
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achieve Grades 8 to 9 in the subjects they receive ongoing one-to-one support in
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of parents report a noticeable increase in confidence within the first four weeks
“Our daughter had always found Biology quite overwhelming because of the amount she had to remember. Her tutor made everything much clearer and, more importantly, showed her how to use what she knew in exam questions. Her confidence and results improved enormously.”
Parent of GCSE student
“The tutor quickly worked out where our son was losing marks and focused on those areas rather than simply going back through the whole syllabus. It made his revision much more focused and his grade improved.”
David S.
“Excellent tuition. Our daughter went into her Biology GCSE feeling much more confident about both the content and the exam itself. The difference in her approach to past papers was particularly noticeable.”
Mother of GCSE student
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Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Clear answers before you speak with the GCSE team.
Yes. We support students taking both GCSE and IGCSE Biology and match the tutor according to the qualification and specification your child is studying.
Our tutors work across the major GCSE and IGCSE exam boards, including AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Cambridge. We establish your child’s exact exam board before matching their tutor.
Yes. If your child is taking Combined Science, the tutor can focus specifically on the Biology component while working within the requirements of their Combined Science specification.
Yes. We can provide specialist Biology tuition for students taking Biology as a separate GCSE as part of Triple Science.
That is often exactly what the tuition is designed to do. We look at your child’s current performance and identify where they are losing marks, then focus tuition on the knowledge and exam skills needed to work towards their target grade.
Yes. Biology exams require much more than memorising facts. Tutors can work on command words, application questions, practicals, calculations, data interpretation, longer responses and mark-scheme technique.
No. In Year 11, tuition can become particularly targeted. A tutor can identify the highest-priority gaps and combine content revision with exam questions and past-paper practice.
Yes. GCSE Biology tuition is available online, as well as in person in London where suitable.
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