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Tell us the year group, the curriculum and the date you are working towards. We assign on subject and level, typically within 48 to 72 hours.
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IB TutorsDiploma Programme, HL and SL IGCSE TutorsCambridge and Edexcel A-Level TutorsAS and A2Swiss curricula & guides
Swiss Matura TutorsIncluding the bilingual Matura IB vs IGCSE vs A-LevelWhich curriculum, and what changes Moving to SwitzerlandArriving with school-age children Summer TutoringCatching up over the holidaysCurriculum specialists, not generalists
We assign a tutor who has taught that syllabus — not whoever answered first. If the fit is wrong, we reassign at no cost.
How it works →Swiss entrance exams
Gymi PreparationZurich runs the exam; Zug does not School Entrance Exams11+, 13+, ISEE, SSAT, CAT4, MAPCurriculum exams
Exam PreparationMocks, finals and revision planningWorking towards a date?
IB in May, the ZAP in March, an entrance test in the autumn. Tell us the date and we will size the package to it.
See package prices →Cities
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ISZLInternational School of Zug and Luzern Institut Montana Zugerberg SIS Rotkreuz-ZugEvery canton, at home or online
The same price at home and online — no travel surcharge anywhere in Switzerland.
All areas served → Online tutoring →Subjects
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ISZL Institut Montana Zugerberg SIS Rotkreuz-ZugDelivery
All Areas Served Online TutoringAreas served
Tutors Across Switzerland — every canton, at home or online
The same price in the city and in the valley, and the same price again on a screen. There is no travel surcharge anywhere in Switzerland and no zone pricing. Where we cannot reach you in person this week, we will tell you that rather than quietly assigning a worse tutor.
Hours are CHF 85, CHF 95 or CHF 130 — all-in, per 60 full minutes, identical at home and online.
Coverage
Where do you actually work?
All twenty-six cantons. In-person density varies and we would rather be precise about that than claim a national footprint we cannot staff on a Tuesday evening in February.
Cantons covered
26 of 26
In person where a tutor is genuinely near you, online everywhere, at one price. The active in-person focus is Zug, Zurich, Basel, Geneva, Lausanne and Bern.
CHF 0 travel
No surcharge, no zone pricing, no minimum distance. The rate does not depend on your postcode.
Same price online
Not a discounted fallback and not a premium — the same figure, because it is the same teaching.
48–72 hours
To a named tutor, wherever you are. A narrow subject in a thin canton is what stretches it.
Three languages
Lessons in English as standard, German or French on request. Say so at the enquiry.
The six
Which cities do we know best?
Six, and each of them for a different reason. The differences below are real and they change what a family should actually buy.
Zug and central Switzerland
6300–6349
Our deepest coverage, and the beachhead the company was built from. International-curriculum work dominates: ISZL, Institut Montana and SIS Rotkreuz sit inside a twenty-minute radius. There is no Gymi entrance examination in the canton — admission is examination-free — so nobody here will sell you preparation for one.
Tutors in Zug · IB in Zug · Maths in Zug · MYP in Zug · Science in Zug · ISZL
Zurich and canton Zurich
8001–8064 city · 8000–8999 canton
The largest market in the country and the one with the hardest calendar: the central ZAP entrance examination is sat in March and registration closes in February, which means the preparation decision is really made the previous spring. ZIS and ICS are the international anchors.
Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft
4000–4059 · 4100–4499
Our strongest science cluster outside Zug, built around the International School Basel and the pharmaceutical community around it. Basel-Stadt runs only a voluntary entrance examination, for pupils who miss the grade threshold, so the work here is curriculum rather than entrance preparation.
IB in Basel · Chemistry in Basel · Physics in Basel · Biology in Basel · International School Basel
Geneva and the lake
1200–1298
The largest international-school population in Switzerland, and a French-language market in its own right rather than an English one with translation. Entrance work here is admission to the collège and the gymnase, not the Gymi.
Lausanne and Vaud
1000–1018 city · 1000–1899 canton
Gymnase admission shapes the year, and the EPFL orbit gives the mathematics and physics work a distinctly technical shape. Nyon and the Morges corridor are the two areas with the strongest international-school demand outside the city itself.
Bern and the Mittelland
3000–3030 city
A smaller international community and a strong Swiss Matura market, so the balance of work here tips towards the cantonal curriculum and the Matura rather than towards the IB.
Postcode ranges are given for orientation. Coverage is not decided by a postcode — it is decided by whether a tutor for that subject, that curriculum and that level can genuinely reach you at the time you can run a lesson. Ask with your postcode and we will answer plainly.
Beyond the six
What about everywhere else?
Lucerne, Winterthur, St. Gallen, Fribourg, Neuchâtel, Sion, Lugano and the smaller towns around all of them. The honest position, canton by canton, is below.
Online is available everywhere, today
There is no canton in which online tutoring is unavailable and no canton in which it costs more. If the subject is Higher Level mathematics and the nearest tutor for it is ninety minutes away, online is not a compromise — it is the better lesson.
In person depends on the subject, not the town
A general mathematics tutor is staffable in most of the Mittelland. A specific IB Higher Level chemistry tutor, in person, on a Thursday, in a valley, frequently is not. We will tell you which of those you are asking for.
The thin cantons, named
Ticino, Graubünden, Valais outside Sion, Jura and Appenzell are where our in-person bench is thinnest. That is not a permanent state — it is where recruitment goes next — but it is where we are today.
Ask with the postcode
It takes one message and it costs nothing. You will get one of three answers: in person this week, in person but not immediately, or online only. All three are honest answers and none of them comes with an obligation.
One rate card, everywhere
Does the price change by canton?
It does not. The same three tiers apply in Zug, in Geneva and in a village in Appenzell, at home or online. What changes between cantons is the school calendar — and the best-rate clock follows your own school’s holidays rather than an average of the twenty-six.
5 hours
Best rate held 1 month · package valid 12 months
CHF 475
CHF 440
CHF 88 an hour
You save CHF 35- A short push before one test or one paper
- 3–4 sessions of 90 minutes
- At home anywhere in Switzerland, or online, same price
10 hours
Best rate held 2 months · package valid 12 months
CHF 950
CHF 810
CHF 81 an hour
You save CHF 140- Half a term carried weekly
- 6–7 sessions of 90 minutes
- The rate clock pauses over your own school’s holidays
20 hours
Best rate held 3 months · package valid 12 months
CHF 1,900
CHF 1,560
CHF 78 an hour
You save CHF 340- A full school term, one session a week
- 13–14 sessions of 90 minutes
- Our lowest hourly figure
The standard single-hour Specialist rate. Buy a package afterwards and it comes straight off, so the hour you already had is re-priced at the package rate too.
5 hours
Best rate held 1 month · package valid 12 months
CHF 650
CHF 600
CHF 120 an hour
You save CHF 50- A short push before one test or one paper
- 3–4 sessions of 90 minutes
- At home anywhere in Switzerland, or online, same price
10 hours
Best rate held 2 months · package valid 12 months
CHF 1,300
CHF 1,110
CHF 111 an hour
You save CHF 190- Half a term carried weekly
- 6–7 sessions of 90 minutes
- The rate clock pauses over your own school’s holidays
20 hours
Best rate held 3 months · package valid 12 months
On request
Quoted against a named objective
- Twenty hours at this tier is a conversation, not a checkout button
- Tell us the objective, the deadline and the current position
- Quoted at the 10-hour hourly figure or better
The standard single-hour Distinction rate. Buy a package afterwards and it comes straight off, so the hour you already had is re-priced at the package rate too.
5 hours
Best rate held 1 month · package valid 12 months
CHF 425
CHF 390
CHF 78 an hour
You save CHF 35- A short push before one test or one paper
- 3–4 sessions of 90 minutes
- At home anywhere in Switzerland, or online, same price
10 hours
Best rate held 2 months · package valid 12 months
CHF 850
CHF 720
CHF 72 an hour
You save CHF 130- Half a term carried weekly
- 6–7 sessions of 90 minutes
- The rate clock pauses over your own school’s holidays
20 hours
Best rate held 3 months · package valid 12 months
CHF 1,700
CHF 1,390
CHF 69.50 an hour
You save CHF 310- A full school term, one session a week
- 13–14 sessions of 90 minutes
- Our lowest hourly figure
The standard single-hour Foundation rate. Buy a package afterwards and it comes straight off, so the hour you already had is re-priced at the package rate too.
How long you have
A full year to use your package. Your best rate held for up to three months.
Two clocks, and they do different things. The short one protects the rate you paid. The long one is how long the value stays on your account. We say both, every time — saying only the short one understates the offer, and saying only the long one hides the reason to start.
- The rate clock pauses over school holidays, automatically, on your own school’s calendar. Cantonal calendars do not agree with each other, and an international school’s breaks rarely match the canton around it. We use your school’s dates, not an average.
- One free one-month extension on the rate window, for the asking, up to 30 days before it closes. Auto-approved, and we offer it before you have to ask.
- When the rate window closes, nothing is taken. The hours already used are recalculated at the standard rate and the balance stays on your account for the rest of the twelve months.
- You will hear from us long before the year is up — a reminder at nine months and another at eleven. That is an operating requirement here, not a courtesy.
If it isn’t right
What happens if the first lesson disappoints you?
Two guarantees sit on the first lesson of a package and you choose which one applies. We never choose on your behalf and we never steer you towards the second — a guarantee you have to extract is not a guarantee.
Not right? Your money back.
If the first lesson on your package does not meet your expectations for tutor knowledge or professionalism, the whole package goes back to your card — including the hour you already had. No questions and no conditions.
Or carry on with a different tutor.
Would you rather stay? We assign a different tutor and credit that hour straight back to the package. You can ask for a different tutor at any later point too, at no cost, though a lesson already taught stands.
Fourteen days to change your mind
Bought a package and had second thoughts before starting? A full refund to your card within 14 days, provided no lesson has been taken. Switzerland gives no statutory right of withdrawal for an online purchase — this one is ours, voluntarily.
Free cancellation until 17:00
Cancel or reschedule until 17:00 the day before and the hour is not deducted from your package. Children get ill and school trips move. No minimum term, no notice period and no enrolment fee.
By subject and curriculum
Looking for something specific?
The national hubs cover every canton. The city pages go deeper where we have the density to justify it.
Curricula: IB Diploma · IB MYP · IGCSE · A-Level · Swiss Matura · how they differ.
Subjects: maths · science · physics · chemistry · English · German · French.
Examinations: exam preparation · Gymi and ZAP · school entrance examinations.
Arriving: moving to Switzerland · summer tutoring.
Questions
Coverage — the questions we are asked
Nine, including the two that matter most in a small country: whether travel costs extra, and whether online is genuinely as good.
Which parts of Switzerland do you cover?
All twenty-six cantons, at home or online, at the same price. The deepest in-person coverage is Zug and central Switzerland, then Zurich, Basel, Bern, Geneva and Lausanne. Outside those, in-person work depends on a tutor being genuinely near you; online is available everywhere and immediately.
Do you charge extra to travel to us?
No. There is no travel surcharge anywhere in Switzerland and no zone pricing. The figure is the same in the city and in the valley, and it is the same again online. If we cannot reach you in person we will say so rather than quietly quoting a worse tutor.
Is online tutoring as good as a tutor in the room?
For a fifteen-year-old working through past papers, usually yes — and sometimes better, because both people can annotate the same paper at once and nobody loses thirty minutes to a train. For a nine-year-old it is usually worse. We will tell you which we think applies to your child rather than selling you the one that is easier to staff.
Do you cover Ticino and the Italian-speaking cantons?
Online, yes, immediately. In person, it depends on the subject and the week — the bench in Ticino is thin and we would rather say that than promise coverage we cannot deliver. English-language and IB work is the most likely to be staffable.
Which schools do you work with most?
The international schools are where the density is: ISZL and Institut Montana in Zug, the International School Basel, ZIS and ICS in Zurich, and Ecolint, Collège du Léman and Geneva English School in Romandie. We publish detail on ISZL and the International School Basel, and we are independent of every one of them.
Is Gymi preparation available everywhere?
No, because the Gymi is not everywhere. Zurich runs the central ZAP entrance examination. Basel-Stadt runs a voluntary examination only for pupils who miss the grade threshold. Zug has no entrance examination at all — admission is examination-free — and we will not sell Gymi preparation there. Romandie has gymnase and collège admission instead. Start at Gymi preparation.
We are moving to Switzerland later this year. When should we start?
Earlier than most families do. Term restarts between 7 and 17 August depending on the canton, so a July arrival has three to six weeks and an August arrival has almost none. The work that pays best in that window is a curriculum-gap diagnostic and a German or French head start. Read moving to Switzerland with school-age children.
Do you teach in German and French, or only English?
Every tutor teaches in English as a minimum, and German- or French-language delivery is arranged on request. Say so at the enquiry; it narrows the pool and is much easier to handle before an assignment than after one. The site is published in all three languages.
How do I find out whether you can reach my town?
Ask, with the postcode. We will answer honestly — in person this week, in person but not immediately, or online only. There is no charge to enquire, no charge to be assigned, and no obligation attached to either answer.
Start here
Send us the postcode and the subject
We will tell you plainly whether we can reach you in person this week, in person but not immediately, or online only — and then, if you want to go ahead, a named tutor typically within 48 to 72 hours. No travel surcharge, no enrolment fee, and no charge to ask.
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