A complete response at Easter to your educational needs, just as you would expect from a college offering its year-round students individual tuition as the main method of teaching.

For students facing A-Levels and GCSEs in the summer, the Easter holiday brings too much time to dwell on the challenge ahead, so Easter revision courses are a popular antidote, easing your worries and helping you prepare with confidence for the exam room.

But modern Easter courses have had to change rapidly to keep up with the shifting demands and needs modern students have.

GCSEs turned modular, and the increasing use by schools of mid-year public exams, (which, in theory, allow pupils to finish some areas of the course early), can mean many students feel they have different needs to their classmates as final exams near.

So many students want different things from the same course. Finding the revision course that is right for you can be hard. If the course is based on the exam board specification you are following, will there be enough focus on the topics you most want to revise? What if you missed part of the course and need some first-time learning late in the day?

Some students will enter Easter with some parts of the course unnecessary, exams taken early and grades achieved. Others will want to take advantage of repeat opportunities, taking GCSE core science at the end of two years of study, or sitting AS units alongside final A2s.

Arts and humanities subjects offer many different pathways, schools choosing different texts for literature, different study periods for history and different topics in subjects like modern languages and geography.

At Cherwell, we know each student needs personalised revision. Our main method of teaching for our full-time students is individual tuition, so what we offer at Easter is what we are expert in the year round.

We create a superb blend of support — a mix of exam practice and personal tuition, with the chance to socialise and share ideas with other students through the day and, for those who choose to be residential with us, in the evenings in Oxford too.

Individual tuition means the tutor can focus on just you and, over the course of a few sessions, can help you in every way, connecting up with your studies at school by helping you make sense of mock exam performance as you work for improvement.

We will help you summarise and understand your syllabus, allow you to focus on elements of study you find difficult, or fill in gaps where you don’t have enough material. Most importantly we build exam technique, tuition balanced with daily written work, lots of feedback on questions attempted, helping you prepare for the exam room, making it feel less threatening.

A final report offering guidance on progress to exams will leave you with a clear focus for revision, greater understanding of your subject — greater confidence for the challenge ahead.

Individual tuition means our courses are very flexible — some students will come for two weeks, others for just a few days, allowing time to balance extra study with a holiday — but knowing you have taken extra steps towards success in June.

But it doesn’t have to be just about Easter. At Cherwell, we can offer short-term revision all the year round. Many students stay in touch with the college in the weeks after attending at Easter, visiting once or twice a week for key support as exams near.

In fact, if you want help, you can start right now.

The modern curriculum places great emphasis on individual learning, with students able to choose their own topics for close study.

With our focus on individual tuition we can offer full-time students total flexibility, allowing you to study any combination of subjects.

Most of our students come for two years of A-level study, but we can also help A2 students who need to improve their AS results during their final year, or, if you need to begin AS level study while re-sitting a core GCSE subject, this is also possible.

At Cherwell, we place great emphasis on your exact needs, and you can move through a course of study at the pace that is right for you.

Individual choice means using the flexibility of modular examination to let you sit exams when you are ready. The result? We have taken our students to levels of success that had not seemed possible in earlier, group-based study.

More information, about Easter Revision, short-term courses, and full-time study is available by calling 01865 242670 or e-mailing: secretary@cherwell-college.co.uk

Andy Thompson, Principal, Cherwell College, Oxford