Tutoring Services Germany — from €58/h, no VAT added
Tutoring Services Germany — from €58/h, no VAT added
Reformed A-Levels are linear: nothing your child learns in Year 12 is banked, and all of it is examined at the end of Year 13. We assign a tutor who teaches your exact board and specification — at home or online for the same price, from €68 an hour with no VAT added, refundable in full if a session falls short.
Rundil assigns a degree-qualified A-Level tutor for your child's exact board and specification — Edexcel, Cambridge International, AQA or OCR — usually within 48 to 72 hours. At home or online for the same price, from €68 an hour with no VAT added, no contract and no registration fee, and every session refundable. 95% of the students who joined us before September achieved their target grades by May.
A-Levels in Germany are a small, high-pressure cohort. Only a handful of schools in the country run them at all; most British-branded international schools here take students through IGCSE and then into the IB Diploma. The families who do sit A-Levels are usually applying to British or American universities while living inside the German system, which means two calendars at once — a UCAS cycle that closes in the middle of the German school year, and a linear examination that banks nothing until the summer of Year 13. That is the job we are built for.
Choose the year and the A-Level subjects that are wobbling. You will see what a weekly rhythm actually costs — in euros, per full hour, with nothing added later. No email, no waiting, no sales call.
Our Experienced tutors carry the great majority of A-Level work. Choose the second option where the target is an A*, where the subject is Further Maths or a linear science with a heavy practical endorsement, or where an admissions test sits alongside the papers — we then assign from our Most Accomplished tutors.
The reformed English A-Level is linear. Nothing from Year 12 is banked, the AS no longer counts towards the final grade in those specifications, and every paper is sat at the end of Year 13 across the whole two-year course. That single design decision is why A-Level students need a tutor more than almost anyone else: a topic taught in October of Year 12 is examined nineteen months later, and by then it has quietly gone. Cambridge International and the Pearson Edexcel International A Level behave differently again, allowing units to be sat in stages across the two years. Which of those your child is on changes the entire revision plan — so we start by establishing the board and the specification code, not the subject.
Edexcel Biology A and Edexcel Biology B are different courses with different papers. We ask for the board and the specification code before we assign anyone, because "A-Level Biology" on its own is not enough information to teach from.
Because the papers cover two years at once, Year 12 content is revisited on a schedule rather than left to the last eight weeks. Interleaved past-paper work from the first term is the single biggest difference between a B and an A*.
Applications for 2027 entry close at 18:00 UK time on 15 October 2026 for Oxford, Cambridge, medicine, dentistry and veterinary science, and on 13 January 2027 for everything else. We plan backwards from those two dates, in the middle of a German school year that does not acknowledge either.
No registration fee, no setup fee, no minimum term, nothing to cancel before a notice deadline. Add hours in the run-up to the summer series, pause once the papers are done, stop entirely — none of it costs you anything.
A sample, not the roster. You are not choosing from these four — they are here so you can see the standard we assign to. Each covers a narrow set of A-Level subjects properly rather than five approximately, and each teaches at home in their own city and online anywhere in Germany, at exactly the same rate.
IGCSE & A-Level Tutor — Maths & Physics · Munich
MSc Mechanical Engineering · at-home in Munich, online across Germany
James Bennett is a degree-qualified Mathematics and Physics tutor with extensive experience supporting students following IGCSE and A-Level programmes. He holds a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering and has worked with students from a range of international schools. James helps students strengthen their conceptual understanding while developing the accuracy, speed and problem-solving skills required in examinations. His lessons regularly incorporate past-paper questions, targeted revision and practical strategies for managing multi-step calculations. He is especially effective with students who understand classroom explanations but struggle to apply their knowledge independently under exam conditions, and with Year 13 students rebuilding mechanics and pure content first taught eighteen months earlier. James provides clear, methodical guidance and gradually builds each student's ability to solve challenging problems with confidence. Available for at-home tutoring in Munich and online lessons throughout Germany.
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A-Level Tutor — Business & Economics · Cologne
MSc International Economics · BA Business Administration · at-home in Cologne, online across Germany
Daniel Okafor is an experienced Business and Economics tutor with a Master's degree in International Economics and a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration. He supports students following A-Level, IGCSE and IB Diploma programmes. Daniel helps students connect economic and business theory with relevant real-world examples. His lessons cover data analysis, diagrams, calculations, case-study interpretation and the construction of well-supported extended responses — the long evaluative questions where most A-Level marks in these subjects are won and lost. He is particularly experienced in helping students move beyond memorising definitions and begin applying concepts effectively to examination questions, and in drilling the command words each board uses. His engaging and practical teaching style helps students develop stronger evaluation skills, clearer written arguments and greater confidence in examinations. Available for at-home tutoring in Cologne and online lessons throughout Germany.
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A-Level Tutor — Biology & Chemistry · Berlin
PhD Molecular Biology · MEd Education · at-home in Berlin, online across Germany
Dr Anna Weber is an experienced international-school tutor working across the A-Level sciences and the IB Diploma. She holds a PhD in Molecular Biology and a Master's degree in Education, combining strong subject expertise with a clear understanding of how students learn. Anna supports A-Level Biology and Chemistry students with the required practical activities and the written questions that examine them, with data-handling and evaluation, and with the long-answer questions that separate strong candidates from competent ones. Her lessons are carefully structured around the student's specification, current challenges and academic goals. She is particularly skilled at breaking down complex concepts, improving scientific writing and helping students apply their knowledge to unfamiliar exam questions. Anna's calm and encouraging approach helps students become more confident, organised and independent. Available for at-home tutoring in Berlin and online lessons throughout Germany.
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A-Level Tutor — English Literature, German & History · Hamburg
MEd German & English · upper-secondary teaching experience · at-home in Hamburg, online across Germany
Katharina Hoffmann specialises in the essay subjects at upper-secondary level, with particular expertise in English Literature, German and History. She holds a Master of Education in German and English and has several years of experience supporting students through the final two years of school. Katharina helps students improve literary analysis, essay structure, source evaluation and written argumentation — including the comparative and unseen questions that A-Level English Literature papers rely on, and the source and interpretation questions that dominate A-Level History. She also supports coursework planning, oral examination preparation and the development of effective revision plans. Her teaching is precise, supportive and closely aligned with the requirements of the relevant specification. Katharina is particularly good at helping students organise their ideas, write more analytically and understand what examiners expect from high-level responses. Available for at-home tutoring in Hamburg and online lessons throughout Germany.
Read full profileJames, Daniel, Anna and Katharina are four of the tutors teaching for us in Germany — shown so you can see the standard, not so you can pick from a shortlist. The right tutor for your child may well be none of them. Every tutor is individually interviewed, background-checked and assigned only to the curricula they actually teach, and you are never asked to browse profiles and guess: tell us the exam board, the specification, the subject and the year group, and we assign the specialist, typically within 48 to 72 hours. At-home and online sessions cost exactly the same, and you can switch between them at any time.
In A-Level tutoring the usual reassurance is a discounted first lesson, or a thirty-day window that has quietly closed by the time the January mocks come back. Ours never closes. If a session falls short in the middle of the Year 12 autumn term, or three weeks before the summer papers, the student asks and it is refunded in full — no conditions, no approval, no awkward conversation with the tutor.
Ninety real minutes, built around the fact that the paper covers two years and the mark scheme rewards specific words. Establish where the specification content actually broke, rebuild it, then prove it against a real past paper marked to the board's own scheme.
An A-Level student in Germany is a minority inside a majority. Siblings, neighbours and half the family conversation run on the German track instead — and if a move onto that track ever becomes the sensible option, these are the four moments that decide it.
| Stage | When | What is actually being tested | How we prepare for it |
|---|---|---|---|
| AbiturThe German equivalent | Ends grade 12 (G8) or 13 (G9) | A 900-point Gesamtqualifikation: up to 600 points from Qualifikationsphase coursework across Leistungs- and Grundkurse, and up to 300 from four final examinations. Each Bundesland writes its own papers, drawing on the KMK's shared Aufgabenpool. | Leistungskurs depth, Operatoren discipline and timed past papers against your own state's format and exam window. |
| Übertritt to Gymnasium | After grade 4 — grade 6 in Berlin and Brandenburg | A grade average, sometimes binding. Bavaria requires 2.33 or better across Deutsch, Mathematik and Heimat- und Sachunterricht; miss it and the three-day Probeunterricht in May decides, passed on a 3 and a 4. | Systematic work on the three assessed subjects from grade 3, then Probeunterricht rehearsal under real timing. |
| Mittlerer Schulabschluss | End of grade 10 | Written examinations in Deutsch, Mathematik and Englisch plus oral components, with the format set by each Land. The gateway to Fachoberschule and the Fachhochschulreife route. | Closing the gaps that were quietly carried from grades 7 to 9, then full past-paper cycles in the three core subjects. |
| G8 vs G9 in 2026 | Varies by state | Bavaria's first regular G9 cohort sits the Abitur in 2026. North Rhine-Westphalia's first G9 Abitur follows in 2027. Rhineland-Palatinate runs parallel G8 and G9 tracks with different written-exam windows. Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia keep twelve-year structures. | We plan the revision runway backwards from your state's actual 2026 or 2027 dates, not from a national average. |
We assign against the board and the specification, because that is the level at which A-Levels actually differ. Two students taking "A-Level Chemistry" in the same city can be sitting different papers, different practical requirements and different question styles.
These are the providers an A-Level family in Germany actually shortlists against us. Every rate is normalised to a full 60 minutes from each provider's own published pricing, because almost nobody in this market quotes an hour — and the headline number is rarely what leaves your account.
Competitor figures are those providers' own published rates as at July 2026, converted to a 60-minute hour for comparison. They are directional benchmarks, not quotes — check each provider's current pricing before you decide.
A-Level families in Germany are quoted from two directions at once: German Nachhilfe chains that price in 45-minute periods, and international online agencies that price in pounds. These are the extras that commonly sit around the headline number — and what each one costs with us.
| Charge | Common in the German market | With Rundil |
|---|---|---|
| VAT / Umsatzsteuer | Should not apply to tutoring — but always check the invoice | None. €58 / €68 / €83 is the final rate |
| Registration fee (Anmeldegebühr) | Charged as a one-off by several national chains | None |
| Setup or activation fee | Added on top of the first month by some institutes | None |
| Home-visit surcharge | Around €5–10 per hour extra for a Hausbesuch | None — at home costs the same as online |
| Currency conversion on a sterling rate | UK-based A-Level agencies bill in pounds; your bank adds the spread | None. Priced and invoiced in euros |
| Minimum term | 6, 12 or 24-month agreements are the norm | None — stop whenever you like |
| Notice period to cancel | Often weeks before term end, or it auto-renews | None. Free cancellation until 17:00 the day before |
| Pay-as-you-go admin fee | Varies; frequently not published at all | 12% on Flexi, published here and on every invoice |
Three steps from enquiry to a tutor at your kitchen table — or on screen — usually inside 48 to 72 hours.
Subject, examination board, specification code if you have it, and whether your child is in Year 12 or Year 13. It takes about two minutes on the booking form, and there is no registration fee.
We assign a degree-qualified specialist who teaches that specification — typically within 48–72 hours — and confirm the name and schedule by WhatsApp.
Session one finds which specification points actually broke. From there it is teach, interleave and prove against past papers — with every session refundable if it falls short.
Four very different routes into the same examination — and four different reasons the school timetable alone is not enough.
Your child is in one of the few schools in Germany that runs a sixth form, in a cohort small enough that a single subject may have five students and one teacher. There is no second set to move into if it is not working.
An offer will be conditional on grades that do not exist yet, and the application closes months before the papers are sat. Predicted grades, the personal statement and the offer conditions all have to be planned from Germany.
A grade one band short of a firm offer, or a subject being taken outside school through a registered examination centre. Both need the specification taught in full and to a calendar, without a class to sit in.
A relocation into Germany between Year 12 and Year 13, or a change of board on arrival. Different specification, different set texts, different practicals — and usually one term to close the gap.
Three tiers, published in full, identical at home and online, quoted per 60 minutes and in euros. The tier depends on the tutor's qualification and the academic demand of the work — not on how far they travel or which city you live in.
| Tier | Best for | Rate per 60 min |
|---|---|---|
| Conversational Languages | Practical spoken language for everyday use | €58/h |
| Experienced Tutors | The full A-Level course in Years 12 and 13 — Maths, sciences, Economics, Business, Psychology, History, English Literature — plus IGCSE and AS | €68/h |
| Most Accomplished Tutors | A* targets, Further Mathematics, admissions tests and Oxbridge-level preparation | €83/h |
| What you actually pay | 1.5-hour session | Four sessions a month |
|---|---|---|
| Conversational Languages · €58/h | €87.00 | €348 |
| Experienced Tutors · €68/h | €102.00 | €408 |
| Most Accomplished · €83/h | €124.50 | €498 |
For families holding a steady weekly rhythm across a full A-Level year.
For families who want intensity before mocks and papers, and little in between.
The question every parent asks and almost nobody answers. These are the rhythms we see work across a linear two-year course, costed at our Experienced tier of €68 an hour over the recommended 1.5-hour session. They are a planning guide, not a quote — your tutor confirms the right rhythm after the first diagnostic session, and you can change it any week.
| Where you are now | Typical rhythm | How long | Indicative cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| One topic in Year 12 has gone wrong | 1 session a week | 4–6 weeks | €408 a month · €410–610 in total |
| One subject held across both yearsMost common | 1 session a week | The full course | €408 a month |
| Two subjects wobbling at once | 2 sessions a week | 10–14 weeks | €816 a month |
| Rebuilding Year 12 content in Year 13 | 1–2 sessions a week | 4–6 months | €408–816 a month |
| Coursework, NEA or an extended project | 2 sessions a week | 3–4 weeks | €610–820 in total |
| Final push before the summer papers | 2–3 sessions a week | 6–8 weeks | €816–1,224 a month |
| A retake, or an admissions test alongside | 1–2 sessions a week | 8–16 weeks | €498–996 a month at the €83 tier |
Germany runs several examinations side by side, and each rewards something different. Knowing which one your child is actually being marked against is most of the work.
| Curriculum | Typical stage | What it really rewards | Start here |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-LevelsYou are here | Years 12–13 | Depth in three or four subjects, two years of content held in memory at once, and the mark-scheme discipline that separates a B from an A*. | Book an A-Level tutor → |
| IGCSE | Years 10–11 | Exam technique and board-specific question styles — the course most A-Level students in Germany arrive from. | IGCSE tutoring Germany → |
| IB Diploma | Ages 16–19 | Six subjects rather than three, criterion-based precision, Internal Assessment craft, the Extended Essay and TOK. The route most British-branded schools in Germany actually run. | IB tutors Germany → |
| IB MYP | Middle years | Criterion marking that looks nothing like a percentage, and the conceptual habits the Diploma later assumes. | MYP tutoring Germany → |
| Abitur | Gymnasiale Oberstufe | Sustained performance across Leistungs- and Grundkurse, in your own Bundesland's format, written and oral, over two full years. | Tutoring services Germany → |
| SAT & AP | US-track applicants | Speed, question triage and a scoring model that punishes hesitation more than it punishes gaps. | SAT tutoring Germany → |
This is the single most misunderstood fact about A-Levels in Germany: very few schools here run them. Germany has 78 IB World Schools, 76 of them authorised for the Diploma, and most of the country's British-branded international schools take students through IGCSE and then into the IB Diploma rather than into a sixth form. These are the schools our students attend, with the programmes each one genuinely offers.
Yes — but only with the right combination of subjects, and the decision is not made by the university. A-Levels can be recognised as a Hochschulzugangsberechtigung, the German higher education entrance qualification, under recommendations issued by the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education (KMK). These are the conditions, and where families lose the qualification without realising it.
| Condition | What the recommendation says | What that means in practice | What goes wrong |
|---|---|---|---|
| Four subjects | Four AS and A Level subjects in total, three of them at full A Level standard | Three A-Levels plus a fourth carried at least to AS is the safe shape for a German application | Dropping the fourth subject at the end of Year 12 because it "does not count" towards the A-Level or the UCAS offer |
| Subject list | Two of the three A Levels must come from the academic list: a language, history, geography, social studies or politics, economics, mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics, computer science | At least two of the three full A-Levels have to sit inside that list | A combination built entirely from subjects outside it |
| A language | The four subjects must include a language, at minimum AS Level | English Language, English Literature or a modern foreign language has to be one of the four | Three sciences and mathematics, with no language anywhere in the combination |
| Maths or science | The combination must include mathematics, or a natural science such as biology, chemistry or physics | A purely humanities combination does not satisfy the recommendation on its own | History, Economics and English Literature taken together with no maths or science |
| Your degree | Additional subjects are expected for particular fields — natural sciences and medicine require A-Levels drawn from mathematics, biology, chemistry, physics and computer science | The subjects chosen at sixteen decide which German degrees stay open at nineteen | Discovering in Year 13 that a medical or engineering application needed a second or third science |
| Twelve years | At least twelve years of ascending school attendance | An unbroken, upward school career through to the A-Level year, evidenced by the transcript | A repeated year, a gap, or a transcript that cannot show the full twelve years across two countries |
| GradesNo cut-off | The three A-Levels must be passed; the assessment is of the combination, not of a published points total | There is no German A-Level cut-off to hit — the qualification is assessed, then admission is ranked separately | Being quoted a "minimum score" by someone who has invented it |
| Who decides | The Zeugnisanerkennungsstelle of the relevant Bundesland, working from the KMK Central Office for Foreign Education (ZAB) and its anabin database | Applications from abroad usually run through uni-assist, which forwards the certificate for assessment | Assuming the answer is national. Requirements and processing differ from state to state, and universities remain autonomous on top of that |
You do not send A-Level certificates to a university and wait for a yes. For an international qualification the certificate is assessed against the KMK recommendations by the Zeugnisanerkennungsstelle of the Bundesland you are applying into, and applications from outside Germany are usually routed through uni-assist, which checks the documents and passes them on. The reference point is the ZAB's anabin database, which records how each foreign qualification is treated.
Two consequences follow. First, the answer can differ depending on which state you apply to, because the recognition offices are state bodies and German universities set their own entrance requirements on top. Second, the timing is not the UCAS timing — documents, translations and the assessment itself take weeks, and they sit outside the January application window your child is already working to.
If a German university is genuinely on the list, check the subject combination in Year 12, not in Year 13. It is the one part of this that cannot be fixed later.
German universities do not publish an A-Level threshold, and anyone quoting you one has invented it. For oversubscribed subjects the university ranks every eligible applicant by converted grade average and admits downwards until the places are gone — the grade of the last student admitted becomes that semester's Numerus Clausus. It is a result, not a requirement, and it moves at every intake. The universities that publish theirs attach an explicit warning against using them to predict anything.
International applicants are usually assessed in a separate quota of the intake rather than against the published figure at all. So the honest answer to "what grades do we need" is: recognition first, then the highest grades your child can reasonably reach, because the bar is set by whoever else applies that year.
What we can tell you is where the leverage sits. On a linear A-Level, grades are far easier to build across Year 12 and the first half of Year 13 than in the eight weeks before the papers — which is why we push families to start the course with support rather than rescue it at the end.
Two promises, written down rather than implied — because a two-year course is exactly the situation where a provider's terms quietly become the thing you are stuck with.
A full refund is available after any session if the student requests it. There are no conditions and no asterisks, and it is not limited to the first lesson — satisfaction is guaranteed on every session, in Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands, across every curriculum. If the tutor is not the right fit going forward, we reassign at no cost and with no friction.
The refund is requested in one message — by WhatsApp, by email, or through your account. Nobody is asked to justify it, sit through a retention call, or have an awkward conversation with the tutor; we handle that end. We would rather refund an hour that did not land than have a Year 13 student sit through five more like it in the term that decides the offer.
Every review below is a real Rundil Tutoring client, across every curriculum we teach. The full profile, including anything less than five stars, is public on Review Atlas.
"Our daughter's tutor has been a great support throughout her A-Level Biology preparation. The lessons combine clear explanations, revision planning and past-paper questions. She has become much more organised and now understands how to structure stronger examination answers."
"We are extremely happy with Rundil Tutoring. The tutor quickly understood where our daughter was struggling and explained difficult mathematical concepts clearly and patiently. Her confidence has improved considerably, and she now approaches tests with a much more positive attitude."
"The tutor is knowledgeable, encouraging and very familiar with the IGCSE curriculum. Complex Chemistry topics are explained in a way our daughter can understand, and each lesson is adapted to what she needs most. She now feels much better prepared for her examinations."
"Our son needed specialised support with IB Physics, and his tutor has been excellent. The lessons are well structured, closely connected to the syllabus and include plenty of exam-style practice. We have already noticed a clear improvement in both his understanding and his grades."
"Rundil assigned a wonderful English tutor for our son. The tutor has helped him improve his grammar, writing and confidence when speaking. The sessions are engaging and productive, and communication with our family has always been reliable and professional."
"We contacted Rundil because our son needed help with German as well as better study habits. His tutor has been patient, dependable and very supportive. He is now more organised, completes his schoolwork more independently and feels much more confident in class."
At-home tutoring across every major German city and its surrounding region — and online tutoring everywhere else, at exactly the same price. Which matters more here than on most pages: A-Level students are scattered thinly across the country, and the nearest specialist is rarely the nearest person.
Rundil provides one-to-one A-Level tutoring across Germany for families at British-curriculum schools, for students preparing retakes, and for private candidates sitting papers through a registered examination centre. The difficulty here is rarely finding someone clever. It is finding someone who teaches the specification your child is actually entered for — and in Germany, where the A-Level cohort is small and scattered, that person is very unlikely to live on your street.
So we do the identifying for you. You tell us the subject, the examination board, the specification if you have it, and the year group; we assign a degree-qualified specialist for exactly that, typically within 48 to 72 hours, and confirm the name and schedule by WhatsApp. There is no gallery of profiles to sift, no trial-and-error, and no fee for changing your mind.
The reformed English A-Level examines two years of content in one summer, and the AS no longer feeds into the final grade in those specifications. Cambridge International and the Pearson Edexcel International A Level allow units to be taken in stages instead — which is a genuinely different revision problem. Either way, the marks are decided by how much of Year 12 survives to Year 13, and by whether the student writes in the language the mark scheme rewards. That is what our sessions are built around: interleaved returns to earlier content, past papers from the student's own board, and answers marked against the published scheme rather than against a general impression of quality.
Rundil charges €58, €68 or €83 per full 60-minute hour whether the tutor sits at your kitchen table in Bogenhausen or joins from a screen in Kaiserslautern, because the preparation behind the hour does not change. German tutoring is VAT-exempt, so nothing is added at the end, and we invoice in euros rather than in pounds. There is no subscription, no registration fee, no setup fee and no minimum term: add hours before the summer series, pause once the papers are done, stop altogether in July. Free cancellation runs until 17:00 the day before any session, and on Flexi you pay only for the hours actually completed. Families across Munich, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Düsseldorf, Cologne and the Rhein-Neckar region choose Rundil because the good tutoring is the point — and everything else stays out of the way.
Degree-qualified specialists for Pearson Edexcel, Cambridge International, AQA and OCR — Year 12, Year 13, retakes and private candidates. From €58/h with no VAT added, at home or online for the same price, assigned in 48–72 hours. Every session refundable, nothing to cancel.
