Economics Tutors in Zurich — IB, AP, A-Level and Wirtschaft und Recht

An economics tutor in Zurich costs CHF 95 an hour with Good Tutors Finder, all-in, per 60 minutes. Ten prepaid hours are CHF 810, which is CHF 81 an hour. That rate covers IB Economics at Standard and Higher Level, AP Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Cambridge IGCSE and A-Level Economics, and the Swiss Wirtschaft und Recht. Nothing is added at checkout and online costs the same as at home.

Not as an IB course. Economics at ZIS is an Advanced Placement subject rather than a Diploma one, which surprises families who assume every subject exists in both systems. It matters for tutoring because AP Microeconomics and AP Macroeconomics are examined quite differently from IB Economics — multiple choice and free-response against Paper 1, 2 and 3 with an Internal Assessment. Tell us which your child is entered for and we assign accordingly.

It is the Swiss answer to the question and it is broader. Wirtschaft und Recht — economics and law — is one of the canton's gymnasium Schwerpunktfach profiles, the specialisation of the wirtschaftlich-rechtliches Profil, and it is taught and examined in German. Kantonsschule Hottingen runs it inside an English-immersion Wirtschaftsgymnasium; it also exists as an Ergänzungsfach at schools that do not offer the full profile. It covers employment and rental law, company formation, investment and inflation alongside economic theory, so a tutor who only knows IB Economics is not the right person for it.

Because economics is examined on technique as much as on understanding. A diagram that is unlabelled, drawn without axes, or not referred to in the prose earns fewer marks than the same diagram done properly, and a definition that is nearly right is often worth nothing. It is one of the subjects where a bright candidate reading widely can plateau, and where a few hours on structure move the grade more than another textbook does.

Yes, as ordinary hours at the ordinary rate. The IA is three commentaries on published news articles, each marked against a rubric, and the commonest failure is an article that does not actually support the syllabus content the candidate wants to write about. That is fixable in the first hour, and it is much cheaper to fix then than in April.

This is the specific Zurich case and yes. A child who has come through an international school and moved into the Swiss system is doing two things at once: learning the subject and learning to be examined in German on it. We would usually assign one tutor for the subject and, where the language is the real constraint, discuss German alongside it — including saying plainly if the German is the thing to fix first.

We come back with a tutor, typically within 48 to 72 hours. We will not promise faster: economics specialists who can also teach in German are a smaller pool than general economics tutors, and pretending otherwise would just move the disappointment later. The first-lesson guarantee stands either way — your money back, or a different tutor with that hour credited to your package.

Sometimes, and sometimes not. Economics rewards late, targeted work on technique better than most subjects do, because diagram and definition marks are recoverable in a way that a missing two years of mathematics is not. But we will tell you when we think the honest answer is no. Tell us the level, the board and the exam date — book a tutor or ask on WhatsApp first — and we will say what we actually think.