Private tutoring at transition points in the English education system: its nature, extent and purpose

the duration of tutoring.

As some students who indicated that they had a tutor at some point in their school career
(‘ever had’ a tutor) did not provide information on the duration of tutoring, the number of
students that indicated the terms in which they received tutoring was used as a basis for
calculating the percentages of students with a tutor at the time of the survey (have a tutor
now). For year 6, the number of students with tutors in the autumn term was computed and
for year 11, the number of students with tutors in the spring term. A few cases were excluded
due to incomplete data, leaving analysis samples of 1165 students in year 6 and 1142 in year
11. In year 6, 7.6% had a tutor for mathematics, 8.1% for English and 3.2% science, whereas
in year 11, 7.9% had a tutor for mathematics, 2.6% for English and 2.8% science (Table 3).

Table 3. Percentage of students with tutors in year 6 and year 11 (‘tutoring now’)

Duration of tutoring

Year 6 students were asked to give details of tutoring received each term in the previous year
whereas older students were asked for details over the past two years. All students were also
asked to indicate tutoring received before the period in question: year 6 students were asked

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