What a tutor in Brighton actually costs and needs to do
A private tutor in Brighton & Hove generally costs £30–£55 an hour — noticeably above the national average, because the city carries London-commuter pricing on the Brighton-to-Victoria line — and independent-school or A-Level Science prep can sit higher still. Add an introduction fee and a weekly slot squeezed between school and the walk home, and one subject becomes a serious four-figure outlay across the year.
The work that genuinely moves a grade is narrow: find the topics costing you marks, drill them until they’re automatic, and rehearse technique against the right mark scheme. Skoolskill is an AI tutor that turns your own notes and past papers into daily practice — 10–20 minutes a day on your phone, from your room in Hanover or Hove, with no agency fee and no evening trip across the city.
Local school and exam context
Brighton has an unusually strong independent and IB presence for its size. Brighton College, Roedean, Brighton & Hove High School (GDST) and Lancing College just along the coast set demanding GCSE and A-Level courses, with the IB Diploma offered at several schools. State provision — Dorothy Stringer, Varndean and Blatchington Mill in Hove among them — covers the rest of the city and runs the usual AQA/Edexcel/OCR mix.
That breadth makes board- and programme-aware practice valuable: an IB Higher Level Biology student and an AQA A-Level Biology student are sitting completely different exams. Skoolskill stores past papers by topic and year, supports both IB SL and HL, and grades in mark-scheme style, so a Kemptown Year 11 and a Preston Park IB student each practise against their own assessment.
Brighton’s creative and digital economy also pulls a lot of students toward applied and BTEC routes through Brighton MET and the sixth forms at BHASVIC (Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College), one of the largest sixth-form colleges in the country. BHASVIC alone sends thousands through A-Levels each year, and with class sizes that large, individual feedback on weak topics is exactly what gets squeezed. A daily 10–20 minute session that flags the recurring errors in a student’s own past-paper answers fills that gap without the £30–£55-an-hour cost of a private tutor, and the spaced-repetition plan counts back from the May–June exam window so revision is paced rather than crammed.
Comparison: Brighton tutoring vs Skoolskill
| Brighton tutoring (agency/private) | Skoolskill | |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly rate | £30–£55 (independent/A-Level higher) | Free or ~£0.20/day |
| Availability | 1 hour/week, scheduled | 24/7 |
| Material | Generic or hand-prepared | Built automatically from your notes |
| Travel | Often a bus or car trip | None |
| Per year (1 subject) | £1,080–£1,980+ | £0 or ~£84 |
That’s the gap between a steep yearly bill per subject and a free tier, with GCSE practice and broader online tutoring handled the same way.
When a local in-person tutor still makes sense
Skoolskill won’t cover everything in Brighton:
- IB extended essay and coursework supervision that needs a teacher’s structured feedback.
- Independent-school scholarship interviews — a human can rehearse the spoken assessment.
- Exam anxiety that needs someone present who notices when you freeze.
- Specific learning differences (dyslexia, dyspraxia) requiring a specialist teacher or assessor.
Many Brighton students do both: a human tutor occasionally for coaching, Skoolskill daily for the practice that moves grades.
Get started — free
- Create a free account — no credit card.
- Tell us your year and subjects.
- Snap a photo of your notes or a past paper.
- Start your first session in under three minutes, from anywhere in Brighton & Hove.