Dubai · British curriculum
Tutoring for Dubai College students
Online one-to-one support matched to the curriculum Dubai College actually teaches, in the evenings, without adding a journey to the day.
- Years 7 to 13
- A Level at sixth form
- Free 1-hour trial class
What Dubai College teaches
Dubai College is a selective school running Years 7 to 13, and it describes its curriculum as drawing on the best elements of the English National Curriculum combined with the depth and range of subjects appropriate to a selective school. Students take ten GCSEs in Years 10 and 11, and almost all sixth formers begin Year 12 with four A Levels chosen from around twenty subjects. It does not offer the IB. Selectivity changes what tutoring is for here. In a cohort where a strong result is the norm rather than the exception, the student who is quietly a grade below target is difficult to spot and easy to misread as coasting. Four A Levels is also a heavier load than the three most universities ask for, and when something slips it is usually the subject with the least contact time rather than the hardest one. The useful diagnosis is almost never about the subject named on the report.
Where we usually come in
The pattern we see most often from selective schools is a student who is genuinely able and has never been taught exam technique explicitly, because the cohort average carried them through Years 7 to 9. That shows up first at GCSE and becomes expensive at A Level.
The first thing we establish before a trial class is the exact syllabus your child is entered for. A school's published curriculum and an individual student's exam entry are not always the same thing, and preparing against the wrong specification version costs a term. How to find the code is here.
How lessons fit around the school day
Weekday evenings in the student's own time zone, typically between 4pm and 9pm, with weekend mornings opening up in the months before the May/June series. Sixty minutes weekly as standard, twice weekly in the eight weeks before a paper.
Lessons are online only. For a family already doing a school commute, that is the difference between a tutoring arrangement that survives the term and one that quietly stops in November. What you need for a lesson is here, and the formats are here.
Subjects we cover
Each links to a page setting out what that subject actually assesses at each level and where students most often lose marks.
Mathematics
Sciences
Computing
Business and economics
Humanities and social sciences
- Geography
- Government and Politics
- History
- Law
- Psychology
- Religious Studies
- Social Studies
- Sociology
- Theory of Knowledge
Languages and literature
- Arabic
- Classical Greek
- English Language
- English Literature
- French
- German
- Italian
- Japanese
- Latin
- Mandarin Chinese
- Quran and Islamic Studies
- Spanish
- Urdu
Admissions and English tests
A sample of how we explain things
Worked answers to real exam questions, free to read. A fairer indication of what you would be paying for than any testimonial.
I keep mixing up xylem and phloem in the exam. Is there a way to stop doing that?
Why do we bother with depreciation if no money actually leaves the business?
Mean, median or mode: how do I justify which average a question wants?
How can a business be profitable and still run out of cash?
Why does adding a second lamp in parallel not make both lamps dimmer?
Substitution or elimination for simultaneous equations? I always pick the slow one.
Curriculum and year group details verified against Dubai College’s own published information. Curriculum, GCSE entry and sixth form structure taken from the school's own curriculum page. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for Dubai College. If anything here is out of date, tell us and we will correct it.