IB Home Tutor in Al Majaz

An IB home tutor in Al Majaz, read literally, is a Diploma or Middle Years subject teacher who works with one student in their own apartment. That service exists in Sharjah and in-home rates published by UAE providers run from roughly AED 180 to AED 500 an hour once travel is accounted for, against roughly AED 150 to AED 300 for the same qualification teaching online. The gap is not tutor quality. It is the car.

What the search usually means in practice is narrower: a parent wants one-to-one attention, at a time that fits the household, from somebody who knows the specific syllabus their child is sitting. Each of those three things is available online. Only the fourth, physical presence, requires a drive, and physical presence is the one element with no published evidence of a grade effect at Diploma level when the alternative is live video with a shared screen and a document camera.

So the answer we give Al Majaz families is direct. IB Gram does not run home visits in Sharjah or anywhere else in the UAE; that service exists only in our India operation. What an Al Majaz household gets instead is a specialist in the exact subject and level, usually within a few days, at an hour that suits a tower household on a school night, with the drive time converted into teaching time.

The rest of this page assumes you want the calendar answered rather than the sales pitch: which session your child is entered for, what has to happen before it, and how many weeks are actually left.

Nobody publishes this table, which is odd, because it is the single most useful thing a Diploma parent can see. Working forwards from today produces a plan that runs out of time. Working backwards from the session produces a plan that tells you which weeks are already gone.

The dates below are the structural milestones rather than published calendar dates. Your child's school sets its own internal deadlines, and those are the ones that bite first: a school internal assessment hand-in typically sits several weeks before the IB upload deadline, precisely so the coordinator has room to check and submit. Ask the Diploma coordinator for the school's dated internal calendar, and plan tutoring against that document rather than against the examination month.

One caution worth stating plainly. IB session and results dates in this project are not confirmed from the IB's own site, so we do not publish them. Secondary sources circulate windows and they are often close, but a date a parent acts on has to come from the coordinator or from ibo.org directly. What is safe to say is the shape: Sharjah schools sit the May session, results reach schools in early July, and the enquiry-upon-results window is short.

Cambridge and Pearson dates are a different matter, because both publish them. Cambridge runs a June series and a November series, and the February or March series is offered to India only, so a Sharjah candidate has two windows, not three. Pearson Edexcel International GCSE runs May/June and November, and the November 2026 final timetable ran from late October to 19 November 2026.

Al Majaz households run on a narrow evening. A Sharjah private school day typically finishes between 14:15 and 15:30, and the journey home for a child at one of the inland Muwaileh or University City schools takes twenty-five to forty minutes in afternoon traffic. Add a meal and the first realistic start for a secondary student is 16:30, and for a family whose child crosses into Dubai for school, closer to 18:00.

That leaves a usable window of roughly 16:30 to 21:30 on school nights, which is five slots a week per subject at most and realistically two. The arithmetic is why an in-home tutor's travel time is expensive in a way the hourly rate conceals: a tutor who can physically reach three Al Majaz homes in an evening has to charge for the hour and a half in the car, and the family furthest from where the tutor lives gets the last slot.

Online removes both constraints. A lesson begins at the agreed minute, the tutor is in the same session whether the student is in Al Majaz, Al Taawun or in a hotel room during a half-term trip, and a 20:30 start is as workable as a 16:30 one. During Ramadan the whole pattern moves: school hours shorten, and most families switch to post-Iftar sessions, which an in-home schedule across Sharjah traffic handles badly and a video schedule handles without comment.

We ask for the school's own term calendar at the start of a block, because the dates that break a tutoring plan are rarely the ones on the public calendar. Sports days, residential trips, inspection weeks and the week of internal examinations all remove sessions, and a plan that has not accounted for them simply runs short.

Parents in Al Majaz usually arrive with a horizon rather than a budget: eight weeks to mocks, six weeks to the examination window, a term to the next report. The useful question is not whether tutoring works but what a given number of weeks can carry, and the honest answer varies enormously by what the gap actually is.

A technique gap closes fast. A student who knows the Chemistry content but writes unstructured Paper 2 answers can gain marks in four weeks, because the fix is a routine rather than a body of knowledge. A content gap closes slowly: a DP2 student who has not understood the first term of Physics HL needs most of a term, and no amount of session frequency compresses that below the time it takes to build the underlying ideas.

The worst case, and the one we see most in exam term, is a diagnostic gap, where nobody including the student knows which of the two it is. That is what the trial lesson and the first two sessions are for. A tutor who starts teaching in lesson one without finding out where the floor is will spend the block at the wrong altitude, which is the single commonest way tutoring money disappears.

The table sets out what each block length realistically produces. It is deliberately conservative. No tutor can guarantee a grade, and nobody should offer to; what a plan can promise is a specific set of covered topics, a specific number of marked past papers and a written record of what changed.

The most common planning error in an Al Majaz Diploma household is treating the internal assessment as a single deadline rather than a sequence. Every Diploma subject carries internally assessed work, the school sets its own hand-in dates ahead of the IB's upload window, and those school dates arrive in clusters because the coordinator has to stagger the checking.

A DP2 student in Sharjah can face a Mathematics exploration, a science investigation, an Economics commentary and an Extended Essay draft inside the same six weeks of the winter term, on top of mock examinations. Each piece has published assessment criteria with named strands and a mark allocation, and the marks are lost in predictable places: a research question too broad to answer in the word limit, a method with no stated uncertainty, an analysis that describes a graph instead of interpreting it, and a conclusion that does not engage with the limitations the student has already listed.

Our supervision sessions work criterion by criterion on the student's own draft. The tutor reads what is there, states which strand is currently weak and why, and sets the next step. What the tutor never does is write, rewrite or edit the piece to completion. That is not a policy preference; under IB academic honesty rules it would expose the student to a malpractice finding, and a page that offers it is advertising a risk rather than a service.

The practical consequence for scheduling is that internal assessment support has to be booked early. A student who asks for help the week before the school hand-in gets proof-of-criteria feedback and nothing more, because there is no time left to collect better data or reframe a question. Booked eight weeks out, the same sessions shape the question, test the method, and leave room for a redraft the student does themselves.

Most pages competing for this search publish no price at all, and the two that do quote United States dollars, which no Sharjah family transacts in. Here is the market in dirhams, attributed, so you can judge a quote against it. These are market rates from published UAE provider pricing, not an IB Gram price list; our own figure depends on subject, level and block length, and the trial lesson comes before any of it.

Read the bands from the bottom up rather than the top down, because that is the decision most Al Majaz families are actually making. At the lowest tier, a university student tutoring part time is advertised from roughly AED 45 to AED 150 an hour, with EdFlik publishing from AED 45 to 65 and Tutopiya from around AED 33 to 52. That tier can work for Middle Years consolidation and almost never works for Higher Level content, because the tutor has not taught the course.

The middle band, roughly AED 150 to AED 300 an hour online, is where qualified subject teachers sit: Unitors publishes IGCSE from AED 150 and IB from AED 200. Above that, published specialist rates for IB, IGCSE and A-Level run from AED 200 to AED 450 and higher, with TutorChase at AED 270 and named or examiner-led tutors quoted as high as AED 650 by BartyED. In-home visits carry their own band, roughly AED 180 to AED 500, and the top of that band is travel rather than teaching.

Monthly packages give a cleaner comparison for a household budget. Published UAE packages include about AED 799 a month for eight online sessions and AED 1,599 to 1,799 a month for four two-hour in-home sessions. Bestimate's monthly estimates for a weekly one-hour session run AED 240 to 600 at the budget end, AED 600 to 1,200 in the middle, and AED 1,000 to 2,000 and above for specialist examination-year support.

Sharjah private schools are regulated by the Sharjah Private Education Authority. The federal portal states that SPEA regulates private education in the emirate, and that Sharjah's authority approves tuition fees, curricula, programmes, courses, activities and assessment methods. That is a wider remit than inspection alone, and it is why a Sharjah school's assessment calendar can differ from a Dubai school's running the same programme.

The emirate matters for a tutoring plan in two concrete ways. First, a child who lives in Al Majaz but attends school across the boundary in Dubai is inside the KHDA's system for school matters, not SPEA's, and the two authorities publish different calendars and different inspection frameworks. Second, the mandatory UAE subjects sit on top of the international curriculum in both emirates, under the federal rule that private schools must teach Arabic, social studies and Islamic studies whatever curriculum they are licensed for.

On the tutor side, the relevant regulator is neither SPEA nor KHDA but the Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation. The private tuition work permit was introduced by Ministerial Resolution No. 710 of 2023, is granted free of charge for two years, and covers school teachers, government and private sector employees, unemployed residents, university students and school students aged fifteen to eighteen. Individuals tutoring without a permit are subject to fines and penalties under the applicable laws, and no fine schedule is published, so no amount should be quoted to you.

IB Gram is a tutor-matching platform. It is not approved, accredited or licensed by SPEA, KHDA, ADEK, the Ministry of Education, the IB, Cambridge or Pearson, and any tutoring page telling you otherwise is making a claim it cannot evidence. What we can tell you is which regulator governs your child's school, what the permit position is for a tutor, and where to check both for yourself.

The Sharjah search results for IB tutoring include at least one operator selling completed internal assessments. That is not a cheaper version of tutoring; it is a malpractice finding waiting to happen, and the consequence lands on the student rather than the seller. The IB treats work submitted as a student's own when it is not as academic misconduct, and the outcome can be the loss of the Diploma.

The line is clear enough to write down. A tutor may teach the content, explain the assessment criteria, question a research idea until it becomes answerable, read a draft and say which strand is weak, teach referencing conventions, and model how an argument is built using material that is not the student's assessment. A tutor may not supply the research question, write or rewrite any part of the submitted text, collect or generate the data, edit a draft to completion, or hand over a worked solution to be submitted.

We put it in writing at the start of an internal assessment or Extended Essay block, and we expect the student to keep their own record of drafts and reflection sessions. That record is also the student's protection: a supervisor who can see the development of the work from question to final draft has evidence of authorship, which matters more now that schools are checking for text a student did not write.

One more boundary worth naming. We do not reproduce or supply IB, Cambridge or Pearson syllabus documents, past papers, mark schemes or grade boundary tables as downloads. Those belong to the boards. Tutors reference them, link the official page, and work from material the school has legitimately provided.