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June 2026
Our son sat Physics at The Perse and was offered a place at Trinity College Cambridge after his December interview. The TMUA and STEP work the tutor did with hi...
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Why Cambridge students
Cambridge is overwhelmingly a British-curriculum city — The Perse School, The Stephen Perse Foundation, Hills Road Sixth Form College, The Leys School and King's College School Cambridge dominate the academic landscape. AP is taken almost exclusively by US-bound students at international branches and by self-study candidates from Cambridge International School (St Andrew's College), TASIS England and ACS International, plus US-passport-holding children of Silicon Fen and University of Cambridge faculty families. AP Physics 4s and 5s pair with strong A-Level or IB grades for Ivy, MIT and Stanford applications — and have to be planned around UCAS, December Cambridge interviews and TMUA/ESAT sittings on the same calendar. Our AP Physics tutors are College Board-trained and frequently hold US graduate degrees, drilling FRQs, MCQs and the May AP exam window in parallel with the British timetable.
Exam boards we cover
The standard AP Physics course offered to Cambridge International School (St Andrew's College), TASIS England, ACS International and self-study US-bound Cambridge students and self-study candidates from Cambridge preparing US university applications.
Syllabus coverage
Our AP Physics tutors cover the full specification with extra depth on the topics where Cambridge students most consistently lose marks.
1D and 2D motion, projectiles and graphs of motion.
Free-body diagrams, friction and inclines.
Work-energy theorem and conservation of energy.
Impulse, conservation of momentum and 2D collisions.
Torque, angular momentum and rotational energy.
Circuits, fields and induction (for AP Physics C E&M).
Experimental design and clear FRQ explanations.
AP Physics 1/2/C FRQ and MCQ drilling.
We work with students at leading AP institutions across Cambridge.
What we fix
How we fix it:Around 25–30% of senior students in Cambridge apply to Oxbridge. We layer Physics sessions against the October 15 UCAS deadline, November admissions tests (TMUA, ESAT, NSAA, PAT), December college interviews at Trinity, King's and St John's, and post-offer STEP I/II/III preparation through January–June.
How we fix it:The Perse School and The Stephen Perse Foundation run mock weeks in late January with results fed directly into predicted grades and Oxbridge references. We back-plan Physics revision blocks against each school's exact paper schedule and examiner.
How we fix it:IB DP candidates at The Stephen Perse Foundation and The Leys School hit IA drafts in Year 12 Term 3 and final EE submission in Year 13 Term 1. We supervise Physics IAs and EEs to IB-criterion standard without crossing the authenticity line.
How we fix it:Hills Road is one of the UK's largest Oxbridge feeders — internal competition for the top Physics grades is brutal. Our examiner-level tutors specialise in the AQA and Edexcel papers Hills Road uses and the STEP/TMUA/ESAT overlay.
Why ComboTutors
Our Cambridge Physics tutors are matched to the exact route a student is sitting — Cambridge Pre-U at The Perse, AQA A-Level at Hills Road, IB DP at Stephen Perse or The Leys — and to the exact examiner who marks those papers.
For Oxbridge-bound Physics students we layer admissions-test prep (TMUA, ESAT, STEP, NSAA, PAT, MAT) and December college interview practice against schoolwork — not bolted on at the end.
Personal in-home tutors in Cambridge routinely charge £60–100/hour. Our online 1-to-1 Physics tuition with PhD researchers and current examiners starts at £45/hour with the first lesson free.
June 2026
Our son sat Physics at The Perse and was offered a place at Trinity College Cambridge after his December interview. The TMUA and STEP work the tutor did with hi...
June 2026
Stephen Perse IB Physics HL with a strong IA and EE — the tutor knew the IB criteria cold and worked around our December Cambridge interview prep at the same ti...
June 2026
I was at Hills Road sitting AQA Physics and applying to Cambridge for Natural Sciences. Examiner-level tutoring plus ESAT and NSAA prep got me an A* and an offe...

June 2026
My daughter was struggling with IB Mathematics HL and had almost given up hope of getting a 7. After just two months of weekly sessions with her ComboTutors tut...

June 2026
My son started tutoring for A-Level Physics about three months before his exams. His tutor was incredibly patient and broke down complex topics like electromagn...

June 2026
We needed help with GCSE Science for my son who found chemistry particularly challenging. His tutor made the sessions engaging and relatable—using real-world ex...
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AP Physics in Cambridge
The Perse School runs Cambridge IGCSE at pre-16, then Cambridge Pre-U and A-Level (AQA, OCR, Edexcel depending on subject) post-16. We match The Perse AP Physics students to a tutor on their exact specification, including Pre-U where applicable.
Yes. The Stephen Perse Foundation is Cambridge's flagship IB Diploma school. Our IB DP Physics tutors are IB-trained, supervise HL/SL Internal Assessments and Extended Essays to IB criteria, and align lessons to Stephen Perse's IA and EE deadlines and May exam timetable.
We layer admissions-test work against AP Physics schoolwork from Year 12. That means TMUA and ESAT through autumn of Year 13, December college interview practice for Trinity, King's, Churchill and St John's, and STEP I/II/III through January–June for post-offer Maths candidates.
Yes. Hills Road Sixth Form College is one of the UK's top Oxbridge feeders. Our AP Physics tutors know the AQA and Edexcel papers Hills Road uses, the internal mock schedule, and the Oxbridge admissions overlay that drives the top of the cohort.
Personal in-home Physics tutors in Cambridge routinely charge £60–100/hour because of the PhD-saturated local market. Our online 1-to-1 model gives families the same PhD/examiner-level AP Physics tutor from £45/hour with the first lesson free.
All ComboTutors lessons are online 1-to-1, scheduled in UK time around mock weeks at The Perse, Stephen Perse, The Leys and Hills Road, and around the December Cambridge interview cycle.

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