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My son needed PAT preparation alongside his MCS Year 13 mocks. His ComboTutors Business Studies tutor — an Oxford physics postdoc — built a weekly plan from Sep...
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Why Oxford students
Oxford's AP Business Studies cohort is small but rising — primarily American-curriculum families based locally (visiting University of Oxford faculty, families at ACS Cobham/Egham within commuting distance, TASIS England in Surrey) and Oxford independent-school students at d'Overbroeck's, Magdalen College School and St Edward's self-studying AP papers alongside A-Level or the IB Diploma to broaden US university applications. d'Overbroeck's and Cherwell College Oxford regularly support AP self-study candidates targeting Ivy League and top-30 US universities, where 4s and 5s are expected and dual UK/US applicants are common. Our Oxford AP Business Studies tutors are matched specifically to the College Board syllabus and FRQ style, with sessions in UK time and back-planned around the May AP exam window — and, for Oxford-based dual applicants, the November/December Oxford admissions test (MAT/PAT/BMAT/TSA) and college interview cycle that routinely overlaps with AP coursework deadlines.
Exam boards we cover
The standard AP Business Studies course offered to d'Overbroeck's, Cherwell College Oxford and Oxford-based American-curriculum families (with ACS Cobham/Egham and TASIS England within commuting distance) students and self-study candidates from Oxford preparing US university applications.
Syllabus coverage
Our AP Business Studies tutors cover the full specification with extra depth on the topics where Oxford students most consistently lose marks.
Scarcity, opportunity cost and supply/demand basics.
Sole proprietor, partnership, corporation and LLC.
4 Ps, branding, market research and digital marketing.
Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow.
Cost behaviour, CVP and budgeting.
Motivation, teams and organisational behaviour.
SWOT, Porter and competitive advantage.
Applying frameworks to real-business scenarios.
We work with students at leading AP institutions across Oxford.
What we fix
How we fix it:Oxford's October UCAS deadline, November admissions tests (MAT, PAT, BMAT, TSA, HAT, LNAT) and December college interviews collide with Christmas mocks. We back-plan Business Studies sessions across August-November for test prep and run mock interview sessions through December.
How we fix it:Magdalen College School, St Edward's and Headington run intensive mock weeks in late November / early December that determine Sixth-Form set placement and predicted grades. We align Business Studies prep to each school's exact mock paper format and marking rubric.
How we fix it:IB Diploma students at St Edward's, Headington and d'Overbroeck's face Internal Assessment and Extended Essay deadlines in Y12 Term 3 and Y13 Term 1 — directly overlapping with the Oxford admissions test window. We schedule Business Studies IA drafting and EE supervision around those deadlines.
How we fix it:State sixth-formers at Cheney School and The Oxford Academy compete for the same Oxford and Russell Group places as MCS and Abingdon candidates, but with fewer dedicated admissions-test mentors. We give state-school Business Studies students the same examiner-grade preparation at GBP 45/hour.
How we fix it:Greene's College Oxford and Cherwell College Oxford specialise in compressed and resit A-Level cohorts. We provide Business Studies tuition timed against January and June resit windows, mapped to the exact paper structure students are re-sitting.
Why ComboTutors
Our Oxford Business Studies tutors include MAT, PAT, BMAT and TSA specialists — many are Oxford graduates or current postdocs who sat the same papers. We run dedicated prep blocks from August through the November test window and December interview cycle, mapped to the specific Oxford college a student is targeting.
We match Oxford IB DP Business Studies students to tutors who know the St Edward's, Headington and d'Overbroeck's IB programmes from the inside — HL/SL pacing, IA mark bands, EE supervision, and the double-load of running an IB Diploma whilst preparing for Oxford admissions tests in the same term.
Oxford has the highest density of PhD and postdoc tutors in the world — Mansfield, Cherwell and Greene's networks charge GBP 80-150/hour for personal Oxford fellows. Our online 1-to-1 Business Studies lessons deliver examiner-grade depth (and explicit Greene's / Cherwell retake-pathway support) at GBP 45/hour.
June 2026
My son needed PAT preparation alongside his MCS Year 13 mocks. His ComboTutors Business Studies tutor — an Oxford physics postdoc — built a weekly plan from Sep...
June 2026
My daughter is at Headington on the IB Diploma. Her HL Business Studies IA needed serious restructuring three weeks before deadline, whilst she was also preppin...
June 2026
I sat MAT for Maths at Oxford after retaking Business Studies A-Level at Cherwell College. ComboTutors was a third of what local Mansfield-network tutors quoted...

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 Business Studies in Oxford
Magdalen College School (MCS) primarily uses AQA and OCR for AP Business Studies, with selective CIE in further mathematics and some sciences. We match every MCS Business Studies student to a tutor who has examined or tutored the exact board their year group sits, and align sessions to the MCS late-November mock week schedule.
Yes. St Edward's School ('Teddies') and Headington School both offer the IB Diploma alongside A-Level, with d'Overbroeck's running IB DP as their flagship pathway. Our Oxford IB DP Business Studies tutors are matched specifically to St Edward's, Headington or d'Overbroeck's HL/SL syllabus tracks, IA mark bands and Extended Essay supervision — including the dual workload when students are also preparing for MAT/PAT/BMAT/TSA.
Our Oxford admissions test specialists run dedicated MAT, PAT, BMAT, TSA, HAT, CAT, MLAT, OLAT and LNAT prep blocks for AP Business Studies students from August through November, with mock interview sessions across December — all using past papers from the relevant Oxford college. Several of our tutors are Oxford graduates who sat the same tests, and we coordinate prep against the student's UCAS October deadline and December college interview slot.
Yes. d'Overbroeck's runs IB Diploma, A-Level and IGCSE in parallel — common for international and re-entry families. Our d'Overbroeck's Business Studies tutors are matched to the exact pathway (IB DP HL/SL, AQA A-Level, or AQA/CIE IGCSE) and the d'Overbroeck's internal mock schedule. We also support d'Overbroeck's students self-studying AP papers for US university applications.
Absolutely. Cheney School Sixth Form and The Oxford Academy state students compete with MCS, Abingdon and St Edward's candidates for the same Oxford and Russell Group offers — but with less in-school admissions-test support. We give state-sixth-form Business Studies students the same examiner-grade preparation, MAT/PAT/BMAT/TSA coverage and mock interview practice at GBP 45/hour.
Yes. Greene's College Oxford and Cherwell College Oxford specialise in compressed and resit A-Level cohorts. We provide AP Business Studies tuition timed against the January and June resit windows, mapped to the exact paper structure students are re-sitting, with a focus on the mark-scheme command words where retake candidates most commonly lose marks.

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