IGCSE science tutor jobs online in Egypt: physics, chemistry and biology, from theory papers to the practical

One, two or all three sciences

This role covers the three separate sciences of the International GCSE. You may teach physics alone, chemistry alone, biology alone, or any pairing that matches your degree and your confidence. Many learners sit two or all three in the same year with a university faculty in mind, so a tutor who handles two sciences well can carry the same learner across both.

Your learners sit in Year 10 or Year 11 (Secondary 1 or Secondary 2 by Egyptian reckoning), at international schools or entering as private candidates, and some of them are Egyptians living abroad. They bring a syllabus code, a target grade and a school that moves faster or slower than they would like. Our Egyptian tutors already teach science at this level, and learners come to them with the exam board and the paper already in mind.

The papers on each board

On the Cambridge side, physics 0625, chemistry 0620 and biology 0610 share one assessment pattern for the 2026 to 2028 syllabuses. Every candidate sits three components: a multiple-choice paper, a theory paper and one practical component. The weighted maximum is 200 marks, and calculators are allowed in every part.

Pearson Edexcel works differently. Its International GCSE in each science is graded 9 to 1, with two written papers sat in the same series and no separate practical component. The practical skills are tested inside those written papers, so a learner on Edexcel still needs to know the named investigations as well as a Cambridge candidate does. Physics and biology also have a modular route, two units of 1 hour 40 minutes and 90 marks each, which a learner may sit and resit in any order.

Core or Extended, settled at the start

On a Cambridge syllabus, the choice of tier shapes everything a learner can reach. Core candidates sit Papers 1 and 3 and can earn grades C to G. Extended candidates sit Papers 2 and 4 and can earn A* to G. In the June 2026 chemistry thresholds, the Extended route set A* at 169 out of 200, while the Core route offered no A* or A at all. Physics showed the same pattern in that series.

That matters in Egypt because of what comes after. Ain Shams University asks holders of the IGCSE for eight subjects at ordinary level at grade C or 4 or above, and its medical faculties, pharmacy and dentistry among them, also ask for biology at A Level at grade D or above, or two AS subjects with biology as one of them. Core caps a learner at C, so anyone aiming above that grade needs the Extended route, and a tutor who confirms the entry tier in the first week protects months of work.

Where learners lose marks in each science

Physics

Pearson's examiners have written plainly about the habits that cost marks on the physics papers. A large share of candidates convert units that never needed converting and drop marks on the way. A show-that question wants every line of working and a final answer more precise than the value printed in the question. Graphs with a negative gradient trip learners who misread the physics. Circuit questions catch learners who confuse a variable resistor with a thermistor or place the voltmeter across the wrong component.

The same report notes that the strongest descriptions of practical work read as though the candidate had done the experiment. Your job is to give a learner that first-hand sense through the screen, with the apparatus drawn, the readings discussed and the method written out step by step.

Chemistry

The Cambridge chemistry syllabus runs across twelve topics, from states of matter to organic chemistry and chemical analysis. Two areas carry most of the difficulty. The first is stoichiometry, where the mole has to be built from reacting masses up to molar gas volume and titration, until a learner treats it as a quantity they can count with. The second is qualitative analysis: the tests for cations, anions and gases look alike on a revision sheet, and both practical papers come with the Notes for use in qualitative analysis, so the skill a learner needs is reading those notes against an observation.

Biology

Cambridge biology spreads across twenty-one topics, from classification of living organisms to biotechnology and genetic modification. The theory is wide and the vocabulary is exact, so terms that sound alike need to stay apart in a learner's writing, in English, the language of the mark scheme. All of the experimental skills objective, worth 20% of the grade, sits in Paper 5 or Paper 6, which makes the practical component a full fifth of the result.

Command words decide marks here more than in the other sciences. The syllabus defines describe as stating the points and main features, explain as setting out reasons and making relationships clear with evidence, suggest as applying knowledge to a situation with more than one valid answer, and compare as commenting on similarities and differences. A learner who writes a description when the question asked for an explanation loses the mark even with the right biology.

An Alternative to Practical lesson, step by step

Most of the practical teaching in this role happens through Paper 6, which asks for the same experimental skills as the laboratory test without any apparatus in the room. A typical lesson on screen runs like this.

The same pattern works in physics, with a pendulum, a spring or a resistance experiment, and in chemistry, with a rate of reaction or a titration. The skill transfers between subjects, which is why a tutor who teaches two sciences often finds the practical lessons the easiest to share.

How the exam year moves

Both boards run two series a year, in June and November. Egypt sits in Cambridge administrative Zone 3, and the November 2026 series for that zone opens on 28 September and closes on 13 November 2026. The practical papers often come first, weeks before the multiple-choice papers, so a tutor plans practical revision early.

On Edexcel, the November 2026 papers fall on Monday 2 November for Biology Paper 1B, Monday 9 November for Chemistry Paper 1C, Friday 13 November for Biology Paper 2B and Monday 16 November for Chemistry Paper 2C. For summer 2027, Pearson has set Chemistry Paper 1C on Tuesday 18 May and Paper 2C on Tuesday 15 June. Cambridge listed June 2026 and November 2026 as its published timetables on 24 September 2026, and the June 2027 zone timetable follows on its own date.

Between series, the work changes shape. September and October bring new Year 10 learners starting the content from the first topic. The winter months suit steady topic teaching and the first full past papers. Spring turns into timed papers, practical drills and the last gaps before May. Learners who resit return in the autumn with one clear target, and Cambridge lets a candidate resit as often as they wish.

The tutor this role needs

Cambridge designs each of these syllabuses for about 130 guided learning hours. A learner who comes to you midway through Year 11 has already spent many of them, so your first lessons map what is secure, what is shaky and what has never been taught, before any new content begins.