The academic edge. Expert strategies, study guides, and the latest in IB and IGCSE education.
A points total rarely blocks an application. A missing Higher Level or the wrong Mathematics route does. How to read a real entry requirement, and when each choice stops being reversible.
The CBSE-to-IB gap is not difficulty, it is task type. Entry points ranked by risk, the maths placement that constrains the Diploma, and why the first Internal Assessment decides the year.
Standard revision timetables assume a student who eats lunch. Here is how to rebuild the IB or IGCSE week around the three study windows a fasting student in the UAE actually has.
Private tutoring in the UAE needs a MoHRE work permit — free, two years, created by Ministerial Resolution 710 of 2023. What it covers, who qualifies, and how a parent verifies it.
The IB programme travels with you; the regulator, the compulsory subjects and the school run do not. A relocation sequence for PYP, MYP and DP families, in the order decisions must be taken.
The UAE five-subject equivalency rule, counted slowly with worked student ledgers: which subjects are excluded, what the grade floor means, and the last moment to fix a shortfall.
KHDA does not licence individual tutors in Dubai, MoHRE does, and the permit is free for two years. A parent's guide to the real rules, the mandatory UAE subjects, and how to verify a tutor.
The Ministry wants five IGCSE subjects, not six, and Arabic does not count towards them. An honest Sharjah guide to syllabus codes, Core versus Extended, AED rates and SPEA.
IGCSE tutoring is bought by the subject, and a child sits eight or nine. Dubai rate bands, the Core and Extended decision, syllabus codes, and how to build a term budget that holds.
