MYP Tutors in Zug — the Five Years That Decide the Diploma

CHF 95 per 60 minutes for all MYP work from Grade 6 to Grade 10, in any of the eight subject groups, including the Personal Project and eAssessment preparation. Primary and any learner aged 10 or under is CHF 85, and Diploma work later on is CHF 95 at Standard Level and Higher Level alike. Distinction at CHF 130 is our most accomplished tutors, and you can choose it on any of it. Every figure is all-in — no registration fee, no admin fee, no travel surcharge, and the same price at home in Baar or online. Prepaid packages lower it: ten hours are CHF 810, which is CHF 81 an hour, and you save CHF 140.

Inside canton Zug, one: the International School of Zug and Luzern, which runs MYP 1 to 5 across two campuses — the first three years on the Zug Campus in Baar and the final two at the Riverside Campus in Hünenberg. Institut Montana Zugerberg runs Cambridge Lower Secondary and then IGCSE in those years, the International School of Central Switzerland in Cham runs a British curriculum to IGCSE and A Level, and SIS Rotkreuz-Zug has no secondary school at all. The nearest other MYP school is the Inter-Community School Zurich in Zumikon. Switzerland has 52 IB World Schools and only 14 of them are authorised for the MYP.

No, and the IB is explicit about it: the 0 to 8 scale does not convert mathematically to a percentage, and a level 4 is not equivalent to 50 per cent. Each of the four criteria is marked out of 8, the four are summed to a figure out of 32, and that total is banded into a grade from 1 to 7. Any percentage printed next to an MYP grade is the school's own local mapping, not an IB standard. So is any average — the IB states that grades are not averaged, and teachers use a best-fit judgement weighted towards the most recent consistent performance.

By a published boundary table applied to the sum out of 32: 28 to 32 is a 7, 24 to 27 a 6, 19 to 23 a 5, 15 to 18 a 4, 10 to 14 a 3, 6 to 9 a 2, and 1 to 5 a 1. The practical consequence is that the bands are wide — a child on 23 is a 5 and a child on 24 is a 6, on one criterion level. That is why the useful question is which criterion is costing the band rather than how to raise the subject mark in general.

Because MYP grades are neither averaged nor cumulative. A best-fit judgement on the most recent consistent performance can fall if the latest summative task happened to load the criterion your child is weakest at, even while their overall work improves. It is also worth knowing that only summative evidence sets the achievement levels that reach the report — formative work is practice with feedback. Families often read formative comments as a grade in decline, or discount them because they do not count, and both readings cost the child the rehearsal the summative task will test.

It is the most consequential decision in the programme and the report card hides it, because a 7 in Standard and a 7 in Extended are both 7s. Standard mathematics aims at a sound knowledge of basic mathematical principles; Extended is that framework supplemented with additional topics and skills, and the IB's own words are that Extended «provides the foundation for students who wish to pursue further studies in mathematics, such as mathematics higher level» in the Diploma. Where a school runs eAssessment there are two separate on-screen papers, so the split becomes externally visible. Ask which framework your child is in, by name.

Not as a published IB rule — we looked, and there is no such rule that we could find. What exists is school-level gatekeeping, decided subject by subject and child by child, plus the IB's own statement about what Extended mathematics is the foundation for. So the honest answer is that Standard maths does not formally close Higher Level, and that in practice the conversation with the school is much easier in MYP 4 than in Grade 11. If a school has told you it does have a rule, that is their rule and it is binding — ask them to put the criteria in writing.

The Personal Project, yes — every student completing the MYP in year 5 does it, and schools register all year 5 students for external moderation of it. eAssessment, no: on-screen examinations and ePortfolios are optional, registration is flexible from a single subject up to the full certificate, and only an authorised MYP school can register a candidate. Whether your child sits any external paper is therefore the school's decision, not yours, and it is the first thing to establish before planning any preparation.

It is a self-directed project completed in MYP 5, externally validated by the IB, and marked on three criteria at 8 marks each for 24 in total: Planning — the learning goal, the product and its success criteria, and a detailed plan; Applying skills — how the learning skills were used towards the goal and the product; and Reflecting — the impact on the student's own learning and an evaluation of the product against those success criteria. Students who finish the programme in year 3 or 4 do the community project instead. Note what is not assessed: a research question, sources, or subject-discipline argument. That is why it is not the extended essay rehearsal it is often assumed to be.

Eight results, each graded 1 to 7, for a maximum of 56 — with at least 28 points in total and a grade of 3 or higher in every one of the eight, plus the school's requirements for participation in service as action. The eight combine on-screen examinations, the Interdisciplinary Learning paper, an ePortfolio and the Personal Project, with language acquisition available as either an examination or an ePortfolio. Where the combination does not meet those requirements the IB awards MYP Course Results instead, which is a fallback rather than a failure. Results are released on 1 August for the May session and 1 February for November.

No, and there is no published table that converts one into the other. They measure different things on different scales: an MYP 6 is 24 to 27 criterion points inside one subject, judged by best fit by your child's own teachers and not externally standardised between schools unless the school runs eAssessment; a Diploma 6 is an externally examined grade inside a 45-point aggregate with failing conditions. The externally marked MYP distribution is also lower than most school reports suggest — in the May 2024 session the mean grade was 4.2 in sciences and 4.3 in mathematics. On the research: an IB-commissioned study found former MYP students averaging 32.64 Diploma points against 30.47 for non-MYP students, with the authors themselves warning that the non-MYP sample was small and the difference not necessarily attributable to the MYP.

They can apply, but not through the route the 5.2 figure belongs to — that Orientierungswert is computed from Zug Deutsch, Mathematik and NMG report cards your child does not have. A pupil from a school the canton does not recognise goes through the individual admission procedure: the school leadership decides which subjects a performance test covers, admission is provisional with a probationary period of up to one year, and applications are due by 20 March. One warning worth having early: a pupil who attends a private Gymnasium despite a negative assignment decision may only enter a cantonal Mittelschule at the earliest after two years. As for us, we teach at your kitchen table anywhere in the canton or online at exactly the same price, and assignment is typically 48 to 72 hours. Book a tutor and tell us the subject group, the year and what the last marked piece said — and if the honest answer is that you need a conversation with the school rather than a package, we will say that instead.