IB MYP Tutors for Maths, English, Sciences and the Personal Project

Fees depend on the tutor's experience, the subject group, the year level and whether sessions are online, home or hybrid, so there is no single number that applies to every family. What IB Gram can commit to is transparency before a term starts: the rate for the specific tutor matched to your child is confirmed upfront, not adjusted mid-term, and there is no obligation to continue past an initial session if the match does not feel right. Home tutoring in cities with limited local supply for a subject tends to cost more than online tutoring for the same subject, simply because fewer tutors are available to travel.

Yes. If the first one or two sessions do not feel right, whether that is teaching style, pacing or subject depth, you can request a different tutor without it being treated as a complaint against the first one. Subject knowledge and teaching style are separate skills, and a tutor can be strong in one without suiting your child in the other. It helps to be specific about what did not work, since a second match is more likely to succeed with concrete feedback than with a general 'it wasn't right'. There is no fixed limit on how many times a family can ask to switch.

For most MYP subjects, yes, provided the student has a reasonably reliable internet connection and is willing to engage without an adult physically present. Online tutoring gives access to a specialist in a specific subject group or language phase regardless of where that tutor happens to live, which matters for less common subject combinations. It tends to ask more of the student's own initiative between sessions, since there is no one in the room to notice a distracted afternoon. Younger MYP students, roughly Years 1 to 2, sometimes do better starting with home tutoring and moving to online once study habits are established.

If a specific criterion or command term has not moved by the four-week check-in, that is the point to ask direct questions rather than continuing on faith. It can mean the tutor and student are not communicating well despite good subject knowledge, that the original diagnosis of the problem was wrong, or that the pace needs to change. IB Gram treats this as a normal part of the process, not a failure, and a different tutor or a revised plan can be requested at that point. What should not happen is a full term passing with no written note and no visible change in the actual assessed work.

A tutor can guide the process, questions and inquiry cycle behind the personal project without producing the work itself, since academic honesty rules apply to tutoring support the same way they apply to any other outside help. That usually looks like helping the student narrow a broad idea into something actually researchable, checking that sources are being recorded and cited as the process goes rather than at the end, and reviewing drafts against the specific criteria before submission. A tutor who offers to write sections of the project, or to heavily rewrite a student's own work, is not something IB Gram supports or arranges.

The school's own rubric always takes priority, because it is what the student will actually be assessed against, and schools sometimes phrase or weight the general MYP criteria descriptors slightly differently in their internal documents. A tutor should ask to see that specific rubric before planning sessions rather than working from a general IB guide alone. Where the two genuinely conflict, or where a family is unsure which one governs a particular task, that question belongs with the school directly, and a good tutor will say so rather than guessing on the family's behalf or contradicting a teacher's stated expectations.

No. IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform and is not officially affiliated with the IB Organization, Cambridge International or Pearson Edexcel. Tutors matched through IB Gram are checked for subject knowledge and familiarity with the MYP framework, but IB Gram does not set, moderate or influence any school's grades, and does not speak on behalf of the IB Organization or any individual school. Families should treat tutoring as a support alongside the school's own teaching and assessment, not a substitute for it, and should direct any questions about official grading or moderation to the school itself.

MYP spans several years between the Primary Years Programme and the Diploma Programme or an equivalent senior programme, with the exact age band for each MYP year set by the individual school. Tutoring support is available across that full range, from early MYP years focused on building study habits and subject fluency through to the final years where the personal project and preparation for the transition into senior study become the focus. The right starting point depends on the specific year group and subject concern rather than age alone, so sharing the actual MYP year during matching gets a more accurate tutor fit.

Yes, though a tutor strong in one subject group is not automatically strong in another, even within a related subject area, since the assessment criteria and command terms differ meaningfully between groups. A family needing support across more than one subject, for example both Sciences and Individuals and Societies, may be matched with one tutor confident across both or with two specialists, depending on what is available and what actually suits the student's schedule. It is worth naming every subject of concern during matching rather than raising the second one later, since it can change which tutors are realistic options.

Yes. Online sessions are scheduled in the family's own time zone rather than the tutor's, which matters for families whose tutor happens to be matched from a different part of the world for a specialist subject or language phase. Scheduling is agreed directly between the family and tutor during matching, including around school timings, exam periods and internal assessment deadlines, so sessions land at a time that actually works for the student rather than a generic slot. This flexibility is one of the clearer advantages online tutoring has over a fixed weekly home visit.

Yes. When you name the criterion, matching gets much more accurate. Most MYP maths tutor requests turn out to be Criterion B (investigating patterns) or Criterion C (communicating), not arithmetic fluency, and a tutor who has marked against those strands will work differently from one who has only taught the content. If you are not sure which criterion is weak, send the last task sheet and feedback comment and we will read it before matching.

Yes, and for these groups MYP online tutors are usually the better option. An MYP English tutor works inside Language and Literature on analysing a writer’s choices, while an MYP economics tutor works inside Individuals and Societies on investigating with named sources. Both are smaller specialisms than Mathematics, so restricting the search to tutors who can travel to you often means accepting a weaker subject-group match.