How much does a GCSE Geography tutor cost?

GCSE Geography tutors in the UK typically charge between £25 and £48 per hour. As a humanities subject with a strong data-and-case-study component, it sits between the cheaper essay-based humanities and the more expensive sciences in typical pricing.

GCSE Geography assesses both physical geography (tectonics, weather, ecosystems) and human geography (urbanisation, development, resource management), plus a fieldwork component and extended six-mark and nine-mark written answers. Students often lose marks not from lacking case-study knowledge but from failing to apply named case studies (a specific named example, exact statistics, a clear geographical process) precisely as the mark scheme requires.

When comparing tutors, check whether they know your child's specific exam board — AQA, Edexcel A/B, OCR A/B and Eduqas all use different named case studies and command words. A tutor who knows the exact specification can drill the precise examples that will actually appear in your child's paper, rather than generic geographical knowledge.

Fieldwork-based questions, which appear on Paper 3, benefit particularly from a tutor who can walk through the enquiry process (question, data collection, presentation, conclusion, evaluation) methodically. On TutorLab, Geography tutors publish their own rates and exam-board experience on their profiles.