What exactly is included in subject tuition, and what is not?

Subject tuition covers syllabus content, question practice and exam technique in one named subject at one named level. It does not include completing the student's school homework, negotiating with the school on your behalf, or quietly absorbing a second subject because the tutor knows it. If a second subject is genuinely needed, it should be scoped, priced and reviewed as its own service. Keeping the boundary clear protects the quality of the first subject, which is the one you actually came for.

What does Extended Essay support actually look like?

It looks like research and writing coaching, not essay production. The Extended Essay runs to 4,000 words and roughly 40 hours of work, and it is supervised by a teacher at the student's own school with reflection sessions recorded along the way. A tutor can help the student narrow a research question, plan a structure, read critically and manage the schedule around other deadlines. Because the guide was updated for first assessment in 2027, be sceptical of anyone quoting criterion marks at you; ask your coordinator which version applies to your session.

My child is moving from CBSE or ICSE into DP1. What service is that?

That is bridging, and it should be bought as its own short service rather than as open-ended tuition. The gap is rarely content. It is the shift to criterion-based assessment, marks awarded for method and communication, open-ended questions with no single expected answer, and coursework that must be genuinely the student's own. Bridging teaches that translation over a defined number of weeks and then ends. Families in Pune, Noida and Chennai ask for this every June and July, and the ones who set an end date get better value from it.

Can we get home tuition for one service and online for another?

Yes, and for many households that is the sensible arrangement. A common split is home tuition for mathematics, where written method needs watching, and online for Theory of Knowledge or a rare Higher Level option where the specialist is in another city. Two tutors means two relationships to manage, so keep the scopes separate and written down. Families in Bengaluru often run exactly this pattern, with a local tutor around Whitefield or HSR Layout and a specialist reached on screen.

Do you offer help with subject selection?

Guidance, yes; the decision, no. A tutor can explain what Higher Level commitment looks like in practice, how Analysis and Approaches differs from Applications and Interpretation in daily work, and what a six-subject load feels like alongside Creativity, Activity, Service. What a tutor cannot do is know your school's option blocks, your child's teachers or the entry requirements of the courses being considered. Those belong with the Diploma Programme coordinator and the university counsellor, and a service that claims otherwise is overreaching.

Is a home tutor or an online specialist better for a rare Higher Level subject?

For a rare option, the online specialist is usually the better call, and this is the trade-off worth being unsentimental about. Home tuition gives supervision and a tutor who sees the written working, which matters greatly in mathematics and the sciences. But choosing a nearby generalist over a distant specialist for an unusual Higher Level subject buys convenience at the cost of expertise. In Kolkata and eastern India, including Bhubaneswar, Guwahati and Patna, this comes up regularly and online is frequently the honest answer.

How many services should one student have at the same time?

Fewer than most families start with, and almost never more than two subjects plus one skills-based service. A Diploma Programme student already carries six subjects, coursework across several of them, Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay and Creativity, Activity, Service. Adding four tuitions to that produces a timetable nobody can sustain and sleep that nobody should accept. If the honest answer is that everything needs work, the problem is bigger than tutoring and belongs in a conversation with the school first.

What will a service refuse to promise?

Any honest service refuses to promise a grade, a points total or a percentage improvement, because no tutor can guarantee a grade. It will also refuse to write or edit coursework, refuse to claim affiliation with the IB or any examination board, and refuse to name a figure for results it has not seen. Availability is conditional too: whether a particular subject and level can be staffed in your locality depends on the term, the slot and the specialism. A confident promise early in a sales call is a warning sign.

How quickly can a service actually start?

It depends on the subject, the level, the delivery and the time of year, and the honest range is wide. Common subjects in a deep metro pool move quickly. A rare Higher Level option, a Theory of Knowledge specialist, or a home visit in a locality with few IB families nearby takes longer, and the weeks just before mocks are the hardest time to staff anything. If you know you will need support in the final term, ask early, because the same request is far easier to fill in August than in February.

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Q: Can a tutor help with my child's Internal Assessment?

Yes, within a firm boundary: the tutor can teach the skill and question the reasoning, but every internal assessment must be the student's own work. The integrity policy allows a teacher to comment on one draft, and no tutor or parent may write, rewrite or edit the submission. In practice that means a tutor can explain what a criterion is asking, ask the student to reread a paragraph against it, and refuse to suggest sentences. The school submits the work and runs similarity checking, so the risk of crossing that line falls on the student.

Q: Is Theory of Knowledge tutoring worth buying?

It is, for students who write vaguely, and less so for students who are simply behind on other subjects. TOK has two assessments: the exhibition, which uses three objects linked to one of 35 prompts, runs to 950 words and is internally assessed for a third of the grade; and the essay, which answers one of six prescribed titles for that session, runs to 1,600 words and is externally assessed for two thirds. A tutor can teach the areas of knowledge and attack a weak justification. The objects and the argument must be the student's own.

Q: How is mock preparation different from ordinary tuition?

It is a different job with a different clock. Ordinary tuition teaches content; mock preparation runs timed papers under real conditions, marks them against published criteria, and forces a decision about what to leave out. With five weeks and four weak topics, a student cannot fix four, and a good tutor will name the two worth protecting and say the rest are being sacrificed. Expect the first sessions to feel worse than usual, because timing improves before accuracy does and an honest timed score is often a shock.

Subject tuition, Internal Assessment and Extended Essay support inside the integrity rules, Theory of Knowledge help, mock preparation, board-switch bridging and subject-selection guidance. Each one described with what it does not include, because the limits matter more than the list.

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IB tutoring services in India cover five things: subject tuition for PYP, MYP and DP, guidance on the Internal Assessment and Extended Essay within IB integrity rules, Theory of Knowledge help, mock exam preparation, and bridging for students switching from CBSE or ICSE. Each runs at home or online.

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How do you scope which IB tutoring services in India you actually need?

IB tutoring services in India are usually bought the wrong way round, from the menu rather than from the evidence. One marked script, one report and one honest conversation with the student will tell you which service to buy, and it will usually be narrower than the one you had in mind when you opened this page. The common mistake is buying breadth. A parent worried about Diploma Programme results asks for four subjects, twice a week each, from March. What the evidence often shows is one subject with a genuine content gap, one with an exam-technique problem that three past questions a week would solve, and two that are fine. Scoping down is the single most valuable thing a service can do for a family, and it is also the thing a service loses money by doing. Scoping also decides delivery. A student who needs supervision gets home tuition; a student who needs a rare Higher Level specialist gets online; a household with two exam calendars usually ends up hybrid. The service is the same, the delivery is not, and mixing that up is why some families conclude that tutoring does not work for them. Once the scope is clear, the rest is mechanical. IB Gram asks about board, programme, subject, level, school calendar, location and schedule, then shortlists tutors whose profiles are verified against that scope. A demo or trial session can be arranged before you commit, and if the fit is wrong you can ask for a different match. Nothing beyond that is promised, and you should be wary of any service that promises more.

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2. Name the problem as a behaviour: skips questions, cannot start, mismanages time

3. Decide the narrowest service that addresses it, then stop adding subjects

4. Choose delivery: home tuition, online, or a hybrid week that survives traffic

5. Run a trial session, then review the scope again after four sessions

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Which services does a PYP, MYP or DP student actually use?

The catalogue is the same at every stage. What changes is which items are worth buying, and at two of the three stages the honest answer is fewer than parents expect. In the Primary Years Programme there are no external examinations and no published grades, so anything sold as exam preparation at this age is selling you nothing. Learning runs through six transdisciplinary themes, among them Who we are, How the world works and How we organize ourselves, and the final year brings the PYP exhibition. The useful services here are narrow: reading fluency, number sense, and support for a child who has joined from another system mid-year. Everything else can wait. The Middle Years Programme changes the picture. Five years, eight subject groups, and every subject assessed against four criteria, A to D, each scored 0-8, with the criterion total out of 32 converted to a 1-7 grade through IB boundaries. Criterion-specific support is a real service and a useful one, because a student who scores 3 on criterion D in Sciences has a definable problem. The Personal Project in MYP 5 and the Community Project in MYP 3 or 4 are supervised school tasks, not tutoring products; a tutor may teach research and planning skills around them and nothing more. Some schools offer MYP eAssessment in MYP 5 and some do not, so confirm before buying preparation for it. The Diploma Programme is where the full catalogue applies. Six subjects from six groups, three or four at Higher Level with 240 recommended teaching hours against 150 at Standard Level, each graded 1 to 7, plus Theory of Knowledge and the Extended Essay for up to 3 further points towards a maximum of 45, and 24 points as the minimum for the diploma. Subject tuition, coursework skills, mock preparation and subject-selection advice all earn their place here.

PYP: reading, number sense and settling in after a mid-year move, nothing exam-shaped

MYP: criterion-specific support, judged against the four criteria scored 0-8 each

MYP projects are supervised school tasks; a tutor teaches skills around them only

DP: the full catalogue applies, including mock preparation and subject-selection advice

Confirm whether your school runs MYP eAssessment before paying to prepare for it

Subjects

Subject tuition in India: what the core service includes and excludes

Subject tuition is the service most families mean when they ask about IB tutoring services in India, and it is the easiest one to define precisely. A tutor teaches the syllabus content the student has not grasped, practises questions with them, and builds exam technique in that subject at that level. It does not include doing the student's school homework for them, chasing the school, or covering a second subject informally because the tutor happens to know it. The subject decides what the service looks like. Mathematics Analysis and Approaches and Mathematics Applications and Interpretation, at both levels, are taught through worked questions and method; the mathematics exploration is a separate piece of work and should be scoped separately. Physics, Chemistry and Biology split between content teaching and practical write-up skills. Economics splits between diagram accuracy and evaluation writing. English A is largely drafting, reading closely and structuring commentary. A tutor who says they can take all six at Higher Level should be asked, politely, which ones they have taught most recently. Bridging is a distinct service and worth naming separately. A student arriving from CBSE, ICSE or a state board into MYP 5 or DP1 is not behind in content so much as unfamiliar with how the work is assessed: criteria rather than chapter tests, open-ended questions, marks for method and communication rather than for the final answer, and coursework that must be their own. Bridging covers that translation over a defined number of weeks and then ends. It is not indefinite subject tuition under another name, and a service that lets it drift into one is not doing the family a favour.

Includes: syllabus content, question practice and exam technique in one named subject

Excludes: doing school homework, chasing teachers, or informally adding a second subject

Mathematics exploration work is scoped separately from ordinary subject tuition

Bridging from CBSE, ICSE or a state board teaches assessment style, not fresh content

Bridging should run for a fixed number of weeks and then stop by design

Ask any tutor which of the six subjects they have taught most recently, and at which level

Local coverage

Where IB tutoring services in India are delivered, region by region

Every service on this page exists everywhere in the country, but not in the same form, and pretending otherwise wastes a family's time. In Delhi NCR the subject pool is deep enough that most requests can be met in person. South Delhi, Vasant Kunj and Chanakyapuri form one pool, Gurugram (Gurgaon) with Golf Course Road another, Noida, Sector 128 Noida and Greater Noida a third, with Faridabad and Ghaziabad served better from within than across. An IB tutoring service in Delhi will usually offer coursework skills and mock preparation face to face. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region behaves as corridors: Bandra, Juhu and Andheri along one arm, Powai on its own, Worli, Lower Parel and Malabar Hill to the south, and Navi Mumbai, Vashi, Thane and Kharghar better matched locally. An IB tutoring service in Mumbai often delivers subject tuition in person and Theory of Knowledge support online, simply because TOK specialists are scarcer than mathematics teachers. Bengaluru and Hyderabad are the cities where delivery splits most visibly by service. An IB tutoring service in Bangalore can staff subject tuition around Whitefield, Sarjapur Road, Indiranagar, Koramangala and HSR Layout, while Hebbal, Yelahanka, Electronic City, Jayanagar and Kanakapura Road often work better online for anything specialised. An IB tutoring service in Hyderabad draws on Gachibowli, HITEC City, Madhapur, Kondapur, the Financial District, Kokapet, Jubilee Hills and Banjara Hills, with Secunderabad usually its own pool. Pune and Chennai follow the same pattern. Kolkata and eastern India is where the catalogue narrows most, and families there should know it going in. Salt Lake, New Town, Ballygunge, Alipore and Rajarhat can support subject tuition in the common subjects. In Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Ranchi and Patna, an IB tutoring service in Kolkata or an online specialist is frequently the realistic route, and mock preparation in a rarer Higher Level subject will almost always be delivered on screen.

Delhi NCR: four evening pools, deep enough for most services to run in person

Mumbai: subject tuition locally, TOK and rarer options usually online

Bengaluru: the Whitefield and Sarjapur Road belt differs from Yelahanka and Jayanagar

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

Kolkata: Salt Lake, New Town, Ballygunge and Rajarhat cover the common subjects

Bhubaneswar, Guwahati, Ranchi and Patna: online delivery for anything specialised

School ecosystem

School deadlines in India that decide which service you need this term

Buy the service the term calls for, not the one that sounded reassuring in August. The Indian academic year runs roughly April to March, schools here overwhelmingly enter candidates for the May examination session, and May results are released in early July. Work backwards from those three anchors and the sequence writes itself. 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 any particular school's programmes or policies, and your own coordinator's deadlines always override anything you read online. The first term after the summer break is for content and habits. This is when subject tuition and bridging earn the most, and when coursework skills should be taught in the abstract before any actual draft exists. By the middle of the year, internal assessment deadlines begin landing across subjects within a few weeks of each other, Extended Essay reflection sessions are being scheduled, and the useful service shifts from teaching content to protecting time. The final term changes the catalogue entirely. Mock preparation replaces ordinary tuition, and it is a different job: timed papers under real conditions, marking against the published criteria, and a deliberate decision about what to leave out. A student who is weak in four topics and has five weeks cannot fix four. A good service names the two that carry the most marks for the effort, protects them, and says plainly that the others are being sacrificed. After results arrive in early July, the questions change again, and most of them belong with the school's coordinator rather than a tutor.

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

Term one: subject tuition, bridging and coursework skills taught before drafts exist

Mid-year: internal assessment deadlines stack, so the service shifts to protecting time

Final term: timed papers, criterion marking, and a deliberate list of what to drop

May results arrive in early July; the questions after that belong with the coordinator

Modes

Home tuition, online or hybrid: the same service, three deliveries

Every service in this catalogue can be delivered three ways, and the right choice depends on the service rather than on a general preference. Home tuition is the strongest delivery for anything where written work has to be watched as it is produced: early mathematics method, science diagrams, and any student who needs the room to become serious for ninety minutes. A tutor at the table also sees the messy notebook rather than the tidy photograph of it. The cost is travel, and in a metro that cost is paid every single week, which is why late weekday slots across a city tend to erode. Online is the stronger delivery for scarce services. Theory of Knowledge support, a rare Higher Level option, mock preparation in a subject nobody local teaches: in each case the choice is between a well-matched specialist on a screen and a general tutor in your drawing room, and the specialist usually wins. Online is also more reliable through the monsoon and through exam terms when nobody can afford to lose a slot. Hybrid is the arrangement most Diploma Programme families reach eventually. One home visit for the long, paper-heavy work and one shorter online session midweek for doubt-solving and accountability. It keeps the relationship that in-person teaching builds and the reliability that online delivery has, at the cost of the student getting used to two routines. Stated plainly: choose home classes when the work must be watched, online when the expertise is scarce, and hybrid when both are true. And if a service insists on one delivery for every request regardless of what you are buying, that is a staffing constraint being sold to you as a philosophy.

Home tuition: written method, science diagrams, younger students, supervision

Online: scarce specialisms, Theory of Knowledge, rare Higher Level options

Hybrid: one home visit for long paper work, one online session for accountability

Exam terms usually shift the balance towards online so no slot is lost to weather

A service that offers only one delivery is describing its staffing, not your need

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Who should you buy IB tutoring services from in India?

Four routes to the same lesson, and they differ in what they can be held to rather than in teaching quality. A verified match suits a family that wants the scope checked and a replacement possible. An independent freelancer suits a family that already knows the person. A local centre suits a budget that must stretch across a batch. A school teacher's private tuition suits nobody more than it suits the student who already trusts them, with one caution.

Who should you buy IB tutoring services from in India?
What matters	A verified tutor through IB Gram	An independent freelance tutor	A local tuition centre	A school teacher's private tuition
Range of services available	The full catalogue, since the match is made per service rather than per person	Whatever that one person offers, which can be excellent and narrow	Usually subject tuition in the common subjects, built around batch demand	Subject tuition in the subject they teach, and little beyond it
Scoping before you commit	Scope is discussed first, and narrowing the request is part of the conversation	Depends entirely on the individual; some scope carefully, others simply accept	Rarely scoped, because the batch and its syllabus plan already exist	Strong, since they already know the student's classwork better than anyone
Who checks the tutor's claims	Profiles are verified for identity, qualifications, programmes, levels and subjects	You do, entirely, which is fine if you can judge subject depth yourself	The centre does, to a standard you cannot usually inspect	The school's own hiring, which is a meaningful check in its own right
Coursework and integrity boundaries	Boundary stated before booking: teach the skill, never write or edit the work	Varies sharply between individuals, so ask the question directly and early	Generally avoided altogether, which is safe but leaves the need unmet	Best understood, though tutoring your own examiner-facing teacher needs care
Changing tutor if the fit is wrong	Ask for a different match, which is a normal request rather than a dispute	Means ending the arrangement personally, which families often delay too long	A batch teacher may change anyway, sometimes without much notice	Very awkward, because the relationship continues in class every morning
Cost structure	Set by subject, level and delivery, with home visits priced above online	Often the lowest, since there is no organisation behind the hour	Cheapest per hour, because the fee is shared across the batch	Varies, and some schools restrict or prohibit the arrangement entirely
Peer discussion and comparison	None, unless a small batch is specifically requested for a subject	None, as the format is one to one by definition	The real advantage here: students hear how others answer the same question	None during the private session, though the class provides it separately
Delivery across India	Home tuition, online or hybrid, with online covering thin local pools	Whatever that person can offer from where they live	In person only, so it depends on a centre being near your locality	In person, usually near the school, and limited to that school's families

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What should you ask a service to prove before you book?

Ask three things: who the tutor is, what they have actually taught, and what the service will refuse to do. The third question is the one that separates a professional operation from a sales conversation, and it takes about a minute. IB Gram shortlists tutors whose profiles are verified: identity, the qualifications claimed, the programmes and levels handled, and the subjects they are matched for. Verification is about accuracy of the claim, not a prediction of results, and anyone who presents it as the latter is overselling. A profile that says Diploma Programme Chemistry means that tutor is matched for Diploma Programme Chemistry, not for whatever science question turns up mid-term. What you should check yourself is easier than it sounds. In the trial session, name the exact topic the student is stuck on and listen for a method rather than encouragement. Ask which syllabus version the student is following and see whether the answer is specific. Ask how the tutor handles a coursework question, and listen for the boundary being drawn without you having to raise it. A tutor who volunteers the integrity limit before you ask has told you a great deal. Then listen for what is refused. An honest service will not promise a points total, will not write or edit coursework, will not claim affiliation with the IB or any examination board, and will not quote a grade improvement. No tutor can guarantee a grade, and the willingness to say so out loud is worth more than any credential on a profile page.

Ask who the tutor is, what they last taught, and what the service refuses to do

Verified profiles confirm identity, claimed qualifications, programmes, levels and subjects

In the trial, name the stuck topic and listen for a method, not encouragement

A tutor who states the coursework boundary unprompted is showing you their standards

Refusals to expect: no promised points, no written coursework, no claimed board affiliation

Internal assessment, Extended Essay and TOK support: exactly where a tutor stops

This is the part of the catalogue where families get into trouble, so it is worth stating precisely. Every IB internal assessment is the student's own work. The academic integrity policy allows a teacher to give feedback on one draft. It does not allow anyone, tutor or parent, to write, rewrite or edit the submission. The school submits the work, runs it through similarity checking, and malpractice findings are handled by the IB rather than by the school alone. So what can be bought? A tutor may teach the underlying skill, question the reasoning, point at a criterion and ask the student to reread their own paragraph against it. Take the mathematics exploration, which is the same task for Analysis and Approaches and Applications and Interpretation at both levels: 20% of the final subject grade, 12 to 20 pages, marked out of 20 across five criteria, A Presentation worth 4, B Mathematical communication 4, C Personal engagement 3, D Reflection 3, and E Use of mathematics 6, with Higher Level work judged against a higher standard on criterion E. A tutor can teach what reflection means and why a page of restated theory scores nothing on personal engagement. A tutor cannot supply the topic, the writing or the corrections. The Extended Essay works the same way. Up to 4,000 words, roughly 40 hours of work, supervised by a teacher at the student's own school with reflection sessions recorded along the way, graded A to E and combined with Theory of Knowledge for up to 3 points. The guide was updated for first assessment in 2027, so no honest tutor will quote criterion mark allocations to you; follow the version your coordinator issues. TOK support has two halves. The exhibition uses three objects linked to one of 35 prompts, up to 950 words, internally assessed and worth one third of the grade. The essay answers one of six prescribed titles released for that session, up to 1,600 words, externally assessed, two thirds of the grade. A tutor can teach the areas of knowledge and challenge a weak justification. The objects, the claims and the sentences must be the student's.

Every internal assessment is the student's own work; a teacher may comment on one draft

A tutor may teach the skill, question reasoning and point at a criterion

Mathematics exploration: 20% of the grade, 12-20 pages, five criteria marked out of 20

Extended Essay: up to 4,000 words, about 40 hours, supervised at the student's own school

TOK exhibition: three objects, one of 35 prompts, up to 950 words, one third of the grade

TOK essay: one of six prescribed titles, up to 1,600 words, two thirds of the grade

What each service can change, and what it cannot

Judge IB tutoring services in India the way you would judge any other paid work: say in advance what should change, then check later whether it did. Vague hopes are not a specification, and they are how families end up paying for a year of sessions that nobody can evaluate. Subject tuition should change what the student attempts. Within four to six sessions, questions that used to be left blank get a genuine try, working appears on the page, and the student can explain a method rather than reproduce it. Coursework skills support should change the drafting habit: a plan before the writing, a reread against the criteria, an earlier start. Mock preparation should change timing before it changes accuracy, because a student who finishes the paper and then improves is on a better path than one who is accurate and unfinished. Bridging should end. If a bridging arrangement is still running eight months later, it was never bridging. Now the limits. No service can make a student attend school, sleep properly or care about a subject they have written off. None can replace a school's teaching over two years in six weeks, though a good one can choose what to salvage and say so out loud. None can touch coursework text, and any that offers to is risking the diploma, not helping it. And no tutor can guarantee a grade or a points total, whatever their examining background. There is also the case for buying nothing. If the school's subject teacher has not yet been asked what is going wrong, ask them first. If a student is already in four tuitions and sleeping badly, the right service is subtraction. Services that never recommend less are not advising you; they are selling.

Specify in advance what the service should change, then review it after four sessions

Subject tuition changes attempts and working before it changes marks

Mock preparation changes timing first, accuracy second

Bridging that is still running eight months later was never bridging

Nothing in the catalogue includes writing or editing a student's coursework

Sometimes the right advice is fewer services, or none, and a word with the school

Booking home tuition or online support in India: what to send first

A precise first message gets a precise shortlist, and most enquiries about IB tutoring services in India arrive far too vague to answer well. Send four things and you will skip a week of back and forth. First, the student's programme, year and exact subjects with levels. Higher Level Physics and Standard Level Physics are different requests, and Analysis and Approaches is a different request from Applications and Interpretation. Second, the service you think you need, in your own words, and the evidence behind it: the marked script, the report line, the comment from the class teacher. Third, the school's term dates, mock weeks and any coursework deadlines the coordinator has issued. Fourth, the practical constraints, which means your locality, the evenings that work, and whether home tuition, online or a hybrid week suits the household. If you are unsure which service applies, say that instead of guessing. Scoping is part of the consultation, and a family that arrives saying they are not sure whether the problem is content or technique usually gets a better outcome than one that arrives with a confident but wrong diagnosis. What happens next is short. IB Gram asks about board, syllabus, level, school calendar, location and schedule, then shares a shortlist of verified tutors matched to that scope. You can arrange a demo or trial session before committing, and you can ask for a different match if the fit is wrong. Availability depends on the subject, the level and the slot you need, and rarer Higher Level requests take longer to staff in some cities than in others.

Send programme, year, exact subjects and levels, not just the subject names

Say which service you think you need and attach the evidence behind it

Include term dates, mock weeks and any coordinator-issued coursework deadlines

State your locality and whether home classes, online or hybrid suits the week

If you cannot tell content problems from technique problems, say so and ask

Expect rarer Higher Level requests to take longer to staff in some cities

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What exactly is included in IB subject tuition, and what is not?+

Subject tuition covers teaching the syllabus content, working through past-paper questions, building exam technique and giving written feedback on practice answers. It does not include writing any assessed work for your child. A tutor explains, questions and corrects, but the submitted IA, essay or coursework stays entirely the student's own.

Can a tutor help with my child's Internal Assessment?+

Yes, within limits the IB sets. A tutor can explain the assessment criteria, help choose a workable research question, review a draft against the rubric and point out weak reasoning. A tutor cannot write sections, supply data or rewrite sentences. Support is about understanding the task, never about producing the finished piece.

What does Extended Essay support look like?+

It usually means help narrowing a topic, structuring the argument, reading sources critically and planning the time across the 4,000 words. The tutor reads drafts and asks hard questions, much like a second supervisor. The school supervisor stays the formal guide, and the essay itself is written only by the student.

Is Theory of Knowledge tutoring worth buying?+

Often yes, because TOK rewards a skill schools rarely drill: building a focused argument about knowledge questions with real examples. Short sessions on the exhibition and the 1,600-word essay help most. A student already scoring comfortably in TOK may need only a single review before submission.

How is mock preparation different from ordinary tuition?+

Mock preparation is timed and diagnostic. Your child sits full papers under exam conditions, the tutor marks against IB mark schemes, and the weak topics drive the next fortnight of lessons. Ordinary tuition follows the syllabus in order; mock preparation follows the gaps, usually in the eight to ten weeks before exams.

Can we mix home tuition for one service and online for another?+

Yes. Many families keep a weekly home session for a hard subject such as Mathematics AA HL and book online sessions for a rare combination like Physics HL or English A. Each service is arranged separately, so mixing formats costs nothing extra beyond each session's own fee.

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Send a query or book a free consultation describing the student's programme, subjects and levels, the service you think you need, and the evidence behind it. IB Gram asks about the school calendar, your locality and the schedule, then shares a shortlist of verified tutors matched to that scope. Arrange a trial session before committing, and ask for a different match if the fit is wrong.

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