IB Programmes Tutors for PYP, MYP, DP and CP Families

No. A PYP tutor typically works around units of inquiry, reinforcing literacy, numeracy and inquiry skills rather than teaching a fixed subject timetable, and often needs to manage a young child's attention as much as content. A DP tutor works within a specific subject group at standard or higher level, alongside internal assessment, the Extended Essay or CAS depending on what the family needs. The two roles need different skills entirely, so IB Gram matches on the actual programme and stage a student is in rather than treating 'IB tutor' as one interchangeable category.

A tutor can help with structure, argument, research question refinement and how a draft measures against the assessment criteria, and many families use one specifically for this because school supervisors often manage many students at once with limited time per meeting. What a tutor should not do is write or substantially rewrite content, since the Extended Essay carries an academic honesty declaration the student signs personally. A properly matched tutor explains that boundary in the first session, focusing on the student's own thinking and drafting rather than producing pages of text on their behalf.

Yes, though how much depends on the subject and how far into the two-year programme the student already is. A tutor's first session usually maps what the new school has already covered against what the student actually knows, then builds a plan around the specific gap rather than restarting the whole syllabus. Starting six months into Year 1 leaves reasonable room to close gaps before internal assessments begin. Starting close to Year 2 mock examinations limits what is realistically achievable, and an honest tutor will say so rather than promise a full recovery in a few weeks.

No, fees vary by programme, subject, tutor experience and whether sessions are online, at home or hybrid, and can be reviewed once a shortlist is put together for the specific situation. Diploma and Career-related tutoring, particularly for higher-level subjects or IA and Extended Essay support, generally commands a different rate than early PYP support, reflecting the depth of subject and assessment knowledge required. Home tutoring also tends to cost more than online, given travel time. It is worth asking for a clear per-session rate before committing rather than an estimate that changes once sessions begin.

It can, but it is genuinely harder than for an older student, and this is worth saying plainly rather than glossing over. A five- or six-year-old's attention on a screen is shorter, and a tutor has less ability to physically redirect focus or handle materials together. It tends to work better for slightly older PYP students, or for short, focused sessions rather than long ones. Where it matters most to a family, home tutoring, subject to a tutor's availability in that city, is usually the stronger option for the very youngest learners.

The match can be reviewed and changed. A first tutor is a starting point based on the information given at enquiry, not a commitment for the rest of the programme, and mismatches on pace, personality or subject depth happen and are handled rather than treated as a fixed outcome. It helps to be specific about what is not working, since 'too fast' and 'does not explain IA criteria clearly' point to different replacements. Four weeks is usually enough to tell whether a change is genuinely needed rather than simply an adjustment period.

Yes, and for Diploma and Career-related students this is often where a tutor adds the most value close to a mock or the real examination session. That means reviewing how marks were actually lost section by section against the mark scheme, timing practice under real conditions, and command-term precision, since the difference between 'describe' and 'evaluate' costs marks constantly at this level. It is different from general content revision, and a family closer to an exam date should say so explicitly, since the two need different session structures entirely.

It depends entirely on whether a tutor happens to be available to travel to that specific address, which is not guaranteed everywhere. Coverage is currently strongest in cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi and the others listed above, and thinner elsewhere. Where no local tutor covers an address, online tutoring remains fully available, runs in the family's own time zone, and for Diploma subjects with fewer specialists in any one city, it is often the more practical route regardless of location.

Through specifics rather than a general sense of improvement: which assessment criteria a piece of work now meets, how a mock exam breaks down by section, which command terms are still being misread, whether an IA has moved from a first draft toward something markable. A parent should expect this kind of detail after the first month, not a vague 'doing well.' For DP and CP students in particular, tracking is tied to the actual internal assessment and examination calendar the school has set, not a generic timeline.

That is common enough that it is worth raising directly at enquiry rather than guessing. Programme structures and terminology differ between schools even within the same IB framework, and a tutor experienced across multiple programmes can help identify what a school's own documents actually mean in practice, since what a school calls an assessment task does not always map cleanly onto standard IB terminology. Sharing the school's actual assessment outline or IA brief at the first session resolves this faster than trying to describe it secondhand over email.

No. IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform and is not officially affiliated with the IB Organization, Cambridge International or Pearson Edexcel, and it does not represent any particular school. Tutors are matched to work alongside whatever curriculum and internal assessment calendar the student's own school has set, using the school's actual materials and deadlines rather than a generic version of the syllabus. Families should treat any platform claiming an official IB partnership with caution, since the IB Organization itself does not endorse individual tutoring providers.