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A Level History Tutoring

Build sharp historical arguments and master source analysis. Our expert tutors help you write essays that earn top marks.

Whether you're working through your breadth and depth studies in Year 12, developing your historical investigation in Year 13, or building essay structure and source evaluation skills, our tutors provide structured support tailored to your exam board, chosen topics, and goals.

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What You Get with A Level History Tutoring

Comprehensive support designed to help you achieve your target grade

Exam Mastery

  • Essay planning and structure: clear argument, supported analysis, counter-argument
  • Source analysis: provenance, content, tone, NOP (nature, origin, purpose)
  • Historiography: using historians' interpretations to strengthen your essays
  • Past paper practice with mark scheme analysis and examiner tips

Historical Investigation (NEA)

  • Testing whether your question is focused, arguable and workable
  • Evaluating primary and secondary sources, practised on other material
  • Building a sustained historical argument, practised on essays outside your NEA
  • Writing a bibliography and referencing sources correctly

Concept Building

  • Second-order concepts: causation, consequence, significance, change and continuity
  • How to build a sustained argument - not just a narrative
  • Connecting specific knowledge to broader historical themes
  • Regular progress tracking and personalised study plans
Real student results

Students Improving Their History Grades

C → A
"My essays told the story without making an argument. My tutor showed me how to build a line of argument and every response I've written since has been analytically focused."
H

Hannah B.

A Level History, AQA, Summer 2024

B → A*
"Historiography was the thing separating my essays from top marks. My tutor helped me understand how to use historians' arguments as tools rather than just quotations."
F

Finn O.

A Level History, OCR, Summer 2024

D → B
"Source analysis questions were my weakest area. My tutor taught me NOP analysis properly and I stopped writing generic evaluations that got no marks."
K

Kezia M.

A Level History, Edexcel, Summer 2023

How It Works

Simple steps to get started with A Level History tutoring

1

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Choose 3 to 100 hours based on your needs. Split across subjects if needed.

2

Complete Onboarding

Tell us your exam board, year group, weak areas, goals, and scheduling preferences.

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AS Level vs Full A Level: What's the Difference?

We support students at both stages - here's how they compare

Area
AS Level (Year 12)
A Level (Year 12–13)
Content Covered
Breadth study: long-term change and continuity | Depth study: detailed shorter period
Further depth and breadth content, plus historical interpretations and independent investigation (NEA)
Qualification
A separate AS Level qualification where your board offers one. OCR's AS History A (H105) has its final exams in June 2027, with no resit
Completes the full A Level including the historical investigation coursework
Papers (AQA example)
AQA AS: a breadth paper and a depth paper
AQA 7042: two 2 hour 30 minute papers plus the historical investigation (NEA, 20%). Edexcel and OCR structure their papers differently
Source Skills
Basic source comprehension and usefulness
Advanced provenance analysis: NOP, cross-referencing multiple sources, evaluating reliability
Historiography
Basic awareness of historical debate
Sustained engagement with competing interpretations: Whig history, revisionism, post-revisionism

A Level History Syllabus Coverage

Our tutors are experienced with all major A Level History exam boards - AQA, OCR, Edexcel, and Cambridge - and with a wide range of historical periods and topics. Whatever your breadth and depth studies cover, we can provide targeted support.

1
Historical Skills: Essays

  • Building a clear, sustained analytical argument
  • Using specific factual knowledge as evidence, not decoration
  • Counter-argument and balance - showing awareness of complexity
  • Integrating historiography to strengthen your line of argument
  • +1 more

2
Historical Skills: Sources

  • Nature, origin and purpose (NOP) of historical sources
  • Evaluating provenance: does the origin affect reliability?
  • Cross-referencing sources: corroboration and contradiction
  • Distinguishing content from inference
  • +1 more

3
Breadth Studies

  • Long-term change and continuity across a 100+ year period
  • Thematic analysis: political, economic, social, cultural change
  • Causal analysis: what drove change or prevented it?
  • Case studies within the breadth period as specific evidence
  • +1 more

4
Depth Studies

  • Detailed knowledge of a shorter period of major change
  • Micro-level causation: specific events, decisions, individuals
  • Political, social, economic, and ideological dimensions
  • Primary source evaluation within the depth study context
  • +1 more

5
Historical Interpretations

  • Understanding how and why historical interpretations change
  • Key historiographical schools: Whig, Marxist, revisionist, post-revisionist
  • Evaluating the arguments of named historians
  • Using interpretations in essay responses at A2 level
  • +1 more

6
Historical Investigation (NEA)

  • Choosing a focused, arguable research question
  • Finding and evaluating primary and secondary sources
  • Structuring a 3,500–4,500 word historical essay
  • Footnoting, bibliography, and referencing conventions
  • +1 more
Assessment breakdown

A Level History Assessment Structure

Understand exactly how you'll be assessed and prepare strategically for each component

Exam boards covered:AQAOCREdexcelCambridge

AQA Component 1 - Breadth Study

Written Exam
Weighting
40%

Significant historical developments over a period of around 100 years, and historians' interpretations of them

2 hours 30 minutes
Section A: one compulsory question on historical interpretations (extracts), 30 marks | Section B: two from three essays, 25 marks each
Your school's breadth option, e.g. Tsarist and Communist Russia 1855–1964, The making of a Superpower: USA 1865–1975

AQA Component 2 - Depth Study

Written Exam
Weighting
40%

A period of major historical change studied in depth, with primary sources from the period

2 hours 30 minutes
Section A: one compulsory question on primary sources, 30 marks | Section B: two from three essays, 25 marks each
Your school's depth option, e.g. Democracy and Nazism: Germany 1918–1945, The Cold War c1945–1991

AQA Component 3 - Historical Investigation (NEA)

Coursework / NEA
Weighting
20%

A personal study on a topic of the student's choice, set as a question in the context of about 100 years, using primary and secondary sources

Written report of 3,500–4,500 words - analytical argument supported by evaluated sources
Student-chosen topic - must involve primary source analysis and engagement with historical interpretations

Key Assessment Notes

  • Both AQA exam papers are sat at the end of Year 13 - A Level History is linear
  • Pearson Edexcel and OCR use different papers entirely, so check your board's structure with your teacher
  • OCR AS History A (H105) has its final exams in June 2027, with no resit
  • The historical investigation (NEA) accounts for 20% of your grade - choose your topic carefully and start early
  • Strong essays argue a clear line throughout - avoid writing in narrative or chronological order
  • AQA publishes separate grade boundaries for each combination of options, and they shift each year, so check the figures for your own route

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Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about A Level History tutoring

Yes. Our tutors are experienced with all major A Level History exam boards. The skills are largely the same but mark scheme conventions and question styles differ - we'll match you with a tutor who knows your specific board.

Yes. Our tutors cover a wide range of historical periods and topics across British, European, and American history. Tell us your specific topics during onboarding and we'll match you with a tutor who has taught or studied them.

Yes, within the rules. A tutor can help you test whether a research question is focused and workable, explain what the mark scheme rewards, such as independent historical judgement, and practise evaluating sources, weighing historians' interpretations and building a sustained argument on material outside your investigation. Under JCQ rules the 3,500–4,500 word investigation must be your own work, and feedback on your draft comes from your teacher.

The most common reason students plateau at B is writing narrative rather than analytical essays. Our tutors teach students to plan a clear line of argument, deploy evidence purposefully, address counter-arguments, and integrate historiography - transforming responses from descriptive to genuinely analytical.

Most students are matched within 24 hours on weekdays. Once matched, you can schedule your first session immediately.

The most commonly challenging areas are writing analytically rather than narratively, source provenance analysis (especially NOP beyond surface level), integrating historiography effectively, structuring NEA coursework, and evaluating historical significance in essay responses.

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