Science tutor jobs: physics, chemistry and biology tuition with NXTutors

You decide which sciences and classes you teach, where you travel, whether you work online, and your fee for each class. Parents see that fee before the demo. We make no promise about the number of requests you will see; that depends on your subjects, your location and the requests that come in.

Middle-school science, Classes 6 to 8, is broad and practical: food, materials, light, electricity and circuits, living things, force and pressure, and simple chemical change. Parents at this stage want a tutor who gets the child explaining why things happen in their own words, reading diagrams carefully and writing definitions precisely, rather than piling on extra content.

Class 9 is the jump. Science turns into three subjects in one course: motion, force, gravitation, work and energy, and sound in physics; matter, atoms and molecules in chemistry; the cell, tissues and precise terminology in biology. Students who coasted on memory find it no longer works. Class 10 adds the board paper, with chemical reactions, carbon compounds, life processes, heredity, light and electricity, and questions that are increasingly case-based.

In Classes 11 and 12 the sciences become separate, demanding subjects. CBSE physics, chemistry and biology each carry a 70-mark theory paper and 30 marks of practical assessment. ISC chemistry and biology in Class 12 have a 70-mark theory paper, a 15-mark practical paper, 10 marks of project work and 5 for the practical file. NEET rewards precise recall of NCERT; JEE rewards depth and multi-step reasoning.

CBSE teaches science as one integrated subject from Class 6 to Class 10, using NCERT, and the Class 10 board paper is a single science paper of 80 marks with 20 marks of internal assessment. A CBSE tutor works through NCERT line by line, including in-text questions and activities, and uses NCERT Exemplar for harder practice. Under CISCE, many ICSE schools teach Physics, Chemistry and Biology separately well before Class 10, when each becomes its own paper; ICSE chemistry goes further into the mole concept and analytical chemistry, and answers need to be precise and well structured.

Cambridge IGCSE sciences are examined through structured papers where command words and practical skills matter, with a Core or Extended tier. IB MYP sciences are assessed against criteria that include inquiry and designing investigations, so tutoring leans toward scientific writing. In the IB Diploma, chemistry includes an internally assessed scientific investigation worth 20%: you can guide the method, but the investigation has to remain the student's own.

The demo is the first lesson with a family, and it costs them nothing. Teach the chapter the student is on in school, after asking a couple of quick questions on that chapter and the one before it. Parents are advised to check whether the child drew a diagram or attempted a numerical during the hour, whether you explained a hard idea in a second way, whether you know how your board's paper is set out, and whether you linked the science to the kitchen, the road or the body.

Finish with a plan: what the first month covers, how often you will test, and how the parent will hear about progress. Keep any home experiments to safe household materials such as turmeric indicators or a cell-and-bulb circuit; heat, flames, strong acids and mains electricity belong in the school lab. If the family chooses someone else after the demo, switching is free for them, and that is simply part of how matching works.

A parent's request lists the class, the board, which sciences need help, the locality, the days and times that suit, home or online, and a budget. Home requests go to the closest tutors first: those living in that area, then those who travel there, then the zone and the wider city, followed by online tutors. Two or three are shortlisted. One family may want a single tutor for all of CBSE Class 9 science, while an ICSE family may want a chemistry specialist only, so list exactly what you cover.

Your fee per class sits on your profile and is visible to the family before the demo. 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.

Say which sciences you teach and up to which class: all three sciences to Class 10, or Class 11 and 12 physics only, or NEET biology. Name the boards and programmes you have taught, such as CBSE, ICSE, ISC, IGCSE or IB, and mention practical-file and viva preparation if you offer it. Add the localities you can reach after school hours and the slots you keep free. Families searching for a combined maths and science tutor up to Class 8 can be matched to you only if your profile lists both.

Every tutor who joins completes an ID check: a one-time code confirms your phone or email, then you upload a government photo ID that our team reviews before your profile is marked Verified. Passing adds a Verified badge, which confirms identity and nothing more; it is not a police verification. The steps are explained on How we verify tutors. Joining is free, and the Free plan includes 160 lead credits a month; paid plans on /pricing are optional extras, never a fee to apply for a tuition.

Home suits younger students, children who lose focus on screens, and anyone practising diagrams and numericals by hand while you watch the pencil. Online suits older, self-motivated students and those who need a specialist such as ICSE chemistry or IGCSE physics who does not live nearby. A hybrid of one home session and one online doubt or test session works when you teach both.

There is no NXTutors classroom app. Before the first online lesson, you and the parent settle on a video-call tool, a digital whiteboard or document camera so diagrams and working stay visible, and a channel the parent can see for links and messages. Insist on formula, substitution with units and a boxed answer every time; that habit transfers to the screen as well as to paper.