IB physics tutors matched to your child’s level and DP year, building data and uncertainty skills every week, at home or online across Bengaluru.
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From Gurugram · online
Gurugram
Teaches Maths · Physics · JEE
In Bengaluru
Bengaluru
Teaches Physics · Chemistry · Biology
In Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Bangalore
Teaches Physics · Chemistry · Science
From Vijayawada · online
Vijayawada
Teaches Physics
From Gurugram · online
Gurugram
Teaches Maths · Physics
From Delhi · online
Sector 5, Delhi
Teaches Physics · Chemistry · Biology
From Mumbai · online
Mumbai
Teaches Physics
From Kolkata · online
Ballygunge, Gariahat & Alipore, Kolkata
Teaches Maths · Physics · Chemistry
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Book a free demo classAcross 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. Tutors set their own fee, and you see each tutor's fee before the demo class.
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IB Diploma Physics, in the version first assessed in 2025, is organised into five themes and tested in a way that surprises students from other boards: a fifth of the grade comes from an investigation the student designs, and a dedicated set of data-based questions sits inside Paper 1. Formula recall gets a student only so far; reading graphs, handling uncertainties and explaining physics in words carry the rest. This page sets out the course and its assessment, how SL and HL differ, what a tutor may and may not do for the internal assessment, and how IB physics tutors travel across Bengaluru. It sits under our physics home tutors in Bengaluru page and the IB tutors in Bengaluru hub.
The IB plans 150 teaching hours at SL and 240 at HL. Both levels study the same five themes; HL adds whole topics and takes shared topics further.
| Theme | Core topics for everyone | Added at HL |
|---|---|---|
| A. Space, time and motion | Kinematics; forces and momentum; work, energy and power | Rigid body mechanics; relativity |
| B. The particulate nature of matter | Thermal energy transfers; greenhouse effect; gas laws; electric circuits | Thermodynamics |
| C. Wave behaviour | Simple harmonic motion; the wave model; wave phenomena; standing waves and resonance; Doppler effect | No separate topic, but more depth |
| D. Fields | Gravitational, electric and magnetic fields; motion in electromagnetic fields | Induction |
| E. Nuclear and quantum physics | Atomic structure; radioactive decay; fission; fusion and stars | Quantum physics |
Schools teach the themes in their own order, so a tutor should follow the school's sequence rather than the guide's lettering.
| Component | SL | HL | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paper 1A: multiple choice | 25 questions | 40 questions | 36% together; 1 h 30 min (SL) or 2 h (HL) |
| Paper 1B: data-based questions | 20 marks | 20 marks | |
| Paper 2: short and extended answers | 55 marks, 1 h 30 min | 90 marks, 2 h 30 min | 44% |
| Scientific investigation (IA) | 24 marks | 24 marks | 20% |
Calculators and the physics data booklet are allowed on both papers, and wrong multiple-choice answers carry no penalty, so no question in Paper 1A should be left blank. Students also take part in the collaborative sciences project, which is part of the programme but not marked as a physics component.
The extra 90 teaching hours at HL go into rigid bodies, relativity, thermodynamics, induction and quantum physics, plus harder versions of shared topics; Paper 2 is an hour longer and worth 90 marks rather than 55. HL suits students who are comfortable with algebra and calculus-style reasoning and who may want physics or engineering later. Students who choose SL are not choosing an easy course: the data-based questions and the investigation are the same in kind. A tutor's view, based on how a student handles a few weeks of HL-level problems, is useful evidence before the school's deadline for changing level.
Paper 1B gives students experimental data and asks them to work with it: plot or read a graph, linearise a relationship, find a gradient with its uncertainty, judge whether a conclusion is supported. These skills are built slowly, which is why a tutor should weave them into every week rather than saving them for a revision block. A good routine is one short data question per session, on whatever theme the school is teaching, with the student writing a sentence on the reliability of the result each time. The same skills carry straight into the investigation, so the effort pays twice.
Students coming from the Karnataka II PUC will recognise the last point: the board's own physics model paper warns that answers missing a needed diagram, or numericals without formula and working, earn nothing. That habit transfers well; the open, data-heavy questions are what need new practice.
The investigation is worth 24 marks and 20% of the grade. It takes about ten hours of class time and is written up in no more than 3,000 words, marked on four criteria of six marks each. Students may work in groups of up to three, but each needs an individual research question. Data can come from lab work, fieldwork, spreadsheets, databases or simulations.
Explain the criteria and how they are applied; teach the physics behind the student's own idea; teach uncertainty analysis, graphing and spreadsheet skills on practice data; ask questions that help the student judge whether a plan is workable in ten hours.
Choose the research question; design the method; process the student's real data; write, rewrite or edit any part of the report. Doing so breaks the IB's academic integrity rules, and the student should tell their teacher about any outside tutoring.
Our IB physics SL, HL and IA guide goes further into choosing a level and planning the investigation.
| Previous course | Strengths | Usually new |
|---|---|---|
| Karnataka SSLC science | A broad Class 10 base and blueprint-style written answers | Data-based questions, uncertainties, designing an investigation |
| CBSE Class 10 | Standard numericals and derivations | Open questions and extended written explanations |
| ICSE Class 10 | Careful, complete written working | Uncertainty handling and the IB's question style |
| Cambridge IGCSE Physics | Mechanics, waves and electricity content; practical-paper skills | More algebra, fields as a unifying idea |
| IB MYP sciences | Inquiry and criteria-based work | Speed and fluency in exam-style calculation |
A few weeks on kinematics with graphs, vectors and the basic uncertainty toolkit, before or early in DP1, removes most of the early stress. Students coming from Cambridge should also see the IGCSE physics tutor in Bengaluru page.
| Period | Focus | Sessions a week |
|---|---|---|
| Opening weeks of DP1 | Graphs, vectors, units and uncertainties; kinematics | One or two |
| Rest of DP1 | The school's themes in order; one data question every session | One at SL, two at HL |
| Investigation period | Criteria, skills on practice data, feasibility questions; the report itself untouched | Two or three sessions in total |
| DP2 | Remaining themes, then timed Papers 1 and 2 marked against the markscheme | Two, more before mocks |
Parents rarely see what happens in a tutoring hour, so it helps to know what a productive one contains. It usually opens with a check on last week's work and any marked school test, then moves to the concept the school is teaching now, explained with a diagram and a worked example. The middle of the session is the student's turn: two or three exam-style questions, at least one of them data-based, answered under light time pressure with the data booklet open. The last part is marking against the markscheme, with the student saying aloud why each mark was or was not earned. A tutor who spends most of the hour talking, or who solves the school homework while the student copies, is not building the skills the papers test. Ask your child, after the first few sessions, who did most of the writing.
Physics tutoring moves online more easily than most subjects: graphs, simulations and data sets are already on a screen, and the specialist pool for HL widens a great deal. A home session still helps for long written answers and for students who need someone beside them to keep pace. A common pattern in parts of the city without a metro is one home session at the weekend and one online session midweek. Our guide to online and offline tutoring sets out the trade-offs.
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. The tutor's own fee is on the profile before you book; our note on home tuition fees in Bengaluru and the pricing guide explain the range.
Send the level, DP year, exam session, the themes causing trouble, your locality and free slots. You get two or three matched tutors and a free demo class; changing tutor later is free. Tutors who join go through an ID check before their profile is marked Verified. For the rest of the Diploma sciences and maths, see IB maths and IB and IGCSE chemistry tutors in Bengaluru.
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. Each tutor sets their own fee, which you see on the profile before the free demo.
For the course first assessed in 2025, Paper 1 combines multiple-choice questions (25 at SL, 40 at HL) with 20 marks of data-based questions and is worth 36%. Paper 2 is worth 44%: 55 marks at SL, 90 at HL. The scientific investigation, an internal assessment of 24 marks, makes up the final 20%.
HL has 240 teaching hours against 150 at SL, and adds rigid body mechanics, relativity, thermodynamics, induction and quantum physics, with more depth in shared topics. HL Paper 2 is two and a half hours and 90 marks. Both levels share the data-based questions and the same kind of investigation.
Within the rules, yes. A tutor can explain the four criteria, teach the physics behind the student's idea and build graphing and uncertainty skills on practice data. A tutor must not choose the research question, design the method, process the real data or write or edit any part of the report.
The content is manageable; the style is the change. Students from SSLC or CBSE are used to standard numericals and written answers, and are usually new to data-based questions, uncertainty analysis and designing an investigation. A few weeks on graphs, vectors and uncertainties early in DP1 makes a real difference.
Often very well. Graphs, simulations and data sets are already on screen, and online widens the choice of HL specialists. Long written answers and students who need help keeping pace benefit from some home sessions, so many families combine a weekend home session with a midweek online one.
One a week at SL and two at HL is typical in DP1, with a short skills block of two or three sessions during the investigation period. In DP2 most students move to two a week, rising before mocks, as the work shifts to timed papers marked against the markscheme.
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