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IB IGCSE Tutor for Brighton College Dubai Students in Dubai

Parents searching for an IB IGCSE tutor for Brighton College Dubai students in Dubai are usually pricing a whole timetable, not one hour. A Year 10 pupil at a school on the Al Barsha South side of Dubai may carry nine or ten IGCSE subjects. Tutoring all of them is nobody's plan. This page prices the market in AED, then works out which two subjects repay the spend. Lessons are one-to-one, live online, scheduled in Gulf Standard Time.

  • Every AED band attributed to the provider that published it
  • Cost compared per subject, not per hour
  • One-to-one live video delivery; no visits to UAE addresses
  • Free trial lesson, one session, no card details required

AED 45-650

the full published spread of Dubai hourly rates

9-10

IGCSE subjects a British-curriculum Year 10 typically carries

June

the main Cambridge series UAE candidates sit

227

private schools KHDA counted in Dubai in 2024-25

International schools near Dubai
  • Brighton College Dubai
  • GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail
  • Dubai Heights Academy
  • Kings' School Al Barsha
  • GEMS International School Al Khail
  • Dubai British School Jumeirah Park
  • GEMS Metropole School
  • Victory Heights Primary School
  • Jebel Ali School
  • Arcadia School
  • Renaissance School Dubai

School names are shown for local academic context only. IB Gram is an independent tutoring platform and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or representing any school listed here.

IB & IGCSE in Dubai

Price the timetable, not the hour

Almost every conversation about IGCSE tutoring in Dubai starts with an hourly rate and ends with a number nobody budgeted for. The hourly rate is the least useful figure available. A Year 10 pupil at a selective British-curriculum school in Dubai is sitting nine or ten subjects, and at AED 220 an hour, one weekly session in each of them is more than AED 8,000 a month. No family buys that. What families actually buy is two or three subjects, for two or three terms, with a decision at each report about whether to continue. The real question is therefore which subjects, for how long, and what that totals.

So this page is built the other way round. It starts with the market bands in AED, sourced to the providers who published them, because three of the six highest-ranking tutoring pages in this market publish no price at all and two quote in US dollars. Then it works out the cost of a subject rather than an hour: a term of weekly sessions, including the marking time that may or may not be inside the rate you are quoted. Then it asks which subject on a ten-subject timetable repays that money, which is a different question from which subject your child finds hardest.

The answer is usually counter-intuitive. The subject a pupil hates is rarely the one where an hour buys the most marks. On an Extended-tier timetable, the biggest single return is normally a subject sitting one grade below where the pupil's working is, because the gap is procedural rather than conceptual: a Maths 0580 candidate losing method marks on non-calculator working, or a Physics 0625 candidate who understands circuits and cannot write a six-mark explanation. Those are cheap gaps. A subject where the pupil has not understood the first third of the specification is an expensive gap, and it costs more terms than most budgets contain.

The second thing that moves the number in Dubai specifically is travel. The published in-home band runs from AED 180 to AED 500 an hour, and the top of that band is not buying better teaching. It is buying a car in Dubai traffic at five in the afternoon. A tutor driving from Jumeirah to Al Barsha South for a 5pm session is committing ninety minutes to deliver sixty, and the invoice reflects it. Removing the car from the arrangement is the single largest saving available to a Dubai family, which is why IB Gram delivers to Dubai households as one-to-one live video rather than as a visit. IB Gram does not offer home visits in Dubai; home visits are a service offered only in India.

What follows is specific. The AED bands are sourced. The subject triage is set out as a table you can apply to your own child's last report. The Cambridge calendar is counted backwards from the June and November series so you can see when money needs to be spent rather than when it would be comfortable to spend it. And the things a tutor may never be paid to do are stated plainly, because one page ranking in this market sells completed coursework, and a parent should be able to tell the difference.

At a glance

  • Market rates in Dubai run roughly AED 45-150 for a university-student online tutor and AED 200-450 for an IGCSE specialist
  • A term of weekly one-hour sessions in one subject is roughly AED 2,600-5,900 at specialist rates
  • The in-home premium of AED 180-500 an hour is largely a travel charge, not a teaching one
  • Two subjects tutored properly beats five subjects tutored thinly on the same budget
  • KHDA confirmed no private-school fee increase for 2026-27, which fixes the school half of your education spend
  • Cambridge runs June and November series for UAE centres; the February/March series is offered in India only
IB programmes

Every IB programme stage, mapped to UAE school years

A pupil in a British-curriculum school in Dubai moves through three distinct cost phases. The money behaves differently in each one, and knowing which phase your child is in tells you whether to spend now or hold.

KS3Ages 11-14 · Years 7-9

Key Stage 3

The three years before IGCSE options are chosen. No external examination sits at the end, which is precisely why it is the cheapest place to buy a grade. A Year 8 pupil whose algebra is insecure needs perhaps ten hours of work; the same pupil in Year 11 needs forty, because the insecurity has been built on for three years and now shows up in every Extended-tier paper.

Dubai schools stream for IGCSE Maths and Science from Year 9 in many cases, and a set allocation made in Year 9 can decide whether a pupil is entered for Core or Extended tier two years later. Spending in Year 8 to protect an Extended-tier entry is cheaper than spending in Year 11 to recover a grade ceiling that a Core entry has already capped.

IGCSEAges 14-16 · Years 10-11

Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel IGCSE

Two years, nine or ten subjects, one terminal examination series. Costs concentrate in two places: the first term of Year 10, when the specification is new and habits form, and the final two terms of Year 11, when timed practice and marked scripts are the only thing that moves a grade. The middle three terms are where most families overspend on sessions that could have been a monthly paper instead.

UAE candidates sit June and November. The June series is the main entry for a Year 11 cohort in Dubai; November is the resit route. That shape means a Dubai family's heaviest tutoring quarter is January to April, which overlaps Ramadan in some years and needs the schedule planned round Iftar rather than abandoned.

A LevelAges 16-18 · Years 12-13

International A Level

Three or four subjects, each with entry requirements expressed as IGCSE grades. The cost consequence is sharp: an IGCSE grade 6 where a department wants a 7 can close a subject, and reopening it in Year 12 means covering the IGCSE gap and the A Level content at once. That is the most expensive form of tutoring there is.

Dubai sixth forms publish subject-specific IGCSE entry grades, and selective schools apply them. Checking those thresholds in Year 10 rather than after results converts a vague worry into a priced decision: one subject, two terms, a known figure, against a sixth-form place.

Subject coverage

IB and IGCSE subjects we tutor

Cost per subject is not uniform. Below, each IGCSE subject is given with its specification code and the kind of gap that typically needs paying for. The code matters because a Cambridge 0580 candidate and a Pearson 4MA1 candidate are not sitting the same paper.

Mathematics (Cambridge IGCSE 0580)

Core and Extended

Two written papers, no coursework. Extended tier reaches grade 9; Core caps at grade 5. The commonest paid-for gap is method marks lost on non-calculator working, which is a habit problem and responds to a short block of sessions rather than a long one.

Mathematics A (Pearson Edexcel 4MA1)

Foundation and Higher

Two papers of equal weight, both calculator-permitted, which changes revision entirely from the Cambridge route. Pupils moving between Dubai schools sometimes change board mid-course; reconciling the two specifications is a defined, finite piece of work.

Physics (Cambridge IGCSE 0625)

Core and Extended

Theory papers plus the Alternative to Practical, which is where marks leak most consistently. Pupils who can do the physics still lose marks describing a method, identifying a control variable, or reading a scale. That is trainable in a handful of sessions.

Chemistry (Cambridge IGCSE 0620)

Core and Extended

Organic chemistry and moles account for most of the grade movement at the top end. A pupil who has not secured mole calculations by the end of Year 10 is carrying a cost into Year 11, because every later topic assumes them.

Biology (Cambridge IGCSE 0610)

Core and Extended

Content-heavy rather than conceptually hard, which makes it the cheapest science to tutor and the easiest to self-remedy. Marks are usually lost to imprecise terminology and to command terms, not to misunderstanding.

English Language (Cambridge 0500 and 0990)

IGCSE and IGCSE 9-1

Directed writing and reading response. The gap is almost never vocabulary; it is structure under timing. Three or four marked scripts with specific rewriting tasks typically move more than a term of discussion.

English Literature (Cambridge 0475 and 0992)

IGCSE and IGCSE 9-1

Set texts differ by school, so any tutoring has to start from your child's own text list. Essay structure and quotation economy are the trainable elements; reading the text remains the pupil's work.

Computer Science (Cambridge IGCSE 0478)

IGCSE

Paper 2 pseudocode and algorithm tracing is where grades are decided. Pupils strong in practical programming often lose marks because the examination wants Cambridge pseudocode conventions, not working Python.

Economics and Business Studies

IGCSE

Both reward data-response discipline over content recall. A pupil who can define every term and still writes four marks of description for a six-mark evaluation question is losing an avoidable grade.

Arabic as an Additional Language

IGCSE and school-stream

Taken alongside the KHDA-mandated Arabic provision that every Dubai private school must deliver regardless of its licensed curriculum. Reading fluency and script accuracy are the usual targets, and progress is measurable week to week.

How sessions run

Tutoring formats built around UAE school timetables

Three ways to buy, set out by what each one costs over a term rather than by what it costs an hour. Most families on a fixed budget use the first and third and skip the second.

A short diagnostic block, bought first

Three or four sessions with a defined output: a marked paper per subject under consideration, an error taxonomy, and a recommendation about which subjects deserve a term. At market specialist rates that is roughly AED 800-1,800, and it is the only spend that reliably prevents a larger one.

  • A timed paper sat under examination conditions, then marked against the real mark scheme
  • A written note of which marks were lost to method, timing, terminology or content
  • A recommendation that may be to stop, which is a legitimate outcome
  • No term commitment attached

Weekly one-to-one in one or two subjects

The standard arrangement. One hour a week per subject, pegged to your child's own scheme of work rather than to a generic syllabus order. Market rate for an IGCSE specialist online is AED 200-450 an hour, which puts a single-subject term at roughly AED 2,600-5,900 across thirteen weeks.

  • Session content set by the school's next assessment, not by a fixed curriculum
  • Marking of one piece of the pupil's own work between sessions
  • A monthly note of what has moved and what has not
  • Pause without penalty during school holidays or exam weeks

A reserved final-term block

Money held back deliberately and released in the January-to-April window before the June series, when timed practice and marked scripts are the only intervention that still works. Holding a reserve is unglamorous and it is the difference between a plan and a drift.

  • Six to ten sessions per subject, concentrated in the last two months
  • Full past papers under timing, marked and returned with specific rewrite tasks
  • Scheduled around the school's own mock and study-leave calendar
  • Shifted to post-Iftar slots when the series falls after Ramadan
Verified tutors

IB and IGCSE tutors available to students in Dubai

The tutors below teach IGCSE at Core and Extended tier across Cambridge and Pearson Edexcel specifications, in one-to-one online sessions. Each works from your child's own school scheme of work and the specification code printed on their exam entry.

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RUHINA

RUHINA

Biology

IGCSE

4rating10 Yrs
Ajmanonline / home / hybridAll countries
Concept buildingDoubt clearing
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The full picture

What IB and IGCSE study actually looks like in Dubai

01

What an IGCSE hour costs in Dubai, and who publishes that figure

An IGCSE tutor in Dubai costs between AED 45 and AED 650 an hour depending on who is teaching and how. That spread is not noise. Each band corresponds to a different kind of person doing a different kind of work, and knowing which band you are being quoted from tells you more than any sales conversation will.

The figures below are market rates published by the providers named, not IB Gram's price list. EdFlik advertises online tutoring from AED 45 to 65 an hour and Tutopiya from roughly AED 33 to 52, both drawing largely on university students and overseas graduates. Unitors publishes IGCSE tuition from AED 150 and IB from AED 200. TutorChase quotes around AED 270. The Bestimate rate survey for Dubai puts in-home one-to-one at AED 180-350 and subject specialists at AED 200-450 or above, while BartyED advertises AED 650 for a named premium tutor. Monthly packages circulate at around AED 799 for eight online sessions and AED 1,599-1,799 for four two-hour in-home visits.

Two things follow. First, the cheap end is cheap because the tutor is learning the specification alongside your child, which is survivable for Core tier content coverage and unreliable at Extended tier. Second, the expensive end is not a quality ladder: part of the in-home premium is travel, and part of the premium-named premium is scarcity and reputation rather than measurable outcome. Nobody in this market publishes outcome data with a sample size and a method, including the brands charging the most, so a rate is a claim about positioning and not evidence of effect.

DUBAI MARKET RATES IN AED PER HOUR, AS PUBLISHED BY EACH PROVIDER
TierAED per hourWho publishes this bandWhat you are actually buying
Budget online45-150EdFlik from AED 45-65; Tutopiya from AED 33-52A tutor learning the specification with your child; adequate for Core content coverage
Qualified subject tutor, online150-300Unitors IGCSE from AED 150, IB from AED 200A trained teacher who knows the specification; the usual sensible band for Extended tier
IGCSE specialist, online200-450+TutorChase AED 270; Bestimate survey 200-450+Depth in one subject at one tier, including marking against the real mark scheme
In-home one-to-one180-500Bestimate survey 180-350; independent home tutors 200-500The same teaching plus a car in Dubai traffic, charged as a round trip
Premium named tutor500-650+BartyED AED 650Scarcity and reputation; no published outcome data behind any figure in this band
Small group of two to four100-150 per pupilTuition centres across Motor City and JVCContent coverage shared between pupils; no diagnosis of one child's specific gap
02

Nine or ten subjects, and the two that repay the spend

Tutoring every subject on an IGCSE timetable is arithmetically impossible for most families, so the real decision is a triage. The useful sorting question is not which subject is hardest. It is how many marks an hour of work buys in each subject, and that depends on what kind of gap the pupil has rather than on how they feel about the lessons.

Four gap types recur. A timing gap means the pupil knows the content and does not finish the paper; it is the cheapest gap there is and often closes in four or five sessions of timed practice. A technique gap means marks are lost to command terms, working, or the shape of an answer; six to ten sessions. A topic gap means a defined block of the specification was never secured; one term. A foundation gap means the pupil cannot access the tier they are entered for; two years of consequence, and the honest answer is sometimes a tier change rather than a tutor.

Apply this to a real report and the triage usually resolves to two subjects. A pupil at grade 6 in Maths with method marks leaking and a pupil at grade 4 in Chemistry who never secured moles are different propositions: the first is worth AED 2,600 for a term and the second is worth a conversation with the school about tier before anyone is paid anything. The table below is the sorting grid, with indicative term costs at the AED 200 specialist rate for a thirteen-week term.

SUBJECT TRIAGE GRID, WITH INDICATIVE TERM COST AT AED 200 PER HOUR
Gap typeHow you recognise it on a report or scriptSessions typically neededIndicative cost, one subject
TimingBlank or rushed final questions; strong first half of the paper4-5AED 800-1,000
TechniqueContent present but marks lost to command terms, working or answer shape6-10AED 1,200-2,000
TopicOne block of the specification consistently wrong across papers12-13, one termAED 2,400-2,600
FoundationCannot access Extended-tier questions at all; grade capped by tier entryTwo years of consequenceDiscuss tier with the school first
Coursework or practical skillsAlternative to Practical marks far below theory marks5-8AED 1,000-1,600
03

The marginal grade, and why the hated subject is rarely the right buy

Families almost always nominate the subject their child complains about. It is the wrong starting point, because complaint tracks discomfort rather than distance from the next grade boundary. A pupil two marks below a boundary in a subject they tolerate is a better purchase than a pupil fifteen marks below a boundary in the subject they dread, and the second pupil needs a different intervention anyway.

The way to find the marginal grade is to read the actual script rather than the report grade. A school report compresses a term into a letter. A marked mock paper shows you where the marks went: which questions, which command words, which topics, and whether the back page was attempted. Ask the school for the script, not the grade. Most Dubai schools will release it, and a tutor who cannot tell you what a script says is not worth AED 200 an hour.

This is also where the honest version of the sales pitch lives. If a diagnostic session shows a pupil is three marks off a boundary across two papers, a short technique block is a defensible spend with a measurable target. If it shows the pupil has not understood the first third of the specification, no amount of weekly tutoring in the final term fixes it, and a provider who takes the money anyway is selling you comfort. No tutor, however experienced with 0580 or 0625 papers, can promise a particular grade, and nobody should write that sentence on an invoice.

04

An in-home visit to the Al Barsha South corridor, priced honestly

A good deal of the in-home premium in Dubai is a traffic charge. A tutor travelling from Jumeirah or Mirdif for a 4.30pm session in Al Barsha South or Dubai Hills spends between forty and seventy minutes on the road each way at that hour, and a round trip of two hours to deliver one is priced into the rate whether the invoice itemises it or not. That is the honest explanation for why the published in-home band starts at AED 180 and reaches AED 500.

The second cost is selection. An in-home tutor has to live within a drivable radius of your villa. The pool of people who both specialise in Extended-tier Chemistry 0620 and happen to live twenty minutes from Arjan is small, and when it is empty the arrangement quietly becomes whoever is available rather than whoever is right. A family in Dubai Hills ends up with a generalist because the specialist lives in Abu Dhabi.

Removing the car changes both. IB Gram delivers one-to-one tuition to Dubai households over live video, in Gulf Standard Time, which means the tutor is selected for the specification and tier rather than for a postcode. IB Gram does not send tutors to homes anywhere in the UAE; home visits are a service offered in India only. That is a limitation worth stating plainly rather than burying, and the table sets out what each format gives and gives up.

There is a third cost that rarely appears in a quote, which is the cancelled session. A tutor caught on a closed Al Khail Road slip or held up by the school-run queue into Dubai Hills either arrives twenty minutes late and teaches forty, or cancels. Over a thirteen-week term, two lost sessions at AED 300 is AED 600 of budget that bought nothing, and the replacement slot competes with homework that has already moved.

ONLINE ONE-TO-ONE AGAINST AN IN-HOME VISIT, FROM THE AL BARSHA SOUTH SIDE
FactorOnline one-to-oneIn-home visitWhat it means for your budget
Published AED per hour150-450 depending on tier180-500, travel included in the rateAED 30-150 an hour of the difference is the car
Tutor poolAny specialist in the subject and tierThose living within a drivable radiusSpecialist match versus local availability
Earliest realistic start4.45pm, fifteen minutes after the pupil is home5.15pm or later from most of Dubai at school-run timeA longer usable evening for homework
Cancellation riskLow; no journey to disruptTraffic, road closures and school-run congestionFewer rescheduled sessions means fewer wasted fees
Marked work between sessionsScript shared, annotated and returned digitallyDepends on whether the tutor takes work awayAsk whether marking is inside the hourly rate
Multiple children in one householdSeparate sessions, each at its own levelOne visit, often shared, at a blended levelSharing is cheaper and dilutes the diagnosis
05

Four Dubai-specific things that move the number

  • No KHDA-permitted fee increase for 2026-27 fixes the school side of the budget
  • 227 private schools and seventeen curricula in Dubai means genuine rate competition
  • Specialist availability tightens from January as the June series approaches
  • Post-Iftar scheduling during Ramadan protects the heaviest revision quarter

Emirate-level facts change this budget in ways a generic tutoring article will not mention. The first is the school fee itself. KHDA confirmed in May 2026 that there would be no increase in private school fees in Dubai for the 2026-27 academic year, under the emirate's second economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within a AED 2.5 billion total. For a family planning two years of IGCSE, the school half of the education budget is fixed, which makes the tutoring half the only variable worth modelling.

The second is market depth. KHDA counted 387,441 pupils across 227 private schools in Dubai in 2024-25, offering seventeen different curricula, with the UK curriculum the largest by enrolment share and the International Baccalaureate a much smaller slice. Seven more private schools join the 2026-27 intake, four UK curriculum and three IB, adding 16,846 places. A deep market means real competition on rates, which is why the published spread is so wide and why a quoted figure is negotiable in a way it would not be in a thin market.

The third is the calendar. Demand for IGCSE tutoring in Dubai concentrates between January and April ahead of the June series, and rates at the specialist end firm up in that window because the people who can mark an Extended-tier script are already booked. Buying in September is cheaper than buying in February for exactly the same teaching. The fourth is Ramadan: school days shorten, evenings restructure around Iftar, and a family that plans post-Iftar sessions keeps its momentum while a family that pauses loses six weeks of the most valuable quarter in the two-year course.

06

Is the rate you have been quoted a legal rate?

Private tutoring in the UAE is regulated by permit, and a family paying AED 200 an hour is entitled to know whether the person being paid holds one. The private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023 and is issued through the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. It is granted free of charge for two years, and MoHRE's own service page, Issuance of a New Work Permit - Private Tutor Licensing, lists no fee and a two-working-day completion time, applied for through the MoHRE smart app, website or e-services.

Because the permit is free, any tutor who tells you their rate reflects licensing costs is mistaken about their own paperwork. Eligible applicants include teachers registered in government or private schools, employees in the government and private sectors, unemployed residents, university students, and school students aged fifteen to eighteen. Individuals offering private tutoring without a MoHRE permit are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws; no schedule of amounts has been published, so any figure circulating online should be treated as unverified.

There is a separate position for a teacher at your child's own school. Abu Dhabi's ADEK professional-ethics rules for private and charter school staff have been reported as prohibiting paid private tutoring of pupils enrolled at the teacher's own school, and the MoHRE permit's code of conduct is reported to bar the same arrangement. The practical advice for a Dubai parent is simple: do not arrange paid tutoring with your child's own class teacher, however convenient it looks. An operation with premises and staff in Dubai is a different legal animal again, needing a KHDA Educational Services Permit for a training institute. IB Gram holds no KHDA, ADEK, SPEA or MoE approval and makes no such claim; it is an online matching platform, not a licensed Dubai institute.

WHO NEEDS A PERMIT, AND HOW A PARENT CHECKS
Tutor categoryPermit positionIssued byHow a parent can verify
Registered school teacher tutoring other schools' pupilsPrivate tuition work permit requiredMoHRE, under Resolution No. 710 of 2023Ask to see the permit; it is free and valid two years
Teacher at your child's own schoolReported as barred by the permit code of conduct and by ADEK ethics rulesMoHRE; ADEK in Abu DhabiDo not arrange it; ask the school's own policy
Government or private-sector employeePermit required; employer position should be checkedMoHREAsk for the permit reference and the employer's consent position
University student or unemployed residentEligible to hold the permitMoHREAsk to see it; eligibility is explicit in the published criteria
School pupil aged 15-18Eligible under the published criteriaMoHREVerify age eligibility and the permit itself
Tuition centre with premises in DubaiKHDA Educational Services Permit for a training instituteKHDAAsk for the permit; renewal is requested 30 days before expiry
07

The June and November series, counted backwards as a spending plan

A tutoring budget fails when it is spent on the wrong side of a deadline. Cambridge International runs IGCSE, O Level and International A Level examinations in a June series and a November series, with Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint tests in March, May and October. The February/March series is offered in India only, so a Dubai parent planning round it is planning for the wrong country. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE runs in May/June and November.

Cambridge allocates every centre to one of six administrative zones and states that it is essential to use the correct version of the timetable for your zone, adding that it cannot accept responsibility for candidates who miss an examination after the wrong zone timetable was used. Your child's school knows its zone; you should ask rather than assume, and you should work from the live official timetable rather than any date restated on a tutoring page, including this one. For a sense of how far ahead the machinery runs, the Pearson Edexcel International GCSE November 2026 timetable ran from late October to 19 November 2026, with results reaching students in January; November 2025 results reached students on 22 January 2026, and June 2026 results went to centres on 19 August 2026.

Read backwards, the money sequence is clear. Entries close months before the paper. Mocks happen before the entry decision is final, which is why a mock script is the cheapest diagnostic available. The heaviest useful spend sits in the eight to twelve weeks before the series, not the fortnight before it, because timed practice needs marking and remarking to change anything. And the November series is a genuine resit route for a Dubai candidate, which means a disappointing June is a plan rather than a catastrophe.

COUNTING BACKWARDS FROM THE JUNE SERIES, WITH THE NOVEMBER RESIT ROUTE
MilestoneWhen it sits relative to the paperWho sets itWhat the money should be doing
Tier and entry decisionMonths before the seriesThe school, with Cambridge or Pearson entry rulesDiagnostic sessions only; tier is a school conversation
School mocksRoughly two terms beforeThe schoolBuy a marked script read properly; this is the cheapest hour you will spend
Final entry deadlineSet by the board, well before the paperCambridge or Pearson, via the centreNothing; the decision is already made
Eight to twelve weeks outThe high-value windowYouRelease the reserved block: timed papers, marked and rewritten
The June seriesThe paper itselfCambridge and Pearson, by zone timetableStop buying teaching; pay for nothing but practice
Results and the November decisionResults in August; November series followsThe board, via the centreHold a contingency for a single-subject resit
08

What no invoice should ever cover

  • Written, edited or supplied coursework, at any price, for any subject
  • Files of past papers, mark schemes or syllabus documents instead of a link to the official page
  • Any promise of a specific grade, score or improvement
  • Any claim of KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, MoE, Cambridge, Pearson or IB approval or partnership
  • Statistics with no sample size, no date and no stated method

One page ranking in this market sells completed Internal Assessments at a published price. That is not a cheaper form of tutoring; it is a malpractice trigger that puts a candidate's whole qualification at risk, and it is the clearest line a parent can use to sort the market. A tutor teaches, explains, questions, models and gives feedback on work the student has produced. A tutor does not write it.

In practice the boundary is easy to police. Asking a tutor to explain how a six-mark evaluation question is marked is teaching. Asking a tutor to read a draft and say which paragraph does not answer the question is feedback. Asking a tutor to supply paragraphs, rewrite a conclusion, or produce a piece of coursework is work that must be the student's own, and any provider willing to do it has told you exactly how much they care about your child's certificate. The same applies to supplying copyrighted material: syllabuses, past papers, mark schemes and grade-boundary tables belong to Cambridge, Pearson and the IB, and the right behaviour is to link the official page rather than to hand over a file.

Nor should an invoice cover claims nobody can substantiate. No provider in this market publishes outcome data with a sample size, a date and a method, so a page quoting a satisfaction percentage or an average improvement is quoting a number it cannot show you. Treat a grade promise as a reason to walk away, and treat 'KHDA-approved tutors' as the single most dangerous phrase in Dubai tutoring advertising: a KHDA Educational Services Permit is issued to institutes with premises, and a matching platform does not hold one.

09

When no specialist is free, and what that costs

Coverage is the thing no competitor in this market discloses, so here it is. Common IGCSE subjects at Extended tier are well covered and a match is usually quick. Minority subjects are not. A pupil needing Extended-tier Computer Science 0478 with Cambridge pseudocode conventions, or Arabic as a first language at IGCSE level, may wait longer, and the honest answer in a given week may be that nobody suitable is free.

When that happens there are three outcomes and a family deserves to be told which one applies. The subject is covered and a trial is scheduled within a few days. The subject is covered by a tutor outside the UAE working into Gulf Standard Time, which is disclosed rather than hidden behind a local-looking telephone number. Or the subject is not currently covered at the tier required, in which case the right answer is to say so instead of placing a generalist and invoicing for it.

Two further points on cost. Rates do not change because a tutor is based outside the UAE; the published band for the subject and tier is what applies either way. And a trial lesson is one session, free, with no card details required, which exists so that a family can test a match before spending anything. If the trial shows the match is wrong, the next step is a different tutor rather than a different payment plan.

Waiting has a price too, and it is worth naming. A pupil who needs Extended-tier Chemistry 0620 in February and waits three weeks for a specialist has lost three weeks of the most valuable quarter in the two-year course. Booking the diagnostic block in the autumn term, when specialist availability is loose, buys the same teaching at the same published band with the scarcity removed.

Where we tutor

Where the families reading this page actually live

Pupils at a school on the Al Barsha South side of Dubai come from a handful of communities, and the commute from each one is what makes an in-home arrangement expensive. These notes are about the logistics of a 5pm session, not about the school itself.

Al Barsha South

Immediately around the school, so the only community where a tutor's travel time is genuinely short. Even here, the AED 180-500 in-home band applies, because a tutor prices a round trip rather than the nearest leg of it.

Dubai Hills Estate

A fifteen-minute drive at noon and considerably longer on the Al Khail Road at school-run time. Families here often want a 4.30pm start, which is the worst possible slot for anyone driving in.

Arjan and Al Furjan

Both sit off the main arterials, which means a tutor's satnav estimate and the actual journey diverge. An online session starting at 4.45pm, fifteen minutes after the pupil is home, has no such variance.

Motor City and Sports City

Well served for group tuition centres, which is why the AED 100-150 per-student group rate is widely available here. Group sessions work for content coverage and not for a specific procedural gap.

Jumeirah Village Circle and Triangle

Dense, apartment-heavy and full of families on a tighter education budget than the villa communities. This is where the AED 45-65 budget online band gets most of its enquiries, and where the gap between a cheap tutor and a specialist shows up at Extended tier.

Emirates Hills and The Meadows

Villa communities where the premium named-tutor band of AED 500-650 an hour finds its market. Paying it only makes sense for a specific, diagnosed, high-stakes gap rather than for general weekly support.

Downtown and Business Bay

A long commute to the Al Barsha South corridor, so pupils here are typically home late. Sessions after 7pm are routine, and an online tutor can be scheduled into them without a travel surcharge.

School ecosystem

IB and Cambridge school communities we support in Dubai

The Al Barsha South and Dubai Hills corridor

A cluster of British-curriculum and IB schools within a few kilometres of each other, which means pupils swap between them and arrive mid-course on a different specification. Reconciling two boards' Maths or Science specifications is one of the more common pieces of paid work here.

  • Brighton College Dubai
  • GEMS Wellington Academy Al Khail
  • Dubai Heights Academy
  • Kings' School Al Barsha
  • GEMS International School Al Khail
  • Dubai British School Jumeirah Park

The Dubailand and Motor City belt

Newer schools with growing secondary phases, where a first IGCSE cohort may be small and subject sets correspondingly thin. Pupils taking a minority subject sometimes have no classmate at the same tier, which is exactly when one-to-one work earns its cost.

  • GEMS Metropole School
  • Victory Heights Primary School
  • Jebel Ali School
  • Arcadia School
  • Renaissance School Dubai

Schools are named here as context for the communities this page serves. IB Gram has no affiliation, partnership or endorsement arrangement with any named school or school group.

How matching works

From first enquiry to a tutor who fits

  1. 01

    Get the script, not the grade

    Ask the school for your child's last marked mock paper in the subjects you are considering. A report grade tells you a position; a script tells you where the marks went, which questions were abandoned, and whether the problem is timing, technique, topic or foundation. This single request changes the budget more than any other step.

  2. 02

    Triage to two subjects

    Apply the gap grid to each script and rank by marks per hour rather than by how much your child dislikes the subject. Two subjects funded properly outperforms five funded thinly on the same money. If a script shows a foundation gap, book a conversation with the school about tier before paying anyone.

  3. 03

    Buy a diagnostic block first

    Three or four sessions with a written output: a timed paper marked against the real mark scheme, an error taxonomy, and a recommendation that may be to stop. At market specialist rates this is roughly AED 800-1,800 and it is the spend that prevents the larger one.

  4. 04

    Fix the weekly slot round the commute

    Pick a start time fifteen minutes after your child is actually home, not fifteen minutes after the bell. Families in Dubai Hills, Arjan and Downtown routinely need a 5.30pm or later start. Online delivery means that slot is available without a travel surcharge or a traffic cancellation.

  5. 05

    Hold a final-term reserve

    Keep roughly a third of the two-year budget for the eight to twelve weeks before the June series, when timed papers and marked rewrites are the only intervention that still moves a grade. Release it against a diagnosed need, not against a vague anxiety, and keep a contingency for a single-subject November resit.

Why families choose us

What UAE parents tell us matters most

Rates published with their sources

Every AED figure on this page is attributed to the provider or survey that published it, with the band stated as a market range rather than as our price. Three of the highest-ranking pages in this market publish no price at all, and two quote in US dollars, which is not a currency a Dubai family transacts in.

Cost measured per subject

An hourly rate is the least useful figure in a tutoring decision. A term of one subject, with marking included or excluded as the case may be, is the number that decides whether a plan survives Year 11. This page gives you that number for five different kinds of gap.

Specification codes, not subject names

Cambridge 0580 and Pearson 4MA1 are different papers with different calculator rules, and a tutor working from the wrong one is wasting your money politely. Matching starts from the code on your child's exam entry and the tier they are sitting at.

Delivery and coverage stated plainly

Lessons are one-to-one over live video in Gulf Standard Time. IB Gram does not offer home visits in Dubai; home visits are an India-only service. Where a minority subject has no specialist free, that is disclosed rather than filled with a generalist.

The academic-honesty line held

Tutors teach, question, model and give feedback on the student's own work. Nobody writes coursework, supplies paragraphs, or hands over a syllabus or mark-scheme file. Official board pages are linked instead, which is both the lawful position and the one that protects the certificate.

No claim we cannot evidence

No grade promises, no satisfaction percentages, no self-asserted star ratings, and no suggestion that any regulator has approved, accredited or partnered with IB Gram. Where a figure cannot be sourced, it is left out rather than rounded into something confident.

Student and parent reviews

What students and parents say about working with IB Gram

Practical feedback on tutor fit, revision structure and communication from IB and IGCSE families we have taught.

“Every session has been a positive learning experience. The students are progressing well, becoming more confident, and showing a genuine interest in learning.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The students have developed a much better understanding of the concepts through regular practice and guidance. Their confidence and participation have improved noticeably.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“Watching the students progress from one session to the next has been very satisfying. They are learning with confidence and showing genuine interest.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The sessions provide a good balance of explanation, practice, and feedback. Students are steadily building their skills and confidence.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The students are showing a positive attitude toward learning and are becoming more independent with each session. The progress has been very encouraging.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“Personalized support and regular practice have helped the students make excellent progress. Their confidence has improved significantly over time.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The learning process has been smooth and engaging. Students are asking better questions, understanding concepts more clearly, and improving consistently.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“It is rewarding to see students become more confident in their abilities. The sessions are productive, engaging, and focused on meaningful learning”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The students are making steady progress and developing a stronger foundation. Consistent practice and individual attention have helped a lot.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“I have seen noticeable improvement in the students' understanding and participation. Their enthusiasm for learning is truly encouraging.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“A supportive learning environment makes a big difference. The students are responding well to personalized guidance and regular feedback.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The overall learning journey has been very positive. Students are becoming more confident, curious, and comfortable with new concepts.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The students have shown great progress with regular practice and guidance. It is wonderful to see their confidence grow with every session.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“It has been a rewarding experience working with the students. Their confidence and understanding have improved significantly through consistent guidance, practice, and personalized attention.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“The learning experience has been wonderful. The students are engaged, confident, and showing consistent improvement. The teaching approach is supportive, clear, and focused on building strong fundamentals.”

Priya Vivek

Gurugram

“We were stuck on Math AA HL paper 3 sample questions. The matched tutor walked through the syllabus depth and IA strategy, and our daughter's confidence shifted in three weeks.”

Priya R.

Gurugram

“Physics HL felt scary before mocks. The tutor mapped my weak topics and gave a realistic command-term plan. Mocks went up by two grade boundaries.”

Aarav K.

DLF Phase 5

“We wanted Economics HL support that matched the actual paper command terms. IB Gram matched us within a day with a specialist who understood our school's IA timeline.”

Sneha M.

Sector 57

“Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry past-paper practice made the difference. The tutor was honest about pace and progress, and the lesson notes were structured.”

Reema S.

Sushant Lok

Questions parents ask

IB and IGCSE tutoring in Dubai: your questions answered

What will IGCSE tutoring cost a Brighton College Dubai family per subject?+

Budget per subject per term rather than per hour. At the published Dubai specialist band of AED 200-450 an hour, one weekly session across a thirteen-week term is roughly AED 2,600 to AED 5,900 for a single subject. A qualified subject tutor at the AED 150-300 band brings that to about AED 1,950 to AED 3,900. Those are market figures from Unitors, TutorChase and the Bestimate Dubai rate survey, not an IB Gram price list. Most families fund two subjects rather than one or five, and hold roughly a third of the total for the eight to twelve weeks before the June series.

How do we decide which two IGCSE subjects to pay for?+

Rank by marks per hour, not by which subject causes the most friction at home. Ask the school for the last marked mock script in each candidate subject and sort the lost marks into four types. Timing gaps close in four or five sessions. Technique gaps, where content is present but command terms or working lose marks, take six to ten. A topic gap takes a term. A foundation gap, where the pupil cannot access Extended-tier questions at all, is a tier conversation with the school before anyone is paid. The two cheapest gaps usually sit in subjects nobody complained about.

Why do quoted hourly rates in Dubai run from AED 45 to AED 650?+

Because five different kinds of arrangement are being priced. EdFlik advertises from AED 45-65 and Tutopiya from around AED 33-52, largely using university students. Unitors publishes IGCSE from AED 150. TutorChase quotes about AED 270. The Bestimate survey puts in-home one-to-one at AED 180-350 and specialists at AED 200-450 or more. BartyED advertises AED 650 for a named tutor. The spread reflects who is teaching, whether a car is involved, and scarcity. It does not reflect published outcome data, because nobody in this market publishes any with a sample size and method.

Does an in-home visit to Al Barsha South or Dubai Hills justify its premium?+

Decide it as a travel question. A tutor driving from Jumeirah or Mirdif for a 4.30pm session in that corridor spends forty to seventy minutes each way, so a two-hour round trip is priced into the rate. That is most of the gap between the AED 150-300 online band and the AED 180-500 in-home band. The second cost is selection: an in-home tutor must live within driving distance, so a family often gets a generalist rather than the right specialist. IB Gram does not offer home visits in Dubai; lessons are one-to-one over live video.

Does the KHDA fee freeze mean tutoring prices will hold too?+

No. KHDA confirmed in May 2026 that private school fees in Dubai would not rise for 2026-27, under the emirate's second economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within a AED 2.5 billion total. That fixes school fees, not tutoring, which is an unregulated private market with rates set provider by provider. The practical benefit is planning: with the school half of your education spend known, the tutoring half becomes the only variable to model over two IGCSE years. Expect specialist rates to firm up from January as the June series approaches, regardless of what school fees do.

Should we take an AED 799 monthly package or keep paying session by session?+

Divide it out before deciding. Packages circulating in Dubai include roughly AED 799 a month for eight online sessions, which is about AED 100 an hour, and AED 1,599-1,799 a month for four two-hour in-home visits, which is around AED 200-225 an hour. A package can be good value and it can also hide conditions: ask whether unused sessions roll over, whether marking is inside the rate or billed separately, what notice cancels the arrangement, and whether the price holds if you drop from two subjects to one.

How can we check that a tutor in Dubai is legally permitted to teach?+

Ask to see the MoHRE private tuition work permit. It was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, is granted free of charge for two years, and is applied for through the MoHRE smart app, website or e-services system under the service name Issuance of a New Work Permit - Private Tutor Licensing, which lists a two-working-day completion time. Because it costs nothing, a tutor who says their rate covers licensing has misread their own paperwork. Individuals tutoring without a permit are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws; no amounts have been published.

Does the price we are quoted include VAT?+

Ask the provider to put it in writing, and get the answer before the first invoice rather than after it. This page does not state the UAE VAT treatment of tuition fees, because that would need a Federal Tax Authority citation and the question turns on the provider's own registration and the nature of the service. What a parent can reasonably require is a quoted AED figure with a plain statement of whether VAT is included, excluded, or not applicable, plus a tax registration number if the provider holds one. A provider who will not answer that in writing has told you something useful.

Is it cheaper to start tutoring in September than in February?+

Usually, yes, for the same teaching. Demand for IGCSE tutoring in Dubai concentrates between January and April ahead of the June series, and the people who can mark an Extended-tier script properly are booked out in that window, which firms up rates at the specialist end. Buying the diagnostic block in the autumn also means you discover a foundation gap while there is still time to act on it, rather than discovering it in March when the only honest advice left is to protect the subjects that can still move.

Could a single tutor handle Maths 0580 and Physics 0625 to save a slot and a fee?+

Sometimes, and it is worth asking because it saves money and coordination. Cambridge 0580 Maths and 0625 Physics overlap in graph work, rearranging formulae, units and proportionality, so one tutor who genuinely holds both at Extended tier can use a single session to serve two subjects. The test is whether they can talk about the Alternative to Practical paper and non-calculator method marks with equal specificity. If they can only really do one, two specialists beat one generalist, even though it costs more and takes two slots in the week.

Is it cheaper to put two siblings in the same session?+

Cheaper per child, and weaker per child. Shared sessions in Dubai are commonly priced around AED 100-150 per pupil in small groups of two to four, against AED 200-450 for one-to-one specialist work. The saving is real. What is lost is diagnosis: a session pitched between two children's gaps addresses neither precisely, and the whole argument for paying specialist rates is that the hour targets one pupil's specific lost marks. Sharing works for content coverage and for siblings genuinely at the same tier in the same subject, and not much else.

Do you send tutors to homes in Al Barsha South, Arjan or Dubai Hills?+

No. IB Gram does not offer home visits anywhere in the UAE; sending a tutor to a family's address is a service offered only in India. Tutoring for Dubai families is delivered one-to-one over live video, scheduled in Gulf Standard Time, which is why a pupil in Arjan can work with a specialist in Extended-tier Chemistry 0620 rather than with whoever lives within a twenty-minute drive. It also removes the traffic charge built into the published AED 180-500 in-home band, and the cancellation risk that comes with a school-run commute.

What should the first paid hour produce before we commit to a term?+

A document, not a feeling. After a diagnostic session you should have a timed piece of your child's work marked against the real mark scheme, a written breakdown of where the marks went by type, and a recommendation naming the subject, the number of sessions and the target. A recommendation to stop, or to speak to the school about tier first, is a legitimate and valuable outcome. If the first hour produces only reassurance and a proposed payment plan, you have bought a sales meeting rather than a diagnosis.

What should we refuse to pay for at any price?+

Written or edited coursework of any kind. One page ranking in this market sells completed Internal Assessments, which is a malpractice trigger that risks the candidate's whole qualification rather than a shortcut. Also refuse files of past papers, mark schemes or syllabus documents, which belong to Cambridge, Pearson and the IB and should be linked rather than supplied. Refuse any promise of a specific grade, any claim of KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, MoE or exam-board approval, and any statistic quoted without a sample size, a date and a stated method.

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Ask your child's school for the last marked mock paper in the two subjects you are weighing up. Read where the marks actually went. Then take the published Dubai bands on this page, work out what a term in one of those subjects costs at the tier your child is entered for, and decide against that figure rather than against an hourly rate. A free trial lesson is one session, with no card details required, so a match can be tested before anything is spent. Lessons are one-to-one over live video in Gulf Standard Time, and the subjects that are not currently covered at the tier you need will be named rather than filled.

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