IGCSE tuition jobs: teach Cambridge and Edexcel students

IGCSE is where most international-school students meet a public examination for the first time, and it is where a lot of confident students suddenly stop coping. The syllabus is broader than most national curricula at the same age, the papers reward precision in a way school tests often do not, and the two-year course ends in a terminal exam series that decides sixth-form and IB Diploma entry.

That is the work. Families rarely want general help — they want someone who knows their board's papers, has seen their mark schemes, and can tell them whether their child should be entered for the Core or the Extended tier. We match on exactly those details.

You are an independent professional here, not an employee. You decide which students you take, how many hours you teach, whether you teach online or travel to a home, and what you charge. We find the students, arrange the free demo class, collect the fees and pay you monthly.

• Requests tell you the board, subject, tier and exam series before you accept
• No joining fee, no subscription and no charge to receive matches
• No exclusivity — keep your school job or your own students
• Decline any student, timing or location without penalty

You set your fee and we publish it; families see it before they book, so the demo class is about teaching rather than negotiating. IGCSE rates sit a little below DP Higher Level in most markets, but the volume is higher and the work is far less seasonal, so a full IGCSE timetable is usually easier to build and keep.

Our share depends only on the mode. Home tuition is split 50-50 for the first month, and from month two you keep every rupee for as long as you teach that student. Online is a flat 70/30 in your favour, every month, with no first-month discount.

The split in force when a student starts is locked for that student. Any change to these terms is announced at least 30 days in advance and applies only to students who start afterwards.

• A ₹14,000/month home student pays you ₹7,000 in month 1, then ₹14,000 every month
• Online at ₹1,000 a class × 12 classes = ₹12,000, of which ₹8,400 is yours
• Two IGCSE subjects for one student counts as one engagement, at your combined fee
• Classes you cancel are not billed to the family, so they are not paid

The tier decision is the single most consequential thing an IGCSE family will ask you about, and it has real stakes. On Cambridge mathematics, the Core tier caps the attainable grade — typically at a C or grade 4 equivalent — which can close the door on IB Diploma Higher Level mathematics and on A-level maths entirely. Extended keeps the full grade range open but assumes more content and more pace.

Schools make the formal entry decision, usually late in Year 10, but they make it partly on the evidence in front of them, and a tutor's assessment of whether a student can cope with Extended often carries weight with parents who are lobbying the school either way.

Handle it carefully and honestly. Pushing a student into Extended who cannot cope produces a worse grade than a strong Core result, and talking a capable student down costs them options at sixth form. Our most valued IGCSE tutors are the ones who will say plainly in month one that a student is an Extended candidate who is simply behind, or that Core is genuinely the right call — and then teach accordingly.

• Core caps the top grade available; Extended keeps the full range open
• Core maths can block IB Maths HL and A-level maths progression
• Entry decisions are usually finalised late in Year 10 — your assessment feeds in
• Be explicit with parents about which tier you are teaching towards and why

IGCSE work is steadier across the year than IB Diploma work, which is one of the better reasons to teach it. Year 9 students arrive from September as families realise the two-year course has started in earnest, and that flow continues through the autumn.

The peak runs from January to May, ahead of the May/June series, and it is sharper for Year 10 than Year 9. If you teach an Edexcel subject with a January series, you will also see a December push. The quiet window is June to August, and a good share of that is results-driven: regrade queries, retake planning and students preparing to step up into IB Diploma or A-level who want a head start.

We will not promise you a student count. Honestly, the pattern we see is that tutors who list both boards, teach two or more subjects, and offer online as well as home get matched several times more often than single-subject home-only tutors. Breadth is what turns an approved profile into a full timetable.