IGCSE Physical Science Tutors: Chemistry and Physics, One Award
One-to-one tutors for Cambridge IGCSE Physical Science 0652, the single award that puts chemistry and physics together and leaves biology out: Core or Extended entry, a multiple-choice and theory pairing plus either the laboratory practical test or its written alternative, taught online anywhere in the world on your family's own clock, or face to face in the Indian cities where a tutor currently has in-person space.
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Clear updates on what was covered, what needs practice and the next step.
IGCSE Physical Science Tutoring Built Around the 0652 Two-Discipline Route
Families usually arrive here for one of two reasons. Either the school has put Physical Science on the option sheet and nobody has explained what leaving biology out actually costs later, or the student is already on Cambridge 0652 and one half of the course has quietly slipped behind the other while the overall mark looked acceptable. IGCSE Physical Science tutors at IB Gram work on the specific shape of this qualification: two disciplines reported as one grade, a chemistry section and a physics section that share more underlying machinery than most students notice, and a tier decision that ought to rest on a marked paper rather than on optimism. Lessons run online in your own local hours; in-person work is India-only and depends on who is free near you.
Matching Starts With Knowing Which Half Is Losing the Marks
A message that says only "we need a science tutor" cannot be matched properly on this route, because 0652 is two courses reporting into one grade. IB Gram asks four things before suggesting anybody. Which syllabus code has the school entered the student for. Is the entry Core or Extended. Of the two halves, where are the marks actually going. And does the school put candidates through the laboratory practical test or the written alternative-to-practical route. Each answer changes who the right tutor is. A specialist who can rebuild chemical language from the ground up is not automatically the person for a student whose chemistry is steady and whose physics reasoning has stalled. Two or three tutors then come back with their genuine teaching record: the boards they have worked with, the codes they have taught end to end, and how much of the physics content they have delivered rather than skimmed. The opening lesson is a diagnosis. The tutor takes a recent school assessment or a past paper and separates the losses by discipline before teaching anything at all — how many marks went in the chemistry questions, how many in the physics, and inside each of those, whether the cause was missing content, a misread instruction, or working that collapsed once the clock was running. That split is written up and sent to you afterwards, so the plan you are being asked to fund has a reason attached to it. Fees are set per match and confirmed in writing before any paid session, and the first lesson is a free trial. If the pairing is not working, the tutor is changed rather than defended.
Give the code, 0652, and say whether the entry is Core or Extended
Name the weaker half honestly: chemistry, physics, or genuinely both
Tell us whether the school runs the practical test or the written alternative
The first lesson separates a marked paper by discipline before any teaching
Written summary after every session, fees confirmed in writing, tutor changed on request
Grade 9, Grade 10 and Grade 11 on a Two-Science Timetable
The useful help shifts a lot across this course, and it shifts differently from a three-science timetable because there is more room per discipline and therefore less excuse for a shallow answer. In Grade 9 the payoff sits in the shared groundwork: reading a scale properly, handling proportion, rearranging a relationship, recording a result with the right unit, and holding a working picture of particles in the head. Both halves of 0652 lean on that base constantly, so a student who is shaky there does not have a chemistry problem or a physics problem. They have one problem showing up twice. Grade 10 is where the halves separate in character. The chemistry work becomes driven by reactions, patterns and what a substance does under given conditions; the physics work becomes driven by relationships, models and predicting what a system will do. Students almost always start preferring one at this point, and that preference is the thing to watch rather than to indulge. This is also the year the tier conversation becomes real, because the Extended supplement asks for a level of explanation the Core content does not. Grade 11 is an audit followed by exam craft. The audit answers one question: how far has the neglected half drifted while the comfortable half absorbed the revision time. After that it is timed papers, mark-scheme reading, and disciplined practice on the practical component, whichever route the school uses.
Grade 9: measurement habits, proportion, unit discipline, a working particle picture
Grade 10: the two halves diverge in character and a favourite starts forming
Grade 10: the Core versus Extended decision, settled on marked evidence
Grade 11: audit the neglected half first, then timed papers and practical technique
Students arriving from CBSE, ICSE or a national syllabus get a translation phase first
What Is Actually Inside Cambridge IGCSE Physical Science 0652?
It is chemistry plus physics, assessed as one award, with no biology content at all. The Cambridge 0652 syllabus sets out a chemistry section and a physics section, and candidates study both. There is no option to drop one and no separate grade for either; the two disciplines are reported together, which is precisely why a weakness in one is so easy to hide behind a strength in the other. All candidates sit three components. There is a multiple-choice paper and a written theory paper, taken at the tier the student is entered for — Core candidates take the Core-tier versions and Extended candidates the Extended-tier versions — and then a practical element, which is either a laboratory practical test or a written alternative-to-practical paper depending on what the centre offers. Which of those two the school uses is a centre decision, so ask rather than assume. Tier entry follows the same logic as other Cambridge science syllabuses: Extended covers the Core content plus a supplement and is the route for students aiming higher up the grade range. One thing to know before planning around this qualification: Cambridge has scheduled 0652 for withdrawal, and the published final series is not stated consistently across their documents — some list a November 2026 final examination, a later syllabus-changes document points to June 2027. Confirm the date with your school and with Cambridge directly before committing to anything that depends on it. The routes Cambridge names for schools moving off 0652 are 0653, 0654 and the separate sciences 0610, 0620 and 0625.
0652 — Cambridge IGCSE Physical Science: a chemistry section and a physics section, one grade
No biology content anywhere in the syllabus, at either tier
Core or Extended entry, with Extended adding a supplement on top of the Core material
A practical element that is either a laboratory test or a written alternative, chosen by the centre
0652 is being withdrawn; check the final series with your school and with Cambridge
Where This Subject Is Taken, and Where a Tutor Can Come to You
It helps to be straight about this: 0652 is a minority option. Far more schools run the separate sciences or a broader multi-science award, which means a family looking locally for someone who has genuinely taught this exact two-discipline syllabus is often looking at a very short list, or none at all. That is the main reason most Physical Science tutoring here happens online, worldwide and in your own time zone — the pool of tutors who have taught both halves to this specification is national rather than neighbourhood-sized, and a screen removes the geography problem entirely. In India, in-person tutoring is possible where a tutor currently has space, and the international-school demand is concentrated in familiar places: Bangalore around Whitefield, Sarjapur Road, HSR Layout and Indiranagar; Hyderabad and Pune; Chennai's OMR corridor; Mumbai around BKC, Juhu and Bandra; Gurugram along the DLF phases and Sectors 43, 50 and 56; Noida Sectors 44 and 62 and the Expressway; and South Delhi around Saket and Vasant Kunj. Outside India, sessions are online only, and that covers families across the Gulf in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha and Muscat, in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong and Bangkok, in Nairobi, Lagos and Accra, and across the UK and Europe. There is no centre, branch or campus anywhere. Home tutoring is India-only and depends on live availability, and you will be told plainly if there is nobody free near you rather than left waiting on a maybe.
Online worldwide, scheduled in your own local hours — how most 0652 tutoring runs
A rarer syllabus means the local tutor pool is thin; online widens it considerably
India in-person: Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida, South Delhi
International families in the Gulf, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, East and West Africa, the UK and Europe
No branch or centre to visit; home tutoring is India-only and city-dependent
Working With a School That Splits the Course Between Two Teachers
Most centres running 0652 hand the chemistry section to a chemistry teacher and the physics section to a physics teacher, and the two rarely coordinate beyond a shared calendar. That has consequences a tutor should work with rather than ignore. Notation conventions differ. Marking habits differ — one may award generously for a correct idea badly expressed while the other wants the statement precise. Assessment weeks for the two halves often land in the same fortnight, which is how a student ends up revising one and abandoning the other. So sessions start from both sets of marked work, not one. The tutor wants the last chemistry test and the last physics test, the teachers' written comments on each, and the school's own worksheets. Where a school's method is landing well, the tutor reinforces it instead of substituting a preferred alternative; where it clearly is not, the reason for trying something different is explained in writing so nobody is guessing about why the student's approach changed. Two limits are worth stating plainly. Tutors coach — they do not write, complete or co-author assignments, portfolio work or anything that will be assessed, and they will say so if they are asked to. And a tutor cannot supervise laboratory practical work. Practical sessions, apparatus and safety sit with the school, and any tutoring around the practical component is preparation and interpretation, not supervision.
Bring both halves' marked work — chemistry and physics teachers rarely coordinate
Plan around the fortnights where both sections schedule assessments at once
The school's method is reinforced where it works, and any change is explained in writing
Coaching only: tutors never complete assignments or assessed work
A tutor cannot supervise laboratory practical work; that stays with the school
Online, Home or Hybrid, and the One Thing No Tutor Can Do
Online is the default and it suits this syllabus well. Most of the work is looking at a student's written reasoning and interrupting at the exact line it goes wrong, which a shared screen or a camera over the page handles as well as a table does. It also means a family gets someone who has actually taught 0652 rather than the nearest available science teacher, which on a minority syllabus is not a small difference. Sessions are scheduled in the family's own time zone wherever they are in the world. In-person tutoring is available only in India and only where a tutor currently has space nearby. It tends to help two groups most: younger students who drift when nobody is physically present, and students whose difficulty is partly organisational — notes for the two halves muddled together, results recorded without units, working done mentally and never written down. Hybrid arrangements are common by Grade 11: a steady weekly online session, with in-person time added around mocks. The honest limit is the laboratory. Whatever the mode, a tutor cannot supervise practical work — no tutor, online or at home, can stand in for a school laboratory or a teacher responsible for safety. What tutoring can do for the practical component is the written and analytical side of it: reading a method, planning a fair test, tabulating results sensibly, spotting the anomalous reading, drawing conclusions the data actually supports, and answering the sort of question the alternative-to-practical route is built around.
Online worldwide in your own time zone, with the widest choice of genuine 0652 tutors
Home tutoring in India only, subject to a tutor being free in your city
Hybrid: weekly online support plus in-person sessions around mock season
A tutor cannot supervise laboratory practical work in any mode
Practical support means method, tables, anomalies and conclusions, not apparatus
One-to-One Physical Science Tutoring Compared With the Alternatives
Support for a two-discipline science award is a slightly awkward thing to buy, because most of the options on the market are built around either a single science or a broad three-science programme. These are categories rather than named providers, and the differences that matter here are about whether both halves genuinely get covered.
| What matters | One-to-one tutor (IB Gram) | Group science coaching batch | Recorded course or revision app | The school's own science department |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Covers both halves of 0652 | Tutor vetted on chemistry and physics content, or a pair assigned, one per half | Usually built around a more popular syllabus, with 0652 students absorbed into it | Content is normally filed under separate subjects, leaving the student to map it | Yes, though typically through two teachers who plan separately |
| Diagnosis split by discipline | Every marked paper is separated into chemistry and physics losses | Batch-level feedback; individual imbalance is rarely surfaced | None — the course never sees the student's script | Each teacher sees their own half, so nobody sees the imbalance |
| Practical component support | Method, tables, anomalies and conclusions coached; laboratory work is never supervised | Depends entirely on the batch plan | Explained as content, with no response to the student's own answers | Full laboratory access and supervision — the only place that has it |
| Handling the 0652 withdrawal timeline | Discussed openly, with the advice to confirm dates with the school and the board | Rarely part of the conversation | Content may sit unrevised after the syllabus stops running | The school decides the migration route and will tell you |
| Written record a parent can read | A note after each session naming the half covered and the errors found | Often a periodic batch test score and little else | Completion dashboards rather than diagnosis | Termly reports and parent meetings |
| Changing who teaches | Changed on request, and either half can be swapped independently | Possible within the centre's staffing | Not applicable | Rarely possible mid-year |
| How the cost works | Quoted per match in writing, no published rate, free first lesson | Fixed fee per term for the batch | Low, one-off or by subscription | Covered by school fees |
What Gets Checked Before a 0652 Tutor Is Approved
The hard part of vetting for this subject is that half-competence looks like competence for about three weeks. A chemistry graduate who last touched mechanics as a school student can carry the chemistry sessions convincingly and then quietly avoid the physics, and a family will not notice until a paper comes back. So the check here is explicitly two-sided. A tutor is asked to work through Extended-tier questions from both sections of the syllabus and to explain how they would mark each one, plus at least one question of the sort that tests practical interpretation — a method to critique, a results table to read, an anomaly to account for. Alongside that, identity and qualifications are verified and teaching history is checked against the level being claimed. Explanation quality is weighed as seriously as subject depth: someone who is technically strong but cannot make a nervous fifteen-year-old comfortable enough to admit what they do not understand is not a good match, however good the credentials read. Written session notes are part of the assessment too, because a note nobody can use is the same as no note. Where no single tutor covers both halves to the depth a particular student needs, you are told that and offered a pair — one per discipline, working from a shared written record — rather than being sold a single tutor who will improvise through half the course. After matching, continued work depends on what families report and what the notes show.
Tested on both halves of the syllabus, not the one the tutor is comfortable with
A practical-interpretation question: critique a method, read a table, explain an anomaly
Identity, qualifications and teaching history verified against the level claimed
Explanation quality and the usefulness of written notes assessed alongside subject depth
Where nobody covers both halves well enough, a two-tutor pairing is offered instead
Who Chooses Physical Science, and What Does Leaving Out Biology Close Off?
Two groups choose it deliberately. The first is students whose direction is already physical rather than biological — engineering, physics, chemistry, materials, architecture, computing or a maths-heavy sixth form — who would rather spend the available curriculum time on two disciplines they will keep than on three, one of which they will drop the moment they can. The second group does not choose at all: the school offers it as a two-discipline option because of how the timetable and laboratory staffing work out, and the family finds out when the option sheet comes home. The advantage is real. Two disciplines instead of three means the content per subject can go deeper than a broader multi-science award allows, and revision time divides two ways rather than three in the weeks that matter. For a student who already knows they are not going near biology again, that concentration is worth having. The cost is also real, and it should be said rather than skated over. A sixth form offering A Level Biology will normally expect prior biology study, and a student coming from 0652 is starting from nothing. Medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, biomedical science, biotechnology and some psychology routes usually want that A Level, so those doors get considerably heavier to push. It is recoverable — schools do accept students who bridge the gap — but it is not free, and a fifteen-year-old should make that decision knowingly rather than discover it at seventeen.
Suits students aiming at engineering, physical sciences or a maths-heavy sixth form
Also chosen for students by schools timetabling a two-discipline science option
Deeper coverage per discipline than a broader award, and revision splits two ways
A Level Biology normally expects prior biology; 0652 leaves that start from zero
Medicine, dentistry, veterinary and biomedical routes become harder, not impossible
How the Two Halves Reinforce Each Other, and How One Quietly Decays
The genuine study advantage of this route is that chemistry and physics are not two unrelated subjects sharing a certificate. They run on overlapping machinery, and a student who notices that gets twice the return on the same effort. Energy is the clearest case: the same conservation idea that governs a transfer in the physics half is what makes a reaction release or absorb heat in the chemistry half, and a student who has understood it once should not be learning it twice. Particles are the second: a working mental model of how particles move and how closely they are packed explains states of matter and mixing on one side and pressure and thermal expansion on the other. Measurement and quantitative reasoning are the third — the same discipline about what a number means, what its unit says, and what a graph is telling you, applies identically on both papers. A tutor who teaches these as bridges rather than as separate chapters saves a student a great deal of time. It also produces better answers, because examiners reward explanation built on a model rather than recall of a phrase. The failure mode is the mirror image, and it is common enough to be worth watching for from the start. A student who is strong in one half coasts on it. Revision drifts towards the discipline that feels rewarding, the other half decays slowly, and because both are reported as a single grade, the decline is invisible until a full paper is marked. The fix is unglamorous: split marked evidence by discipline, and give time to the half that needs it rather than the half that is enjoyable.
Energy: one conservation idea covering transfers in physics and heat change in chemistry
Particles: a single model explaining states and mixing, and pressure and expansion
Measurement: the same habits about units, precision and reading a graph on both papers
The coasting risk: revision drifts to the strong half and the other decays unseen
One grade hides the imbalance, so split every marked paper by discipline
What You Should Be Able to See by the Fourth Week
By a month in, you should be looking at evidence rather than at reassurance. Specifically, three things should exist. A written note after each session, saying which half of the syllabus it served and what the student got wrong in it. A named diagnosis from the opening lesson that the later notes keep referring back to, rather than a fresh start every week. And at least one marked past-paper attempt with the tutor's annotations on it and the score broken down by discipline, so you can see whether the gap between the two halves is narrowing. What should not be on offer is a promised grade. No honest tutor or platform can commit to a particular result, and anyone who does is telling you what you would like to hear. What can reasonably be expected in four weeks is a student who starts questions they would previously have left blank, who writes reasoning rather than a bare answer, and who can say which half of the course a given question belongs to and what it is actually asking. One warning worth having in advance: when attention shifts to the weaker discipline, the stronger one often dips slightly for a few weeks. That is the time moving, not the tutoring failing, and a tutor who flags it before it happens is doing the job properly rather than managing you.
A written note after every session, naming which discipline it addressed
A diagnosis from lesson one that later notes keep returning to
At least one marked paper with the score broken down by half
No promised grades, from IB Gram or from any tutor on it
Expect a short dip in the strong half when attention moves to the weak one
Starting Physical Science Support This Week
The first message does not need to be long, it needs to be specific. Four details are enough to match properly: the code, the tier, the grade, and what prompted you to look. Something like "Grade 10, Cambridge 0652 Extended, chemistry marks fine and physics dropped fifteen marks in the last test, school does the written alternative-to-practical" gets a sensible shortlist back straight away. "Need a science tutor" takes two or three more exchanges to reach the same place, and those exchanges cost days when an assessment is close. You will get the suggested tutor's actual background — the boards and codes they have taught, how much of each half of 0652 they have delivered, how they structure a session — along with the rate for that specific match, in writing, before anything is booked. There is no published price list, because the fee depends on the tutor's experience and tier, the student's grade and how often you want sessions. The first lesson is free, and the tutor can be changed afterwards if the fit is wrong. Email ibgram24@gmail.com or send a WhatsApp message to +91 7439 368 115 with those four details. If you are outside India, add your city and time zone so a weekly slot can be proposed in your local hours rather than Indian ones.
Send four things: the code, the tier, the grade, and what triggered the search
Say which half is weaker and whether the school uses the practical test or the alternative
Tutor background and the rate for that match come in writing before you book
First lesson is free; the tutor can be changed after it
ibgram24@gmail.com or WhatsApp +91 7439 368 115, with your time zone if abroad
IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform and is not officially affiliated with Cambridge International, Pearson Edexcel, Oxford AQA or the IB Organization. Syllabus codes are named only to describe what tutoring covers.
IGCSE tutoring FAQs
What is Cambridge IGCSE Physical Science 0652?+
It is a single Cambridge IGCSE award covering chemistry and physics together, with no biology content. The syllabus sets out a chemistry section and a physics section, and every candidate studies both; the result is reported as one grade rather than as two separate subject grades. Entry is at Core or Extended tier, and candidates sit a multiple-choice paper, a written theory paper at their tier, and a practical element that is either a laboratory test or a written alternative. Because it is a less common option, always confirm the details of what your school runs with the school itself.
Is Physical Science 0652 being withdrawn?+
Yes, Cambridge has scheduled this syllabus for withdrawal, but the final examination series is not stated consistently across their published documents. Some list a November 2026 final series and a later syllabus-changes document points to June 2027, so the safest course is to confirm the date directly with your school and with Cambridge International rather than relying on any third-party summary, including this one. The routes Cambridge names for centres moving away from 0652 are 0653, 0654 and the separate sciences 0610, 0620 and 0625. If your child is mid-course, the school will already have a migration plan.
Does Physical Science count as one IGCSE or two?+
One. Chemistry and physics are combined into a single award with a single grade, which is different from taking the two sciences separately and receiving a grade for each. This matters for two reasons. It affects how many IGCSE grades appear on the student's certificate when a sixth form counts them, and it means a weak half is arithmetically cushioned by a strong half, so the certificate alone will not tell you where the problem was. Ask your school how it presents the qualification on transcripts if you are applying abroad.
Why would a student choose Physical Science instead of the separate sciences?+
Usually because their direction is already physical rather than biological, and because two disciplines allow more depth per subject than a broader award spread across three. A student heading towards engineering, physics, chemistry, materials or a maths-heavy sixth form gets to concentrate effort where it will keep paying, and revision divides two ways instead of three in the weeks before exams. Some students do not choose it at all — the school offers it as a two-discipline timetable option and it arrives on the option sheet. Either way, the reasoning is worth understanding before Grade 10 starts.
Can my child take A Level or IB Diploma Chemistry and Physics after 0652?+
In most cases yes, and this is the route the qualification is naturally pointed at. A student who has done the Extended tier properly arrives at A Level Chemistry or Physics, or at IB Diploma Chemistry or Physics, with the relevant background covered. Sixth forms do set their own entry requirements, though, and some state them in terms of a particular grade in a named syllabus, so check the specific school's published requirements rather than assuming. Where a sixth form is unfamiliar with 0652, a short note explaining what the award covers is usually enough.
What does dropping biology close off later?+
Mainly A Level Biology and the degree routes that require it. Sixth forms offering A Level Biology normally expect prior study of the subject, and a student from 0652 has none, so that pathway becomes a bridging exercise rather than a straightforward continuation. Medicine, dentistry, veterinary science, biomedical science, biotechnology and some psychology courses commonly ask for A Level Biology or its equivalent. IB Diploma Biology, particularly at Higher Level, is a steep start from a no-biology base. None of this is impossible to recover, but it costs work, and the student should choose knowing it.
Should my child be entered for Core or Extended?+
Decide it on marked evidence rather than on how the year has felt. The honest test is an Extended-tier past paper sat under timed conditions and marked against the real mark scheme, with the score broken down by discipline so you can see whether any weakness is general or sits in one half. A tutor can run that diagnostic and tell you what the gap looks like and whether it is closable before the school's entry deadline. Schools also have their own entry policies and a view on each student, so that conversation belongs in the decision too.
My child is strong in physics but weak in chemistry. Do we need two tutors?+
Not usually. One tutor who is credible across both halves is preferable, because the value of this route comes partly from teaching the overlaps — energy, particles, measurement — rather than treating the two as unrelated subjects. A single tutor can also hold the balance of time honestly and stop revision drifting back to the comfortable half. Where no available tutor covers both halves to the depth a particular student needs, you will be told that plainly and offered a pair working from a shared written record, rather than one tutor improvising through half the course.
Can a tutor help with the practical component?+
With the written and analytical side of it, yes; with laboratory work, no. A tutor cannot supervise practical work — apparatus, safety and the practical test itself sit with the school, and no online or home tutor can substitute for a school laboratory. What tutoring genuinely helps with is the reasoning the practical component assesses: reading and critiquing a method, planning a fair test, recording results in a sensible table, identifying an anomalous reading and explaining it, plotting sensibly, and drawing only the conclusions the data supports. That is also most of what an alternative-to-practical paper asks for.
Is there an Edexcel equivalent to Physical Science?+
Not a direct one. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE offers the separate sciences and a double-award science route, but no straight chemistry-plus-physics-without-biology equivalent to Cambridge 0652, so families moving between boards mid-course should expect a conversation about which route the new school will place the student on. If your school teaches an Edexcel science pathway, send the specification code in your first message and IB Gram will match against that instead. When you are unsure what is on offer, ask the school's head of science directly.
How much does an IGCSE Physical Science tutor cost?+
There is no published rate and no price list. The fee depends on the tutor's experience, the tier being taught, the student's grade and how often sessions run, and a Grade 11 Extended student working towards a final series is a different job from Grade 9 foundation work. The rate for a specific suggested tutor is put in writing before you book anything, so you are looking at an actual number rather than a bracket. Ask for it upfront; any tutor reluctant to state a figure clearly before the first session is worth a second thought.
Can we have a tutor at home, or is it online only?+
Online tutoring is available worldwide and is how most Physical Science sessions run, scheduled in your own local hours. Home tutoring is offered only in India, and only where a suitable tutor currently has in-person space near you — availability is realistic in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, Chennai, Mumbai, Gurugram, Noida and South Delhi, and it changes as tutors' own schedules fill. Outside India it is online only, with no exceptions and no centre to visit. If nothing is free near you, you will be told directly rather than left waiting on a possibility.
We live outside India. How do the timings work?+
Tutors are based in India, and sessions are scheduled in your own local time rather than Indian time. Families across the Gulf, Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, East and West Africa, the UK and Europe are commonly fitted in by working across the offset, so an early or late slot in India often lands in convenient after-school hours where you are. Send your city and time zone with your first message and a specific weekly slot will be proposed in your local hours. Outside India, all tutoring is online.
Will a tutor help with school assignments and coursework?+
A tutor will explain the topic, mark the student's own attempt and coach them through what went wrong. A tutor will not write, complete or co-author assignments, project work or anything that will be assessed, and will say so if asked. The same line applies to any write-up connected with practical work: the tutor can discuss what the data shows and how to structure an explanation, but the words and the conclusions have to be the student's own. This is not a technicality, it is what makes the help worth anything at the exam.
How many sessions a week does Physical Science need?+
One well-used session a week is a reasonable baseline in Grade 9 and Grade 10, assuming the student does the practice set between sessions. Two a week is common in Grade 11, or when one half of the course has fallen a long way behind — often split as one teaching session and one paper-marking session, with the time weighted towards the weaker discipline until the marked evidence says otherwise. Beyond two, the limiting factor is usually independent practice rather than contact hours, and a tutor should tell you that instead of selling extra slots.
Is IB Gram affiliated with Cambridge International or Pearson Edexcel?+
No. IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform, not affiliated with, endorsed by or partnered with Cambridge International, Pearson Edexcel, Oxford AQA or the IB Organization. Syllabus codes such as 0652 are named only to describe accurately what tutoring covers, and the awarding bodies remain the only authority on syllabus content, tier entry, assessment arrangements and withdrawal dates. Anything on this page that affects a decision — particularly the final examination series for 0652 — should be confirmed with your school or with the board before you act on it.
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If the option sheet is due, or one half of the course has drifted while the other carried the grade, tell us the code, the tier, the student's grade and which discipline is losing marks. You will get a shortlist of tutors with their real teaching history across both halves of 0652, the rate for that match in writing, and a free first lesson before any commitment. If the fit is wrong, the tutor changes. Email ibgram24@gmail.com or message +91 7439 368 115 on WhatsApp, adding your city and time zone if you are outside India.
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