Student tutoring jobs. Use your degree, not just your evenings.
You are already good at something a GCSE or A-Level student is struggling with, and you sat the same exam recently enough to remember how it actually works. Tutoring pays better per hour than most student jobs, bends around your lectures instead of fighting them, and is worth writing on your CV.
Free to join. You set your own rate and choose your own hours.
The alternative
Student jobs are mostly a bad deal
Not because the work is beneath anyone — because it costs you the two things you cannot get back: your time and your timetable.
The job that uses none of you
Pulling pints and folding jumpers pays, but three years from now not one line of it belongs on your CV.
A rota that does not care about your timetable
Shifts get published on a Sunday, your 9am lab does not move, and one of them has to give.
Minimum wage for maximum hours
Long shifts at the legal floor. The only way to earn more is to give up more evenings.
Why tutoring instead
The subject you already smashed
You do not need a teaching qualification to tutor. You need to know the material and be able to explain it.
Get paid for what you already know
You sat these exams recently and did well in them. That is exactly what a GCSE or A-Level student needs — someone who remembers the paper, not just the subject.
Built around lectures, not against them
You publish the hours you are free, and change them in reading week, in exam season, or whenever you like. Nobody rosters you.
It actually goes on your CV
Tutoring is real evidence of communication, planning and responsibility — the things graduate schemes ask you to give examples of. Bar work is harder to spin.
The honest bit
What we are not going to pretend
Every student job ad oversells itself. Here is the version without that.
There is no queue of students
Tutorwise is a new platform. We are not going to promise you students are waiting, because they are not yet. You would be one of the first tutors on it — early, with all that means both ways.
We cannot promise what you will earn
You set your own rate, so what you make depends on your rate and on how many sessions you actually get booked for. Anyone quoting you a guaranteed hourly figure is guessing.
You will need to be verified
Identity and DBS checks are required before you tutor — you will be working with under-18s, and parents rightly expect it. It is a real step, not a formality, so budget the time for it.
Getting started
Three steps
1. Create your profile
What you are studying, what you want to tutor, and the grades that back it up. A few minutes.
2. Get verified
Identity and DBS. Do this early — it is the step that lets parents book you at all.
3. Set your rate and your hours
Choose your subjects and levels, set what you charge, and block out your lectures. Change it whenever your timetable changes.
A student job worth having
Free to join, you set your own rate, and you choose the hours. Use the subject you are already good at.
Create your tutor profile