IB Tutors in Basel — the Sciences

CHF 95 per 60 minutes for Standard Level, Higher Level and MYP, 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 IB work. There is no enrolment fee, no travel surcharge into Basel-Landschaft and no difference between a lesson at home and a lesson online. Across the wider market, published rates run from about CHF 9 to 45 an hour on unvetted Swiss marketplaces, CHF 30 to 101 for online IB agencies, and CHF 100 to 160 for face-to-face tuition from the largest international agency, which also charges a one-off CHF 100 family enrolment fee.

Four. International School Basel runs all three IB programmes — Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma — across campuses in Aesch, Fiechten and Reinach, and describes itself as the region's only not-for-profit English-language three-programme IB World School. Gymnasium am Münsterplatz has been an IB World School since May 2011 and offers the Diploma in grades 12 and 13, but only in addition to the cantonal Matura. Gymnasium Bäumlihof describes a full Diploma Programme on its own site, integrated into the four-year Gymnasium as a “GBplus” class, again alongside the Swiss Matura — note that the cantonal page lists only Münsterplatz, and we follow the school's own page. SIS Swiss International School Basel runs a two-year Diploma alongside a bilingual Hausmatura. Academia International School and ELA Basel do not offer the IB — they run Cambridge IGCSE and A Levels, and the Cambridge curriculum or Lehrplan 21, respectively.

No, and this is a common mix-up. Gymnasium Leonhard is a Basel-Stadt state school with a languages and arts emphasis, offering Schwerpunktfächer in Italian, Spanish, Music and Visual Arts. The Basel-Stadt Gymnasium best known for the IB is Gymnasium am Münsterplatz — and Gymnasium Bäumlihof describes a full Diploma Programme on its own site too, integrated into its four-year model. All five Basel-Stadt state Gymnasien offer a bilingual German–English Matura, which is not the IB Diploma and is the source of most of the confusion.

Not at the school itself. Münsterplatz's IB subject list is German, English, French, History or Geography, Biology and Mathematics — Biology is its only IB science. A student there who wants Chemistry or Physics at IB Higher Level is looking at a route outside their own timetable, and that is a conversation to have with the school's IB coordinator before committing. It is also worth knowing that Münsterplatz offers two routes: the full Diploma, or bilingualism across five subjects with IB Certificates in English and French but no Diploma. The IB exams sit in May at the end of grade 13, and exam fees are around CHF 1,600.

In person, at your home in Basel, Reinach, Aesch, Riehen, Binningen, Muttenz, Pratteln or Liestal, at exactly the same price as online. This is worth checking with any provider you speak to: the largest agency in this market lists face-to-face IB Chemistry in Basel but lists face-to-face IB Biology only in Geneva, Lausanne, Zurich and Zug — Basel is absent from its own Biology page. In the city whose economy is built on biology, that is a real gap, and it is one of the reasons this page exists.

A single scientific investigation of up to 3,000 words, allocated 10 hours of taught time, worth 20 per cent of the subject grade at both Standard and Higher Level. It carries 24 marks across four equally weighted criteria — research design, data analysis, conclusion and evaluation — at six marks each. Your teacher may give feedback on one draft only. Collaboration on data collection is allowed, but the research question, the analysis and the conclusions must be the student's own. Separately, every DP sciences student takes part in the Collaborative Sciences Project, which lasts at least 10 hours, is not assessed, and requires only a 100-word reflection.

No, not as the standard route. Basel-Stadt admits to the Gymnasium on Sekundarschule year 3 report cards, weighing both the grade average and a points sum: from the P stream, at least 4.0 and at least 34 points; from the E stream, at least 5.0 and at least 40. German and Mathematics count double. Pupils who miss the threshold may register in January for the freiwillige Aufnahmeprüfung — explicitly voluntary — which is two 90-minute written papers in German and Mathematics; the next sitting is Friday 12 March 2027, with registration for 2027/28 running 4–29 January. Basel-Landschaft, where International School Basel is physically located, does not use the term at all: registration opens online in January, and where the grades are not sufficient a Leistungsabklärung — 60 minutes of German and 60 minutes of Mathematics — decides in certain cases.

Both Basel IB schools examine in the May session. The May 2026 session ran from 24 April to 20 May, with Physics papers at the end of April and Biology and Chemistry papers in mid-May. May results are released to candidates from 12.00 GMT on 6 July. The November session — used in Basel as a retake route rather than a native one — issues results to schools on 16 December from 21.00 GMT. Since 2023 there is no longer a three-session limit on retakes.

More than most families realise, and quickly. An enquiry upon results must be submitted by the school's coordinator — the IB will not accept a request from a candidate or parent directly — it carries a fee, requires written consent first, and grades can go down as well as up. A retake in a future session is now possible without the old three-session cap, though the school must accept the candidate and syllabus changes may apply. In practice November-session work is bought between June and August and delivered from September to November; a 10- or 20-hour package started in July gives a real run at a subject rather than a scramble in October.

Yes, and they are tutored as ordinary hours from your package rather than sold as an add-on. The Extended Essay is a 4,000-word paper with three mandatory reflection sessions, the last of which is the viva voce, marked out of 34 and banded A to E. Theory of Knowledge is assessed through an exhibition and a 1,600-word essay, also banded A to E. Between them the core contributes up to three points, and there are automatic failing conditions — an E in the Extended Essay with an A in TOK, for instance. CAS is not formally assessed but must be completed, runs for at least 18 months, and requires a CAS project of at least one month.

In 2026, 124 ISB students completed the Diploma Programme. Of the 118 full Diploma candidates, 98 per cent passed — against a world average of around 81 per cent — with an average of 35.2 points out of 45, against a world average of 30.9. Twenty-one per cent scored 40 points or more, roughly double the typical world proportion. Six students took individual Courses, averaging 4.5 out of 7 across 34 subjects. Note that an older ISB page still publishes 2019/20 figures; the 2026 numbers are the current ones.

Twenty-four points is the minimum, out of a maximum of 45 — six subjects at up to seven points each, plus up to three points from the core. Beyond the total there are subject-level conditions: at least a grade 2 in every subject, no more than two grade 2s, no more than three grades of 3 or below, at least 12 points across the Higher Level subjects and at least nine across the Standard Level ones. A student is taking three or four subjects at Higher Level and the rest at Standard, with Higher Level courses running 240 teaching hours against Standard Level's 150. Every Diploma student takes at least one Group 4 science, and Environmental Systems and Societies counts for both Group 3 and Group 4. If you would rather talk it through before committing to anything, that costs nothing — book a tutor and tell us what your child is sitting, or send a WhatsApp message and ask first.