A-Level Chemistry · Online & in person, South Manchester
Chemistry that finally clicks.
I'm Dr Jane Power — a PhD chemist and full-time tutor. I help A-Level students turn confusion into confidence with patient, one-to-one lessons built around the exam they're actually sitting.
- PhD, University of Manchester
- Enhanced DBS checked
- AQA & OCR specialist
Why students stay
A tutor who has done the chemistry — and learned how to teach it.
University-level expertise
First Class BSc and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from Manchester. The hard topics — equilibria, kinetics, energetics — are home ground.
Genuinely patient
No question is too small. I explain things as many ways as it takes, at a pace that suits you, in a calm and supportive space.
Built around your exam
Lessons map directly to your AQA or OCR specification, with past-paper technique woven through from day one.
What I cover
Every strand of A-Level Chemistry, under one roof.
From the maths of moles to the curly arrows of organic mechanisms, I teach the whole course — and the joins between topics that exams love to test.
- Physical chemistry
- Organic chemistry
- Inorganic chemistry
- Calculations
- Mechanisms
- Equilibria
- Redox
- Amount of substance
- Spectroscopy
- Practical skills
- Exam technique
- Past papers
Who I work with
Wherever you're starting from.
Students reaching for A and A*
Stretch beyond the textbook, sharpen exam technique, and lock down the marks that separate an A from an A*.
Students finding it hard
We rebuild the foundations gently, fill the gaps, and turn dread into "oh — that actually makes sense".
Resit students
A clear, focused plan to lift your grade, targeting exactly where marks were lost last time.
Medicine, dentistry & vet applicants
The high, secure chemistry grade competitive courses demand — with the exam technique to lock it in.
In their words
Students and parents on working together.
Chemistry had started to feel like something I just couldn't do, but her patience and clear explanations genuinely rebuilt my confidence.
The change made a significant difference. With her guidance, support, and tailored teaching approach, my son's understanding and confidence in Chemistry improved greatly.
Jane came highly recommended and boy did she deliver… her expertise has really helped develop the confidence in my son.
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Let's see if we're a good fit.
Every new student starts with a free, no-pressure consultation. Tell me where you are and where you'd like to be, and I'll explain exactly how I can help.
About
Dr Jane Power, PhD
A PhD chemist and former pharmaceutical scientist and parent of five, with 10+ years helping A-Level students gain confidence and achieve excellent results.
My background
Hello! I'm Jane — a passionate, experienced Chemistry tutor, dedicated to helping students gain confidence, make real progress and achieve excellent exam results. I hold a First-Class degree in Chemistry and a PhD in Physical Chemistry from the University of Manchester.
Alongside tutoring, I spent many years working as a professional scientist and team leader for a leading pharmaceutical company. With 10+ years of tutoring experience, I've helped students of all abilities strengthen their understanding, build confidence and achieve their full potential in Chemistry.
As a parent of five, I understand that every student is different. I believe in creating a calm, supportive and encouraging environment where students feel comfortable asking questions and developing their understanding at their own pace. It's genuinely rewarding to see students grow in confidence, overcome difficult topics and achieve results they can be proud of.
Qualifications & checks
The credentials behind the lessons.
PhD, Physical Chemistry
University of Manchester. Deep, examiner-level command of the hardest parts of the A-Level course.
First Class BSc Chemistry
A rigorous foundation across physical, organic and inorganic chemistry.
Pharmaceutical scientist
Years as a professional scientist and team leader in industry — real practical experience, not just theory.
Enhanced DBS checked
Up-to-date enhanced disclosure, so students and parents can feel completely at ease.
10+ years tutoring
A decade of helping students of all abilities lift their grades and rediscover their confidence.
Friendly & patient
A calm, encouraging style that makes it easy to ask questions and admit what you don't yet understand.
How I work
Professional standards, a warm manner.
Reliable, well-prepared lessons that respect your time — delivered in a supportive environment where it's always safe to be honest about what's hard.
- Individual attention in every single lesson
- High standards, held with kindness
- Lessons tailored to your spec, pace and goals
- Clear feedback so you always know your next step
- A supportive, judgement-free environment
- Punctual, organised and properly prepared
Have a question before you book?
I'm happy to chat about your situation first. The free consultation is the easiest way to get a feel for how I work.
Chemistry Tuition
A-Level Chemistry tuition, tailored to you.
Private, one-to-one lessons that cover the whole specification — and go deep on the topics you find hardest.
Areas of expertise
The whole course, taught by a specialist.
Physical chemistry
Energetics, kinetics, equilibria, rates, Born–Haber, electrochemistry — my PhD specialism and many students' biggest hurdle.
Organic chemistry
Mechanisms, functional groups, synthesis routes and the curly-arrow logic that ties it all together.
Inorganic chemistry
Periodicity, group trends, transition metals and complex ions — made systematic rather than memorised.
Calculations
Moles, concentrations, titrations, yields and atom economy, broken into reliable, repeatable steps.
Spectroscopy & analysis
Mass spectra, infrared and NMR — reading the data and explaining it like an examiner wants.
Practical skills
Required practicals, techniques and the practical-based questions that catch students out in written papers.
Levels & stages
From GCSE bridge to the final A-Level push.
Whether you're starting Year 12, consolidating AS content, or in the home straight of Year 13, lessons meet you exactly where you are.
- A-Level Chemistry
- AS Chemistry
- Year 12
- Year 13
- Exam preparation
- Revision
- GCSE Chemistry support
- Mock preparation
- Top-grade targets
Who it's for
Lessons shaped around your goal.
Aiming for A and A*
Targeted stretch and exam-technique work to secure the very top marks.
Struggling with chemistry
Patient gap-filling and confidence-building from the ground up.
Resit students
A focused plan to recover lost marks and lift your final grade.
Medicine, dentistry & veterinary
The secure, competitive chemistry grade these courses require.
Start with a free trial lesson.
New students can book a free consultation and a free 30-minute trial lesson, so you can see exactly how a session feels before committing to anything.
Exam Boards
AQA & OCR, taught to the mark scheme.
Your grade is awarded against a specific specification and mark scheme — so that's exactly what we work from.
AQA Chemistry
Full coverage of the AQA A-Level and AS specifications, including the required practicals and the synoptic questions that pull topics together. We rehearse the exact phrasing and structure AQA examiners reward.
OCR Chemistry
Confident support across OCR A-Level Chemistry, with its module structure and breadth-and-depth papers. We target the command words and mark-scheme detail that make the difference under exam conditions.
Both A-Level and AS, for Year 12 and Year 13 — every topic mapped to your exact AQA or OCR specification.
Levels covered
One tutor, the full journey.
Year 12 & AS
Strong foundations and good habits from the very start.
Year 13 & A2
Harder content, synoptic links and full-paper technique.
AS Chemistry
Focused preparation for standalone AS assessments.
GCSE support
Bridging the gap so the step up to A-Level feels smaller.
Exam-ready, not just taught
We practise the way you'll be tested.
Knowing chemistry and scoring marks are two different skills. Both get attention in every block of lessons.
- Specification-by-specification coverage
- Past-paper practice under realistic conditions
- Mark-scheme and command-word technique
- Mock-exam preparation and feedback
- Targeted revision of weak topics
- Active recall and spaced repetition built in
Tell me your exam board.
Let me know whether you're sitting AQA, OCR or another board and I'll outline a plan tailored to your specification.
Teaching Approach
How I teach — and why it works.
Patient, personalised lessons that build understanding step by step, then turn that understanding into marks.
In the lesson
A calm, interactive online classroom.
One-to-one, always
Just you and me. Lessons move at your pace and bend around your questions — never a fixed script.
Two-screen teaching
One screen for the explanation, one for the worked example or spec — so you can follow the reasoning and the reference at once.
Live whiteboard
Mechanisms, structures and calculations drawn out step by step, in real time, right in front of you — so you see exactly how each answer is built.
The method
Built on how learning actually sticks.
Scaffolded, step-by-step
Big ideas broken into small, secure steps — each one mastered before we build the next on top.
Dyslexia-friendly
Clear visuals, manageable chunks and no time pressure, so the format never gets in the way of the chemistry.
Active recall
Regular low-stakes retrieval, not passive re-reading — the single most effective revision habit there is.
Spaced repetition
Topics revisited at planned intervals so knowledge moves into long-term memory and stays there.
Personalised learning
Every plan is shaped around your goals, your board and the specific topics you find tricky.
Confidence building
Encouragement and steady wins, so anxiety gives way to a genuine belief that you can do this.
Between lessons
Support that doesn't stop at the hour.
Real progress happens in the days between sessions. I make sure you always know what to do next — and have the resources to do it.
- My own revision notebooks and topic workbooks
- Exam question packs with mark schemes
- Confidence-building exercises
- Targeted past-paper practice
- Lesson recordings on request
- Clear next steps after every lesson
See the approach for yourself.
A free consultation and free 30-minute trial lesson are the best way to experience the two-screen, step-by-step style first-hand.
Reviews
What students and parents say.
Real recommendations from students and parents I've worked with — each one public and verified on my Superprof profile.
Every review below is verified and public on Jane's Superprof profile — read them in full, with more besides.
Visit Superprof profileChemistry had started to feel like something I just couldn't do, but her patience and clear explanations genuinely rebuilt my confidence. By the end of our sessions, I wasn't just understanding the subject, I was actually enjoying it, which I wouldn't have believed possible at the start.
The change made a significant difference. With her guidance, support, and tailored teaching approach, my son's understanding and confidence in Chemistry improved greatly.
Jane came highly recommended and boy did she deliver… her expertise has really helped develop the confidence in my son.
Jane was always professional and helpful… She was calm, clear and entirely effective, always helped Daniel to understand difficult topics. Jane provided valuable resources for revision and tailored sessions… I 100% recommend Jane to future student.
…last year I achieved a grade 8 in GCSE AQA Chemistry, thanks to her tutorials. Jane is brilliant at explaining and helping me understand hard concepts… She also teaches me all the exam techniques to get the most amount of marks.
Jane has been really helpful for Tom in supporting him with revision for his AS Level this summer and looking ahead to year two of his A Level studies. We're looking forward to working with Jane on his second and final year.
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See reviews on Facebook…providing valuable tuition, workbooks and revision guides, but also developing an insight into how my daughter learned… taking her from a B to an A*.
I was uncertain of my capability to get an A grade because I had just got a C on my AS level. However working with Jane really increased my knowledge and understanding of the subject as a whole. If I did not understand something she simply explained it in another way until I understood it.
Jane explained everything in simple terms and made difficult concepts easy, she was always able to answer the questions I had. The booklets Jane creates are always really useful as one will have notes and another will have past exam questions.
She provided my son with lots of resources including note booklets and plenty of exam questions to help him outside of tuition time. She really focused on his weaker areas and taught him a lot of easier ways to understand and learn different concepts.
More from past students
A few more, in their own words.
Jane helped me to build my confidence through her sessions. Her booklets were very straight forward and made the more difficult concepts easier to understand… I am now at vet school and still use some of the revision techniques that Jane taught me to this day.
When I started with Jane I was working at grade 5 and finding Chemistry to be my toughest subject. Jane was brilliant at explaining and breaking down problems I was struggling with and I achieved a grade 7 thanks to her.
Could yours be the next success story?
Start with a free consultation and let's talk about the grade you're aiming for.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
The things students and parents usually want to know before getting started.
Still wondering about something?
Ask me directly — I'm happy to answer any question before you decide.
Prices
Simple, transparent pricing.
PhD-level, one-to-one tuition at a straightforward hourly rate — with discounted lesson packs and a free first session. No hidden extras. Studying with classmates? Share lessons and split the cost.
5-hour pack
Just £36 an hour — five hours prepaid, ideal for a focused block of revision.
- Five 60-minute lessons
- £36 an hour — save £20
- Great for exam-season pushes
- Use them at your own pace
Weekly lessons
The standard rate. Most students have a regular weekly hour and simply pay as they go, most weeks.
- One-to-one, 60 minutes
- Reserved weekly time slot
- Tailored to your specification
- My notebooks & workbooks included
10-hour pack
Best value at £36 an hour — ten hours for steady, ongoing progress.
- Ten 60-minute lessons
- £36 an hour — save £40
- Best value for regular tuition
- Use them at your own pace
Free 30-minute trial
A free, no-obligation first session, so you can see how we work together before booking.
Online or in person
Lessons online across the UK, or in person in South Manchester.
Extra sessions when it counts
Around mocks and in the holidays, many students add an extra lesson or two — no pressure, just there if you want it.
All lessons are 60 minutes at £40 per hour. Get in touch to arrange your free trial and find a regular slot.
New — learn together
Study with classmates, split the cost.
If two or three friends from the same college are taking the same board and are at the same point in the course, you can learn as a small group. We work through each topic together — and because the cost is shared, it's cheaper for everyone.
Shared lessons
Group rates
Per student, per hour. Best for classmates on the same board, covering the same topics — arranged once your group is set.
Not sure which option fits?
Tell me your goal in a free consultation and I'll recommend the right plan — no upselling, just honest advice.
Availability
When we can meet.
An indicative weekly timetable for online lessons. Slots fill quickly in exam season, so it's worth getting in touch early.
Typical week
After-school & weekend slots.
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Sat & Sun
Indicative only — live availability is confirmed at your free consultation. Times shown are UK time.
Holidays & exam season
Extra support when it counts.
Easter revision
Extra revision sessions to consolidate the whole specification before exams.
Summer catch-up
Get ahead before Year 12 or 13, or repair gaps over the break.
Mock preparation
Focused sessions in the weeks before school mocks.
Exam-season blocks
Extra lessons added flexibly in the run-up to final papers.
See a slot that works?
Book a free consultation and we'll confirm a regular time that fits your week.
Contact
Let's get started.
Book your free consultation or ask me anything. I usually reply within one working day.
Other ways to reach me
First step
The free consultation
No cost, no pressure — just a friendly chat about your goals and how I can help you reach them.
- PhD-qualified & DBS checked
- AQA & OCR specialist
- Patient, supportive, exam-focused