The Best Time to Start IB Tutoring in Dubai: The Honest Answer by Year Group

Almost every family in Dubai starts International Baccalaureate (IB) tutoring at the same moment: a few days after a report card arrives with a number on it that nobody expected. That is an understandable moment. It is also, measured in money and in results, close to the worst available moment, and the reason is not psychological. It is arithmetic. The best time to start IB tutoring in Dubai is a date you calculate from the examination series, not a mood you react to.

This guide sets out when to start, by year group and by trigger, for families in Dubai whose children are in the IB Middle Years Programme (MYP), the IB Diploma Programme (DP), or Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel IGCSE. It covers the four triggers that genuinely justify starting now, the cases where starting is too early to be worth the money, what a late start actually costs in a city where specialist supply is the binding constraint, and the one regulatory question a parent should ask before agreeing any start date at all.

It is deliberately not a case for starting as early as possible. There is a real section below on when tutoring is a waste of money, because a guide that concludes "start immediately, whatever your situation" is a sales document rather than advice.

The best time to start IB tutoring in Dubai is set by the examination series, not the report card

Work backwards from the examination, not forwards from the problem. That single reordering is most of what this article has to say.

A report card tells you that something is wrong. It does not tell you how much time you have to fix it, and time is the only variable you actually control. The examination series tells you how much time you have, exactly, and the series is fixed. Cambridge International runs IGCSE, O Level and International A Level examinations in a June series and a November series, and for UAE candidates those two are the only ones that apply. That is worth stating plainly, because Cambridge also offers an early-in-the-year series restricted to candidates in India, and a revision guide written for Mumbai will count down to a window a Dubai student will never sit. Families who have moved from an Indian-curriculum school are the ones this catches. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE runs in May/June and November. The IB sits a May session and a November session.

Note which month is not lit: the February and March window a revision guide written for Mumbai counts down to. A Dubai student will never sit it.

So the first action is not to find a tutor. It is to write down three dates: the series your child is entered for, the mock window, and the internal coursework deadlines the DP coordinator has set. Everything in this article is a subtraction from those three numbers.

One honest caveat about the IB dates specifically. This guide does not print IB session windows, because the IB's own assessment pages could not be verified by automated checking when it was written, and a date a family plans around has to be right. Get the session window and the internal upload deadlines from your school's DP coordinator, and plan backwards from what the coordinator gives you rather than from any article.

Why a bad report card is the most expensive reason to start

Starting after a bad report is expensive in three separate ways, and they compound.

The time left is shorter than the gap. A report card in February of DP2 reports on learning that happened across the previous eighteen months. If the mark reflects a genuine conceptual gap — not a bad week — then closing it means re-teaching a sequence of topics in the correct order, and that cannot be compressed much below the number of lessons the sequence contains. A six-topic repair takes six lessons. At one lesson a week, that is six weeks. At two a week it is three, and two a week is where comprehension starts to suffer because there is no time to practise between lessons. There is no version of that arithmetic where a February start covers eighteen months of drift before a May or June paper.

The hours have to be bought at a higher density, which costs more. Term-time tutoring at one lesson a week sits comfortably in a family's budget as a monthly figure. A compressed repair needs two or three lessons a week for a block, and often a full intensive course on top. The hourly rate does not change, but the number of hours does, and the number of hours is the whole bill.

The best tutors are already booked. This is the part nobody mentions and it is frequently decisive. The city's IB population grows every year: KHDA reported a 6% rise in private-school enrolment across 2025-26, and the 2026-27 intake brings seven further private schools — four of them UK curriculum, three of them IB — with 16,846 places between them. More IB students each year, and all of them hunting a Higher Level (HL) subject specialist inside the same three months before the series. A family starting in September chooses from the available specialists. A family starting in February chooses from whoever has a slot left, which is a different and smaller set.

The curve is the article in one picture: every month of delay steepens the cadence, and cadence is what a family actually pays for.

Read the last two rows carefully, because they are where most of Dubai's tutoring money is spent and they are the rows that deliver least. A tutor engaged six weeks before a paper is a technique coach. That is genuinely worth something — students lose a surprising number of marks to method rather than ignorance — but it is a different product from the one the family thinks it is buying.

That is the distinction a late start lives or dies on. If the lost marks are method marks, six weeks is enough; if they are missing-foundation marks, six weeks buys composure and nothing else. IB past paper practice and IB mock examination preparation are both ways of finding out which group you are dealing with before you buy the wrong product.

The arithmetic of a start date, in lessons rather than months

Here is the calculation worth doing before you choose a start date, and it takes about five minutes.

Write down the topics that are genuinely not understood. Not the subjects — the topics. Four topics in Mathematics Analysis and Approaches, two in Physics, one in Chemistry. Be specific enough that a tutor could teach each one in a session. Then count the sessions: a topic that is partly understood takes one session and some practice; a topic that was never understood takes two, because the first session reveals that the foundation under it is missing as well.

So seven topics, mostly unlearned, is roughly ten to twelve sessions.

Eleven sessions is the real unit of the decision. Converted into weeks it is a term at one lesson a week, and there is no honest route to it inside a month. At one lesson a week with practice in between, that is a term. At two lessons a week it is six weeks, with the practice compressed to the point where some of it will not happen. There is no honest route to ten sessions inside three weeks. If the topics sit in Mathematics, the route matters as much as the count, which is what IB Maths AA HL tutoring in Dubai, IB Physics HL tutoring in Dubai and IB Chemistry HL tutoring in Dubai each set out at Higher Level.

Now subtract from your series date. If the number of weeks available is smaller than the number of sessions needed, you have one of three choices, and it is better to pick one deliberately than to discover it in April: start sooner, narrow the scope to fewer topics and accept the rest, or raise the cadence and accept the reduced practice. Most families do none of these and instead buy the full plan in a quarter of the time, which is how a tutoring arrangement ends in frustration on both sides.

This arithmetic is also the honest answer to "how many sessions will my child need?" — a question most providers answer with a package. The number of sessions is a function of the number of topics, and nobody can tell you that number before looking at a paper. Any provider quoting a session count before seeing the student's work is quoting a product, not a plan. Our own IB DP tutoring and experienced IB tutor pages start from a diagnostic for exactly that reason.

Starting in MYP: what it buys, and what it wastes

MYP is where the over-investment happens, and the distinction between useful and wasted MYP tutoring is sharp enough to state as a rule: tutoring in MYP is worth it when it is fixing a foundation, and wasted when it is pre-teaching the DP.

The foundation case is real and often urgent. A student who reaches MYP5 without fluent algebraic manipulation is going to struggle in DP Mathematics regardless of which route they take, and that is a problem that is cheap to fix at thirteen and expensive to fix at seventeen. The same applies to written expression, to the ability to read a question and identify what it is asking, and to basic scientific numeracy. These are foundations, they transfer to every subject, and they are easier to build before the DP's workload arrives.

The wasted case is a family engaging a DP-level tutor for an MYP3 student because the goal is a 7 at HL in four years' time. Four years is far too long a horizon for a tutoring relationship to hold value, the DP content will be taught again properly when the student reaches it, and the money spent would buy considerably more if it were spent in DP1 instead. There is also a cost that is not financial: a student who has been tutored continuously since MYP3 often has not developed the habit of struggling with a problem alone, which is precisely the skill the DP demands.

The dividing line is not the year group, it is which column the work sits in. Foundation work at thirteen is the best-value hour in this article; DP content at thirteen is the worst.

The genuinely high-value MYP intervention is the one that most families skip: a serious conversation, in MYP5, about subject choice. The decision between Mathematics Analysis and Approaches and Mathematics Applications and Interpretation has consequences for university courses years later, and it is made at fifteen, often on incomplete information. Two or three sessions with somebody who knows both routes and knows what specific university courses require is a small spend against a decision that is difficult to reverse. The broader decision is covered on IB subject selection guidance and IB HL versus SL guidance, the MYP tutoring page covers the foundation work, the AA Standard Level and AI Standard Level pages set out what the two routes actually contain, and the longer treatment of the choice is in the guide to IB Maths AA vs AI for UAE students.

The DP1 start, and why September is the cheapest place on the calendar

If there is a single best answer to the question in this article's title, it is September of DP1 — and the reason is that the same amount of money buys more there than anywhere else on the two-year calendar.

Three things are simultaneously true at the start of DP1 and are never all true again. Subject choice is still a live decision, so a tutor's assessment can change the subjects themselves rather than only the marks in them. Nothing has gone wrong yet, so the work is construction rather than repair, and construction is faster. And the cadence can be low — one lesson a week, or even one a fortnight for a specific subject — because there is enough runway for slow work to compound.

Low cadence is the financial point. A family that starts in DP1 at one lesson a week for two subjects, and keeps that going, spends a steady monthly amount for two years. A family that starts in February of DP2 spends a larger amount in a compressed block and typically adds an intensive course on top. The second family often spends more in total, across four months, than the first spends across twenty-four.

Both columns are the same subject and the same child. Only the date is different, and the date is the one variable a family fully controls.

The transition itself is also a genuine tutoring need rather than an invented one. The step from IGCSE to DP is larger than most families expect, and it is not primarily a content step. It is a step in what is being assessed: IGCSE rewards accurate recall and correct method, while the DP rewards evaluation, the handling of unfamiliar contexts, and extended independent work. A student who was comfortably achieving A grades at IGCSE can land a 4 in a DP subject in the first term without having become worse at anything, simply because the question is asking for something different. That is the most common and most alarming surprise of DP1, and it is almost entirely preventable with early, light-touch support that teaches what the new command terms are actually demanding. That is precisely what an IGCSE to IB transition course is for, and for families who have just landed in the city, IB tutoring for new expat students in Dubai starts from the same gap.

The four triggers that genuinely mean start now

Set the calendar aside for a moment. Four situations justify starting regardless of where in the year you are, and recognising them is more useful than any general timetable.

Three of those four are not about marks at all, which is why waiting for a report card misses them.

A live subject-choice decision. Any point at which the student is choosing between routes — AA or AI, HL or Standard Level (SL), Core or Extended at IGCSE, which six subjects — is a moment where a few sessions with somebody who knows the consequences is worth more than many sessions later. The decision window closes and does not reopen.

A measured drop, not a disappointing mark. The distinction matters. A single low test score is noise. A drop across two consecutive assessment points in the same subject, or a mark that has fallen while the effort has not, is a signal, and it is the signal most worth acting on quickly, because the underlying gap is still small enough to be found.

A transition. Moving from CBSE, from an American curriculum, or from a British Year 11 into the DP; moving countries mid-programme; changing school within Dubai; moving from MYP into DP. Each of these creates a specific, identifiable gap that is cheap to close in the first few weeks and expensive to close after six months of quietly not understanding something that the new curriculum assumed. The guide to switching from CBSE to IB in Dubai goes through the subject-by-subject version of this.

The coursework cliff. The point in DP1 where Internal Assessments, the Extended Essay and the Theory of Knowledge essay all appear on the horizon at once is a real trigger, and it is about process rather than content. A student who has never managed a long independent piece of work needs to learn how, and that is a teachable skill — which is a very different thing from having the work done for them, a distinction this article returns to below. The Internal Assessment support, Extended Essay support and Theory of Knowledge essay help pages describe where that boundary sits.

When starting is too early to be worth the money

Four situations where the honest advice is to wait, or to do something other than hire a tutor.

The mark is fine and the ambition is vague. A student holding a 5 in a subject, with no specific university requirement in play and no measured decline, does not have a problem that tutoring solves efficiently. What usually lifts that student is more practice on past papers and better use of the teacher they already have. Tutoring can lift it too, but it is the most expensive of the available options and it should be chosen knowing that.

That is the test to apply to your own case: name the number the student needs and the subject it is needed in. If you cannot, the honest answer is usually to wait, and IB university admissions guidance is a cheaper place to begin than a term of lessons.

The problem is organisational, not academic. A student who understands the material and is not handing work in has a different problem, and a subject specialist is the wrong instrument for it. Sessions spent re-teaching understood content to a student who is not doing the work produce a student who understands the content and is still not doing the work. Address the organisation first — with the school, with the form tutor, at home — and bring in subject tutoring once work is being handed in.

It is MYP3 and the goal is a DP grade. Covered above, and it bears repeating because it is the most common form of wasted spend in this market. Four years is too long a horizon.

The student does not want it. This is not a soft consideration. A student who has been enrolled against their will attends, does not engage, learns little, and arrives at the eventual genuine need having already concluded that tutoring does not work for them. That conclusion is expensive. A single diagnostic session, framed as information rather than remediation, is a better opening move than a term booked in advance.

None of those four are reasons to never start. They are reasons that this month is not the month, which is a different and much cheaper conclusion.

What a late start costs in Dubai, in money and in availability

Market rates in Dubai are reasonably well documented if you read providers' own published pages. The bands below are what the market charges, not an IB Gram price list, and each figure is the provider's own published rate.

Now apply the start-date arithmetic to those bands, because the interesting number is not the hourly rate — it is the total, and the total is driven by cadence and duration rather than by rate.

A DP1 start at one lesson a week with a mid-band specialist runs at roughly AED 600 to 1,200 a month on Bestimate's monthly estimates for weekly one-hour sessions, held steadily over two years. A DP2 February start on the same subject typically needs two to three lessons a week for a block plus an intensive course, which lands in Bestimate's AED 1,000 to 2,000-plus specialist examination-year range and often above it once the intensive is added. The late-starting family is buying fewer total hours across a shorter period, at a higher monthly rate, to attempt a larger repair. Our longer breakdown of what families actually pay is in the guide to IB home tutor fees in Dubai, and our own figures are on the IB tutor cost page.

The availability cost is harder to put a number on and is often the one that actually bites. At the HL subject-specialist end — HL Physics, HL Chemistry, AA HL, HL Economics — the pool of tutors who have genuinely taught the course is small in any city, and in the twelve weeks before a series every IB family in Dubai is competing for it. Starting earlier is partly an academic decision and partly a queueing decision, and it is worth being clear-eyed about which one is driving your timing.

Nothing in those four numbers is about your child, and all four of them affect whether you get the tutor you wanted.

For families who have genuinely left it late, a compressed IB crash course or the structured IB examination preparation approach is the right shape of product — and the right expectation to hold for it is technique and paper strategy rather than new learning. For IGCSE candidates the equivalents are IGCSE examination preparation and IGCSE mock examination preparation; for anybody sitting the papers again, IB retake tutoring and IGCSE resit tutoring are the right starting pages, and a holiday start is covered by IB holiday tuition in Dubai.

The question to ask before you agree any start date

There is a regulatory question that belongs in this conversation and almost never appears in it, and it is worth asking before money changes hands rather than after.

Private tutoring in the UAE is regulated by permit. The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation (MoHRE) private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, it is granted free of charge for two years, and eligible applicants include teachers registered in government or private schools, employees in the government and private sectors, unemployed individuals, school students aged 15 to 18, and university students. MoHRE's own service page for it is "Issuance of a New Work Permit - Private Tutor Licensing", which lists no fees and a two-working-day completion time, applied for through the MoHRE smart app, website and e-services system. Individuals offering private tutoring without a permit from MoHRE are subject to fines and penalties outlined in the applicable laws; no fine schedule is published, so no amount is quoted here.

Eligibility categories and the fee and validity position are from the UAE government's work-permits page and MoHRE's Private Tutor Licensing service page. The KHDA row is from KHDA's own training-institute permit service page.

The confusion is not accidental. "KHDA-approved tutors" borrows the authority of the right-hand column for something that only ever needed the left-hand one.

Two consequences for a family choosing a tutor. First, a tutor who tells you a permit is optional, or that the rules do not apply to private lessons, is telling you something that is not correct, and that is a reasonable basis on which to decline. Second, in Abu Dhabi there is an additional constraint worth knowing: ADEK's professional-ethics rules for private and charter school staff have been reported as prohibiting teachers from providing paid private tutoring to students enrolled at their own school, and the MoHRE permit's code of conduct has been reported as also barring tutors from serving students affiliated with their own school. That is press-reported rather than read from the policy document itself, so verify it against current ADEK policy before relying on it — but the practical implication is that "your child's own teacher, privately" is not an arrangement to go looking for.

And the statement that belongs on any page like this one: IB Gram holds no KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, Ministry of Education, Cambridge or Pearson approval, accreditation or partnership. A KHDA Educational Services Permit is a specific licence issued to training institutes with physical premises in Dubai, with initial approval first and annual renewal requested at least thirty days before expiry. "KHDA-approved tutors" is the phrase in this market most worth asking a provider to evidence with a number.

Settle those two before the start date, not after it. A provider who will not put the second and third rows in writing has told you which column their business model sits in.

How a Dubai family actually begins, and how IB Gram delivers it

The delivery statement first, because it determines what your options even are.

We teach UAE students online only: one-to-one lessons on live video. No IB Gram tutor comes to a UAE address, because home visits are a service we run exclusively in India. If you want a tutor at your home in Dubai, you want a local in-home agency, and the market band to expect is roughly AED 180 to 500 an hour, because that fee is absorbing a car crossing the city twice.

On the choice between the two models, the honest version is that in-home tutoring genuinely suits some families — younger students who focus better with somebody physically present, households where screen-based lessons have not worked, and parents who want to see the lesson happening. What families usually underweight is the schedule cost: an in-home tutor in Dubai is subject to traffic and to geography, and the practical consequence is a narrower set of available slots and a cancellation rate that no agency controls. Online delivery trades the physical presence for reliability and for a much larger pool of subject specialists, which matters most at the HL end where the pool is the constraint. There is no universally right answer; there is a right answer for a specific student. The online IB tutoring page sets out the mechanics, and the fuller comparison is in the guide to how to choose an IB tutor in Dubai.

The last two rows are why a late start and in-home delivery are a bad combination specifically. A compressed repair cannot absorb cancellations, and it is the point at which the specialist pool matters most.

Two boundaries to state before any start date is agreed. We do not guarantee grades — a tutor changes how much work gets done, how well it is understood and how calmly a student enters an examination hall, and nobody can guarantee a 7. And a tutor does not write coursework. On an Internal Assessment, an Extended Essay or a Theory of Knowledge essay, a tutor may teach the research skills, explain the assessment criteria, discuss the argument and point out where evidence fails to support a claim; a tutor may not write any part of it, supply the argument, rewrite the student's prose or edit a draft to completion. Submitted work that is not genuinely the student's own is academic misconduct in the IB's terms, and the penalty attaches to the candidate — at the far end, the diploma goes. Services in this market do sell completed coursework; what they are actually selling is the student's risk.

Where to start reading for your own situation: IB tutoring in Dubai for the general picture, your own neighbourhood page such as Dubai Marina for scheduling around a school run, IB tutoring in Abu Dhabi if you are in the capital, and the IB summer holiday study plan for UAE families if the start date you are considering is a summer one — which, for most families reading this, is the best one available. If the month you are planning across is Ramadan, the Ramadan study schedule for IB students sets out what to cut and what to protect, and the delivery question itself is argued out in home versus online IB tutoring in Dubai.

Frequently Asked Questions

When is the best time to start IB tutoring in Dubai?

September of DP1, for most students. Three things are true at that point and never all true again: subject choice is still a live decision, so an assessment can change the subjects rather than only the marks; nothing has gone wrong yet, so the work is construction rather than repair; and the cadence can stay at one lesson a week because there is enough runway for slow work to compound. The second-best point is the summer between DP1 and DP2. Starting after the DP2 mocks still helps, but it buys paper technique rather than new learning.

Is it too late to start IB tutoring in DP2?

No, but be clear about what it buys. A start at the beginning of DP2 can still close one genuine subject gap and fix coursework process at one to two lessons a week. A start after the DP2 mocks, roughly three to four months out, buys technique, paper strategy and the marks students lose to method rather than ignorance — which is real value. A start six to eight weeks before the series is a technique coach, not a teacher of new content, and a family should buy it knowing that rather than expecting a conceptual repair.

How many tutoring sessions will my child need?

Nobody can tell you before looking at the student's actual work, and any provider quoting a session count in advance is quoting a product rather than a plan. The honest method is to list the topics that are genuinely not understood — topics, not subjects — and count them. A partly understood topic takes one session plus practice; a topic never understood takes two, because the first session reveals that the foundation beneath it is also missing. Seven mostly unlearned topics is roughly ten to twelve sessions.

Should we start tutoring in MYP for a student aiming at the IB Diploma?

Only if it is fixing a foundation. Tutoring in MYP is worth it when it builds fluent algebraic manipulation, written expression, question comprehension or basic scientific numeracy — things that transfer to every subject and are far cheaper to fix at thirteen than at seventeen. It is wasted when it pre-teaches DP content four years early, which will be taught again properly anyway, and it carries a hidden cost: a student tutored continuously from MYP3 often has not learned to struggle with a problem alone.

What does IB tutoring cost in Dubai?

Market rates, taken from providers' own published pages, run roughly AED 45 to 150 an hour for budget online tutoring, AED 150 to 300 for a qualified subject specialist online, AED 180 to 500 for an in-home visit where the fee absorbs travel, AED 200 to 450 and above for IB, IGCSE and A-Level specialists, and AED 500 to 650 and beyond for premium named or examiner-led tutoring. Those are the market's figures, not an IB Gram price list. The total you pay is driven far more by cadence and duration than by the hourly rate.

Does starting late actually cost more overall?

Usually, yes. A DP1 start at one lesson a week with a mid-band specialist runs at roughly AED 600 to 1,200 a month on Bestimate's monthly estimates and holds steady for two years. A February start in DP2 generally requires two to three lessons a week plus an intensive course, landing in the AED 1,000 to 2,000-plus specialist examination-year range and often above it. The late-starting family buys fewer total hours, over a shorter period, at a higher monthly rate, to attempt a larger repair.

Can my child's own school teacher tutor them privately in Dubai or Abu Dhabi?

Treat this as an arrangement to avoid. ADEK's professional-ethics rules for Abu Dhabi private and charter school staff have been reported as prohibiting teachers from paid private tutoring of students enrolled at their own school, and the MoHRE private tuition work permit's code of conduct has been reported as also barring tutors from serving students affiliated with their own school. Those are press-reported, so verify against current ADEK policy before relying on the exact wording — but "your child's own teacher, privately" is not something to go looking for.

Does a private tutor in the UAE need a licence?

Yes. The MoHRE private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, is granted free of charge for two years, and covers teachers registered in government or private schools, government and private-sector employees, unemployed individuals, school students aged 15 to 18 and university students. MoHRE's service page lists no fees and a two-working-day completion time. Individuals tutoring without a permit are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws; no fine schedule is published, so no figure should be quoted to you either.

Why do Dubai families struggle to find an HL specialist close to the exams?

Because supply is the binding constraint at that end of the market while demand bunches into the same twelve weeks. The IB population keeps growing: KHDA recorded a 6% rise in private-school enrolment across 2025-26, and the 2026-27 intake adds seven private schools, three of them IB and four UK curriculum, carrying 16,846 places. The pool of tutors who have genuinely taught HL Physics, HL Chemistry or Mathematics AA HL is small in any city, and every family looks for it at once. Starting earlier is partly a queueing decision.

My child's marks are fine. Is tutoring still worth it?

Often not, as the efficient choice. A student holding a 5 with no specific university requirement in play and no measured decline does not have a problem that tutoring solves cheaply; more past-paper practice and better use of the teacher they already have usually lifts that student further per pound spent. The situation changes if a named university course requires a 6 or 7 in that subject, because then there is a defined target and a measurable gap, which is exactly the shape of problem tutoring addresses well.

Should we wait for the mock results before starting?

Only if the mocks are more than four months away from the series. Mocks are the last diagnostic point that still leaves room to act on what they reveal, so waiting for them is reasonable when there is a term left afterwards and unwise when there is not. If the mocks sit six to eight weeks before the papers, waiting converts a potential conceptual repair into a technique-only engagement. If you already have two consecutive assessment points showing a drop in the same subject, you have your diagnosis and the mock will not add to it.

Does IB Gram send tutors to homes in Dubai?

No. We teach UAE students only online, one to one, on live video, and IB Gram sends no tutor to a UAE home — in-home teaching is something we offer in India alone. If in-home tutoring is what suits your child, a local Dubai agency is the right provider and the market band is roughly AED 180 to 500 an hour, since the fee absorbs a car crossing the city. In-home genuinely suits some students; what families underweight is the schedule cost, since traffic and geography narrow the available slots.

What should the first session with a tutor actually be?

A diagnostic, not a lesson and not the first instalment of a package. One session spent on the student's real work — a recent paper, a returned assessment, a coursework draft — marked against the actual mark scheme's structure rather than just totalled, should produce a specific list of the topics where marks were lost and a session count that follows from that list. If the first conversation is about how many sessions to buy rather than about what the papers show, you are being sold a product before anyone has looked at the problem.