GCSE syllabus
Every GCSE Biology Foundation skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.

GCSE Biology Foundation
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Every GCSE Biology Foundation skill maps to a topic in the syllabus, so sessions cover what the exams test.
Share your teacher's syllabus, textbook, or pacing guide and sessions follow your child's actual class.
Aiming for a 9? Aristotle plans review back from your child's target grade and exam date.
Exam prep
Aristotle tracks 225 GCSE Biology Foundation skills, finds the ones costing your child points, and plans review back from exam day.
Follows the syllabus, unit by unit.
Your child talks it through. Aristotle coaches from the step that went wrong.
Any time before the exam. No booking.
See what's mastered and what's left.
Features
Talk things through, work side by side, and come back next time to a tutor who remembers where you left off.
Ask questions out loud, hear explanations in Aristotle’s voice, and interrupt whenever you need to.
Aristotle draws steps, diagrams, and images to help you learn visually.
Get practice problems tailored to the exact topics you’re struggling with.
From middle-school math to AP exams to SAT/ACT prep. We also build custom plans matched to state standards and specific courses.
Revisit session summaries, session whiteboards, and uploads in one place.
Aristotle can read and navigate any PDFs and images with the learner. That includes textbooks with hundreds of pages!
We break all subjects down into granular skills, then track mistakes and mastery on each one. Parents can see the whole picture at a glance.
Aristotle remembers every session: what you’ve covered, where you got stuck, how you like things explained. It picks up right where you left off.
The curriculum
Aristotle is designed to always know what to teach at exactly the right time.
Sample curriculum
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Cell biology
Organisation
Infection and response
Bioenergetics
Homeostasis and response
Inheritance, variation and evolution
Ecology
GCSE Biology Foundation tutoring curriculum225 skills across 7 units
Cell biology
Topics: Cell structure, Cell division, Transport in cells.
Organisation
Topics: Principles of organisation, Animal tissues, organs and organ systems, Plant tissues, organs and systems.
Infection and response
Topics: Communicable diseases, Plant disease.
Bioenergetics
Topics: Photosynthesis, Respiration.
Homeostasis and response
Topics: Homeostasis, The human nervous system, Hormonal coordination in humans, Plant hormones.
Inheritance, variation and evolution
Topics: Reproduction, Variation and evolution, The development of understanding of genetics and evolution, Classification of living organisms.
Ecology
Topics: Adaptations, interdependence and competition, Organisation of an ecosystem, Biodiversity and the effect of human interaction on ecosystems, Trophic levels in an ecosystem, Food production.
A few things you might wonder before getting started.
Aristotle's GCSE Biology Foundation course tracks 225 skills across 7 units, mapped to the GCSE specification, including Cell biology, Organisation, and Infection and response. Every skill is linked to the skills it builds on, so the tutor always knows which parts of GCSE Biology Foundation your child has mastered and what to teach next.
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