Taught to the board your child actually sits

All three, and separately. AQA 8525 sets a two-hour Paper 1 worth ninety marks and a one-hour-forty-five Paper 2 also worth ninety marks, each half the GCSE. OCR J277 sets two papers of an hour and a half and eighty marks each. Edexcel 1CP2 has its own structure. The first thing we ask is which board your child is entered for, because revising from the wrong board's past papers is the commonest avoidable problem in this subject.

Python, which is what the overwhelming majority of UK schools use and what most students meet in class. If your child's school teaches something else we will work in that instead, because the exam assesses computational thinking rather than a particular syntax, and consistency with school matters more than our preference.

It is extremely common and it is the specific problem this course is built to fix. Following a worked example is a different action from producing an answer from a blank page, and only the second one is examined. Every programming session here starts from nothing, on paper, before anything is typed.

Two live classes a week over roughly twenty-four weeks, joinable in any month. A student in Year 10 usually spreads it across the year, and a Year 11 student closer to the exams normally goes one to one so the syllabus can be reordered around whichever paper is the risk.

Yes, against the published mark scheme rather than against what the student meant. That distinction matters more than it sounds: students routinely write a correct idea in words the scheme does not credit, and finding that out in January is worth considerably more than finding it out in May.

No. Cambridge IGCSE 0478 is taken mainly in international schools, grades A star to G, and requires most coding answers in pseudocode rather than a real language. UK GCSE grades nine to one and generally expects answers in a real programming language. Two students of identical ability need genuinely different exam training.

No. A task follows every class with feedback, monthly reviews deliberately mix new material with earlier topics so nothing is forgotten, and the course ends with a full mock paper as the final assessment. Passing earns the certificate; falling short earns focused revision and a free retest. We measure real learning, not attendance.