Our GCSE Business Studies tutors work across AQA, Edexcel, OCR and WJEC, and every session is planned against the specific board and tier your child is sitting, rather than a generic outline of the subject.
Online Business studies tuition for brighter exam results
One-to-one Business Studies tuition covering marketing, finance, operations and strategy, with experienced and DBS-certified tutors helping students build stronger subject knowledge and exam skills. Trusted by families across the UK to support their children’s academic progress.
One-to-one Business Studies tuition covering marketing, finance, operations and strategy, with experienced and DBS-certified tutors helping students build stronger subject knowledge and exam skills. Trusted by families across the UK to support their children’s academic progress.
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The building blocks of Business studies
We cover Business Studies across the major UK specifications, including Edexcel, AQA, OCR and WJEC, with online tuition that supports students through individual topics, coursework and exam preparation. Here’s what our lesson outline looks like.
Business Activity
Marketing and People
Finance and Operations
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Helping your child move forward in Business Studies
A good understanding of business studies can help you to open up and see in different perspectives. It is about looking at how businesses make decisions, deal with challenges and find ways to grow.
Our tutors work closely with students to make difficult topics easier to understand and give them the space to ask questions, revisit ideas and build on what they already know.
From marketing and finance to operations and strategy, we help students feel more comfortable with the subject and better prepared for the work ahead.
GCSE Business Studies tutor
GCSE Business is examined entirely through written papers, so every mark is won in an exam room against the clock. Students are taught to answer multiple choice questions, read a case study, apply theory to the specific business described, and reach a judgement.
Our GCSE Business tutors work from the specification your child's school teaches, whether that is AQA, Edexcel, OCR or WJEC and Eduqas, building topic knowledge alongside the calculation and extended writing technique that carries the highest marks on every paper.
GCSE Business Studies tutor
GCSE Business is examined entirely through written papers, so every mark is won in an exam room against the clock. Students are taught to answer multiple choice questions, read a case study, apply theory to the specific business described, and reach a judgement.
Our GCSE Business tutors work from the specification your child's school teaches, whether that is AQA, Edexcel, OCR or WJEC and Eduqas, building topic knowledge alongside the calculation and extended writing technique that carries the highest marks on every paper.
We help with
Enterprise and
entrepreneurship Business
ownership Marketing
mix Human resources
Operations Business finance External influences Growing a business
A Level Business tutor
In A level Business the syllabus involves marketing, finance, operations, people and strategy, but the marks sit heavily on analysis and evaluation, on a student's ability to weigh two valid arguments and reach a defensible conclusion under time pressure.
Our tutors help students understand the theme of each topic that often comes up in lessons and exams. They also spend time on case studies, calculations and the longer questions where students need to explain and justify their answers. Whether your child is struggling with a particular topic or working towards a higher grade, lessons give them the chance to ask questions, go back over anything unclear and practise applying what they know.
We help with
Marketing and people Managing business activities
Business decisions and
strategy Global
business Investment
appraisal Financial
ratios
University level Business
We support two different groups of university level students, and it helps to be clear about both. The first is students already studying Business, Management, Marketing, Finance or a related degree, who need help with exam revision in the first, second or final year.
The second is students still at school or college who are applying to competitive Business, Management or Economics courses and preparing for whatever their target university asks for. Tutors can also help them discuss business issues, think critically about real-world developments and feel better prepared for interviews, admissions tests or other parts of the application process where required.
We help with
Undergraduate module support
Dissertation structure Case study assignments Personal statement drafting
Admissions test preparation
Interview practic
What is holding your Business grade back
You can tell us where it hurts. Pick the one that sounds most like your child. We build the first lesson around it, instead of starting with a generic topic.
I don't understand the theory
I know it, but can't apply it
My calculations keep going wrong
I struggle with case studies
My answers lack analysis
I can't evaluate properly
I run out of time
I don't know what examiners want
Understanding the theory is usually the easiest fix. We rebuild the specific term using a business your child already recognises, then attach it to a definition they can write from memory, in their own words.
It’s amazing what the right tutor can do
“What impressed me was the marking. Every practice essay came back with the same rigour I'd expect from an actual examiner, comments in the margin, level justified against the mark scheme, the lot. That level of detail is hard to find.”
Richard Halloway
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Parent
“We were nervous about online tuition at first, and wondered if it would feel as engaged as sitting across a table. It absolutely does. My son looks forward to lessons, which is more than I can say for most of his homework.”
Angela Whitfield
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Parent
“I started struggling badly with microeconomics in my first term and even considered dropping the module. Six weeks with my tutor and I ended up at the top of my seminar group. I wish I'd started sooner.”
Priya Chandaria
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Student
“Honestly, I didn't get Porter's Five Forces until my tutor made me argue about which coffee chain would survive a price war. sounds silly but it worked, I got a 9.”
Jayden Okafor
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Student
“I was fine on the theory side of A Level Business but my evaluation paragraphs always sounded like I was repeating both sides without ever picking one. My tutor taught me a proper structure for reaching a judgement and my Paper 3 mark went up two grades.”
Josh Fairweather
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Student
“Honestly went in fairly sceptical about online tutoring for something as case study heavy as Business Studies. My tutor shared documents on screen, annotated my actual mock paper live, and I came round to it within the first lesson.”
Callum Mercer
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Student
A highly selective network of professional Business Studies tutors
Only the top 2% of tutor applicants are accepted. Many of our Business Studies tutors have been with us for years, allowing us to understand their teaching style, subject expertise and approach through long-term collaboration rather than simply reviewing applications. Collectively, our tutors have delivered more than 20,000 hours of tuition to students across England and Wales.
Mustafa
IBA
Don't let a good grade sit as an unrealised asset
The right support can turn a good grade into even greater results. Book a free trial lesson and see how our tutors work with you, understand your specification and help you realise your potential, all before you make any commitment.
What our Business tutoring is built on
Matched to year group and board
Every Business Studies tutor is matched against your child's exam board, tier and current grade, drawn from a panel of over 200 certified tutors.
Mark scheme literacy
Our Business Studies tutors teach the command words and mark bands explicitly from the first session, so a student is writing for the examiner, not for themselves.
Calculations taught as a skill
Break-even, ratios, cash flow and investment appraisal are explained methodically, so a student walks into a numerical question with a method in hand instead of a guess.
Award recognised provision
Winners at the UK Enterprise Awards and UK National Tutoring Awards, and shortlisted multiple times for Tutoring Provider of the Year at the UK Education Investor Awards.
How online tuition with Eximus Education works
From your first enquiry to your child's first lesson, we make the process straightforward and personal. Every step is designed to ensure your child is matched with the right tutor and feels confident from the very beginning.
Step 1: Tell us about your child
Complete a short enquiry form and we'll arrange a friendly consultation to learn more about your child's current level, academic goals and the areas where they'd benefit most from support. The better we understand their needs, the better we can help.
Step 2: We'll match the right tutor
Using everything you've shared, we'll carefully match your child with a tutor whose subject expertise, teaching style and experience are the right fit. Before lessons begin, we'll share their profile so you know exactly who your child will be learning with.
Step 3: Experience a free trial lesson
Every family begins with a free 30-minute trial lesson with their matched tutor. It's an opportunity to see how the lessons feel before making any commitment. If it doesn't feel like the right fit, we'll happily arrange a second free trial lesson at no additional cost.
Step 4: Begin the learning journey
Once you're happy with the match, regular lessons begin at a schedule that suits your family. There are no long-term contracts or minimum commitments, just personalised tuition, flexible scheduling and regular updates to keep you informed every step of the way.
Know the answer? How to score it
A student can know every theory on this page and still lose most of the marks on an evaluation question, because the command word, not the topic, decides what the examiner is actually paying for. Our tutors spend as much time training how a student answers as what they know, drilling the exact structure a top band response follows for each command word until it becomes automatic.
Weaker answer
"The business should lower its prices because this will help sales and increase profit."
This reads confidently, but it asserts an outcome without showing the reasoning, and it ignores the possibility that lower prices could actually reduce profit if demand does not rise enough to compensate.
Stronger answer
"Lowering the price could increase sales volume, which may raise total revenue, but only if demand is price elastic. Given that Bloom's Bakery competes mainly on quality rather than price, demand is likely inelastic, so a price cut may simply erode profit margin without a meaningful rise in sales. A more effective route may be non price competition, such as strengthening the loyalty scheme mentioned in the case study."
This moves through analysis into a judgement, uses a term straight from the specification, elasticity, and ties the answer back to the specific business, which is exactly what an evaluation mark scheme rewards.
Know it
State the fact or definition accurately. This is the entry point to marks, not the destination.
Apply it
Put the fact to work on the specific business in the question, using its own numbers and context.
Analyse it
Explain the chain of impact. This leads to that, which then leads to a further consequence.
Evaluate it
Weigh the argument against a counter argument and reach the judgement the exam asked for, not the one that felt safest.
The theories and models, explained the way we teach them
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
SWOT Analysis
How we teach it
We teach students that every point has to be joined to another with a because, a so or a which means, so a strength stops being decoration and becomes the reason a business can seize a particular opportunity.
In practice
No point is marked as finished until it's paired across the grid — a strength written on its own gets sent back.
Political, Economic, Social, Technological, Legal, Environmental
PESTLE Analysis
How we teach it
We open PESTLE sessions with a new story, an interest rate change, a new environmental regulation, a shift in consumer habits, and ask the student to sort it into a category before we go anywhere near the exam question. A model learned through a real headline sticks far longer than one learned from a diagram.
In practice
A model learned through a real headline sticks far longer than one learned from a diagram.
Michael Porter's model for industry attractiveness
Porter's Five Forces
How we teach it
We always ask a student to decide which force matters most for a given business before drafting an answer. An answer that argues "the biggest threat here is new entrants, because..." scores far higher than one that gives each force a polite paragraph and moves on.
In practice
"The biggest threat here is new entrants, because..." scores far higher than a polite paragraph on each force.
Product, Price, Place, Promotion — plus People, Process, Physical Evidence
The Marketing Mix, 4Ps and 7Ps
How we teach it
Rather than memorise the theory in the abstract, we map it onto a brand the student actually recognises, a trainer company, a coffee chain, a phone maker, and ask them to defend why each P has been chosen the way it has. It becomes far easier to evaluate a fictional case study once you have argued the same logic for a brand you know.
In practice
It becomes far easier to evaluate a fictional case study once you've argued the same logic for a brand you know.
Igor Ansoff's growth matrix
Ansoff Matrix
How we teach it
We teach the Ansoff Matrix as a story about risk climbing a staircase, from the safety of penetration to the exposure of diversification, so a student can justify a recommended strategy by weighing risk against potential reward, which is exactly what a top band evaluation looks like.
In practice
That weighing — not the naming of a quadrant — is exactly what a top-band evaluation looks like.
Sorting a product portfolio by growth and market share
Boston Matrix
How we teach it
We ask students to sort a real company's product range into the matrix themselves before checking it against published sales data, which makes the classification feel like analysis rather than memorisation
In practice
Classifying a range you've chosen yourself makes it feel like analysis rather than memorisation.
Try a fun revision lesson
1. Breakeven
A market stall sells scarves for £10 each. Fixed costs are £200 a month and each scarf costs £6 to make. How many scarves must be sold to break even?
A) 20
B) 33
C) 50
D) 200
A) is wrong because it comes from dividing fixed costs by price alone (200 ÷ 10), which ignores the cost of making each scarf entirely.
B) is wrong because it comes from dividing fixed costs by variable cost (200 ÷ 6), a common mix up that swaps the wrong two numbers.
C) is correct. Break-even output is fixed costs divided by contribution per unit, and contribution is price minus variable cost, so 200 ÷ (10 − 6) = 50.
D) is wrong because £200 is the fixed cost figure itself, not a number of units, a trap for anyone who stops reading the question halfway through.
2. Stakeholders
Which of these has a genuine interest in a business without necessarily owning any part of it?
A) A shareholder who owns 5 percent of the company
B) The local council where the business operates
C) The founder, who holds a majority stake
D) A bank that has bought shares in the company
A) is wrong because owning any percentage of shares makes someone a shareholder, however small the stake.
B) is correct. A council has a real interest, jobs, tax revenue, local traffic, without owning any part of the company, which is exactly the distinction examiners test.
C) is wrong for the same reason, a majority stake is still ownership.
D) is wrong because a bank that has bought shares has become a shareholder too, not just a stakeholder.
3. Motivation
A company introduces a monthly bonus for its top performing sales staff. According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which level does this most directly target?
A) Self actualisation
B) Safety needs
C) Physiological needs
D) Esteem needs
A) is wrong because self actualisation is about reaching personal potential, usually met through training, responsibility or creative freedom, not extra pay.
B) is wrong because safety needs relate to job security and stable income, not performance related rewards.
C) is wrong because physiological needs are met by basic pay covering food and shelter, a bonus sits above that baseline.
D) is correct. A bonus tied to performance is primarily recognition, being singled out and valued for doing well, which is what esteem needs describe.
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Frequently Asked Questions
It depends on where the gap actually sits, and that is the first thing a tutor will diagnose. Students who lose marks on application, analysis and evaluation, rather than recall, tend to respond fastest to one to one work, often moving up two grade boundaries within a term of focused sessions.
Both, genuinely. A student aiming for an A or A star typically needs coaching on evaluation and synthesis across the whole specification, while a student catching up needs the underlying models rebuilt first. Our A Level Business tutors adjust pace and content to whichever is true.
Yes, several of our tutors have supported students through the Thinking Skills Assessment and similar admissions tests required for competitive business, economics and management degree courses, alongside personal statement and interview preparation.
A mix of teaching, questioning and marking. A typical session might rebuild a shaky theory, apply it to a fresh case study, then finish with a timed exam question marked on the spot against the real mark scheme, so a student leaves knowing precisely where they stand.
Yes, our private Business tutors support undergraduates across microeconomics, macroeconomics, financial accounting, corporate finance and marketing strategy modules, working alongside whatever a student's own course is currently covering.
We start with a short conversation about the exam board, current grade, target grade and where the student feels weakest, then match against a tutor's specific subject strength, whether that is quantitative topics, extended writing, or building early confidence at KS3.
For this subject, we would argue it is often more effective, since screen sharing lets a tutor annotate a live case study or mark scheme directly in front of a student, which is harder to do smoothly across a kitchen table. Most of our families, having tried both, end up preferring online sessions once they see this in practice.