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.
In short. Arche Academy International teaches the IB Diploma in Mathematics (AA and AI), Chemistry, Physics and Economics, at SL and HL. Classes in Singapore are five students to a class near Kovan MRT, from S$155 per 2-hour lesson. Students overseas, including in Hong Kong and the UAE, learn one to one on Zoom from US$200.
Every lesson is taught by the founder, Glen Teo, who has taught more than 80 IB and IGCSE students since 2022. Recorded before-and-after grades are on the results page.
Subjects
Three subjects, taught properly.
SL & HLMathematicsAnalysis & Approaches · Applications & Interpretation
SL & HLChemistryThe current syllabus, taught to the rubric
SL & HLPhysicsPaper technique and the Internal Assessment
SL & HLEconomicsEssays, Paper 3 and the IA commentariesNot 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 first | We find what is missing underneath before adding anything on top |
| Current papers | Past papers from the current syllabus, marked against the current rubric |
| Command terms | Taught explicitly — what “evaluate” earns that “describe” does not |
| Internal Assessment | Coached from research question to final evaluation, included in the fee |
| Class size | Five students in Kovan; one to one on Zoom for students overseas |
| Parents | Written progress updates at regular intervals |
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