Maths Tutors in Switzerland — IB, Matura, Gymi and IGCSE

CHF 95 per 60 minutes with Good Tutors Finder from age 11 upwards, all-in — and that includes Higher Level, advanced Matura, A Level, Further Mathematics and university-entrance work. A learner aged 10 or under is CHF 85. Distinction, our most accomplished tutors, is CHF 130 an hour and you choose it on any work. Prepaid packages lower it: five hours are CHF 440, which is CHF 88 an hour; ten are CHF 810, which is CHF 81; and twenty are CHF 1,560, which is CHF 78. There is no enrolment fee, no travel surcharge and no difference in price between a lesson at your table and a lesson online. Across the rest of this market published maths rates run from about CHF 23 an hour on a marketplace to CHF 160 per 45-minute Lektion at a Zurich specialist — which is CHF 213 an hour once you convert it. Most providers do not state the length of the lesson at all, so the comparison is not one you can actually make.

Analysis and Approaches rewards algebraic argument, proof and analytic technique, and its Paper 1 is sat without a calculator. Applications and Interpretation rewards modelling and interpretation with real data, and requires technology in every paper. Both exist at Standard and Higher Level and both carry the 20% Exploration. For mathematics, physics, engineering and proof-heavy economics degrees, Analysis and Approaches is the safer route. For life sciences, social sciences, design and business, Applications and Interpretation is a genuine and respectable choice. The persistent myth in this market is that Applications and Interpretation shuts you out of ETH Zurich; it does not, and ETH's own admission requirements name both courses at Higher Level. What does bite is EPFL's condition of Higher Level mathematics and physics at 6 out of 7 each.

Thirty-eight out of forty-two, bonus points excluded, at both — against a general Swiss university threshold of thirty-two. ETH requires Higher Level mathematics, in either course, plus a Higher Level science and a Language A. EPFL requires Higher Level mathematics and Higher Level physics plus chemistry, biology or computer science, with final grades in mathematics and physics of at least 6 out of 7. EPFL publishes a lower threshold for candidates who hold a Swiss IB or were schooled in Switzerland: 36 of 42 with 5 out of 7 in each of those two subjects. Six points above the general bar is not a revision problem, it is a two-year problem — and the subject conditions bite harder than the total does.

For the Langgymnasium, entered from the sixth primary year, mathematics is a 60-minute written paper sat on the same morning as two German papers. For the Kurzgymnasium it is 90 minutes, and what is on it depends on where your child is coming from: candidates entering from the second year of Sek face roughly two thirds arithmetic and algebra to one third geometry, while candidates entering from the third year face arithmetic and algebra only. The pass mark is 4.75 including the Vorleistungsnote, or 4.5 on the examination alone. In March 2026, 8,908 gymnasium entrance examinations were sat and 48.2 per cent of them were passed. Registration runs from 1 January to 10 February, which means the preparation that decides it happens in the autumn.

Yes. The federal Maturitätsanerkennungsverordnung requires examination in at least five subjects, and names the language of instruction, a second national language, mathematics, the Schwerpunktfach and one further subject determined by the canton. The revised ordinance came into force on 1 August 2024 and the new framework curriculum was adopted in June 2024, but implementation is cantonal rather than national — Bern, for example, is working towards 2028/29 in its German-speaking gymnasia and 2035/36 in its French-speaking ones, and existing recognitions run for eight years from August 2024. If someone quotes you a single national switchover date, ask them where it is published.

For mathematics, less than you would fear — the mathematics is the same mathematics. What differs is notation, vocabulary, the order topics are met in, and the examination culture. A child arriving from a British system into a Kantonsschule will meet vector geometry earlier and a very different style of written solution; a child moving the other way will meet a non-calculator paper for the first time. Those are real gaps and they are closable in weeks rather than years. The gap that is not closable in weeks is language: if your child cannot yet think in the language the paper is written in, that is a language problem wearing a mathematics costume, and we will say so.

Yes, within a line we publish rather than blur. We will teach the mathematics the Exploration rests on, explain the assessment criteria band by band, interrogate a research question your child has proposed — is it answerable, is it narrow enough, is there data — discuss method and sources, read a draft your child has written and give feedback on it, and build a timeline against your school's internal deadline. We will not write any part of it, edit or proofread the text, hand your child a ready-made topic, produce the mathematics or run repeated rounds of edits. The IB's own academic integrity policy asks candidates to avoid unauthorised external assistance and defines misconduct as deliberate or inadvertent — so a tutor tidying a paragraph to be helpful is still misconduct, and it is your child who carries it.

It is the route into ETH Zurich for a candidate whose qualification does not carry direct admission. Mathematics is examined twice in writing — a one-hour paper with no aids and around twelve short questions, then a three-hour paper with a calculator and a formula sheet and around five extended problems — followed by a fifteen-minute oral, with further orals in physics, chemistry and biology. The published content list runs from equations and functions through trigonometry, sequences and convergence, complex numbers, differentiation, integration, plane and solid geometry, vector geometry and combinatorics to probability and statistics. It is held in the third and fourth weeks of January, the reduced examination costs CHF 550, and it is conducted in German. Yes, we prepare candidates for it, at Specialist, CHF 95 an hour — and we will be blunt with you about the German.

The full Cambridge International A Level in Mathematics, syllabus 9709, is four components and always includes Pure Mathematics 1 and Pure Mathematics 3. The remaining two are either Mechanics and Probability and Statistics 1, or Probability and Statistics 1 and 2. AS Level is a subset. Further Mathematics is a separate syllabus, 9231, and not an extension of 9709 — it is a genuinely different level of abstraction and the most common quiet disaster in a Swiss international school timetable is a strong IGCSE student taking both and discovering in the second term that one of them has to go.

No — both are Specialist at CHF 95 an hour. Higher Level Analysis and Approaches carries 55 hours of calculus against 28 at Standard Level, more proof, harder papers and a top band that is genuinely hard to reach, and it is still CHF 95. So are advanced Matura mathematics and the Schwerpunktfach, Cambridge A Level and Further Mathematics, university and ETH entrance work, the MYP, IGCSE, Gymi preparation and the Matura Grundlagenfach. The only figure above CHF 95 is Distinction at CHF 130, and that is our most accomplished tutors rather than a harder level: you can ask for it on any course at any level, and we will never tell you the work requires Distinction; that is your call, not ours.

Usually, and usually not the one the family expects. Marks lost by a capable student are overwhelmingly lost below the topic being examined: index laws, rearranging, sign discipline, fractions, and reading what the question actually asked. Every step is being reasoned from first principles because none of them is automatic, which reads as slowness and gets diagnosed as exam technique. It is not exam technique. It is fluency in the layer underneath, and it takes a few weeks of deliberately boring work rather than one session before the test. The first lesson is a diagnosis, and it frequently ends two years further back than anyone wanted.

Yes. Every tutor teaches in English as a minimum, and German- or French-language delivery is arranged on request — which matters for a child sitting a Kantonsschule paper or a Matura examination in German while living in an English-speaking household. Tell us which language the examination is in, not just which language is spoken at home; those are frequently different and only one of them decides the grade. Good Tutors Finder publishes in English, German and French, and the booking form is currently in English.

Typically 48 to 72 hours from your enquiry to a named tutor. Faster is sometimes possible and we will never guarantee it. There is no free trial, and the reason is not meanness: a free lesson signals that the hour is a sample rather than teaching, and it fills a diary with people who were never going to book. Instead the first hour is charged at the standard single-hour rate — CHF 95, or CHF 130 if you have chosen Distinction — and if you then buy a package that amount comes straight off it, so the hour you already had is re-priced at the package rate along with the rest. Ten Specialist hours cost CHF 810 whether you buy the package outright or take one hour first. And that first lesson carries both guarantees: your money back, or a different tutor with the hour credited. You choose which.

Tell us three things: the school, the year, and the paper your child is actually working towards — the Langgymnasium entrance examination, Analysis and Approaches HL, IGCSE 0580 Extended, the Matura Grundlagenfach. That is enough for us to come back with a named tutor who has taught it, typically within 48 to 72 hours, and enough for us to tell you honestly whether tutoring is the right answer at all. Sometimes it is not, and we would rather say so. Nothing is charged to enquire and nothing is charged to be assigned. Book a tutor, or send a WhatsApp message on +41 76 213 1843 and ask what we would do in your position.