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IB Middle Years Programme

IB MYP tuition — MYP 4 and MYP 5

MYP has no prescribed chapter list — your child's school designs the units against the IB's criteria. That freedom is a strength, and it is also why MYP students often arrive at the Diploma Programme with excellent thinking and shaky computation.

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How MYP is actually built

MYP is a five-year programme for ages eleven to sixteen. MYP 4 usually corresponds to Grade 9 and MYP 5 to Grade 10, though the IB does not publish a rigid year-to-grade table because schools implement the programme over different spans.

The structural difference from any board is this: the IB publishes aims, objectives and assessment criteria, and the school designs the course. There is no prescribed textbook, no fixed chapter list, no universal past-paper bank. Units are built around key concepts, related concepts, global contexts and Approaches to Learning skills.

That means a tutor cannot arrive with a standard syllabus and teach it. I need your child's unit plan and the task brief, and the work is built around those — which is exactly how MYP is meant to run.

The criteria

How MYP work is marked

Four criteria per subject, each scored 1 to 8 in four bands, assessed repeatedly through the year rather than once.

Scored 1–8

Sciences — Physics and Chemistry

  • A — Knowing and understanding. Scientific knowledge, applied to solve problems and make supported judgments.
  • B — Inquiring and designing. Hypotheses, variables, method design, practical skill.
  • C — Processing and evaluating. Collecting and interpreting data, explaining conclusions, evaluating the method.
  • D — Reflecting on the impacts of science. Implications and applications of science to real problems.

Criterion A is the one most often carried by gaps, because it is the only one that tests content directly.

Scored 1–8

Mathematics

  • A — Knowing and understanding. Selecting and applying mathematics in familiar and unfamiliar situations.
  • B — Investigating patterns. Finding patterns, describing them as rules, justifying or proving.
  • C — Communicating. Mathematical language, notation and representation, in writing and orally.
  • D — Applying mathematics in real-life contexts. Transferring theory into real situations.

Framework branches: numerical and abstract reasoning; thinking with models; spatial reasoning; reasoning with data.

Standard or extended mathematics — the decision that matters

In MYP 4 and 5 schools may run mathematics at two levels. Standard gives a sound grounding in the basic principles. Extended is the standard framework plus additional topics and depth, and the IB states plainly that extended mathematics is the foundation for students who want Mathematics Higher Level in the Diploma Programme.

So a student on standard mathematics in MYP 5 who then chooses Maths AA HL in DP1 is starting behind. That gap is real, it is well documented, and it is the single most useful thing tutoring can fix while there is still time — which means MYP 4, not the summer before DP.

The extended/standard split carries through into the external exam too: the MYP on-screen mathematics examination exists in both versions.

What I actually work on

With MYP 4 and 5 students

Honest list. Most of this is not what the school is short of — it is what the programme does not isolate and drill.

  • Algebraic manipulation, fast and accurate, without a calculator
  • Indices, surds and logarithms as tools rather than topics
  • Rearranging formulae in physics, which is where most physics marks are lost
  • Mole calculations and stoichiometry, which MYP units often touch only lightly
  • Trigonometry beyond right-angled triangles
  • Building a coherent content map of a subject the school taught as thematic units
  • Criterion A preparation, because it is the criterion content gaps show up in
  • Criterion B and C write-ups: hypothesis, variables, data processing, evaluation
  • Extended mathematics content for students heading to Maths AA HL
  • Personal Project scoping and the process journal, in MYP 5

The honest bit about MYP and competitive exams

I want to say this plainly because families ask and rarely get a straight answer. The MYP does not leave a student intellectually behind — in investigation, evaluation and written reasoning, MYP students are often ahead of their board-school peers. What it does leave is a drilling deficit.

A student can score 7s in MYP on the strength of Criterion B and D work while carrying real gaps in recall and in routine computation, because those are never isolated and tested the way a board paper isolates them. For DP HL sciences, for Maths AA HL, and above all for JEE or NEET, that fluency is assumed.

It is completely fixable, and it has to be done deliberately rather than hoped for. A student on MYP who intends to sit JEE or NEET should plan for that from MYP 4 — see the Class 9 Foundation and Class 10 Foundation pages, which are the same idea in board language.

Where I teach

Home classes in Mira Road East, Bhayandar East and Bhayandar West, and online anywhere else. If your school moves students to IGCSE for Grade 10 — some do — that is on the IGCSE tuition page.

Questions parents ask

IB MYP tuition — what parents ask me

You do not have a chapter list for MYP. How do you plan the classes?

From your child's unit plan and task brief. That is not a limitation, it is how MYP works — the IB sets objectives and criteria, and the school designs the units. Send me the current unit, the criteria being assessed and any task sheet, and I will build the classes around it. Where the school's units leave content gaps, I fill those separately.

What is MYP eAssessment, and does my child have to take it?

It is the optional external assessment at the end of MYP 5 — on-screen examinations of about two hours in sciences, mathematics, language and literature, individuals and societies, and interdisciplinary learning, plus moderated ePortfolios. The school decides whether to register students. It matters because official IB recognition of MYP achievement is only available to students who take and pass the required eAssessments; without it the record is the school's own report.

Should my child take standard or extended mathematics?

Extended, if there is any intention of Mathematics Higher Level in the Diploma Programme — the IB names extended as the foundation for HL. Extended is also the better base for any engineering-track plan. If mathematics genuinely ends at MYP 5, standard is an honest choice. Make the decision in MYP 4, not in MYP 5.

Can you help with the Personal Project?

With the parts I am qualified for: scoping the project so it is actually finishable, keeping the process journal properly, and the thinking behind the report. The Personal Project is completed in MYP 5, supervised at school and externally moderated, and it lands in the same year as consolidation for DP — so the main help most students need is planning, not content.

What are your fees?

Fees depend on the class, how many subjects you want and how many classes a week we run. All the material — notes, worksheets, question banks and the weekly marked test — is included, so the number I quote is the number you pay. Call or WhatsApp on 79774 75848 with your child's class, board and subjects and I will give you the exact figure.

Is the demo class really free?

Yes, and it is a real class on a real chapter — not a sales meeting. Tell me what your child is stuck on and we will do exactly that. At the end you will know whether my teaching suits your child, which is the only question worth answering.

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Bring me the unit plan

Send me your child's current unit — the topic, the criteria being assessed, and the task if there is one. The first class is free and we will work on that.

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