What does a home tutor bring, and what should the family provide?

The tutor brings teaching material: past questions, mark schemes, their own notes, a spare pen, and usually a laptop or tablet. You provide the table, the chairs, the light, a plug point and drinking water. Keep the student's own textbook, notebook and the most recent marked script on the table before the tutor arrives, because ten minutes spent hunting for a script is ten minutes of teaching lost. Printing is worth sorting out early; some families print at home, others agree that the tutor brings printed papers.

How much does an IB home tutor in India cost?

Fees are set by level, subject, city and how far the tutor travels, and a home visit sits above an online session because travel time is part of the hour you are paying for. Higher Level Diploma Programme subjects cost more than Middle Years Programme support, and a scarce subject costs more than a common one. We will not publish a figure here, because any number would be wrong for most readers. Ask for the fee in writing before the trial, including what happens with missed sessions.

We live in Navi Mumbai, far from any IB school. Is a home visit still practical?

Usually yes, provided you look for a tutor who already lives on your side rather than one who commutes to you. Families in Navi Mumbai, Vashi, Kharghar, Greater Noida and outer Pune often assume they must pull someone from the central pool, and that arrangement is the one most likely to fail by month two. The local pool may be smaller and shallower in rare subjects. Where it genuinely has nobody for your subject, an online specialist plus an occasional weekend home visit is the better plan.

Can we switch between home visits and online sessions during the year?

Yes, and most Diploma Programme families end up doing exactly that. A common pattern is a longer home visit at the weekend for work that needs paper and a steady stretch, and a shorter online session midweek for doubt-solving. Exam terms often shift the balance further towards online, because nobody wants to lose a revision slot to weather. Agree the pattern with the tutor rather than switching week by week, since an unpredictable format is harder on the student than either mode alone.

What if the tutor is not working out after a month?

Ask for a different match, and do it without feeling awkward about it. Say what specifically is not working: the student is not attempting homework, explanations go over their head, the slot keeps moving. That detail makes the next match better. Sometimes the fix is not a new tutor at all but a changed slot, a shorter session for a younger child, or fewer subjects. If the problem is that grades have not moved in four weeks, be aware that habits change first and marks follow later.

Can one tutor teach two children in the same home visit?

Sometimes, and it depends far more on the gap between them than on the subject. Two Diploma Programme students taking the same subject and level can share a session productively. A Middle Years Programme child and a Diploma Programme sibling cannot, and attempting it shortchanges both. Back-to-back sessions in one visit work well, save the tutor a second trip, and are easier to staff than a shared slot. Tell us both children's programmes, subjects and levels at the start so the shortlist reflects the real request.

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Q: Will an IB home tutor travel to my part of the city on a weekday evening?

Often yes, but the honest answer depends on the route rather than the distance. Tutors hold weekday evening slots well inside their own pool and badly across a metro, so a tutor living in Gurugram will cover Golf Course Road easily and think twice about Ghaziabad at 7 pm. Tell us your locality and the exact slot you need at the start. If nothing in that pool fits the subject, we will say so and suggest a hybrid week rather than a match that collapses in a month.

Q: How far will a home tutor realistically travel in Bengaluru or Delhi NCR traffic?

Think in evening minutes, not kilometres, because the same route behaves differently at 4 pm and 7 pm. In Bengaluru, a tutor based around Whitefield or Sarjapur Road will usually cover Indiranagar, Koramangala and HSR Layout, while Yelahanka, Hebbal and Electronic City need someone local. In Delhi NCR, South Delhi, Gurugram, Noida and Faridabad behave as separate pools on a weekday. We never quote a travel time, because nobody can promise one. We do ask the tutor what they can hold every week without fail.

Q: Where in the house should home classes actually happen?

The dining table is the best room in most Indian flats, and it beats a bedroom desk for a simple reason: two people can sit side by side with papers spread between them. Keep the television off, move the phone to another room, and check that there is a plug point within reach and decent light falling on the page. For a younger child, an open-door room with ordinary household traffic passing is the right arrangement. A cramped corner desk will quietly limit what the tutor can do with working and diagrams.

Q: How do we handle society gate entry and visitor passes?

Set it up once, before the first session, and it stops costing you lesson time. Most gated societies in Mumbai, Gurugram, Hyderabad and Pune now use a visitor app or a gate register, so add the tutor as a regular visitor for a fixed day and time and tell the guard. In older buildings a standing note at the desk does the same job. Mention parking rules and any lift restrictions in your first message. Five minutes at the boom barrier every week adds up to a lost session over a term.

Q: Does a parent need to be at home during the session?

For a young child, yes, an adult should be at home, and for teenagers it is good practice rather than a requirement. Being at home is not the same as sitting in. Most sessions go better when the parent is somewhere in the flat, available, and not in the room correcting the student. A quick word at the door afterwards gives you more than hovering for ninety minutes. If nobody can be home for a particular week, move that session online instead of leaving the student alone with a visitor.

Q: What happens if the tutor cannot reach us because of rain or traffic?

The session should move online rather than disappear, and that expectation is worth agreeing in the first week. Mumbai monsoon evenings and long Bengaluru traffic spells will break a home visit sooner or later, and families who have already agreed a fallback lose nothing. Ask the tutor to message early rather than at the scheduled hour. For a missed session with proper notice, a reschedule within the same week is the normal arrangement, subject to what the tutor's other slots allow.

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IB home tutors in India visit your address for one-to-one lessons in PYP, MYP and DP subjects. Sessions are held at the dining table or a study desk in weekday evenings or weekends, with society gate access arranged in advance. Tutors are matched by subject, level and locality, and a trial lesson comes first.

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How does IB Gram match an IB home tutor in India to your address?

You send a query or book a free consultation, we ask where you live and when the student is free, and we shortlist verified tutors whose profiles fit the board, subject, level and travel. A demo session can be arranged before you commit to anything. Matching starts with geography, because a home visit nobody can sustain is worth nothing. So the first questions are dull and practical. Which building, which sector or layout, which gate. Is there parking or an auto stand close by. Does the lift run reliably in the evening. Then the academic side: Primary Years Programme (PYP), Middle Years Programme (MYP) or Diploma Programme (DP), the subjects, Higher Level (HL) or Standard Level (SL), and what the last report actually said. A DP1 student who needs Mathematics Analysis and Approaches (AA) HL twice a week is a completely different search from a nine-year-old who needs an hour of reading support on Saturday mornings. Next we look at the calendar you keep rather than the one you would like to keep. School finishes at one time, the bus reaches the gate at another, and football or Carnatic music classes swallow two evenings. Tutors who cannot hold that slot week after week are left off the shortlist, however strong their subject background, because a home tutor who reschedules constantly costs a family more than they add. Availability stays conditional throughout. IB home tutors in India cluster around the places where IB schools already sit, so in a locality with none within easy reach, the honest answer may be that the right subject specialist sits thirty minutes away on a good evening and out of reach on a wet one. We would rather say that plainly than send someone who quietly drops out in week five.

1. Send a query or book a free consultation with your locality and school timings

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3. You get a shortlist of verified tutors who can hold that weekly slot

4. Arrange a demo or trial session at home before committing to anything longer

5. Ask for a different match if the fit is wrong after the first sessions

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What a home visit looks like in PYP, MYP and DP

A visiting tutor's job changes completely with the programme, and so does the shape of the evening. The Primary Years Programme (PYP) covers ages three to twelve. There are no external examinations and no published PYP grades, and learning is organised around six transdisciplinary themes: Who we are; Where we are in place and time; How we express ourselves; How the world works; How we organize ourselves; Sharing the planet, with the ten attributes of the IB learner profile running through them and the PYP exhibition in the final year. Home classes at this stage are short. The tutor builds reading fluency and number sense, then leaves the parent something small to hold on the four evenings when nobody is visiting. The Middle Years Programme (MYP) runs five years, MYP 1 to 5, across eight subject groups. Every subject is assessed against four criteria, A to D, each scored 0-8, and the criterion total out of 32 converts to a final 1-7 grade through IB grade boundaries. This is where a tutor sitting at the table earns their fee. A parent reading a report line that says criterion C sits at 4 has no idea what to do on Tuesday evening; a tutor who has taught that criterion does. The Personal Project arrives in MYP 5 and the Community Project in MYP 3 or 4, and there the boundary is firm: question and teach, never write. MYP eAssessment in MYP 5 is optional and each school decides whether to offer it, so ask yours before planning around it. Diploma Programme (DP) visits are the longest and the most tightly booked. Six subjects from six groups, three or four at Higher Level (HL, 240 recommended teaching hours) and the rest at Standard Level (SL, 150 hours), each graded 1 to 7, with Theory of Knowledge (TOK) and the Extended Essay (EE) contributing up to 3 further points towards a maximum of 45.

PYP: forty to sixty minutes is usually the ceiling for a young child

MYP: work from the criterion strands, not the rounded 1-7 grade

MYP 5 Personal Project: the tutor questions and teaches, the student writes every word

DP: Higher Level carries 240 recommended teaching hours against 150 at Standard Level

DP2 households often want two visits a week, subject to tutor availability

Subjects

Subject work that goes better with a tutor beside the desk

Some subject problems are visible on a screen and some are only visible on paper, at the table, as they happen. That difference decides whether a visit is worth the travel. Mathematics is the clearest case. In Mathematics Analysis and Approaches (AA) and Mathematics Applications and Interpretation (AI), at both Higher Level and Standard Level, marks are lost in the middle of a solution rather than at the end. A student who skips a line of algebra, writes the substitution nowhere, or rounds early will often reach a defensible answer and still drop method marks. A tutor sitting to the student's right sees the pencil stop, sees the line that was never written, and interrupts at the moment it matters. Over a screen the same error surfaces ten minutes later, if at all. Physics, Chemistry and Biology bring the practical write-up and the diagram. Uncertainties, axes, units on a table header, a labelled apparatus sketch: these are all things a student produces badly at speed and defends confidently afterwards. Home sessions let the tutor watch the graph being drawn rather than receive the photograph of it. Internal Assessment (IA) work in the sciences also benefits from the tutor being able to look at the actual lab notebook, the messy one, instead of a tidied summary. Economics and English A are more about drafting. Here the visit works differently: the student writes for fifteen minutes with the tutor quietly present, which is a discipline most teenagers cannot impose on themselves, and then the two of them read it back line by line. For English A commentary work and for Economics evaluation paragraphs, that read-aloud step catches more than any amount of written feedback emailed at midnight.

Mathematics AA and AI: method marks are lost mid-solution, where a tutor can see it

Physics, Chemistry and Biology: uncertainties, axes, units and labelled diagrams under time pressure

Sciences: the tutor reads the real lab notebook, not a tidied-up summary

English A: fifteen silent minutes of drafting, then a line-by-line read-back

Economics: evaluation paragraphs improve faster when written and challenged in the room

Local coverage

Travel radius in India: what a home tutor can realistically reach

Ask how far they travel and experienced IB home tutors in India answer in minutes, not kilometres. That is the right way to think about it. In Delhi NCR the radius is narrow on a weekday evening and wide on a Sunday morning. An IB home tutor in Delhi who lives in South Delhi will hold a slot in Vasant Kunj or Chanakyapuri comfortably and hesitate over Dwarka. Gurugram (Gurgaon) largely works within itself, with Golf Course Road and the sectors around it forming one pool. Noida, Sector 128 Noida and Greater Noida form another, and Faridabad and Ghaziabad a third. Crossing between those pools in evening traffic is the single most common reason a promising match falls apart by the second month. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region is a set of corridors rather than a circle. An IB home tutor in Mumbai working in Bandra, Juhu or Andheri stays on that arm; Powai has its own pool; Worli, Lower Parel and Malabar Hill form a southern cluster that is hard to reach from the suburbs after six. Navi Mumbai, Vashi, Thane and Kharghar are better served from within, and families there often do better asking for a tutor who already lives across the creek. Bengaluru is the city where distance lies most convincingly. An IB home tutor in Bangalore based near Whitefield or Sarjapur Road will cover Indiranagar, Koramangala and HSR Layout on the right evening, while Hebbal, Yelahanka, Electronic City, Jayanagar and Kanakapura Road each need someone local. Pune splits similarly: Koregaon Park, Kalyani Nagar, Kharadi and Viman Nagar on one side, Baner, Balewadi, Hinjewadi, Aundh and Wakad on the other. In Hyderabad, an IB home tutor in Hyderabad working around Gachibowli, HITEC City, Madhapur, Kondapur, the Financial District and Kokapet rarely wants Secunderabad on the same evening, though Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills sit conveniently between. Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad follow the same rule, and an IB home tutor in Chennai or an IB home tutor in Kolkata will quote you an evening window rather than a distance.

Delhi NCR splits into South Delhi, Gurugram, Noida and Faridabad-Ghaziabad evening pools

Mumbai runs along corridors: the western arm, Powai, the south, and Navi Mumbai

Bengaluru: Whitefield and Sarjapur Road rarely pair with Yelahanka or Electronic City

Pune divides across the river into the Koregaon Park side and the Baner side

Hyderabad: Gachibowli, Madhapur and Kokapet form one pool, Secunderabad another

In Chennai, Kolkata and Ahmedabad, ask for an evening window, never a distance

School ecosystem

The school year in India that home visits must bend around

The Indian academic year runs roughly April to March, and international schools here overwhelmingly enter candidates for the May examination session rather than November. May results are released in early July. Those three facts shape every home tuition timetable in the country, and a tutor who plans without them will be booking sessions in the weeks when nothing can be absorbed. IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform and is not affiliated with any school named on this page, the International Baccalaureate, Cambridge International Education or Pearson Edexcel. Nothing here describes what any particular school teaches or where it sits. What we can describe is the pressure families report. The first term after the summer break is the quiet window, and it is the term most parents waste. Home classes started in July or August do the unglamorous work: closing gaps from the previous year, fixing note-taking, building the habit of a weekly session before anything is urgent. By the time the winter mock cycle arrives, that student is revising rather than learning the topic for the first time. Then the calendar tightens. Internal Assessment deadlines in the Diploma Programme tend to stack in DP1's final term and DP2's first, often across three or four subjects within a few weeks. The Personal Project runs alongside ordinary coursework in MYP 5. Meanwhile school events, sports days and the long Diwali break interrupt whatever rhythm existed. A good home tutor front-loads content before the break and uses the weeks after it for past questions rather than new material. One more calendar detail worth planning for: after May results arrive in early July, a family considering a retake route or an enquiry upon results has a short window to decide, and that decision is better made with the school's coordinator than with a tutor.

The Indian school year runs roughly April to March; most candidates sit the May session

Exam sessions run in May and November; May results are released in early July

July to September is the quiet term most families waste and should be using

Diploma Programme Internal Assessment deadlines stack across subjects within a few weeks

Front-load new content before Diwali; use the weeks afterwards for past questions

Modes

Home, online or hybrid: which one suits your week in India?

Home tuition suits a student who needs supervision and a room that becomes serious for ninety minutes. Online suits a family chasing a specialist who is not in their city, or a week too fragmented for a fixed visit. Hybrid, meaning some sessions at home and some on screen, suits most DP households once the travel cost of a weekday evening becomes obvious. That is the honest ranking, and it depends far more on your address and your week than on the student. There are evenings when a home visit is simply the wrong call. If the student's slot is 8.30 pm on a Wednesday and the tutor must cross from Andheri to Powai to get there, the lesson starts late, the tutor is tired and the family feels guilty about both. If your subject is one where the local pool is thin, insisting on a home tutor means choosing a weaker teacher over a stronger one for the sake of physical presence. And during heavy monsoon weeks in Mumbai or a long spell of Bengaluru evening traffic, online keeps continuity that a visit cannot. Most IB home tutors in India will discuss a hybrid pattern openly, because they lose evenings to weather and traffic too. Hybrid is what most families settle into without planning it. A common pattern is one home visit at the weekend, unhurried, for the work that needs paper and a long stretch, and one shorter online session midweek for doubt-solving and checking that the homework was actually done. The tutor keeps the relationship built in person, and the family stops losing a session every time it rains. The trade-off stated plainly: home gives you attention, supervision and a tutor who sees the written working; online gives you choice of tutor and reliability; hybrid keeps most of both, at the cost of two different routines the student has to get used to.

Home tuition: best for supervision, handwritten working and younger students

Online: best when the subject specialist you need lives in another city

Hybrid: a weekend home visit plus a short midweek online check-in

Switch to online during monsoon weeks rather than cancelling the session

A late weekday slot across a metro is usually a hybrid week waiting to happen

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How does a home visit compare with the other ways to get IB tutoring in India?

Four options, and the deciding factor is rarely teaching quality. A tutor who travels to you suits students who need supervision and whose handwritten working must be watched. Online suits families chasing a subject specialist or a reliable slot. A neighbourhood centre suits a student who works better away from home and a budget that has to stretch. A distant specialist suits a rare subject combination.

How does a home visit compare with the other ways to get IB tutoring in India?
What matters	A tutor who travels to your home	An online tutor anywhere in India	A tuition centre in your neighbourhood	A specialist in another city, online
Attention per student	One student, full attention, and the tutor can see the pencil stop mid-solution	One student, full attention, though written working reaches the tutor a beat late	Shared with a batch, which gives peer discussion a one-to-one session cannot	One student, full attention, usually with the sharpest subject knowledge of the four
Travel and time in Indian cities	The tutor absorbs the travel, but a late slot across a metro strains the arrangement	Nobody travels, which is the strongest argument for it on a weekday evening	The student travels twice, losing study hours and arriving tired in peak traffic	Nobody travels, and the tutor's city and its traffic stop being your problem
Syllabus fit for HL, SL, AA and AI	Good where local supply is deep, thin for rarer Higher Level combinations	Wide choice, so matching an exact level and option is usually straightforward	Batches are built around the common subjects, so unusual options fit badly	The best fit available for a rare subject, option or Higher Level pairing
Holding a weekday evening slot	Reliable when the tutor lives nearby, fragile when the route crosses the city	Reliable in almost all weather, which matters through the monsoon months	Fixed batch timings that rarely bend around sport, music or school events	Reliable, though a different time zone or city schedule can narrow the options
Coursework and Internal Assessment support	The tutor can read the real lab notebook and messy drafts at the table	Drafts are discussed on a shared screen, which works but needs more preparation	Usually out of scope, since batches run to a shared teaching plan	Strong on criteria and method, weaker on the disorganised paperwork around it
Feedback to parents	You see the session happening and can ask at the door afterwards	Needs a deliberate message or call, since nobody is standing in your hall	Periodic reports, and rarely a conversation about one student's specific habits	Needs a scheduled review, and time zones can make that awkward to arrange
Cost structure	Highest per hour, because travel time is part of what is being paid for	Lower than a home visit, since no travel is built into the hour	Usually the cheapest per hour, as the fee is shared across the batch	Varies with scarcity; a rare specialism costs more wherever they live
Trial before committing	A demo at home also tests the route, the gate and the room, all at once	A demo is easy to arrange and tests the teaching but not the logistics	Often a trial class with the batch, which shows the format more than the teacher	A demo tests subject depth well and tells you nothing about local practicalities
Continuity across a school year	Strong while the route holds; monsoon and long commutes are the usual breaking points	Strongest of the four, since weather and traffic barely touch it	Continuous but impersonal; a changed teacher mid-term is common in batches	Strong, provided the school calendars and holiday weeks are agreed in advance

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What should you check before a tutor enters your home?

Check identity at the door, check subject experience in the demo, and check that the person who arrives is the person whose profile you were shown. Those three take ten minutes and settle almost everything that goes wrong later. IB Gram shortlists tutors whose profiles are verified, but a platform check and a parent's own judgement are different things and you should use both. Profile verification covers who the tutor says they are and what they say they have taught: identity documents, the qualifications claimed, the programmes and levels they have handled, and the subjects they are willing to be matched for. A tutor who says they teach Diploma Programme Chemistry is matched for Diploma Programme Chemistry, not for anything in the sciences that happens to be asked about. What the platform cannot do is sit in your living room, so ask the same questions of every one of the IB home tutors in India you shortlist. So on the first visit, ask to see an identity document and note the name at the society gate register yourself. Ask which syllabus version the student is on and listen for whether the answer is specific. Ask how they would approach the topic the student is currently stuck on, and listen for a method rather than reassurance. A strong tutor will say what they do not teach. For a younger child there is a further layer. The lesson should happen in a room with an open door and ordinary household traffic passing, not behind a closed bedroom door, and a parent or another adult should be at home. This is not a comment on any individual; it is simply the arrangement that protects everyone, including the tutor, and any professional will expect it. Finally, be sceptical of anyone who promises an outcome. No tutor can guarantee a grade, and a person who offers one at the door has told you something useful about their judgement.

Ask for an identity document on the first visit and log the name at the gate

Verified profiles cover identity, claimed qualifications, programmes and subjects taught

Ask how they would teach the exact topic the student is stuck on now

Keep young learners' home classes in an open-door room with an adult at home

Treat any promise of a specific grade as a warning sign, not a selling point

Inside a ninety-minute home session with an IB home tutor in India

A home visit is a small logistical operation repeated every week, and the households where it works are the ones that set it up once and then stop thinking about it. Start with the gate. Most gated societies and apartment complexes in India require a visitor entry, and the friction is real: a tutor standing at the boom barrier at 6.05 pm while the guard calls the flat is five minutes of the lesson gone, every single week. Register the tutor as a regular visitor if your society allows it, add them to the app your complex uses, and tell the guard the day and time. In older buildings without an app, a written note at the desk does the same job. Where parking is scarce, say so before the first visit rather than after. Then the room. A dining table beats a bedroom desk in almost every Indian flat, because two people can sit side by side and spread papers out. Keep the television off and the younger sibling elsewhere, put the phone in another room rather than face down on the table, and make sure there is a plug point within reach for a laptop. Light matters more than families expect; a tutor reading a student's pencil working under a dim ceiling light will miss things. A workable ninety minutes usually runs like this: 1. Ten minutes on last week's homework, marked in front of the student rather than collected. 2. Fifty minutes of new teaching or past questions, with the student writing and the tutor watching the writing. 3. Thirty minutes of independent work in the room, where the tutor only speaks when asked. The tutor brings their own past questions, mark schemes and a spare pen. You provide the table, the light, the plug point and the water. Nobody needs to provide snacks, though most Indian households will anyway.

The dining table usually beats a bedroom desk: two people, papers spread out

Phone in another room, television off, younger siblings occupied elsewhere

A plug point within reach and good light over the page, not behind it

The tutor brings questions and mark schemes; you provide the space and water

What progress looks like, and what a home tutor cannot fix

Give any new arrangement four to six sessions before judging it, and judge it on specifics rather than mood. The first visit or two will look unimpressive because a competent tutor spends them finding out what the student actually knows, which is rarely what the report said. By the third or fourth session you should be able to see concrete things. The student attempts questions they used to skip. Homework comes back with working shown rather than answers alone. In the Middle Years Programme, feedback starts referring to a criterion strand by name instead of a general grumble. In the Diploma Programme, a past question that used to take forty minutes takes twenty-five. None of these is a grade, and none of them should be. Grades move slowly and they move after the habits do. Now the limits, honestly. A home tutor cannot fix attendance, sleep or a student who has decided the subject is not for them. They cannot compress two years of missed foundations into the weeks before a mock, though they can choose what to sacrifice and make that choice deliberate. They cannot write Internal Assessment or Extended Essay content, and a tutor who offers to is putting the student's diploma at risk rather than helping. And no tutor can guarantee a grade, whatever their examining background. There is also a case for stopping. If the school's subject teacher has not been asked to help yet, ask them first; it is free and they know the class. If a student is being tutored in four subjects and still sleeping five hours, the answer is fewer tutors, not more. Families who start late, in the final term of DP2, should hear plainly that the plan is to protect what is reachable and give up on what is not.

Judge after four to six sessions, on working shown rather than on marks

Early signs: fewer skipped questions, faster past questions, criterion-specific feedback

A tutor cannot recover two years of gaps in the weeks before a mock

Internal Assessment and Extended Essay text must be the student's own work

Four subjects of tuition and five hours of sleep is a timetable problem, not a tutoring one

Starting home tuition in India: what to prepare this week

Getting a good match is mostly about what you send in the first message, and most parents send too little. Ten minutes of preparation saves a fortnight of back and forth. Write down the student's grade and programme, the exact subjects and levels, and the two or three things that are actually going wrong. Not the grade. The behaviour behind the grade: leaves Paper questions half done, cannot start an essay, guesses at algebra, panics under time. Add the school's term dates and mock weeks if you have them, and the exam session the student is entered for. Then add the timetable constraints that are not negotiable, including the tuition-free evenings you want to keep. Send the address area, not just the city. Sector 128 Noida, Kharadi, HSR Layout, Kokapet: a locality lets us search the right pool immediately instead of asking twice. Mention parking and gate rules now rather than on the evening of the first visit. If the family is open to hybrid, say so, because that opens the shortlist considerably. For the first session, have last term's report, the most recent marked script or assessment, and the current textbook or unit plan on the table. A tutor who can read a marked script in the first ten minutes will plan a better term than one who works from a description of it. After that, the sequence is simple. A shortlist, a demo or trial session at home, and a decision. If the fit is wrong, ask for a different match; that is a normal request and not a difficult conversation. IB home tutors in India are booked earliest in the term, and availability depends on level, subject and the evening you need, so asking sooner gives you a better shortlist.

List subjects, levels and the behaviours going wrong, not just the grade

Send the locality, parking situation and society gate rules with the first query

Keep last term's report and one recent marked script ready for session one

Name the evenings that are not negotiable, including the ones kept free

Say if hybrid is acceptable; it widens the shortlist immediately

Ask early in the term, since availability depends on subject, level and slot

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Will an IB home tutor travel to my part of the city on a weekday evening?+

Often yes, but it depends on distance and traffic. Tutors take students in clusters so travel stays short. State your locality and the days you need, and the match will favour someone already working nearby. If no one is close, online sessions cover the gap.

How far will a home tutor realistically travel in Bengaluru or Delhi NCR traffic?+

Most keep to a radius of about forty minutes door to door, less in peak hours. A twelve-kilometre journey can take an hour on Outer Ring Road or in Gurugram evening traffic. Tutors prefer fewer, closer students, which is why locality is the first thing asked.

Where in the house should home classes actually happen?+

At a table with good light, ideally in a room with a door that closes. A study desk or dining table works well. Avoid the bed or sofa. Keep away from the television and kitchen noise, and give the tutor a surface big enough for papers and a laptop.

How do we handle society gate entry and visitor passes?+

Tell the security desk the tutor's name and timing in advance, or register them as a recurring visitor if your society allows. Share the tutor's phone number with the guard. Sorting this before the first session avoids a delayed start, and it is a normal part of arranging home tuition in apartment complexes.

Does a parent need to be at home during the session?+

An adult should be in the house, but not necessarily in the room. Most families greet the tutor, then leave the student to work. Younger PYP and MYP children often feel happier with a parent nearby. For Diploma students, some privacy usually encourages more honest questions.

What happens if the tutor cannot reach us because of rain or traffic?+

The tutor informs you as soon as the delay is clear, and the session either starts late, moves to a video call or is rescheduled at no charge. Agree this rule in advance. Having a laptop ready means a missed commute need not cost a lesson.

Ready to plan IB support?

Send a query or book a free consultation with your locality, the student's programme and subjects, and the evenings that work. We ask a few practical questions about school timings, gate access and travel, then share a shortlist of verified tutors who can hold that slot. Arrange a demo session at home before you commit, and ask for a different match if the fit is wrong.

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