IB Tutor near me in Town Square

Use these on anybody, including us. They are specific on purpose: specificity is the test. A tutor who has taken a named Diploma course to final grade answers each of them in a sentence or two without hesitation, because these are the things they think about weekly. A tutor who has read the syllabus will produce general reassurance about experience, rapport and passion, and the substitution is audible.

The questions do not require you to know the answers yourself. What you are listening for is whether the reply is concrete and immediate or general and warm. A specialist says the Exploration is twenty per cent of the maths grade and is usually lost on personal engagement rather than mathematics. A generalist says they have helped many students with internal assessments.

Two of the ten are about honesty rather than competence, and they matter at least as much. Asking what a tutor will and will not do with an Internal Assessment should produce an immediate, clear boundary — teaching, explaining criteria, reviewing method, feedback on the student's own draft, and nothing beyond that. Hesitation there, or an offer to help more than that, is the single most useful red flag available in this market.

Ask them in the trial lesson or immediately after it, with the tutor who would actually teach your child, rather than on an initial call with a coordinator. The coordinator's answers tell you about the company. The tutor's answers tell you about the thing you are buying.

The claims in this market fall into three groups: ones that can be verified, ones that cannot, and ones that describe something which does not exist. Knowing which is which saves a lot of time.

Verifiable: the MoHRE private tuition work permit. It is issued under Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, granted free of charge for two years, and applied for through MoHRE's smart app, website or e-services with a stated two-working-day completion time. Ask to see it and check it with MoHRE. Also verifiable: a university degree, a teaching qualification, and whether a named school currently employs somebody, by asking the school.

Not verifiable by a parent: current IB examiner status. We do not describe our own tutors as examiners for this reason, and you should treat any such claim as unevidenced unless the provider can show you something concrete. Examiner status also does not confer access to marking, grade boundaries or paper content, and any implication that it does should end the conversation rather than advance it.

Describes nothing that exists: regulator approval for tutors. Five bodies regulate private schools across the emirates — KHDA, ADEK, SPEA, the Ras Al Khaimah Department of Knowledge and the federal Ministry of Education — and none vets private tutors. A KHDA Educational Services Permit is a real thing issued to training institutes with premises, with initial approval first and annual renewal requested at least thirty days before expiry, and if a provider claims one, ask for the number. IB Gram holds no regulator or awarding-body approval, accreditation, licence or partnership of any kind, has no UAE office or centre, and claims none.

The verification questions work better if you know roughly what the course involves, so here is the structure in plain terms. A full Diploma candidate takes six subjects, three at Higher Level and three at Standard. Alongside those sit three core components: Theory of Knowledge, the Extended Essay of 4,000 words, and Creativity, Activity, Service. The total score runs to 45, which is six subjects marked out of seven plus up to three bonus points from the matrix combining the TOK and Extended Essay grades.

Every subject also carries an Internal Assessment, marked by the school teacher and moderated by the IB. That means a full candidate is running six separate coursework projects with six internal deadlines, all set by the school rather than by the IB, and nearly all landing in the same two terms. Understanding this is what tells you whether a tutor's plan is realistic: a tutor who treats a subject in isolation is ignoring the five other deadlines competing for the same evenings.

UAE schools sit the Diploma in the May session. We publish no specific IB date, and the reason is worth knowing as a verification point in itself: the IB's own site blocks automated retrieval, so no IB session or results date in this project has been confirmed from ibo.org. Any provider quoting you a precise IB exam or results date should be asked where they read it. Get dates from your school's IB coordinator or ibo.org.

Cambridge and Pearson dates, by contrast, are published and usable. Cambridge runs International GCSE and O Level in June and November series, with the February/March series offered to India only, so UAE candidates sit June and November. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE runs May/June and November; its November 2026 final timetable ran from late October to 19 November 2026, and November results reach students in January, with the November 2025 results landing on 22 January 2026.

Verification continues into the first hour, and what happens in it is informative. A tutor who spends the session establishing rapport and asking how your child feels about the subject has not diagnosed anything, however pleasant the hour was. A tutor who puts real past-paper questions in front of the student within the first ten minutes and watches them work is doing the job.

What a good diagnostic produces is narrower than most families expect. Not a general assessment of ability, but a specific list: method is not being written down, so method marks are being forfeited. Command terms are being misread, so correct knowledge is producing wrong-shaped answers. One topic was missed during a move between schools. The uncertainty work has never been taught properly. Each of those is a plan rather than a diagnosis.

The second thing a good first session produces is a realistic timescale. A technique fault takes a few weeks of marked practice. A missing topic takes a few sessions. A missing year of foundations takes longer than the time available in February of Year 13, and a tutor who says so has told you something valuable about how they will handle the rest of the arrangement.

Our trial lesson is designed to be exactly this: one full session with the specialist who would continue, no card required and no obligation, after which you have a concrete account of what is wrong rather than an impression. If that account is vague, the match is wrong and we would rather you knew in a free hour. The verification questions in the table above are best asked at the end of this session, when you have seen the person work.

Two of the ten verification questions are about this, and they deserve the detail, because this search result contains operators who sell finished coursework. One advertises completed Internal Assessments at AED 3,750. Buying one is not a shortcut with a price; it is an academic-honesty breach, and the IB withdraws awards for malpractice.

The permitted ground is wide. A tutor may teach the content the assessment rests on. They may explain what each criterion asks for and what marks it carries. They may help narrow a research question until it is answerable within the word limit. They may review a method and say that it will not generate usable data. They may read a draft the student has written and give feedback on it. All of that is teaching and all of it is permitted.

What a tutor may not do is produce the work: not write a section, not supply text to insert, not rewrite the student's prose, not provide a template needing only numbers, not edit a draft to a finish so the submitted text is substantially theirs. The student signs a declaration of authorship and the supervisor signs alongside, so the line is practical rather than ceremonial.

We also do not supply IB, Cambridge or Pearson syllabus documents, past papers, mark schemes, grade-boundary tables or subject guides as downloads. Those are the awarding bodies' copyright, and for unreleased material there is a malpractice exposure as well. We cite them, link the official source and teach from them. If a provider offers you a folder of mark schemes, that is a question worth asking about rather than a benefit.

Price is part of verification, because a rate quoted with no reference point tells you nothing. Three of the six most visible competitor pages in this search publish no price at all, and two quote US dollars, which is not a currency a Town Square family transacts in.

The published Dubai figures, read from provider pages in October 2026. Budget online tutoring from AED 33-65 an hour, with Tutopiya at AED 33-52 and EdFlik at AED 45-65. Qualified online subject tutors AED 150-300, with Unitors publishing IB from AED 200. IB, IGCSE and A Level specialists AED 200-450 and above, with TutorChase at AED 270 and Bestimate putting the band at AED 200-450 plus. In-home one-to-one AED 180-500 including travel. Premium named tutors AED 500-650 and above, with BartyED at AED 650.

Ask for the monthly figure rather than the hourly one, because the monthly figure is what actually leaves your account, and a tutor who cannot produce it has not thought about the Diploma as a two-year commitment. Bestimate's monthly estimates for a single weekly hour are AED 240-600 at the budget band, AED 600-1,200 mid-tier, and AED 1,000-2,000 or more for specialist exam-year work. Advertised packages sit inside those brackets at around AED 799 a month for eight online sessions, which works out near AED 100 a session, and AED 1,599-1,799 for four in-home two-hour visits, which is closer to AED 400 a visit once the tutor's drive into Town Square is inside the price. Two offers that look similar by the month are rarely buying the same hour.

Each figure belongs to the organisation named beside it. None is an IB Gram price — we publish no rate card on these pages, because the honest number depends on subject, level and weeks remaining. One verification point on price: ask whether a figure is per hour or per lesson and how long a lesson is, because a fifty-minute session priced as an hour is a difference nobody volunteers.

One of the ten questions asks what would make a provider advise against buying, and we should answer our own question. There are four situations in which we say no or not yet.

The first is no specialist available. Theory of Knowledge at short notice, Higher Level Computer Science, smaller Group 2 languages, Music and Film are genuinely scarce, and in some terms we cannot cover them. We decline rather than putting a general tutor in front of a Higher Level candidate, and we have lost enquiries doing it. If the only matching specialist is in a different time zone, we say so and offer the slots that actually exist.

The second is too little time to matter. A student in March of Year 13 missing a year of foundations in a subject cannot have that replaced in eight weeks, and selling the attempt is selling hope. What we will say in that case is which narrower thing can still move — usually technique, command terms and showing method — and that concentrating there is worth more than general coverage.

The third is that nothing is wrong. We have read MYP reports where the criterion profile describes a student doing perfectly well and the parents had been reading an unfamiliar scale as a bad result. The fourth is where the honest answer is a school conversation rather than a tutor: a missed topic that the school should and would reteach, a timetable problem, or a pastoral issue that tutoring would paper over. We say that instead of taking the booking.

We also never offer a UAE home visit as a fallback, because there is no UAE visiting service to fall back on. IB Gram has no office, centre or branch here and nobody on our roster will arrive at a Town Square address.

Absences are evidence too, and the things missing from this page are things competitors in this search result do publish.

No star rating, no satisfaction percentage, no average points total achieved by students we have supported. Competitors publish figures like 4.9 from several hundred reviews, sometimes two conflicting versions in the same document, and one shows a rating from twenty reviews alongside a far larger claimed student count. None states a sample size, a date or a method. A number without those three is decoration, and self-asserted review markup is against Google's structured-data policy as well.

No regulator or awarding-body claim, no UAE address, no non-UAE phone number as the conversion path, and no examiner descriptions we cannot evidence. Two ranking competitors route UAE parents to numbers in another country, and one shows a Dubai footer address on an Abu Dhabi page. Both are trust failures, and the second is a misrepresentation.

And no guarantee of a grade, a points total or an improvement, because nobody can honestly offer one and the offer itself is diagnostic of the provider. We also will not imply that tutoring is required for Ministry of Education equivalency, university admission or school progression — that is a false-urgency claim about a regulatory process, and it is worth noticing when anybody makes it to you.

Finally, no school or group is described here as a partner or client. Several competitors list twenty-five or more schools under a trusted-by heading with no relationship behind it, and one lists a school that appears not to exist. We name schools only to describe the landscape around Town Square, and we say so under every list, because a school name used as an implied endorsement is the easiest claim in this market to make and one of the easiest to check.