A level is where the students who coasted through O level on memory meet a syllabus that cannot be memorised, and the first term is often a shock.
We teach mathematics, physics, chemistry and business studies at this level, in groups of six rather than eight. The teaching is more like a supervision than a class: work set, work attempted properly, work pulled apart together.
The skill we spend most time on is unfamiliar questions. An A level paper asks students to apply something they know to a situation they have never seen, and the students who struggle are usually those who have only ever practised recognising question types.
We also talk honestly about subject combinations and about what a university course will actually expect, because that conversation is happening for most families with very little information in it.
Eight hundred rufiyaa a month per subject, two sessions a week of ninety minutes.