IB Tutors in Sector 78, Gurugram

Recent teaching at the exact level your child studies, ahead of everything else. A tutor who taught Physics HL last year is a different proposition from one who taught Physics SL three years ago, even if both profiles say Physics. After that, compare how each responds to a piece of marked work. Ask both what they would tackle in week one and write the answers down. A candidate who names two specific errors is more useful than one who offers to revise the chapter from the beginning.

Yes, if you can afford the time, and it is the cleanest comparison available. Give both the same brief and the same material so the sessions are genuinely comparable. Afterwards ask your child a narrow question rather than a broad one: not whether they liked the tutor, but whether they understood something today that they did not understand yesterday. Children are generous about likeability and accurate about clarity. Two trials cost a few hours and prevent a term spent with the wrong person.

Not automatically. Classroom teaching and one-to-one teaching reward different skills. A serving teacher brings current familiarity with syllabus changes and marking standards, which is genuinely valuable. But managing thirty students is not the same as sitting with one and working out what a single child has misunderstood. Some teachers are outstanding at both and some are not. Judge on the diagnostic answer rather than on the employer, and ask how many individual students they have worked with recently.

Home visits carry travel time, and in this part of the city that travel can run to well over an hour in total. Tutors price that in, so a home rate typically sits above an online rate for comparable experience. Working the other way, a scarce higher level specialist can charge more online than a generalist charges at your door. Level, subject rarity, mode and assessment experience all move the number. Rates are discussed openly before a booking, and asking what is included between sessions is worth doing.

It helps, though it is not essential. A tutor with Diploma experience can see where the subject is heading and prepare a Year 4 or Year 5 student for the jump in expectations. What matters more right now is comfort with criterion-related assessment, since that is how her work is judged. Ask any candidate to look at a recent task sheet and explain what a stronger response to one criterion would contain. Vague reassurance is a warning sign at this stage.

You can ask, and many tutors will offer them. Where references are provided they are followed up during vetting, and you are welcome to speak to a family directly if the tutor is comfortable arranging it. Keep expectations sensible. References confirm reliability and manner, which is useful, and they cannot tell you how the person will suit your particular child. Some good tutors have few references simply because they are early in independent work. Weigh the absence, do not treat it as disqualifying.

A week is courteous and usually enough, though it is worth agreeing the terms at the start rather than at the awkward moment. Say plainly why you are stopping, because tutors improve from specifics and a vague ending helps nobody. If the issue is fit rather than quality, saying so protects a decent tutor's reputation and helps an advisor suggest a better next name. Avoid the slow fade of repeatedly rescheduled sessions, which costs both sides more than a direct conversation.

A fixed slot works better for most students because it removes a weekly negotiation and protects the time from being eaten by other commitments. It is not compulsory. Families with irregular activity schedules often run one fixed session and one floating one arranged a few days ahead. The floating one is harder to keep, especially with a tutor who travels, so expect less consistency there. During examination periods most families move to a denser and more flexible pattern for a few weeks.

You get further names. Availability moves constantly, since tutors fill slots, take on examination-season commitments or reduce their travel radius. A name that was open on Monday may not be open on Friday, which is why nothing is confirmed until a tutor has accepted the brief. If the constraint is a specific evening hour with a home visit, loosening either the hour or the mode usually reopens several options at once. Say which of the two you can flex.