IB Tuition Classes in India: Which Format Suits Your Child

Usually a weekly one-to-one class plus a short subject revision block, not a new course. Eight weeks is enough to change technique and not enough to relearn a syllabus, so the work should start from the question types the last set of marked papers exposed. Keep the weekly slot fixed through the mock period. Add a second, shorter session in the two subjects that are actually costing points, and drop anything that is not examined. If three or more subjects are failing at once, fix the weakest two first, because spreading eight weeks across four subjects usually moves none of them.

Small enough that every student's written work is read during the class, which in practice means three or four. Past five, the tutor stops reading scripts live and starts lecturing, and the format quietly becomes a cheaper version of the classroom your child already sits in all day. Ask whether the cap is written down or merely aspirational, and ask what happens when a sixth family wants to join mid-term. A group of three at the same level and the same option is a good class. A group of six at mixed levels wastes everyone's weeknight.

They should not, and that is the point of them. A revision class is question-led: it works through the question types the student has already got wrong, using past papers, markschemes and subject reports that come through the school or the IB's official channels. If a revision class is introducing fresh content four weeks before a mock, either the school is behind or the class has been mis-sold. Ask for the list of topics it will cover before you book, and check that list against your child's own marked work rather than against the full syllabus.

It is worth booking for a student who knows the material and needs volume, and it is a poor use of money for one who does not. An intensive compresses several hours a day across one or two weeks, usually in the holiday before the session, and what it genuinely adds is timed practice, pacing and exposure to unfamiliar question wording. It cannot substitute for the 150 hours behind a Standard Level subject or the 240 behind a Higher Level one. Before booking, ask what the daily schedule looks like and how much of it is the student writing rather than the tutor talking.

Yes, and for most families it is the only slot that exists, but be honest about what is left of the child by then. A class starting at eight after sport and travel will be shorter in real attention than the clock suggests, so a sixty-minute home class often beats a ninety-minute one on a weekday. Many families keep one longer weekend home class for written work and one shorter weeknight session online for doubt-solving. Tell the tutor the true finishing time of school activities rather than the timetabled one, or the first month will be spent adjusting.

Agree the rule before it happens, because at some point it will. The workable arrangement is that a tutor who cannot reach Powai, Thane or Kharghar in time converts that session into an online class from wherever he is, and a session cancelled with notice is rescheduled rather than lost. What you should not accept is a pattern. One delayed evening in a monsoon month is weather. Three in a term means the travel distance was never realistic, and the arrangement should move to a hybrid week or to a tutor who lives closer.

An online one-to-one class, almost certainly, with a tutor who may live in another city entirely. Supply for Higher Level options thins quickly outside the central pockets of Delhi NCR, and a family in Greater Noida, Faridabad or Ghaziabad can spend months waiting for a local match that never appears. Online removes the travel constraint on both sides and widens the pool to anyone teaching that option anywhere in India, subject to availability. If your child also needs supervision, run a hybrid week: online for Economics, and a local home class for whichever subject does have local supply.

It can, from roughly MYP 4 upwards, and it is considerably harder below that. MYP work is assessed against four criteria, each scored 0 to 8, and criterion work suits a small group because students learn a great deal from seeing how somebody else answered the same task. The limit is attention. A thirteen-year-old in a group of four online needs a tutor who calls on each student every few minutes and a parent within earshot. Below MYP 4, a short home class usually achieves more in less time and with less negotiation.

Sometimes, and it depends far more on the gap between them than on the subject. Two students in the same year taking the same option can share a small group class at home, and in Hyderabad or Ahmedabad, where distances are short, families often book two back-to-back one-to-one home classes on the same evening instead. What rarely works is a single class split between a Grade 9 student and a DP1 sibling. The content diverges immediately, and both children end up with half a session each.

Look at what the sessions are being consumed by. If the tutor explains well but spends the class talking because four other students are waiting, the format is wrong and one-to-one will fix it. If the tutor explains well and your child still cannot start a question alone, the format may be right and the missing piece is practice volume between sessions. A tutor who cannot tell you what is being fixed, in one sentence, after four sessions is a tutor problem, and you can ask for a different match.

Not necessarily, but the shape should change. Term-time weekly classes exist to keep pace with school, and a break is the one window where an intensive or a holiday block can add ground, because no new school work is landing at the same time. For a DP1 student the Diwali break is a sensible place to recover a subject that slipped in the first term. For a younger student, stopping completely for a fortnight is usually right, and a tutor who insists otherwise is selling hours.

Only within the limits your school and the IB set, and those limits are stricter than most families assume. A tutor may teach the skills behind the work, discuss a plan, ask questions about a draft and explain the criteria being applied. A tutor may not write, edit or contribute content to a submission. The Personal Project in MYP 5 and the Community Project in MYP 3 or 4 are the student's own work, and any class sold as project completion support should be refused. Confirm the boundary with your coordinator before booking anything.