IB Private Tuition in India Across a Full Academic Year

Start with one term and review it, rather than with a year. A term is long enough to see whether the tutor and the student work well together, and short enough that leaving costs nothing awkward. Put the review date in the written note before the first session. If the fit holds through that first review, then plan the rest of the year properly, including the summer block and the taper before mocks, and book the slot while it is still free.

For a DP1 student, usually yes, at a reduced rate of one session a week. The summer break runs for several weeks and term two opens with the heaviest content of the course, so a light slot keeps the material warm and the working habit intact. For an MYP or PYP child, stopping is generally the better call. A middle option that works well is three or four home sessions in the last fortnight before school reopens, aimed at whatever term two starts with.

Ask for the handover note first, then overlap the two tutors if the schedule allows. The running record of topics covered, practice marks and current weaknesses is what makes a new tutor useful in week one instead of week four. Tell the outgoing tutor honestly why the change is happening. Keeping the old slot running for a fortnight while the new tutor starts means nothing gets dropped, and asking for a different match is faster than beginning the whole search again.

Six things: subjects and levels, sessions per week and their length, mode and venue, what the tutor does between sessions, how often you get an update, and how either side ends the arrangement. None of that needs a lawyer or a formal contract. A shared note that both sides have read is enough, and it prevents the common argument in January about whether the tutor was meant to be marking past papers or only teaching new content.

Two weekly, three at the absolute maximum, and probably fewer than you are imagining. Every tuition hour comes out of the student's own study time, which is where most of the actual learning happens. A better pattern is to keep one compounding subject such as Mathematics running all year, then bring others in for short blocks around an internal assessment deadline or a set of mocks, and drop them again once that work is done.

That depends on what you agreed in April, which is exactly why it should be written down. Diwali moves each year with the festival and most tutors take at least part of that break. Mock weeks are a different question: many families want extra sessions then, and the honest advice is usually fewer, because the student needs uninterrupted hours to sit full papers alone. Agree both in advance and the question never becomes a disagreement.

Probably not as a twice-weekly home visit, and it is much better to know that in June than in October. A tutor crossing the Mumbai Metropolitan Region on a weekday evening, in the monsoon, will eventually ask to move or drop the slot. The arrangement that lasts is hybrid: one home session at a time that suits the travel, and the rest online. Families in Navi Mumbai, Vashi and Kharghar generally reach the same conclusion by term two.

The tutor usually continues online, which is the strongest argument for choosing someone who teaches well on a screen even when you start at home. Transfers between cities are common in Indian corporate families, and a move from Bengaluru to Salt Lake in the middle of DP1 does far less damage if the same tutor stays. Tell them early. Rebuilding a working relationship in a new city during term two costs weeks you do not have.

Yes, and a pause is often the right answer during a heavy coursework month or a family event. Say clearly that it is a pause, give a restart date, and accept that the tutor may not be able to hold the exact slot, since availability depends on their other commitments and on the level you need. A pause with a date on it usually restarts. A vague pause usually turns into an ending nobody actually decided.

Look at how the student works before you look at the marks. By month three you should see command terms being read properly, an error log or at least a list of recurring mistakes, and practice work marked against the real criteria rather than ticked. Marks tend to follow a term later. If nothing at all has changed after three months of steady attendance, the plan needs changing, and sometimes that means fewer subjects rather than a different tutor.

It can be, and it can also create an awkwardness worth thinking through first. A teacher who knows the school's internal deadlines and marking habits brings real context that an outsider lacks. The complication is that the same person may be assessing the student's work, which some schools restrict outright and some parents find uncomfortable. Ask the school's policy before arranging anything. Where the policy allows it, agree scope, reviews and an exit in writing exactly as you would with anyone else.