About Virtus Academy

Growing up in the north of England and attending a state high school, I saw how hard independent study can be when you don’t have help at home. Some students have someone to explain a topic again when the lesson moved too fast. Many don’t.

Five years of tutoring showed me the same pattern from the other side. The students who get one-to-one support pull ahead — not because they’re more able, but because someone is there to close the gaps. Tutoring works. The problem is that not every family can afford it, and the students who would benefit most are often the ones who can’t.

Virtus Academy exists to narrow that gap. Every worksheet, mark scheme and revision page on this site is free, with no account and no paywall. The aim is to make self-study genuinely workable: clear notes, exam-style questions, and full worked answers so you can check your own understanding without needing someone to mark it for you.

Who makes this

Virtus Academy was founded by a Computer Science graduate of Lancaster University who has tutored GCSE students for the past five years, working mainly in maths and the sciences. I build the resources; a small team helps run the site and responds to the messages that come in.

I prefer to keep the site itself in the foreground rather than my own name, but the work behind it is specific and I’m happy to set it out.

My own GCSEs were grades 7 to 9 across the board; my A-levels were maths, chemistry and biology. Most of my tutoring is one-to-one in those subjects, and much of what’s on this site started as material I built for students I was teaching — questions that came up repeatedly, explanations that finally made something land, mistakes I watched the same students make year after year.

Those recurring mistakes are why every topic page has a Common Mistakes section. They aren’t invented. They’re the errors I’ve seen cost real marks.

Why the site covers subjects I don’t personally tutor

I tutor maths and the sciences. Virtus Academy covers seven subjects, including French, Statistics and Computer Science.

That’s deliberate, and it’s worth being straightforward about how it works. Students don’t revise one subject in isolation — they sit eight or nine, and the ones without support need it across all of them, not just the two I happen to teach. So rather than limit the site to my own teaching subjects, I work through each specification in full and build the resources from it directly.

That means my claim isn’t subject expertise in all seven. It’s method: every page is written from the current published specification, not from memory or from other revision sites. You can check this yourself. Every topic page states which exam boards it covers, whether the content is Higher tier only or appears only on the separate sciences, and which specification the material follows.

How the resources are made

Everything is built directly from the current exam board specifications — AQA throughout, with Edexcel and OCR where the content is shared. Each topic is checked against the live specification document before the resources are written, so what you revise is what’s actually examined.

Tier and award labelling is done at topic level rather than assumed. Where a topic is Higher tier only, the page says so and the Foundation downloads aren’t offered. Where content appears only on the separate sciences rather than Combined, that’s marked too. This matters more than it sounds: revising Higher-only content for a Foundation paper is wasted time, and no student should have to work out which is which.

Worksheets follow real exam question styles and command words. Every worksheet comes with a full mark scheme showing where each individual mark is earned, in the same way an examiner would award it — not just a final answer.

When an exam board revises a specification, the affected topics are rechecked and rebuilt rather than left to drift.

Resources were last reviewed against the current specifications in August 2026.

Why there are adverts

The adverts on this site fund it. They pay for hosting, resource production and the time it takes to keep everything aligned to the specifications as they change. They exist so the resources can stay free and keep growing, rather than to generate profit.

There is no paywall, no subscription and no account required, and there never will be for the free resources.

Virtus Tutors

For students who want one-to-one support alongside the free resources, I also run Virtus Tutors — a separate, paid tutoring service. Both sites are owned and run by me, and I’d rather say that plainly than leave it to be worked out.

It’s entirely optional. Nothing on Virtus Academy is held back, watermarked or shortened to push you towards it. The free resources are the whole resource.

Corrections and suggestions

If you spot an error, want a topic covered, or have a suggestion, please get in touch.

Errors are taken seriously. If something on a worksheet or mark scheme is wrong, tell me and I’ll check it against the specification and correct it — and if the same error affects other pages, I’ll fix those too. Feedback from students and teachers genuinely shapes what gets built next.