Biology Tutors in Basel — IB, Matura, IGCSE

CHF 95 per 60 minutes for IB Biology at Standard Level and Higher Level, IGCSE Biology, MYP Sciences, Cambridge International A Level, Schwerpunktfach work and Matura Grundlagenfach Biologie, all-in, with Good Tutors Finder. Prepaid packages lower it: ten hours are CHF 810, which is CHF 81 an hour. Distinction at CHF 130, or CHF 1,110 for ten hours, is our most accomplished tutors and you can choose it on any biology. There is no enrolment fee and no difference in price between a lesson at your table and a lesson online. Across the wider market in August 2026, open marketplaces published roughly CHF 20 to 70 an hour for biology in Basel, with one Basel biology listing averaging CHF 38; face-to-face agency tuition ran about CHF 100 to 160 an hour plus a one-off CHF 100 enrolment fee; and two large IB agencies quoted in pounds, from £58 and £59 an hour, online only.

Yes. The school's published Diploma structure lists Group 1 as German or English, Group 2 as English or German, Group 3 as geography or history, Group 4 as Biology, Group 5 as mathematics at standard or higher level and Group 6 as French. There is no IB chemistry and no IB physics. A second page in English and a third in German name the same set of subjects, so this is not an omission on one page. A Münsterplatz pupil who wants an IB science therefore takes biology, and studies chemistry and physics as German-language Grundlagenfächer instead. The school also has no science Schwerpunktfach, so there is no deeper route into either of those two subjects on its timetable.

International School Basel offers Biology at both Standard and Higher Level at its Reinach senior campus, inside a Group 4 that also holds chemistry, physics, computer science, design technology, sport, exercise and health science, and environmental systems and societies. Gymnasium am Münsterplatz runs the Diploma alongside the Swiss Matura and offers Biology as its only Group 4 subject. SIS Swiss International School Basel runs three Diploma routes and a bilingual Hausmatura, but does not publish a Diploma subject grid, so we do not state what it offers at which level. Academia International School follows the Cambridge route rather than the IB, with IGCSE in Years 9 and 10 and A Levels in Years 11 and 12.

Twenty-four marks. Since first assessment in May 2025 the internal assessment is a single task called the scientific investigation: an open-ended piece in which the student answers a research question of their own using data they collected themselves. It is allocated 10 hours of the taught course, is worth 20 per cent of the subject grade at both Standard and Higher Level, and carries 24 marks across four equally weighted criteria of six marks each — research design, data analysis, conclusion and evaluation. The report has a maximum of 3,000 words. The scientific investigation is the internal assessment for IB Biology, and our investigation hours are not attached to a subject — a family taking two sciences can spend them across both.

One. The teacher is permitted to give feedback on a single draft of the scientific investigation report, and after that the student revises alone and submits. That rule is the most consequential thing a Diploma parent can know about this subject: twenty per cent of the grade is decided in revisions the school is not allowed to help with. It also explains the timing families should aim for. Arriving at that one draft with a research question that generates enough quantitative data, and with a design that is already sound, is worth more than any amount of editing afterwards — which is why investigation hours are usually bought in the autumn rather than the spring.

There is no Paper 3, and there are no Options. Paper 1 is sat in one sitting in two parts: Paper 1A, multiple choice, and Paper 1B, data-based questions tied to the experimental programme. Paper 2 is data-based and short-answer work leading into extended response. Durations come from the IB's own May 2026 examination schedule: Paper 1 is 1 hour 30 minutes at Standard Level and 2 hours at Higher Level; Paper 2 is 1 hour 30 minutes at Standard and 2 hours 30 minutes at Higher. In that session Biology Paper 1 fell on Monday 11 May and Paper 2 on Tuesday 12 May, both morning sittings, in an examination period running from 24 April to 20 May 2026.

Extended, wherever there is genuine doubt. Core candidates take Paper 1 and Paper 3 and cannot be awarded above a grade C; Extended candidates take Paper 2 and Paper 4 and are eligible for the full A* to G range. The ceiling is set by the entry, months before anybody answers a question, and we have not found another provider in this market that mentions it. Both routes then add either Paper 5, the 1 hour 15 minute laboratory Practical Test, or Paper 6, the one-hour written Alternative to Practical. Both are 40 marks, both carry 20 per cent, and both assess the same experimental contexts — diffusion, osmosis, enzymes, photosynthesis. The entry is made by the examination centre, not at the desk on the day — ask which route and which practical paper your child is entered for.

Rare, on the IB's own numbers. In the May 2025 session, 33,102 candidates sat Biology at Higher Level for a mean grade of 4.5, with 7.2 per cent awarded a 7 and 16.6 per cent a 6. At Standard Level, 21,939 candidates averaged 4.3, with 5.9 per cent awarded a 7 and 13.9 per cent a 6. Grade boundaries move every session, so the outcome distribution is the more honest guide than any published boundary table. For context, the session-wide mean Diploma total was 30.6 points against a pass rate of 81.9 per cent, while International School Basel's 2026 cohort of 124 candidates averaged 35.2 points with 21 per cent above 40.

In Basel-Stadt, only two of the five: Gymnasium Kirschgarten and Gymnasium Bäumlihof. Gymnasium Leonhard, Gymnasium am Münsterplatz and the Wirtschaftsgymnasium do not offer it, so the choice of school quietly decides whether the subject is available in depth later on. Kirschgarten runs both scientific specialisations, Biologie und Chemie and Physik und Anwendungen der Mathematik. Bäumlihof describes its version as substantially extending the laboratory skills and base knowledge of the two core subjects, with work on genetic engineering, climate and pandemics. In Basel-Landschaft the canton lists Biologie und Chemie among the available Schwerpunktfächer across its five Gymnasien; we could confirm it school-by-school at Gymnasium Liestal, which also offers Biologie as an Ergänzungsfach.

Yes. Gymnasium Kirschgarten teaches Geografie, Biologie and Chemie immersively in English from the first year, adding history in years 3 and 4. Biology alone accounts for 80 lessons in each of years 1, 2 and 3 — 240 lessons of English-medium biology inside the state system. Pupils who accumulate 800 immersion lessons across the subjects leave with the zweisprachige Matur. The same programme creates the mirror-image problem for a German-speaking child, who meets the technical vocabulary of a science subject in a second language, which is a very ordinary reason to book a few hours in the first term.

No, and this is worth being blunt about. The EMS is made up of eight groups of multiple-choice tasks plus the "Konzentriertes und sorgfältiges Arbeiten" subtest, measuring reasoning, memory and logical and spatial understanding over roughly four hours. It is not a subject-knowledge test, and biology revision does not improve the score. A Basel family aiming at medicine needs two separate things: a strong biology grade in the school-leaving qualification, and a strong EMS result. The University of Basel is one of the numerus clausus universities. For 2027 entry, pre-registration closes on 15 February 2027, EMS registration on 25 May 2027, and the test is sat on 9 July 2027, with places allocated by post in late July.

At your home in Basel, Reinach, Aesch, Münchenstein, Riehen, Binningen, Muttenz or Liestal, at exactly the same price as online and with no travel charge. The geography matters here more than families expect: every ISB Diploma biologist studies at the Reinach campus on Fleischbachstrasse in Baselland, which the school serves by the number 11 tram, not in the city. Timetable data queried in August 2026 put Basel SBB to Münchenstein at about 15 minutes, to Aesch or Reinach at roughly 19 to 22 minutes, and Barfüsserplatz to Reinach at 29 to 33 minutes with a change — though replacement-bus legs appeared on that corridor at the time of the query, so treat those as an upper bound rather than a timetable. If you tell us your postcode when you enquire, we will say plainly what is workable and what is not before you pay anything — book a tutor, or send a WhatsApp message and ask first.