You can see your child working hard, and the marks just are not catching up with the effort.
A 40-minute consultation. Joe calls you back within one working day, then sends two or three tutors with free trial calls.
From enquiry to first session
When you enquire, Joe will call you back to arrange a time that works for you. The consultation itself is a proper forty-minute conversation about what is going on with your child's Maths, the exam board, the predicted grade and the topics the school moved past too quickly. From there he starts thinking about which tutors would actually fit.
Joe sends a shortlist of two or three tutors he believes could work for your child, and each one offers a free trial call so you can meet them, see how they explain a Maths question and see who your child actually clicks with. No commitment afterwards, no card details and no awkward pressure.
From the trial calls you choose the tutor that feels right for your child, and weekly sessions begin on Lessonspace, our shared online whiteboard. You pay per session, there are no contracts, and if at any point it is not working, you stop.
Why us
A 20-second video from Joe on how The Degree Gap process actually works, from your first call to the tutor your child sits with.
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The worst part of finding a tutor is usually the not knowing, a name pulled from a directory or a graduate profile on a website. We changed that part of the process. Harry and Joe have personally interviewed every tutor on the platform, and about thirty-three apply for every one we say yes to, so by the time a name reaches you it has already been through people who know what GCSE Maths actually rewards.
AQA and Edexcel look like the same subject and they really are not. The mark schemes differ, the questions differ and the way examiners award the top band differs, so if your child is being taught on one board and tutored on another the marks tend to suffer for it. If you are not sure which board your child sits, Joe will work that out with you on the first call before anything else is decided.
Most parents who reach us cannot name exactly what is going wrong, only that the work is going in and the grade is not moving. That is what the 40-minute consultation with Joe is for, a proper conversation about the predicted grade, the mock that came back lower than hoped and the Maths topic the school moved past too quickly. From there he puts together a small shortlist of tutors who can actually do something about it.
Verified Google reviews
Real reviews from real Degree Gap families, all verified on Google. The ones below were picked because they speak directly to GCSE Maths and what tutoring actually changes.
My daughter was struggling with confidence in Maths GCSE and we decided to get a tutor. We were given a selection of tutors to choose from and told that if it did not feel like a good match we could try others. Our tutor was a complete star, listened, made it simple, set good homework and gave my daughter her confidence back. Highly recommend.
Very good tutoring for my daughter and good communication with parents. My daughter passed both English and Maths GCSE.
The Degree Gap gave our son the support he needed for his iGCSEs, especially in Maths and Economics. Lessons were clear, engaging, and built his confidence. Highly recommended.
Who runs The Degree Gap
We are Harry and Joe, by the way, the co-founders of The Degree Gap. We started this because we kept seeing the same thing happen. Capable students were quietly getting missed in a class of thirty, where the pace and the attention could not match what they actually needed. So we built one-to-one tutoring around the child, matched on the exam board and on the way they learn, not just on the subject. Between us we have over five thousand hours of one-to-one teaching and a strong opinion about what makes the difference at GCSE Maths.
Book your free call with JoeJoe will call you back within one working day to arrange a 40-minute consultation. He will ask about the exam board, the predicted grade and what you have already tried, then send you two or three tutors with free trial calls so you can pick the one that fits. If he does not think tutoring is the right move for now, he will tell you that too.
Grades slipping despite effort. Confidence dropping. Putting the work in but not seeing the result. Those are the clearest signs. Sometimes it is simpler than that, some students just want to go further than the classroom pace allows. Either is a good reason to get in touch. We will tell you honestly on the call if we do not think tutoring is the right move.
Tell us and we will sort it. No awkward conversation, no process. We would rather find the right match than have a student sitting through sessions that are not working for them.
Most students notice something within the first few sessions, not always in grades straight away, but in how the subject feels. Less daunting. Clearer. Grade improvements usually follow within a half term of regular weekly sessions.
All sessions run through Lessonspace, our shared whiteboard. The tutor can mark a past paper on screen and walk your child through it line by line. Most students concentrate better one-to-one online than they do in a class of thirty. We do not do in-person.
Tell us what happened. We hear this a lot. Usually it is that the tutor did not actually diagnose the gap, they just covered content the school had already covered. We start with a diagnostic past paper, find the actual gap, and build from there.
Yes. The 40-minute consultation with Joe is free. The trial calls with the tutors he suggests are free. You only start paying once you have chosen a tutor and weekly sessions begin. No catch, no card details upfront.
One free 40-minute call with Joe. Trial two or three tutors before you pay a penny.
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