Science

Requesting "Science" tutoring without a grade level or exam board in mind sounds vague, and in a sense it is — that's actually the point of this page, which exists for exactly that kind of request rather than pretending every science need fits neatly into a specific curriculum. Families searching for general science support are often dealing with one of a few genuinely different situations: a homeschooled student without a fixed syllabus, an adult learner brushing up on general science literacy, or a parent who isn't yet sure whether their child's need is really GCSE-level, general Grades 6-8 material, or something else — in which case this page, or a quick conversation when requesting a tutor, is a reasonable place to start before narrowing down.

What "general science" usually means in practice is coverage across the three traditional strands — biology, chemistry, and physics — at a level appropriate to the student, built around the same core scientific method that underlies all three: forming a hypothesis, designing a fair test, controlling variables, and drawing a conclusion the data actually supports, a skill schools test explicitly and one that transfers across every specific topic.

A tutor working on general science typically spends an early session figuring out where a student's actual gaps are, since "general science" can mean anything from basic scientific vocabulary to a specific unit a homeschool parent is trying to cover — there's no fixed syllabus behind this page the way there is behind GCSE Science, so sessions are built around whatever the student and tutor establish together rather than a predetermined curriculum.