ICSE Chemistry Tutor in Gurgaon (Class 9–10 & ISC)

ICSE Chemistry is Science Paper 2

CISCE sets ICSE Science (52) as three papers: physics is Paper 1, chemistry Paper 2 and biology Paper 3. Each is marked on its own, so a student's chemistry grade does not hide behind a good biology score. Our ICSE home tutors in Gurgaon page covers the rest of the ICSE subjects.

Which syllabus applies to your child: 2027 or 2028

CISCE publishes a syllabus for each examination year. Students in Class 10 in 2026-27 sit the 2027 examination, under the syllabus dated February 2025. Students in Class 9 in 2026-27 will sit the 2028 examination, under the syllabus CISCE published in January 2026. The paper shape and the chapter headings are the same in both, but some content has moved, as the sections below note. Check the syllabus for your exam year on cisce.org.

The ICSE Class 9 chemistry syllabus

Class 9 builds the language and the basic models of chemistry. The 2028 syllabus, which today's Class 9 students follow, has eight topics:

In the 2027 syllabus the last topic was called Atmospheric Pollution and did not cover water pollution, and the atomic models of Rutherford and Bohr were not listed. Valency and formula writing are the base for everything else. A student who has to guess the formula of aluminium sulphate in Class 9 will guess equations, mole ratios and salt preparations in Class 10.

The ICSE Class 10 chemistry syllabus

The 2028 syllabus keeps these nine headings. Its most visible Class 10 change is in analytical chemistry, where calcium and magnesium salts join those of iron, copper, zinc and lead. In both years students see the full periodic table, but questions are not set on elements beyond period 4. Both the old and the IUPAC group numbering are accepted in the examination, which is worth knowing when older reference books use IA to VIIA.

How Class 9 leads into Class 10

• Orbit structures become electron dot structures. Class 9 bonding diagrams turn into Class 10 dot structures, polar bonds and coordinate bonds.
• The periodic table becomes periodic trends. Class 9 learns how the table is arranged; Class 10 asks why size, ionisation potential and electronegativity change across a period and down a group.
• Relative molecular mass becomes the mole. Class 9 percentage composition and gas laws lead straight into molar volume, vapour density and stoichiometry.
• Hydrogen preparation becomes four compounds. The Class 9 way of studying a gas (reactants, conditions, collection, tests) is reused for HCl, ammonia, nitric acid and sulphuric acid.
• New in Class 10: analytical chemistry, electrolysis, metallurgy and organic chemistry.

All three sciences, year by year, are on our Gurugram pages for Class 9 science and Class 10 science tuition.

Equations and observations: writing chemistry the ICSE way

An ICSE chemistry answer about a reaction usually needs four things: the balanced equation with state symbols where useful, the condition (heat, catalyst, dilute or concentrated), the observation, and, when asked, the reason. "A gas is given off" earns little; "brisk effervescence; a colourless gas that turns lime water milky" is what the marker is looking for. Colours of precipitates and solutions, smells of gases and the test for each gas are learnt as fixed pairs. A tutor should drill these with short written recall tests, not by reading notes aloud.

Worked examples: balancing, moles and gas laws

These are original problems, set out in full, with every figure checked.

One more Class 10 pattern combines two syllabus ideas. A hydrocarbon contains 85.7% carbon and 14.3% hydrogen, and its vapour density is 28. Dividing by atomic mass gives C 85.7/12 ≈ 7.14 and H 14.3/1 = 14.3, a ratio of 1 : 2, so the empirical formula is CH₂ (formula mass 14). Molecular mass = 2 × vapour density = 56, and 56/14 = 4, so the molecular formula is C₄H₈.

Analytical chemistry: the precipitate table

Analytical chemistry questions give a salt solution and a reagent added drop by drop, then in excess, and ask for the observation. The 2027 syllabus names salts of iron, copper, zinc and lead, plus ammonium salts; the 2028 syllabus adds calcium and magnesium. This is the table students should be able to write from memory:

The two rows students most often confuse are zinc and lead: both give white precipitates, both dissolve in excess sodium hydroxide, and only excess ammonium hydroxide tells them apart. With ammonium salts, warming with sodium hydroxide releases ammonia, which turns moist red litmus blue.

Electrolysis without guesswork

The syllabus names the cases: molten lead bromide, acidified water with platinum electrodes, and aqueous copper sulphate with copper electrodes and with platinum electrodes. The copper sulphate pair is a favourite contrast. With copper electrodes, copper is deposited at the cathode (Cu²⁺ + 2e⁻ → Cu) and the anode dissolves (Cu → Cu²⁺ + 2e⁻), so the blue colour of the solution stays the same. With platinum electrodes, copper is still deposited at the cathode, but hydroxide ions are discharged at the anode and oxygen is given off; the blue colour fades and the solution becomes acidic. A student who can explain why the anode material changes the result understands selective discharge, which is what the examiner is testing.

Common ICSE chemistry mistakes and how a tutor fixes them

• Wrong formula, so a wrong equation. Fix: a weekly formula-writing drill from valencies and radicals until it is automatic.
• Equations without conditions. Haber's, Contact and Ostwald's processes and the laboratory preparations lose marks when the catalyst or temperature condition is left out. Fix: learn each reaction as one unit of reactants, condition and products.
• Vague observations. "Colour changes" instead of the colour it changes from and to. Fix: observation flashcards written out, not just read.
• Mole ratios from an unbalanced equation. Fix: balance first, then write the mole ratio as a separate line before any arithmetic.
• Celsius left in the gas equation. Fix: convert to kelvin in the first line, every time.
• Organic names with the wrong chain. Fix: practise the longest-chain and lowest-number rules on drawn structures, alkanes to alkynes, up to five carbons.
• Trends stated without reasons. Fix: every periodic trend answered with nuclear charge and number of shells.

Practical work and the 20 internal marks

The chemistry practical asks students to observe the effect of heat and reagents on substances and to identify gases and ions. The gases listed are hydrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, chlorine, hydrogen chloride, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, water vapour and nitrogen dioxide. In the 2027 Class 10 list the ions are copper, iron, lead, zinc and ammonium, with carbonate, chloride, nitrate, sulphide, sulphite and sulphate; the 2028 list adds magnesium and calcium. A formal scheme of analysis is not required. The minimum Class 10 work includes the action of heat on carbonates and nitrates, the sodium hydroxide and ammonium hydroxide tests above, telling an acid from an alkali with two tests each, and the action of concentrated hydrochloric acid on copper oxide and manganese dioxide.

A tutor at home does not handle these chemicals. The value is in teaching the expected observation and the deduction for each test, so the student walks into the school lab knowing what to look for.

How a home tutor plans the ICSE chemistry year

Each school orders chapters its own way, and the tutor works around that order. This outline assumes a spring start to the session; shift it to match your school's calendar.

After Class 10: ISC chemistry, CBSE Class 11, NEET and JEE

ICSE students usually continue with ISC chemistry in Class 11, or switch to CBSE. Their strengths on arrival are equations, observations and inorganic tests; the new demands are physical chemistry with more mathematics, and organic chemistry with mechanisms. ISC chemistry also has practical work, and a tutor should prepare for it from Class 11. Our Class 11 chemistry tutor page covers that year. Students who plan for entrance exams can see the NEET chemistry tutor in Gurgaon and JEE chemistry tutor in Gurgaon pages, and our chemistry home tutor in Gurgaon guide covers every board in the city.

Choosing an ICSE chemistry tutor

• Ask for an equation with its condition. For example, the catalytic oxidation of ammonia. A tutor who knows ICSE will give the balanced equation and the catalyst without looking it up.
• Ask for an observation. "What do you see when ammonium hydroxide is added to copper sulphate solution, drop by drop and then in excess?" The answer should be precise.
• Watch a mole numerical. Every step written, units carried, the mole ratio shown on its own line.
• Check syllabus awareness. The tutor should know, for instance, that the periodic table is examined only to period 4 and that organic structures go up to five carbons.
• Ask about the practical. Which gas and ion tests they will cover, and how.

Your shortlist has two or three tutors with fees shown up front, and a change of tutor later costs nothing. Tutors who join go through an ID check; the Verified badge appears only after our team has reviewed the ID. The steps are on our tutor checks page.

ICSE chemistry tuition across Gurugram

ICSE chemistry tutors are spread across the city rather than clustered in one zone, so we match on travel time at your preferred hour. Families in Sushant Lok Phase I, Sector 31 and Nirvana Country can usually find a tutor within easy reach for evening sessions. In Palam Vihar and the newer sectors off the expressway, choosing the right specialist first and mixing home and online sessions often works better than waiting for someone nearby. The Sohna Road and South City guide and the New Gurgaon and Dwarka Expressway guide describe local timing in more detail.

Chemistry suits a hybrid plan well: equations, structures and observation tables at home where the tutor checks the notebook, numericals and quick recall tests online. Browse by sector on the hub page for home tutors in Gurgaon. Families comparing schools and boards may find Gurgaon schools, boards and choosing a tutor useful, and our ICSE Class 9 and 10 physics, chemistry and biology guide looks at the three papers side by side.

Fees and getting started

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 Gurgaon home tuition fees guide explains the range.

Share the class, the chapters that worry your child, the sector or society you live in and your free evenings. A shortlist of two or three ICSE chemistry tutors follows, and the one you like gives a free demo class.