How do Australian International School students move into IB Maths and Physics?
At Australian International School, students reach IB Maths and IB Physics after Cambridge IGCSE in Years 9 and 10, when they choose the IB Diploma instead of the NSW Higher School Certificate for Years 11 and 12. DP1 therefore starts straight after IGCSE, and the step up in pace and abstraction shows in the first term. AIS offers all four IB Maths courses, AA and AI at both HL and SL, so the course choice is a real decision and worth making with care. IGCSE builds solid algebra and basic mechanics, but DP1 soon asks for formal reasoning, functions treated as objects and calculus used with understanding. Physics adds vectors, uncertainties and graphs read quantitatively. In DP1 I close those gaps early, before they turn into lost marks in Year 12.
Where do Australian International School students usually need help in IB Maths and Physics?
Australian International School students usually look for IB Maths tuition when they face AA HL or AI HL, especially Paper 3, and for IB Physics tuition when HL mechanics, fields and data analysis get demanding. The Internal Assessment in both subjects is the other common pressure point, because it is written during term alongside regular coursework. Maths HL Paper 3 is a long, unfamiliar problem that rewards stamina and structure more than recall, so I train students to read the scaffolding and extend a pattern step by step. In Physics HL the difficulty is rarely the formula and usually the model behind it. For the IA, I help students choose a question that can be answered with real data or real mathematics, and I explain the structure the criteria reward. The research and the writing stay the student's own.
How does one-to-one online IB tuition work in Singapore time?
IB Maths tuition and IB Physics tuition with me for Australian International School students is one-to-one and online, on weekday evenings between 5 pm and 9 pm Singapore time. I teach from Europe, so those hours are my working morning, and lessons fit after the school day at Lorong Chuan. We work on a shared digital whiteboard, and the notes from every lesson stay with the student for revision. I plan from the student's own school material: the unit being taught at AIS, recent tests and the IA deadlines. Because AIS sits the IB exams in the November session, I plan backwards from November, closing syllabus gaps well before Year 12 ends and keeping September to November for timed past papers. Parents who want it receive a short written update after each lesson.
If your child studies IB Maths or IB Physics at Australian International School, book a 20-minute assessment session with me, with no charge and no commitment. We look at where they stand now and what the months before the November exams should look like.