UP Board Home Tutor in Varanasi (High School & Intermediate)

What the UP Board is, in four lines

Its formal name is Madhyamik Shiksha Parishad, Uttar Pradesh. An act of the United Provinces Legislative Council set it up at Prayagraj in 1921, and it held its first examination in 1923. Today it grants recognition to schools, prescribes curricula and textbooks, and conducts two public examinations: High School at the end of Class 10 and Intermediate at the end of Class 12. Everything else on this page follows from those three jobs: what is taught is fixed centrally, published on one website, and examined to the board's own pattern.

The regional office in Varanasi, and when a family needs it

The board opened its Varanasi regional office in 1978, and the board's contact page gives its address as Orderly Bazar. The same page lists the districts it serves: Varanasi itself, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Ballia, Mau, Azamgarh, Sultanpur, Faizabad, Barabanki, Amethi and others, and, in the page's words, all the districts of the newly created Gorakhpur regional office, with records held from 1986. The board directs questions about examinations, results, duplicate certificates and mark sheets, migration, verification and scrutiny to its regional offices.

For most families that means the office matters after the exam, not before it: a lost mark sheet, a migration certificate for a move to another board, or a request to have an answer book scrutinised. A tutor has no part in those requests. What a tutor can do is make sure, in the months before, that nothing on the school side will need correcting afterwards. Use the contact details published on upmsp.edu.in rather than numbers passed around on messaging groups.

A board year, as the website lays it out

The board's home page shows how far ahead it works. In the 2026-27 session, advance registration for Class 9 and Class 11 students is already open for the examinations of 2028, while Class 10 and Class 12 students are being registered, through their schools or as private candidates, for the 2027 examinations. In the same place the board posted its notice on the 2026 High School improvement and compartment examinations and the Intermediate compartment examination. Put together, a family's board year has four checkpoints:

Our guide to choosing a board and stream helps with the Class 11 decision, which is the one checkpoint where a few weeks of honest teaching in two subjects can prevent a costly change later.

Six kinds of file a tutor should be using

Under its student menu the board publishes six sets of material. A tutor who works from them is teaching to the board's own design; one who works only from a bazaar guide may be a session or two behind it.

Many of these files are in Hindi. A tutor for an English-medium student should still read them, because the unit list and the marks are the same whichever language the child writes in.

Intermediate physics for 2026-27, unit by unit

One subject shows how much a syllabus file tells you. The board's Class 12 physics syllabus for 2026-27 sets a total of 100 marks: a written paper of 70 and practical work of 30. The minimum pass mark is written as 23 plus 10, that is 33 in all, with 23 from the paper and 10 from the practical. The theory is split into two sections of 35 marks each.

Three planning points follow. First, optics is the largest single unit, worth almost a fifth of the paper, so it deserves early and repeated work rather than a rush in January. Second, the four electricity and magnetism units together carry 31 marks and build on each other in order; a student weak in electrostatics will struggle all the way to alternating currents, so the tutor should secure the first unit before moving on. Third, because the pass mark is split between paper and practical, a student cannot lean on practical marks alone; a tutor working with a weak student should aim first at the units that most reliably add marks. Students also preparing for JEE or NEET will recognise these topics; see JEE and NEET home tutors in Varanasi for how one plan can serve both, and the physics home tutors in Varanasi page for the subject across boards.

The practical list: thirty marks that need preparation too

The same file lists twenty experiments in two sections. Among them are finding resistance and specific resistance with a metre bridge, comparing the e.m.f. of two cells and finding internal resistance with a potentiometer, finding the focal length of lenses, drawing the graph of angle of incidence against deviation for a prism to find the minimum deviation and refractive index, converting a galvanometer into an ammeter or a voltmeter, and drawing the characteristic curves of a p-n junction diode and a Zener diode.

A home tutor cannot run the laboratory, and should not try to. What a tutor can do is make sure the student understands what each experiment measures and why, can sketch the circuit or ray diagram from memory, knows which graph to plot and how to read the result from it, and can answer the viva-style questions that follow. The pass mark includes 10 from the practical, so this is not a corner to cut.

Four school unit tests, and why they matter even though they do not count

The physics file also sets out four unit tests for remedial teaching, held by the school. The first, multiple choice, comes in the second week of July and is worth 20 marks, ten of them for homework set over the summer vacation. The second, with descriptive questions, falls in the last week of August. The third, multiple choice again, is in the last week of November, and the fourth, descriptive, in the last week of December, each worth 20. The board states that these marks are not included in the result.

Because they do not count, it is tempting to ignore them. That throws away the clearest early warning the year offers. A tutor should ask to see every unit test paper, note the units where marks were lost, and plan the following month around them. The alternation also teaches something: the two multiple-choice tests reward speed and recall, the two descriptive ones reward full working and clear diagrams, and the final paper will need both. The summer homework that feeds the first test is a good first task for a new tutor in May or June.

Beyond physics: the other subject files

The board's syllabus page carries similar files for the main subjects. For Class 10 these include Hindi, Elementary Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati, along with Mathematics, Science, Social Science, Commerce, Agriculture and Computer. For Class 12 they include Hindi, English, Sanskrit, Urdu, History, Geography, Mathematics, Economics, Computer, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Accountancy and Business Studies. Ask a tutor to bring the current file for your child's subject to the demo; it is quick to find on the website and tells you at once whether the tutor works from it.

• Science students: chemistry, biology and maths home tutors in Varanasi.
• High School students: science and maths, with Class 10 maths help.
• Language papers: English home tutors in Varanasi.

Hindi medium or English medium: say which

UP Board students in Varanasi study in Hindi or in English, and the same physics chapter reads very differently in each. The syllabus file quoted above is itself written in Hindi. So a request should name three things at once: the board, the class and the language of your child's answer script. The tutor is free to explain in Hindi, English or a mix, whichever your child grasps fastest, but practice answers must use the vocabulary of the paper your child will actually write. Get the medium wrong and even a strong teacher becomes a poor match.

How UP Board tutors reach six Varanasi localities

• Brij Enclave Colony sits between the Lanka side and the Banaras station side, so tutors can come from either direction. Give the lane and house number, since colony streets look alike, and register the tutor at the gate of an apartment building.
• Chitaipur is mostly independent houses in growing colonies, with thin public transport; most tutors come by two-wheeler, so send a map pin and a turning landmark.
• Shivpur is served by Shivpur Road, the Lucknow road and the ring road. Look first for tutors in Shivpur, Bhojuveer or Parmanandpur, and give the security desk of a gated community the tutor's name and phone number.
• Varanasi Cantonment has wide roads but many homes behind a gate; tell the guard who is coming and check whether ID is needed. Tutors from Nadesar or near the junction station have the shortest trip.
• Pandeypur is largely flats; share the block and floor, and choose a slot that avoids the evening build-up towards the station and the centre.
• Paharia is mainly independent houses on the way towards Sarnath, where the tutor comes to the doorstep; give the lane and a nearby shop or crossing on the first day.

The zone pages for the south-west, north-west and north-east go further; every locality is on the Varanasi home tutors page, and our Varanasi home tuition guide covers timing in each zone.

Home, online, or both

Home visits suit High School students, anyone who drifts on a screen, and the subjects where the tutor must watch working: maths, physics numericals, chemical equations and accountancy. Online suits a quick check before a unit test, a senior subject whose right tutor lives across the city, and evenings when summer heat, monsoon rain or winter fog make the trip difficult. One tutor across both formats keeps the plan in one head. Our home tutor or online tutor comparison sets out the trade-offs, and the online tutors for Varanasi page explains how to arrange lessons on screen. For students moving between boards, see our CBSE and ICSE and ISC pages for Varanasi.

Five questions for a UP Board tutor at the demo

1. "Which class, subject and medium have you taught on this board recently?" Teaching Intermediate physics in Hindi is not the same job as teaching High School maths in English.
2. "Can you show me this session's syllabus file for the subject?" A tutor who works from it finds it in moments.
3. "Which units carry the most marks, and how will you order the year?" For physics, listen for optics and the electricity units.
4. "What will you do with the school unit tests?" The right answer is to read every paper and plan from the errors.
5. "How will you help with practicals without doing them?" Diagrams, graphs, readings and viva questions, not the record book.

We send two or three matched tutors and show each fee before you book. The first class is a free demo, and switching tutor later is free. Tutors who join go through an ID check; the Verified badge appears only after our team has reviewed the ID (how we check tutors). The demo class checklist has more ideas.

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. Each tutor sets their own fee. The pricing guide and our post on home tuition fees in Varanasi explain what to ask about session length, travel and test reviews.

Send us the class, the Intermediate group if relevant, the medium, whether your child is a school or private candidate, your locality with a landmark and the times that suit you. The first class is a free demo. You can browse tutor profiles first, and our UP Board tutors in Lucknow page covers the board's registration and eligibility rules in more detail. If you teach UP Board subjects, see tuition jobs in Varanasi.