IB Diploma · Grades 11–12

IB tuition built around your child’s actual subjects.

The IB Diploma is one of the most demanding qualifications in the world, and it punishes students who know the content but not the mark scheme. We teach both.

Subjects

Three subjects, taught properly.

SubjectLevels
MathematicsAA SL · AA HL · AI SL · AI HLExplore →
ChemistrySL · HLExplore →
PhysicsSL · HLExplore →

Not sure which subject is doing the damage? The free diagnostic will tell you. Often it is not the subject the student complains about.

Why specialist teaching

The IBDP is not the A-Level with a different name.

It has its own assessment style, a compulsory Internal Assessment in every subject, Theory of Knowledge alongside it, and a global rubric that rewards one very particular kind of answer.

Most students who struggle in IB exams are not short of intelligence. They are short of three specific things: command-term fluency, the subject vocabulary the rubric actually rewards, and a way of laying out an answer that collects method marks even when the final number is wrong.

Those three are teachable in weeks. Content takes longer. We usually start with the three.

How we teach it

Foundation first, then technique, then content.

Foundation firstWe find what is missing underneath before adding anything on top
Current papersPast papers from the current syllabus, marked against the current rubric
Command termsTaught explicitly — what “evaluate” earns that “describe” does not
Internal AssessmentCoached from research question to final evaluation, included in the fee
Class sizeFive students in Kovan; one to one on Zoom for students overseas
ParentsWritten progress updates at regular intervals

Questions

What parents ask.

When should my child start IB tuition?
Ideally at the start of Year 1, before the content load compounds. But we take students at any stage, including in the final months before a May or November session.
Do you help with Internal Assessments?
Yes, and it is included rather than charged as an extra. We coach students through choosing a viable research question, collecting and processing data, structuring the write-up, and writing the evaluation section that most students under-serve.
Can you teach a subject my child’s school teaches differently?
The IB subject guide is the same worldwide, so yes. Where schools differ is sequencing. Tell us your child’s school and we will align the worksheet order to their scheme of work.

Find out which of the three is costing your child marks.