IB Maths Tutor in Delhi (AA & AI, SL & HL)

AA or AI, SL or HL: four routes under one name

Every Diploma candidate studies one maths course, chosen from two, and takes it at Standard or Higher Level. Both courses share five content areas, from number and algebra and functions through geometry, trigonometry and statistics to calculus, yet the flavour differs so much that a student can thrive on one and struggle on the other.

So "IB maths tuition" is never one request. A tutor who is fluent in AA HL proof can be slow with AI SL statistics on the GDC, and the other way round. We match on course and level together. If your child is still choosing, read our AA, AI, SL and HL guide; the national IB maths tutor page goes deeper into the subject itself.

How each level is examined on the current course

The IB recommends 150 teaching hours at SL and 240 at HL. At both levels the written exams supply 80 percent of the grade and the exploration the remaining 20 percent; what changes is how the exam share is cut.

On AI, the calculator is allowed throughout. Paper 3 is the component HL students find most unfamiliar: each question starts gently and builds, part by part, towards a result the student has not met before, so the skill being tested is following a chain of reasoning without losing confidence halfway. It cannot be crammed in a final month. A tutor should bring Paper 3-style problems into DP1, a few at a time, so that by mock season the format is ordinary.

Current course or revised one? Let the exam session decide

The IB has published revised versions of both maths courses, first taught from August 2027 and first examined in May 2029. Nothing disappears: AA and AI both remain, each at SL and HL, and the 80/20 split between exams and exploration stays. For AA, the published changes include Papers 1 and 2 dropping to 100 marks (from 110), and Paper 3 dropping to 50 marks (from 55) in a one-hour sitting; the exploration continues as the internal assessment, with one set of criteria shared by SL and HL.

The practical rule for a Delhi family: a student whose DP1 began in August 2026 follows the current course and is examined in May 2028, while anyone beginning DP1 in August 2027 or later studies the revised one. Put the exam session in your request. Practising from the wrong generation of past papers is a quiet way to waste a term.

The exploration: where tutoring helps and where it must stop

The exploration is a piece of the student's own mathematics, usually somewhere between 12 and 20 pages by the IB's guidance, built around a question they chose. The school marks it against published criteria (presentation, mathematical communication, personal engagement, reflection, and use of mathematics) and the IB then moderates. Worth a fifth of the grade, a well-run exploration is often the cheapest grade a student will ever earn.

• Allowed. Teaching mathematics the idea needs, even if it sits outside the syllabus. Questioning the student until a wide interest becomes a workable question. Walking through the criteria with the IB's published exemplars. Saying in general terms that a section is hard to follow.
• Not allowed. Choosing the topic, writing or rephrasing sentences, doing calculations, producing graphs, or editing drafts line by line. Any of these breaches the IB's academic-integrity rules and endangers the diploma. The student should also tell their teacher that they have outside tutoring.

Delhi offers questions a student can genuinely own: how metro frequency changes across a day, how far a loop line shortens journeys compared with travelling through the centre, how winter and summer temperatures spread across a year of readings. A narrow question carried through properly beats an ambitious one left half-done.

Arriving in DP maths from CBSE, ICSE, IGCSE or the MYP

Because most Delhi students sit CBSE, many Diploma classrooms here include students who came from it, alongside those from ICSE, Cambridge IGCSE and the IB's own Middle Years Programme. Each group arrives with a different gap.

The repair looks similar for everyone: a short block that rebuilds algebra, functions and trigonometry, using past IB questions marked against the markscheme. Delhi's summer break is the natural moment for it. The CBSE to IB or IGCSE switching guide on our blog, written for Gurugram families, sets out a bridging plan that works just as well here. Students coming up from Cambridge should also read the IGCSE maths tutor in Delhi page.

What a good IB maths session actually covers

1. A short warm-up in the student's weak spot. Non-calculator algebra for AA, a GDC routine for AI.
2. The school topic of the week, taught to the depth of the student's level rather than the textbook's average.
3. One past-paper question, marked properly. Method, accuracy and follow-through marks separated, so the student sees where marks leak.
4. A line in the error log. Which topic, which kind of mistake, and when it will be revisited.

Through DP1 one or two sessions a week is usual; before mocks and the May exams, two or three. HL students often add the extra session earlier because of Paper 3.

IB maths tutors across Delhi: six routes

Specialist IB tutors are few in any city, so the question is less "who lives nearest" and more "whose journey still works on a Thursday evening". Six examples, one from each of six zones:

• GK, Defence Colony and Lajpat Nagar. South Extension has its own Pink Line station, with the Violet Line one stop away at Lajpat Nagar. The Ring Road outside the markets crawls in the evening, so a tutor by metro beats one by car; most floors have their own bell.
• Saket, Malviya Nagar and Hauz Khas. Safdarjung Enclave can be reached from three lines: Bhikaji Cama Place on the Pink, Green Park on the Yellow and R K Puram on the Magenta. Blocks have RWA guards, so pass the tutor's name to the gate first.
• Kalkaji, CR Park and Sarita Vihar. Nehru Enclave has a Magenta Line station, with Nehru Place on the Violet Line close by. The office district fills the roads on weekday evenings; weekend slots are easier for a tutor who drives.
• Lodhi Colony, Jangpura and Nizamuddin. In Lodhi Colony the blocks are open and signposted, and a tutor walks in from Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium on the Violet Line or Jor Bagh on the Yellow.
• Dwarka. Dwarka Sector 23 sits towards the airport; tutors use the Blue Line at Sector 21 or Sector 8 and finish by e-rickshaw. Ask the society for standing permission so a regular tutor is not stopped at the gate every week.
• Pitampura, Model Town and North Campus. Kohat Enclave has a Red Line station inside the colony, so a metro tutor walks to the door while a driving one hunts for evening parking.

Remember the Yamuna: crossing it adds time to any journey, so east Delhi families often do better with a tutor from their own side of the river or with online sessions. Every locality is listed on the Delhi home tutors page, and our South Delhi tuition guide goes colony by colony.

Home, online or both: the IB maths version of the question

Online teaching widens the pool to tutors across the country, which matters most for small specialisms like AA HL or AI HL. Our Delhi zone notes say the same for families around Vasant Kunj, where an IB specialist may be easier to find online. Three things decide the mix:

• Handwritten working. AA students need every line watched. At the table it is natural; online it works only with a second camera pointed down at the page.
• The calculator. On AI, and in any HL Paper 3 work, the tutor must be able to watch the GDC. An emulator shared on screen, or a phone over the keypad, solves it.
• The journey. Delhi's metro now links more colonies than ever, including the Pink Line ring completed in March 2026, but a tutor crossing the river or changing lines at rush hour still loses time. A weekly home session plus a short online one is a sturdy pattern.

Our home versus online tutor comparison weighs the two more generally.

Seven questions for the IB maths demo

1. Before teaching, did the tutor check the course, the level and the exam session?
2. Can they explain, without notes, how "hence" differs from "hence or otherwise", and what "show that" and "write down" each expect?
3. Given a marked school test, can they show where method and accuracy marks were lost?
4. For AA, do they insist on regular non-calculator work? For AI, are they quick on the GDC?
5. For HL, how would they introduce Paper 3 to a DP1 student?
6. What will they do, and refuse to do, for the exploration?
7. Which metro line do they use to reach you, and what happens on a week they cannot travel?

If the demo falls short, tell us; the next matched tutor gets a free demo of their own. Our demo class checklist has more to look for.

Fees and next steps

Across NXTutors, most home-tuition sessions fall between ₹800 and ₹2,500 an hour; Classes 11–12, IB/IGCSE and JEE/NEET sit toward the upper end; specialists for IB HL or JEE Advanced can charge more. In Delhi, the course and level, the tutor's route and the number of weekly sessions move the figure. Tutors set their fees themselves, and every fee is on the profile ahead of the demo. For the factors, read the pricing guide and the home tuition fees in Delhi post.

A useful request names the course and level, the exam session, the DP year, the trouble spots, your colony or nearest metro station and two or three possible slots. Two or three matched tutors come back to you, one of them takes a free demo class, and a later change of tutor costs nothing. Every tutor who joins passes an ID check before the Verified badge appears; you are welcome to look through tutor profiles beforehand. Science students can also use our pages for IB physics and IB and IGCSE chemistry tutors in Delhi.