IB Physics Tutoring
Higher and Standard Level Physics, from syllabus content to the Internal Assessment and the extended-response technique that separates a 5 from a 7.
From AED 349 per lesson
- Higher and Standard Level
- Internal Assessment design and uncertainty analysis
- Extended-response and data-based question technique
Why understanding physics is not enough
The most common pattern we see is a student who can explain a concept correctly in conversation and scores a 4 on the paper. The physics is not the problem; the answer construction is. A six-mark explanation question expects a specific number of distinct, credited points, and a fluent paragraph that makes three of them scores three marks however well written it is.
So a large share of lesson time goes to answering questions against the real markscheme. Students are usually surprised by how mechanical the marking is, and that surprise is itself the fix — once you can see the marks as a checklist, you stop writing essays and start writing answers.
Where marks are typically lost
Uncertainties and error analysis
Routinely under-taught and heavily assessed, particularly in the Internal Assessment.
Graph work
Gradients, intercepts and what a linearised graph actually demonstrates.
Definitions
Precise wording matters; an approximately right definition frequently scores nothing.
HL-only content
Where Higher Level students who coped at Standard Level start to fall behind quietly.
The Internal Assessment investigation
The IA is where the most accessible marks sit, because the student controls the topic, the method and the time. The failure mode is almost always a research question that is too broad to produce a clean relationship. We spend time on that choice before any data is collected, because no amount of good analysis rescues a badly framed investigation.
Frequently asked questions
The questions UAE students and parents ask us most often about this program.
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Send us a marked past paper
We will show you where the marks were available and what the answers needed to contain.