November resit · September cohort
GCSE Maths Resit Intensive
Six weeks, twelve live sessions, and my promise that you will get your Grade 4.
A short video from Rob explaining how the six weeks work is on its way.
If you have just opened an envelope with a 3 in it, I want to show you a number that nobody tends to mention on results day.
On the Edexcel Foundation paper last summer, a Grade 3 started at 105 marks and a Grade 4 started at 144. That means the whole of Grade 3, from the very bottom of it to the very top, is 39 marks out of 240, spread across three papers. Even if you landed right at the bottom of that band, you are thirteen marks a paper away from a 4. If you landed near the top of it, you were a handful of marks away and nobody ever sat you down and told you so.
Thirteen marks a paper is two or three topics. That really is the whole gap.
The problem is almost never that you cannot do maths. It is that nobody has ever sat down and told you exactly which topics are costing you the marks, and then made you practise those topics until they stopped being a problem.
That is what these six weeks are for.
What it is
Twelve live sessions with me over six weeks, Wednesday and Thursday from 5pm to 6pm.
These are taught sessions. I work through the topics that carry the marks, with worked examples on screen, the same way I would teach them in a classroom. You do not need to speak, turn a camera on, or perform in front of anybody. You turn up, you follow it, and then you go and practise what you have just seen while it is still fresh.
Between sessions you practise on Bow Tie Maths, my own app, where the questions are written to your exam board and you get new numbers every single time, so you cannot memorise your way through it. I can see what you have been practising and how you got on, which means I come to each session already knowing what the group is struggling with.
What is included:
- ✓ 12 live hour-long sessions with me, Wednesday and Thursday at 5pm
- ✓ Full Bow Tie Maths access from the day you join through to your exam in November
- ✓ A weekly practice plan, so you always know what to work on
- ✓ Your own Topic Radar, showing your best grade in every topic at a glance, so we can both see the gaps closing
- ✓ A short recording of every session, in case you miss one
The Grade 4 Promise
Here is the part I want you to read twice.
If you got a Grade 3 at your last sitting, do the work I set you, and sit the exam in November, you will get your Grade 4. If you do not, you choose what happens next: a full refund, or a free place on my next two courses until you pass.
I can make that promise because I have been teaching maths for over twenty years and I have a 100% pass rate with my own students, and because the gap between a 3 and a 4 is genuinely closeable in six weeks when the practice is targeted properly.
What "do the work" means, in full, so there are no surprises:
- Attend 10 of the 12 live sessions. If you miss one, watch the recording within 72 hours and send me your worked notes on it. That counts as attended. You can do that for up to two sessions.
- Hit your weekly practice target on the app, which works out at roughly 15 minutes a day. I will email you your own number every Sunday, so you always know where you stand.
- Sit the exam in November and send me your certificate.
Those conditions exist for one reason, which is that they are the things that actually make the difference. I cannot promise a result to somebody who does not turn up and does not practise, and I would not trust anybody who did.
Who this is for
This is for you if you got a Grade 3 in your GCSE maths, you need the 4 for a course, a job, an apprenticeship or your own peace of mind, and you are willing to give it two hours a week and fifteen minutes a day for six weeks.
It works just as well whether you are seventeen and resitting at college, or you are thirty seven and going back for the pass you need for nursing or teaching. I have taught both this year. The maths is the same and so is the feeling of walking back into it.
If you got a Grade 2 or below, you are very welcome on the course and you will get a lot out of it, but I will be straight with you: I cannot promise a 4 in six weeks from there, so the promise above does not apply to you. Send me a message and we will work out what a realistic target looks like.
Dates and price
£250 for the full six weeks.
Sessions run Wednesday and Thursday, 5pm to 6pm UK time, from Wednesday 16 September to Thursday 22 October. The November exam sits just after we finish, which is exactly where you want to be.
That works out at around £21 a session for live teaching from a tutor who has spent over twenty years doing this, which is a good deal less than an hour of private tuition, and you get the app on top of it.
Questions people have asked
I am not sure which exam board I am on.
Send me a message and we will find out together before you enter. It matters more than people realise and it is a five minute job to check.
I have not done any maths since the exam.
Good. That is normal and it is honestly the easier place to start from, because we build it back properly from the foundations up, and those foundations are what hold the rest of the paper together.
What if I cannot make a session?
Watch the recording within 72 hours and send me your notes. Life happens and the promise still stands.
I sat Higher, not Foundation.
Then the gap is smaller still. On Higher last summer a Grade 3 started at 36 marks and a 4 started at 53, so the whole band is 17 marks. Whether you stay on Higher or move to Foundation for the resit is a conversation worth having, and I am happy to have it with you before you enter.
Can I pay in instalments?
Get in touch and we will sort something out.
Boundary figures quoted above are Pearson published grade boundaries, Edexcel GCSE (9-1) 1MA1, June 2025. June 2024 was 103 and 142 on Foundation, 26 and 42 on Higher, so the 39 mark and 17 mark band widths hold across both years.