IGCSE Home Tutor in Al Faseel

An IGCSE home tutor in Al Faseel, through IB Gram, means a named subject specialist teaching your child one-to-one over live video at a fixed time each week, on Gulf Standard Time. It does not mean somebody arriving at the door. IB Gram does not offer home visits in the UAE; home visits are an India-only service, and that has been the position on every country page this site publishes.

The reason to say that in the first paragraph rather than the tenth is that it changes what you should compare. A travelling tutor in Fujairah is priced partly on distance. The market quotes in-home one-to-one at roughly AED 180 to 500 an hour, against roughly AED 150 to 300 for a qualified subject tutor online, and a good part of that gap is the drive. In Dubai the drive buys convenience. In Fujairah, where the private-school set is small and the specialist pool smaller, the drive buys a shorter list of candidates as well. A family in Al Faseel paying the travel premium is often paying more for less subject match.

What you can book this term is specific. A single subject, a named syllabus code, one or two sessions a week, starting after a free trial lesson where you and your child meet the tutor and decide. If the subject is one where Fujairah has no local specialist at all — Extended Chemistry, Economics, Computer Science — online is not the compromise option, it is the only route to someone who has marked that paper. If no specialist is free in the slot you need, you will be told that rather than offered the nearest available generalist.

The rest of this page assumes you have a date in mind. If you do not, the next section will give you one: the Cambridge and Pearson year laid out backwards, so you can see which deadline is nearest and work from it.

No competitor page in this market names an exam session, an entry deadline or a results date. That is the single largest gap in the whole cluster, and it is the one a parent actually needs filled. So here is the shape of the year, built from the boards' own published guidance, with the structural point stated first: the exam is the last event in the sequence, not the first, and almost every decision that affects the grade is made before it.

Cambridge International runs International GCSE, O Level and International A Level in a June series and a November series. Primary and Lower Secondary Checkpoint tests sit in March, May and October windows. The February/March series exists, but it is offered to India only, so a UAE candidate does not sit it — a point worth checking against any advice your child has been given, because it circulates incorrectly. Pearson Edexcel runs International GCSE in May/June and November each year.

One Cambridge detail deserves its own sentence, because it has cost candidates whole papers. Every exam centre is allocated to one of six administrative zones, and Cambridge states 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 exam after using the wrong zone timetable. If your child has printed a timetable from a forum rather than from the school, that is worth an evening's attention. Always work from the live official timetable rather than from any date restated on a third-party page, including this one.

The milestones below are ordered by how far ahead of the paper they fall. Dates that have already happened are cited with their year because that is what makes them checkable; future sessions are named by month, because a month stays true and a month-plus-year goes stale.

Most families in Al Faseel start looking for a tutor somewhere between eight and twelve weeks before a paper. That is late for building knowledge and about right for converting knowledge into marks, so the shape of the work should change accordingly. An eight-week run that teaches the syllabus from the start will not finish it. An eight-week run that attacks the specific causes of lost marks usually moves a grade, sometimes two from a low base, and occasionally not at all — which is why the first session has to be a measurement rather than a lesson.

The measurement is a full past paper, sat under timed conditions, marked against the official scheme, and then analysed by cause. A lost mark has a cause: content not known, content known but not recalled under pressure, question misread, command term misread, method correct and arithmetic wrong, or time ran out. Those six causes need completely different remedies, and a tutor who starts teaching before knowing the mix is guessing. Parents can ask for that analysis in writing after the first session; it is the single most useful document in the whole engagement.

From there the weeks have a pattern. The first half of the run goes after the largest causes one at a time, with a short timed section at the end of each session to check the fix held. The second half shifts to full papers under exam conditions, because stamina and timing are separate skills from content and are usually the last thing to be fixed. The final fortnight should contain no new content at all. If something has not been learned by then, learning it costs more marks elsewhere than it gains.

The table below is the version used for a single Extended science or maths subject. It is a template, not a promise: a student starting from a D with gaps across the syllabus and a student starting from a B with two weak topics need different weeks two through five, and the plan should be rewritten after the diagnostic rather than before it.

Cambridge splits several of its most-entered syllabuses into a Core and an Extended tier, and the practical consequence is a grade ceiling. A Core candidate is assessed on a narrower syllabus and cannot be awarded above grade C. An Extended candidate sits harder papers and can reach A*. Pearson Edexcel does the same thing in maths with Foundation and Higher tier. The decision is made by the school, usually in Year 10, often on the basis of a Year 9 Checkpoint result and a teacher's judgement, and it is frequently not explained to the parent in those terms.

That matters more in Fujairah than in Dubai, for an unglamorous reason: class sizes in a small private-school market make setting coarser. A school with one Year 10 maths set per tier has to place borderline students somewhere, and the safe placement from the school's point of view is Core. From the family's point of view, a capable student placed on Core has lost access to grades A* to B before the course begins, and lost the A Level and university routes that depend on them.

If your child is borderline, the useful move is not an argument with the school but evidence. Two terms of Year 9 or early Year 10 work on the Extended-only content, with a timed Extended paper as the proof, gives a teacher something concrete to re-set on. That is a far cheaper intervention than a Year 11 scramble, and it is the clearest example of why starting from the calendar rather than from the crisis saves money. Check also which grading scale your child's syllabus uses: some Cambridge subjects report 9-1 and others A*-G, and the two are not interchangeable on a university application.

The comparison below is written for a parent deciding whether to push for a re-set. Ask the school which tier has been entered, in writing, well before the entry deadline — not after the mock.

Start with the monthly number, because that is the one a family budgets against. A single weekly hour with a qualified subject tutor, priced at the middle of the online band, lands somewhere around AED 600 to 1,200 a month on the published market estimates, and an exam-year plan with two subjects or two sessions a week runs higher. Bestimate's rate work for Dubai puts budget weekly sessions at roughly AED 240 to 600 a month, mid-range at AED 600 to 1,200, and specialist exam-year support at AED 1,000 to 2,000 or more. Monthly packages advertised in the market include around AED 799 a month for eight online sessions and AED 1,599 to 1,799 a month for four two-hour in-home sessions.

Those are market rates, not IB Gram's price list. The figures come from competitor pages and from published rate tables read in October 2026, and they are here because almost nobody in this search result publishes a number in dirhams at all. Three of the six pages that rank for queries like this one publish no price; the two that do quote in US dollars, a currency no UAE family pays school fees in. A parent who cannot see a number cannot compare, which is the point of the table below.

The interesting line in that table is the in-home one. The market quotes roughly AED 180 to 500 an hour for a travelling tutor, with the upper end for a named specialist. Part of that spread is seniority and part of it is the car. In a dense city the car buys genuine convenience. In Fujairah it buys a smaller candidate list, because the set of people who will drive to Al Faseel on a Tuesday evening and who have also marked Extended Chemistry is close to empty. If you are weighing the premium, weigh it against subject match rather than against convenience alone.

For context on the wider cost picture: the Knowledge and Human Development Authority confirmed in May 2026 that there would be no increase in private-school fees in Dubai for the 2026-27 academic year, under an economic incentives package valued at AED 1.5 billion within a AED 2.5 billion total. Fujairah schools sit under federal Ministry of Education supervision rather than KHDA, so that freeze does not apply here — but it does tell you something about where tutoring sits in a family budget when the larger line item is held flat.

Fujairah is the only emirate on the Gulf of Oman coast, separated from Dubai by the Hajar mountains, and that geography shapes the tutoring market more than anything else. The emirate's private-school sector is small. A small sector employs a small number of subject teachers. A small number of subject teachers means that for any given syllabus code at Extended tier, the number of people within driving distance of Al Faseel who have taught it recently may be one, or none.

This is not a judgement about Fujairah schools. It is arithmetic, and the same arithmetic applies in Ras Al Khaimah and Umm Al Quwain, which is why none of the three appears anywhere in the competitor pages researched for this market. Those pages are written for Dubai and Abu Dhabi and reach the smaller emirates by changing a place name. A Fujairah family reading them is being sold a Dubai supply picture that does not exist on this coast.

What follows practically is a different search strategy. Stop looking for proximity and start looking for coverage: which subjects at which tier can actually be staffed, how quickly, and what happens when they cannot. The table in the next section covers the permit question; this one is about availability, and the honest version is that a common subject at Core tier is easy, a common subject at Extended tier is straightforward, and a minority subject at Extended tier may take longer or may not be available in your preferred slot at all. You should be told which of those applies before you pay, not after.

The second practical consequence is scheduling. An online slot can be held at 17:00 every Tuesday for a year. A travelling tutor's 17:00 is a 16:30 departure and a 17:10 arrival, and over a Fujairah school term that drifts. For a student working to a June paper, consistency in the slot is worth more than almost anything else, because the homework cycle between sessions only works if the sessions land where they are meant to.

Private tutoring in the UAE is regulated by permit, and most parents do not know that. The private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, and it is granted free of charge for two years. Eligible applicants include teachers registered in government or private schools, employees in the government and private sectors, unemployed individuals, school students aged 15 to 18, and university students. The application route is the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation's own service, listed as issuance of a new work permit for private tutor licensing, applied for through the ministry's smart app, website and e-services system, with a stated completion time of two working days.

Two things follow. First, anyone who tells you the permit costs money, or that it is optional, is wrong on a point of federal regulation: individuals offering private tutoring without a permit from the ministry are subject to fines and penalties outlined in the applicable laws. No fine schedule is published, so no figure appears here; a number circulating online could not be verified against any official source and is left out deliberately. Second, because the permit is free and takes two working days, there is no good reason for a tutor working in the UAE not to hold one.

There is a separate rule parents should know about before asking a school teacher for private lessons. Abu Dhabi's professional-ethics rules for private and charter school staff prohibit teachers from providing paid private tutoring to students enrolled at their own school, and the permit's own code of conduct also bars serving students affiliated with the teacher's school. Treat that as press-reported rather than as the regulator's exact wording, and check the current policy document before relying on it. The underlying point is sound everywhere in the country: your child's own classroom teacher is the wrong person to pay privately.

A note on what IB Gram is and is not. IB Gram is not approved, accredited or licensed by the Ministry of Education, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, the Department of Education and Knowledge, the Sharjah Private Education Authority, the International Baccalaureate, Cambridge International or Pearson. It holds none of those relationships and claims none. An operation running a physical tuition centre in Dubai would need a KHDA educational services permit for a training institute; IB Gram runs no UAE premises and should never be described that way. Naming a regulator and explaining what it does is useful to a parent. Implying an endorsement is not.

This market has a real problem with assessed work, and a parent in Al Faseel should know what it looks like before encountering it. Pages in this search result sell finished Internal Assessments. One advertises completed IA work at a fixed price. That is not a grey area and it is not a service: it is an academic-integrity breach that puts the student's qualification at risk, not the seller's. A board that identifies submitted work as not the candidate's own treats it as malpractice, and the consequence lands on the child.

The boundary is actually quite clear once stated. A tutor may teach the content, explain the assessment criteria in the board's own wording, model how a similar question is approached, read a draft the student has written and say where it does not meet the criteria, and show the student how to improve it themselves. A tutor may not write the coursework, may not draft the assignment, may not edit a piece to completion so that the words are the tutor's, and may not supply a finished piece for submission. The distinction is who produced the sentences.

There is a related rule about materials. Boards publish syllabuses, past papers, mark schemes and grade-boundary tables, and those documents are theirs. A tutoring provider that offers them as downloads is reproducing copyrighted material, and in the case of unreleased papers it is a malpractice exposure as well. The correct approach is to reference them, cite the official address, and link out so that a parent reads the real thing. Everything factual on this page about Cambridge and Pearson sessions comes from the boards' own published guidance, and the boards' own sites are where you should confirm it.

For an Al Faseel family this is a selection criterion rather than a disclaimer. Ask any prospective tutor what they would do if your child asked them to write a coursework paragraph. The right answer is a refusal and an explanation of what they would do instead. An answer that treats the question as a negotiation tells you what will happen the week before the deadline.