IB and IGCSE tutor jobs in India

India hosts a very large number of IB World Schools and an even larger number of Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel schools, concentrated in the metros but spreading steadily into tier-two cities as international-curriculum demand follows corporate relocation. What has not kept pace is the supply of tutors who genuinely know those curricula.

That mismatch is the opportunity. Most private tutors in India are trained on CBSE and ICSE, and the habits transfer badly: an IB Diploma internal assessment is not a CBSE project, and an IGCSE mark scheme rewards a kind of precision that board-exam coaching does not teach. A tutor who understands criterion-referenced marking or an Extended tier paper is scarce in almost every Indian city, including the big ones.

The result is that experienced international-curriculum tutors in India set their own rates and are rarely short of work, while generalist tutors compete on price. Which of those you are is mostly a function of knowing the assessment model, and that is learnable.

• Large IB and Cambridge school populations in every metro
• Most Indian private tutors are CBSE or ICSE trained — international-curriculum supply is thin
• You can teach online nationwide from any city with good broadband
• No joining fee, no subscription, no exclusivity

You set your own fee and we publish it unchanged; families see it before booking the demo. Rates vary more by city, curriculum and level than by anything else — Delhi NCR, Mumbai and Bengaluru sit at the top, Diploma Higher Level pays more than IGCSE, and the January-to-April window before the May session is when rates peak.

What we take depends only on mode. Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month with each new student, then 100% yours for as long as you teach them. Online is a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month, with no reduced first month.

We collect the fees from the family in rupees and pay you by bank transfer or UPI on the 1st of the following month, with an itemised statement. You never invoice a family and you never chase a late payment — that is specifically what the platform does.

• Online at ₹1,200 a class × 12 classes = ₹14,400, of which ₹10,080 is yours
• DP Higher Level commands the highest rates, peaking January to April
• Two subjects for one student is one engagement at your combined fee
• Paid by bank transfer or UPI — you are never asked to collect cash

Most Indian international schools run an April-to-March academic year, while IB Diploma candidates in India typically sit the May examination session, which is set by the IB rather than the school calendar. That combination produces a particular rhythm worth planning around.

The year opens in April and May with new students settling into a curriculum, and that is when longer engagements start. Demand builds through the second half of the calendar year as mid-year assessments arrive and Diploma Year 1 students realise what internal assessment involves. The hard peak is January to April, in the run-up to the May session and the IGCSE May/June series, and that is when rates are highest and good HL tutors have no free slots.

The quiet stretch is late May through July, after the exams and before the new cohort's work begins in earnest. That window is filled by two things: IGCSE students bridging up into the Diploma or A-levels, who want a head start over the summer, and retake candidates after results in July.

Monsoon is worth a mention if you take home students, because it is a practical reality rather than a footnote. June to September in much of the country makes evening journeys unreliable, and tutors who have not planned for it lose students to cancellations. Many of our home tutors move some or all of their slots online for those months, which the per-mode split handles without any renegotiation.

Online is how most Indian tutors on the platform build the bulk of their timetable, and it removes the city constraint completely. A Maths AA HL specialist in Pune can hold students in Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the same evening, which no home-tuition timetable can match at any rate.

Because the whole country shares one time zone, matching is simpler here than it is internationally: the after-school window is roughly 4pm to 9pm everywhere, plus weekend mornings. If you have availability in that band you are matchable nationwide. Tutors who can also teach in the later evening pick up Gulf and UK families on top of Indian ones.

The practical requirements are the usual ones, with one Indian-specific note: a backup connection genuinely matters. A mobile hotspot on a second network costs little and saves the class that would otherwise be cancelled during a power or broadband outage. Cancelled classes are not billed to the family and so are not paid, so the backup pays for itself quickly.

• One national time zone makes the 4–9pm after-school band matchable anywhere
• A second-network mobile hotspot prevents the outage that costs you a class
• A graphics tablet is close to essential for maths and science
• Late-evening availability adds Gulf and UK families to your Indian ones