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Physics tutor in Bali: IGCSE, IB, A-Level and secondary
Physics tutoring across IGCSE, IB, A-Level and secondary: mechanics, electricity, waves and thermodynamics with worked past papers, at your home or villa, or online.
What physics tutoring covers
Physics has a reputation for difficulty that is mostly a reputation for accumulated gaps. Each topic assumes the last, so a wobble in forces becomes a wobble in energy, which becomes a lost term in electricity. The fix is systematic: find where the chain broke, repair there, then rebuild forwards.
We cover mechanics — forces, motion, energy, momentum — electricity and circuits, waves and fields, thermal physics, and the further topics IB HL and A-Level add. Exam technique includes command terms, unit discipline, significant figures and showing working under time pressure. For IB students, internal assessment guidance stays inside IB rules: the investigation remains the student’s own work.
- Mechanics: the load-bearing topics of every syllabus.
- Electricity: circuits where confidence with mathematics matters as much as concepts.
- Waves, fields and modern physics: the more abstract senior material.
- IB internal assessment: research question, criteria and draft review.
- Exam technique: units, significant figures and method marks.
How physics sessions run
Physics rewards one method above all: problems, worked properly. A session opens with recall on recent topics, teaches one idea, then puts your child on graded questions while the tutor watches the method. In physics the method is the answer — examiners award most marks to the reasoning, not the final figure.
Where space allows, tutors make the subject physical: measuring, timing, building simple circuits. Abstract topics land better when a student has once held them in their hands. Between sessions, ten problems done carefully and reviewed teach more than forty done in a rush.
Who physics tutoring suits
Year 9 students building foundations; IGCSE students wrestling with electricity; IB or A-Level students aiming at engineering, computer science or a physical science degree. The most common — and most fixable — brief is the student who is strong at maths but freezes when the same algebra appears inside a physics problem.
We treat the mathematics inside physics as part of the job. Tutors rebuild that transfer explicitly. Where a deeper maths gap is the real cause, we say so and can pair the brief with maths tutoring.
Syllabi we cover
| Syllabus | What physics tutoring covers |
|---|---|
| Cambridge IGCSE | Core and Extended: motion, energy, electricity, waves and thermal physics, with past papers from the correct code |
| IB Diploma | Physics SL and HL, subject to tutor availability, including IA guidance within IB rules |
| A-Level | Mechanics, materials, electricity, fields and further board topics, with timed marked papers |
| Lower secondary | The physics strand inside combined or coordinated science |
Exam calendars and curriculum joins
Most physics students in Bali sit Cambridge or IB examinations in May, June or November. Preparation works backwards: topic audit, targeted teaching, timed past papers marked to real mark schemes. For students changing schools or curricula, the first job is a gap map — what the new syllabus assumes the old one taught — written down with an honest estimate of time to close each gap.
Rates
School physics tutoring sits on the Standard rate of IDR 500,000 per hour for children. Specialist briefs may sit at Master (IDR 1,000,000). Your written quote confirms the rate, travel arrangements and any additional costs before booking.
Next step
Send four lines on WhatsApp: year group, school, curriculum and area, plus where physics is hurting. We reply within one working day. After the discovery call, we confirm tutor availability and the expected time for your written profile.
Frequently asked questions
Do you tutor IB Physics at Higher Level?
Subject to current tutor availability. HL briefs go to tutors with specific Diploma experience, including additional HL topics and IA criteria.
My child is good at maths but struggling with physics. Why?
Usually confidence rather than ability. Mathematical skills transfer poorly until practised inside physics contexts. This is one of the most common and most fixable briefs we receive.
Can a tutor help with the IB physics internal assessment?
Within IB rules: criteria, research question and draft review. The investigation and writing must be your child’s own.
Can you help a student who is far behind?
Catch-up is possible if we start early enough to be honest about it. The first sessions map where the chain of topics broke; some gaps close in weeks, deeper ones take a term or more.
Can sessions be online?
Physics works well online with a shared whiteboard for working and diagrams, billed at 10 percent below the in-person rate.
Do you cover Cambridge IGCSE and A-Level physics?
We match briefs to the syllabus your child is sitting, including Cambridge IGCSE and A-Level where a suitable tutor is available. Tell us board and paper codes when you enquire.
What does physics tutoring cost?
School students sit on Standard IDR 500,000 per hour; specialist briefs may sit at Master (IDR 1,000,000), confirmed in writing before the first session. Full tiers: pricing guide.
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