Best homeschool resources for A-Level

A-Level content is a step up in depth from GCSE, and the free-resource landscape reflects that. There is still a strong free tier, but the range of quality is wider and the paid tier gets more useful as you move up the specification.

The same five-job breakdown from GCSE still applies at A-Level: teach the content, force active recall, practise exam-style questions, work through past papers with mark schemes, and get feedback on written work. What changes is the shape of each job. A-Level teaching resources need to go deeper. Active recall matters more, not less. Past papers become the central revision activity in Year 13. And feedback on writing is the hardest job of all – A-Level essay marks turn on nuance that a mark scheme can only partially capture.

This roundup covers what works in practice for A-Level homeschool families in 2026, split by job.

Before you sign up to anything, be clear about what you are trying to cover. A typical homeschool A-Level student needs a spine for each of their three subjects – a single go-to resource that walks them through the specification – plus a wider set of tools for practice and feedback.

One resource per subject for teaching. One question bank per subject for practice. One store of past papers per subject (free from the exam board). One flashcard tool for recall. And a plan for how to get essays and long-answer questions marked.

That is it. Bloating your stack with five overlapping video series wastes time. Pick one spine and stick with it.

Free A-Level teaching resources cluster around a few strong platforms.

Cognito publishes free A-Level video lessons and revision notes across the sciences, maths, English literature, geography, history, religious studies, economics, modern languages and computer science, aligned to the major boards. Video lessons and notes are free; flashcards, quizzes and topic-tagged exam questions are free with a weekly limit, and Pro removes the cap. It works as a spine for A-Level students across those subjects. Depth varies subject to subject – supplement with a subject-specific YouTube channel where a topic needs an extra angle.

Physics & Maths Tutor (PMT or pmt.education) is the widest-coverage free platform for A-Level. It has free notes, past papers, worksheets and topic questions for A-Level Maths, Further Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics, Geography, English, Psychology and Computer Science. Notes are dense and revision-oriented rather than teaching-first – best used alongside a video series.

BBC Bitesize's A-Level coverage is thinner than its GCSE coverage, but it is still worth a look for revision summaries in humanities subjects.

Subject-specific YouTube channels fill most of the gaps. Eliot Rintoul (Physics), Allery Chemistry, Eastbrook A-Level Maths, Mr Salles (English Literature) and Ranger Prof (Economics) all publish substantial free content aligned to the current specifications.

A-Level active recall is more demanding than GCSE, and the tools you use need to reflect that. Flashcards remain the workhorse, but the volume matters: a typical A-Level subject generates 300–600 well-made cards over two years.

Anki suits serious A-Level students who'll use it consistently. The spaced-repetition algorithm handles the volume of cards needed for A-Level content, and pre-built shared decks exist for most subjects on AnkiWeb. The learning curve is steeper than Quizlet but the pay-off over two years tends to justify it.

Quizlet is faster to get started with and works better for group study. Public decks aligned to specifications exist for most A-Level subjects, though quality varies.

Cognito's topic-tagged flashcards, quizzes and question bank work well as an active-recall tool alongside standalone flashcard apps – free with a weekly cap on interactive practice, Pro unlimited.

Save My Exams is a strong all-in-one paid option for A-Level exam-style practice. Topic-tagged exam-style questions across AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE and WJEC, with model answers and revision notes. The Premium tier is commonly cited at around £5 a month (billed annually; check current Save My Exams pricing) with a seven-day free trial. Coverage is broad across the sciences and maths – where homeschool families most often add paid support.

Cognito's question bank is a strong free equivalent across A-Level sciences (including Biology), maths and its other A-Level subjects. Questions are tagged by topic and specification, wrong-answer mode lets students rework everything they missed, and the platform maps to a topic map so you can see specification gaps at a glance.

Maths Genie (mathsgenie.co.uk) is a free A-Level Maths platform with topic-tagged practice questions and worked video solutions. It is aligned to the current Edexcel spec but content transfers to AQA and OCR.

Dr Frost Maths covers A-Level Maths and Further Maths with topic-tagged practice. Free.

Every past paper is free from the exam board. AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR, Eduqas, WJEC, CIE and OxfordAQA all publish past papers, mark schemes and examiners' reports on their assessment resources pages. If a third-party site is charging you for a past paper, you are paying for something available at no cost.

For older papers no longer on the exam board site, PMT keeps a comprehensive archive. Save My Exams also mirrors past papers and layers topic-tagged questions on top.

Examiners' reports are the most under-used free resource on any exam board site. They tell you exactly what students did well and badly on last year's paper, and they translate directly into revision priorities. Read the last three years' reports for each subject at the start of Year 13.

If a self-built stack is not the right shape for your family, three paid providers feature prominently in the UK online A-Level homeschool market.

Wolsey Hall Oxford runs self-paced A-Level courses with UK-qualified tutor feedback via Canvas. Bundle pricing at £570 per course for one to three subjects, £522.50 per course for four, £475 per course for five or more. A four-course AS/A-Level bundle (one AS plus three A-Levels) paid up front is £5,225. No live lessons – students work through the material at their own pace with tutor marking on written work.

Oxford Home Schooling (Oxford Online Learning Ltd, the trading arm associated with Oxford Open Learning Trust) sells A-Level courses at £475 per subject, with bundle pricing of £925 for two subjects. Assignment marking is priced per assignment (around £10); optional one-to-one tutoring is around £40 an hour (£10 per 15 minutes). A course provider rather than a school – exam entry is the family's job.

Minerva's Virtual Academy runs a mentor-led hybrid model at £9,365 per year for the 2026/27 academic year (all-in, plus a £930 deposit and £95 subscription). Cambridge Home School Online charges £10,950 per year for their upper school and sixth form – small-class live lessons mirroring an independent day school.

Harrow School Online offers international A-Level in a live-lesson small-class model. Current fees are not published on their site at the time of writing – verify directly.

Cognito is a strong free A-Level spine across the sciences, maths, English literature, geography, history, religious studies, economics, modern languages and computer science. Video lessons and revision notes cover the specifications, and topic-tagged flashcards, quizzes and question banks let students practise weak areas – free with a weekly limit, Pro unlimited.

Depth varies subject to subject: pair Cognito with a subject-specific YouTube channel or PMT where a topic needs an extra angle.

At KS3, GCSE and iGCSE level Cognito covers the same subject list, which matters for the pre-A-Level year where students are shoring up prior content in a subject they are about to take at A-Level.

The two places free resources run out at A-Level are written feedback and mark-scheme translation.

Written feedback matters more at A-Level than at GCSE. Essay-based subjects (English Literature, History, Politics, Philosophy, Religious Studies) have marks that turn on the quality of argument and the precision of analysis – things a mark scheme can only partly convey. A-Level Maths and Physics long-answer problem-solving also benefits from a human eye on working. This is the point most homeschool A-Level families reach for occasional tuition or a course provider with tutor marking bundled in.

Mark-scheme translation is the other gap. A-Level mark schemes assume the reader is a teacher who already knows the specification. They can be dense. A tutor's job is often not "teach the content" but "translate the mark scheme into technique". A five-session block with a specialist A-Level tutor in April or May of Year 13 can raise a grade more efficiently than any other single intervention.