What does A-Level economics tutoring cost — and what am I actually paying for?
I (George Chantry) voice dictated every one of these articles to give my honest, transparent view on economics A-Level tutoring to answer parent questions, having worked in the tutoring industry for nine years. Please WhatsApp me if you want to discuss anything in the articles further or have any further questions.
Most tutoring websites will not give you a straight answer on price. You fill in a form, wait for a call, and only then find out the number. I would rather just tell you.
So here it is, plainly, and then I will tell you exactly what that money buys — because the second question matters far more than the first.
The straight answer on price
For new students, I charge £80 an hour.
Most students take one lesson a week, an hour at a time, through term. Some do a lot more in the school holidays — up to five hours a week when there is time and a real exam to aim at.
Because families work with me differently, the yearly figure varies a lot. To make the £80 an hour concrete:
- A lighter arrangement — one lesson a week in term time — works out at around £2,000 to £3,000 across the year.
- A committed, long-term arrangement — roughly two hours a week right through the year, with heavier blocks in the holidays — comes to around £6,000 a year.
These numbers are also subject to how many holidays the student takes from tutoring over Christmas and the summer — some families pause completely, others book more. These figures are taken directly from past clients, so they give the historical data on the range of yearly cost of a tutor.
These are illustrations, not fixed tiers. I am not going to lock you into an annual contract. You book the hours you need, and the number is simply £80 multiplied by how many of them you use.
What you are actually paying for
The credential. I have a first-class degree in Economics from Oxford (PPE) and three prizes in economics, and I got the best mark in my year in Game Theory. I have taught 145 students one-to-one, over nine years and more than 7,000 hours, entirely in A-Level Economics. I can answer any question, address any concern and fix all aspects of A-Level economics, having seen all the problems students encounter in my tutoring sessions.
The method. My approach is diagnostic. In my experience (having tutored one-to-one 145+ students), students lose marks in one of three places:
- exam technique (how to structure an answer for each mark tariff and what the mark scheme actually rewards);
- question-to-topic mapping (recognising what a question is really asking — fiscal policy? monopoly? externalities?);
- students can lose marks from knowledge gaps (the chains of reasoning, the diagrams, the evaluation points across the full specification).
I find the bottleneck, and I fix that, rather than teaching everything again at random.
The record. All of my tutoring is online, via Zoom, and that works to your child's advantage. I record every lesson and keep a full transcript of each one. That gives me a far more detailed record of a student's specific weaknesses than an in-person tutor could realistically keep, and I use it to plan the next lesson minute-by-minute around the exact gaps I have found. You are not paying for an hour of general chat. You are paying for an hour aimed precisely at the marks your child is dropping.
George is an outstanding tutor with exceptional knowledge of Economics and has a unique tutoring method that is so impactful. Only after a few lessons my son has managed to grasp the key topics and approach the Essay type questions with huge confidence. He had previously struggled for months trying to achieve his best results despite working relentlessly. I wish I had known George a lot sooner as he has unlocked my son's confidence and potential in very short period of time. Thank you.
Satbir, parent
Is it worth it?
That is the real question behind "how much is it", so let me answer it honestly.
In nine years and more than seven thousand hours, the thing I keep coming back to is that one-to-one simply gives much better outcomes than teaching a room of thirty. The research says the same: Benjamin Bloom's well-known 1984 study found that students taught one-to-one performed dramatically better than the same students sitting in an ordinary class. When all the attention is on one student and their specific gaps, the gains are of a different order.
I see that in the results. A* was the single most common grade my students achieved in both 2024 and 2025. One student came to me after a Grade D, four months before his retake, having struggled in group classes at Sixth Form College — and jumped to a Grade A, into his first-choice university.
Update on A level results day - our son jumped from a Grade D to a Grade A and has got into his first choice of university. Many thanks to George for helping his achieve his potential.
Emilie, parent, on results day
I cannot guarantee a grade — no honest tutor can. What I can tell you is where the money goes and what it has done for students in your child's position.
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