Female IB and IGCSE tutor jobs: you set the terms

Plenty of tutoring platforms say you can choose your own hours. Fewer are specific about what else you can refuse, and that is usually the part that matters. So, plainly: you choose your mode, and online-only is a perfectly normal choice that costs you nothing in matching. If you do take home students, you list the exact areas you will travel to and we never send you a request outside them. You can refuse any society, any address, any timing and any student, and you never have to explain the reason.

That right to decline is written into our tutor policy rather than left to the goodwill of whoever is staffing matching that day. There is no penalty, no drop in how often you are shown to families, and no record held against you.

A real part of the demand works in your favour, too. A meaningful share of families specifically ask for a woman tutor — most often for daughters, for younger PYP and MYP students, and for home tuition. If you teach a subject in demand and you are available in the after-school window, you will not be short of requests.

• Online-only is a normal choice and does not reduce your matches
• For home students, you list the exact areas — nothing comes from outside them
• Decline any student, address, society or timing, no reason required
• No joining fee, no subscription, no minimum hours, no exclusivity

You set your own fee and we publish it unchanged; families see it before booking, so nobody negotiates with you after a class. What we take depends only on the mode you choose, never on your subject or your level.

Online is a flat 70% to you every month, with no reduced first month. It is the better fit if your availability is in scattered blocks, if you would rather not travel at all, or if you are fitting tutoring around a household and school run.

Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month with each new student and is then 100% yours for as long as you teach them — about 92% of everything the family pays over six months, and roughly 98% over two years. It is the better-paid option if you can hold a regular slot nearby, and families requesting a woman tutor for home tuition are a large part of what comes in.

• Online at ₹1,000 a class × 12 classes = ₹12,000, of which ₹8,400 is yours
• A ₹14,000/month home student pays you ₹7,000 in month 1, then ₹14,000 monthly
• Payouts go to your own bank account or UPI — never through anyone else
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid

Some tutors want home students, and the economics are genuinely better over a long engagement — 100% of the fee from the second month. The way to do that comfortably is to be narrow and deliberate about where.

List only the areas you would be happy travelling to on a weekday evening, and keep them close together. Many of our home tutors list only the societies and neighbourhoods within a short distance of where they live, and nothing else. A tightly drawn list with a full timetable earns far more than a wide one that produces requests you keep refusing.

You can go further and restrict yourself to daytime slots only, or weekend mornings only, and still be matched — IB and IGCSE families include a lot of younger PYP and MYP students whose sessions happen in the afternoon rather than late evening. Setting your availability honestly is what makes those the requests you receive.

Arrange the gate or visitor-app routine with the parent before the first visit rather than at the gate, and carry the same photo ID you verified with us so the names match. For a recurring slot, ask in the first week whether the society will issue a long-term visitor pass.

• List only nearby areas you are comfortable with — narrow beats wide
• Daytime-only or weekend-only availability is a valid choice and still gets matched
• Agree the gate or app entry routine with the parent before the first visit
• Carry the photo ID you verified with us; ask about a long-term pass early

A good number of the tutors we take on have not been in paid work for a while — a few years out for family, a relocation that ended a teaching post, caring responsibilities that made a school timetable impossible. We assess whether you know your subject, not whether your CV has a gap in it.

What we would suggest, honestly, is starting slightly below your ceiling. If you taught Physics HL five years ago, begin with IGCSE Physics and DP Standard Level, get a term of results on the platform, and then ask us to raise your level. That is a far better experience than taking an HL student chasing a 7 in your first month and finding the syllabus has moved.

Two syllabus changes are worth knowing about if you have been away: IB mathematics was restructured into Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation, which replaced the older Studies and Methods routes entirely, and most international IGCSE variants now report on the 9–1 grade scale rather than A*–G. Neither takes long to pick up, but both will come up in a demo class.

Start with two or three students rather than a full timetable. Online is usually the easier re-entry, because it removes travel from the variables you are managing in your first term back.