How much does a Religious Studies tutor cost?

Private Religious Studies (RS/RE) tutors in the UK typically charge between £25 and £45 per hour at GCSE level, making it one of the more affordable subjects for private tuition, similar to other essay-based humanities.

GCSE Religious Studies assesses knowledge of specific religious beliefs, practices and ethical themes through extended written answers, most commonly twelve-mark evaluative questions. As with History and Geography, students who know the content but write descriptively rather than constructing a balanced, evaluative argument consistently underperform relative to their understanding.

Exam-board and specification specificity matters significantly: AQA, Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas all offer different combinations of religions and themes, and a tutor who knows your child's exact specification (for example, AQA Route A: Christianity and Islam, versus Route B) can target practice precisely rather than generally.

Tutors with Religious Studies, Theology or Philosophy degrees, or those with examining experience, tend to charge towards the upper end. Given that the subject is heavily technique-driven, a focused block of essay-writing coaching can often produce a measurable grade improvement in a relatively small number of sessions. On TutorLab, RS tutors publish their exam-board experience and rates on their profiles.