IB DP tutor jobs: teach Higher and Standard Level Diploma students

The Diploma Programme is the most demanding tutoring work we place, and the best paid. A DP student is carrying six subjects at two different levels, three pieces of core work, internal assessment in most subjects, and a single terminal exam session that determines university admission. By the time a family contacts us, something specific has usually gone wrong and there is a deadline attached to it.

That shapes the job. You are rarely asked to teach a subject from scratch. You are asked to rescue a Higher Level grade two terms before the May session, or to get an internal assessment from a vague idea into a defensible investigation before an internal deadline, or to raise a predicted grade that is about to cost a student a conditional offer.

It also means DP families screen tutors hard. Current and former DP teachers, examiners and moderators are what they look for, and they ask. If you have that background, say so in your profile and evidence it — we display it, and it is the clearest justification for a higher fee on the platform.

• Every request names the subject, the level and the target exam session
• You set your fee; HL and examiner experience command the top of the range
• Decline any student, timing or location without penalty
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

DP Higher Level is the highest-rate work on the platform, and the reason is simple supply and demand: the number of people who can teach Physics HL or Maths AA HL to a student chasing a 7 is small, and the window in which that student needs them is short. Rates climb further from January as the May session approaches.

You set your own fee and we publish it unchanged. Our share depends only on mode, never on subject or level — we do not take a larger cut because you charge more. Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month and is 100% yours from month two. Online classes are a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month.

Short, intensive engagements are common in DP work: six weeks of revision before the session, or four weeks of IA supervision. For home tuition that means the 50-50 first month can be most of a short engagement, so it is worth being clear-eyed — for genuinely short pieces of work, online at a flat 70/30 usually leaves you with more.

• A ₹20,000/month HL home student pays you ₹10,000 in month 1, then ₹20,000 monthly
• Online at ₹1,800 a class × 10 classes = ₹18,000, of which ₹12,600 is yours
• For engagements under about six weeks, online usually nets you more than home
• Your split is locked per student and never cut mid-engagement

Internal assessment carries roughly 20–25% of the final grade in most DP subjects, it is marked by the school and moderated by the IB, and it is due on an internal deadline months before the exams. It is also the single most common reason a DP family contacts us.

The reason is structural. A student picks a research question that is too broad, or not answerable with the data they can actually collect, and nobody catches it until the first draft. Fixing a research question early is worth more marks than weeks of content revision, and it is work most school teachers do not have the hours to do one-to-one.

Your role is supervision and teaching, never production. You help the student narrow a question, choose a defensible method, understand the assessment criteria, and read their own drafts critically. You do not write text, you do not fix their data, and you do not rewrite paragraphs for them. The IB's academic-honesty rules treat that as malpractice, the consequence falls on the student, and it can cost them the whole diploma rather than one subject.

Tutors who can hold that line while still being genuinely useful are the ones families recommend, and they are rarer than they should be. If you are unsure where the boundary sits in your subject, say so in your application and we will talk it through before you take an IA student.

• Roughly 20–25% of the final grade in most subjects
• The highest-leverage intervention is narrowing the research question early
• You teach the criteria and critique their drafts — you never write any of it
• Internal deadlines fall months before the exam session, usually mid Year 2

The Diploma has two exam sessions. May is by far the larger and covers most northern-hemisphere schools; November serves the southern hemisphere and a number of schools across South and Southeast Asia. Your calendar as a DP tutor is set by which of the two your students sit, and tutors who take both have no quiet season.

Predicted grades drive a distinct and urgent kind of request. Schools issue predicteds that universities use for conditional offers, and a student whose predicted grade sits below an offer threshold will look for help immediately, usually with weeks rather than months of runway. These engagements are short, intense and priced accordingly.

After results in July and January there is a retake wave. Students resitting one or two subjects in the next session are motivated, specific about what went wrong, and typically want concentrated work on paper technique rather than full re-teaching. It is some of the most satisfying work in the lane because the gains are measurable.

• Covering both May and November sessions removes your quiet season
• Predicted-grade requests are urgent, short and the highest hourly rate
• Retake students are motivated and want paper technique, not re-teaching