Abu Dhabi · British curriculum
Tutoring for Brighton College Abu Dhabi students
Online one-to-one support matched to the curriculum Brighton College Abu Dhabi actually teaches, in the evenings, without adding a journey to the day.
- FS1 to Year 13
- A Level at sixth form
- Free 1-hour trial class
What Brighton College Abu Dhabi teaches
Brighton College Abu Dhabi teaches boys and girls from age three to eighteen, organised as Pre-Prep from FS1 to Year 2, Prep from Year 3 to Year 6, Senior from Year 7 to Year 11, and a Sixth Form of Years 12 and 13. It describes its education as based on Brighton College in the United Kingdom and refers to Years 7 to 9 as Key Stage 3. Pupils begin their GCSEs in Year 10, and the Sixth Form leads to A Level. Arabic follows the UAE Ministry of Education standards across Years 7 to 13. The structure worth noticing is that Key Stage 3 runs a full three years before GCSE work starts. That is a longer runway than some schools allow, and it means a gap formed in Year 8 has two more years to become invisible before anything examined exposes it. Students arriving mid-phase from a different system are the group most often affected, because the sequence they missed is rarely the one anybody thinks to check.
Where we usually come in
Families moving into Abu Dhabi mid-course are the most common enquiry from schools of this type, and the first useful hour is almost always spent finding which parts of the English sequence the student has not met rather than teaching the current topic.
The first thing we establish before a trial class is the exact syllabus your child is entered for. A school's published curriculum and an individual student's exam entry are not always the same thing, and preparing against the wrong specification version costs a term. How to find the code is here.
How lessons fit around the school day
Weekday evenings in the student's own time zone, typically between 4pm and 9pm, with weekend mornings opening up in the months before the May/June series. Sixty minutes weekly as standard, twice weekly in the eight weeks before a paper.
Lessons are online only. For a family already doing a school commute, that is the difference between a tutoring arrangement that survives the term and one that quietly stops in November. What you need for a lesson is here, and the formats are here.
Subjects we cover
Each links to a page setting out what that subject actually assesses at each level and where students most often lose marks.
Mathematics
Sciences
Computing
Business and economics
Humanities and social sciences
- Geography
- Government and Politics
- History
- Law
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Social Studies
- Sociology
- Theory of Knowledge
Languages and literature
- Arabic
- Classical Greek
- English Language
- English Literature
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Mandarin Chinese
- Quran and Islamic Studies
- Spanish
- Urdu
Admissions and English tests
A sample of how we explain things
Worked answers to real exam questions, free to read. A fairer indication of what you would be paying for than any testimonial.
I keep mixing up xylem and phloem in the exam. Is there a way to stop doing that?
Why do we bother with depreciation if no money actually leaves the business?
Mean, median or mode: how do I justify which average a question wants?
How can a business be profitable and still run out of cash?
Why does adding a second lamp in parallel not make both lamps dimmer?
Substitution or elimination for simultaneous equations? I always pick the slow one.
Curriculum and year group details verified against Brighton College Abu Dhabi’s own published information. Year group structure and GCSE entry taken from the school's own Senior School page; A Level sixth form from its Sixth Form page. The school describes its model as based on Brighton College in the UK. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for Brighton College Abu Dhabi. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.