Tutoring in Switzerland — from CHF 79/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Tutoring in Switzerland — from CHF 79/h + 8.1% MwSt.
Three sciences, every curriculum and level — from MYP foundations and IGCSE Combined or separate sciences through IB Diploma Higher Level and A-Level triple science to the Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften. Your tutor finds the topic or the practical-write-up habit that is losing marks and fixes it against the real mark scheme. Assigned in 48–72 hours, refundable in full if a session falls short.
Science tutoring with Rundil costs CHF 89 per hour excl. 8.1% MwSt for the tier almost every family needs (CHF 99 for IB Diploma Sciences at Higher Level, A-Level triple science and university foundation science). Tell us the subject, the exam board and the year group; we assign a degree-qualified science tutor for that exact syllabus within 48 to 72 hours, at home in Zürich or Zug or online anywhere in Switzerland, at the same price — and refund any session in full if it falls short.
Tell us the stage your child is at and which sciences need support. We will show you what a weekly rhythm actually costs — no email, no waiting, no sales call.
Our Experienced tutors handle science at every level from MYP to A-Level single sciences and Matura. Choose the second option for IB Diploma Sciences at Higher Level, A-Level triple science, university foundation science, if your child has an access arrangement such as extra time, or if they need additional learning support — we assign from our Most Accomplished tutors.
Science marks are lost in three specific places: a topic that was never secure, a required-practical write-up that is missing a control variable or a labelled axis, and a data-response question answered in prose when the mark scheme wants a calculation. Understanding the theory is necessary but not sufficient — a correct final answer with no working, no unit or an unreferenced graph scores less than the scheme allows for. Rundil assigns a tutor by subject and syllabus, not "science" in general, who finds exactly where the marks are being lost and closes it — with a full refund behind every hour if it falls short.
IB Chemistry HL, IGCSE Combined Science and A-Level Biology ask genuinely different things. Tell us the subject, the board and the level and we assign a tutor who teaches that exact syllabus — typically within 48 to 72 hours.
Required-practical and data-response answers come back against the published mark scheme, with the exact wording the examiner wants — a control variable named, an axis labelled, a conclusion that cites the data.
Science trouble is almost always one specific topic, or one specific technique, left behind. Session one traces the marks back to where it broke, then rebuilds from there rather than piling new content on a cracked foundation.
A fortnightly session through the year, two a week in the run-in, nothing once the paper is sat. No registration fee, no minimum term, nothing to cancel when the exam is done.
Every Rundil tutor is degree-qualified, employed by us and vetted before a first assignment. Between them: ETH Zürich, EPFL and the University of Basel. Our science specialists lead — and behind them sits a maths tutor for the statistics and data handling that show up inside every science paper.
Lead science specialist — Chemistry & Biology · Basel
PhD Molecular Biology, University of Basel · MSc Biochemistry · 8+ years tutoring IGCSE and IB sciences
Amira is our lead science specialist, teaching IGCSE Combined, Coordinated and separate Chemistry and Biology through to IB Diploma Chemistry and Biology at Higher Level. She is unusually good at the part most tutors skip: required-practical write-ups and IB internal assessments marked the way the scheme actually rewards them — a labelled method, a clear variable and a conclusion that references the data rather than restating the theory. Most of her Higher Level students spend the final term on timed past papers rather than fresh content.
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Physics — IB, IGCSE & A-Level · Zürich
MSc Physics, EPFL · 10+ years of IGCSE, IB and A-Level teaching
Matteo teaches Physics from IGCSE through A-Level and IB Diploma at Higher Level, and is the tutor families ask for when mechanics, electricity or the applied-maths side of a physics course is where the marks are being lost. He has taken the same students from IGCSE Physics out into A-Level and IB, so he builds the working habits the next course assumes rather than the ones that scrape a grade now, and is particularly effective with students who understand a concept verbally but freeze on the multi-step calculation.
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Physics & Maths — Matura Naturwissenschaften · Zug
MSc Physics & Mathematics, ETH Zürich · 9+ years of international-school teaching, IGCSE through IB
Daniel teaches Physics and Maths together, which matters because most physics marks lost at this level go on rearranging an equation, not on the physics itself. He covers IGCSE, A-Level and IB Diploma Physics, and supports the Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften stream, closing the algebra gap that sits underneath a science course before it costs marks in the science paper.
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Maths for science — data & statistics · Zürich
MSc Mathematics, ETH Zürich · 8+ years teaching quantitative skills alongside IGCSE and IB sciences
Sophie supports the quantitative side of every science course — the statistics, standard form, graph work and error analysis that sit inside a Chemistry, Biology or Physics paper and quietly decide how many marks a data-response question earns. She works alongside our science specialists for students whose science gap turns out to be a maths gap wearing a lab coat, across IGCSE and IB.
Read full profileEvery tutor is individually interviewed, background-checked and assigned to the sciences and curricula they actually teach. You are never asked to browse profiles and guess — tell us the subject, the board and the year group, and we assign the specialist, typically within 48 to 72 hours. We never promise a named tutor before the assignment is confirmed.
A free trial lesson is a promise that expires exactly when it starts to matter. Science families do not need protecting in the quiet term — they need it in the fortnight before the paper, when there is no time left to fix a bad practical write-up. So ours never expires. If a session falls short in week two or week sixty, the student asks and it is refunded in full.
The 1.5-hour structure holds whether it is IB Chemistry HL in Zug or IGCSE Combined Science in Geneva — find what the last paper actually cost, teach the topic and the technique properly, then put it back under exam conditions before the student leaves.
The hour in the room is the product, but it is not all of it. Three things arrive whether you ask for them or not.
Rundil covers Physics, Chemistry and Biology — separately, combined or coordinated — across every curriculum taught in Switzerland, from MYP and IGCSE through IB Diploma, A-Level and the Matura to university foundation science. Tutors are assigned to the exact syllabus, because IB Chemistry at Higher Level and IGCSE Combined Science are not the same job.
Science tuition in Switzerland is advertised from roughly CHF 28 an hour on a marketplace to CHF 260 at the elite end. We sit deliberately in the upper-middle. The useful question is not what an hour costs — it is how many hours it takes, and whether the practical technique finally sticks before the exam.
Three steps from booking form to a science tutor at your kitchen table — or on screen — usually inside 48 to 72 hours.
Tell us the subject, the board and the year group on the booking form. Two minutes. If you are not sure which science syllabus, send us the school and year group on WhatsApp.
We assign a degree-qualified science tutor for that exact syllabus — typically within 48 to 72 hours — and confirm the name and the schedule by WhatsApp. Faster is sometimes possible; we never promise it.
Session one traces the marks back to the topic or technique that broke and separates lost content from lost practical or data-response skill. From there it is teach, practise, prove — every session refundable if it falls short.
Four very different science situations, one shared truth: a topic or technique left alone only grows into a bigger gap, and the exam date belongs to the syllabus, not to your family calendar.
Three sciences under one qualification, and it is easy for one strand to quietly slip while the others hold. We split it properly and work past papers for each strand, so no single subject is carrying the grade down.
Group 4 science at HL is content-heavy and the internal assessment has its own deadline. We work the data-based and extended-response papers to the real mark scheme and help structure the IA around a genuinely investigable question.
The mocks came back below the predicted grade in one or more of Physics, Chemistry or Biology and the paper is near. Add sessions per subject now, stop the week after the exam — nothing is holding you afterwards.
Swiss Matura science sustained across years in German or French, or a first-year university foundation science module that has overwhelmed a strong student. Same tutors, same guarantee.
Almost every science booking sits at CHF 89 per hour excl. 8.1% MwSt. The tier follows the tutor's qualification and how demanding the work is — never the subject, the level, the city, or how far the tutor travels.
| Tier | Best for | Rate excl. VAT |
|---|---|---|
| Experienced Tutors — the science tier | Science at every level and board: MYP, IGCSE Combined, Coordinated and separate sciences, A-Level single sciences and Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften | CHF 89/h |
| Most Accomplished Tutors | IB Diploma Sciences at Higher Level, A-Level triple science, university foundation science, and students with an access arrangement or additional learning support | CHF 99/h |
| Conversational Languages | Practical spoken language for everyday use — not science tuition | CHF 79/h |
| What a science subject actually costs | One 1.5-hour session | Weekly, for a month |
|---|---|---|
| Experienced Tutors · CHF 89/h | CHF 133.50 | CHF 534 |
| Most Accomplished · CHF 99/h | CHF 148.50 | CHF 594 |
| Two sciences weekly · CHF 89/h | CHF 267 | CHF 1,068 |
For a settled weekly science session through the school year, billed predictably.
For families adding hours around mocks and the final science exams, paying only for what is used.
Science is cumulative in a way that punishes a skipped year: a shaky grip on variables and units in MYP becomes a lost required-practical mark at IGCSE and an unstructured extended-response at IB or A-Level. This is the map most Swiss families follow, and the point on it where we pick up.
| Stage | Typical years | What the science really rewards | Start here |
|---|---|---|---|
| IB MYP Sciences | Years 7–9 | Variables, units, fair testing and the criteria-based write-up habits every later science course silently assumes. | MYP tutoring Switzerland → |
| IGCSE Combined / CoordinatedMost requested | Years 10–11 | Three sciences in one qualification, cross-topic questions, and required-practical technique across all three strands. | IGCSE tutors Switzerland → |
| IGCSE separate sciences | Years 10–11 | Full-depth Physics, Chemistry and Biology, each externally examined on its own papers and its own practical component. | IGCSE tutors Switzerland → |
| A-Level triple science | AS & A2, Years 12–13 | Subject-specific depth in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, plus the CPAC practical endorsement that runs alongside the written papers. | A-Level tutoring Switzerland → |
| IB Diploma Sciences | Years 12–13 | Physics, Chemistry or Biology at SL or HL, the group 4 internal assessment, and data-based questions marked on command terms. | IB tutoring Switzerland → |
| Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften | Gymnasium | Physik, Chemie and Biologie sustained across years, in German or French, written and often with a practical component. | Exam preparation → |
We tutor science for students across Switzerland's international and bilingual schools and the Swiss Gymnasium system alike — IB, IGCSE, A-Level and Matura. These are the programmes behind the school names, so you can identify which science syllabus your child actually sits.
Two promises written down rather than implied — because the two things science families fear are paying for hours that changed nothing, and being tied to a tutor they cannot get away from in the term that counts.
A full refund is available after any session if the student requests it. No conditions, no asterisks, and not limited to the first lesson — every session, from MYP right through to the exam fortnight itself. It applies across Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands, and across every science and curriculum from IGCSE to IB and the Matura. If the tutor is not the right fit going forward, we reassign at no cost and with no friction.
We publish the rating we have rather than the one we would like. It is the whole Rundil review corpus across Switzerland, not a science-only figure, and the six families below are all science, across different subjects, boards and cities.
“Our daughter's IB Chemistry HL data-based questions were costing her marks even though she understood the theory. Her Rundil tutor drilled the command terms and the required practical write-ups against the real mark scheme, and the papers stopped feeling like a lottery.”
“IGCSE Combined Science covers three subjects at once and our son was falling behind in all three. The tutor split it properly, worked past papers for each strand, and he walked into the exam knowing exactly how the paper was structured.”
“Online Physics lessons for A-Level that were every bit as clear as in-person. Screen sharing, past papers and a shared whiteboard each week — mechanics finally clicked once the working was shown properly instead of just the answer.”
“The tutor understood the IGCSE Biology specification precisely and showed our son exactly what a required-practical write-up needs to score full marks. His confidence with data and graph questions improved noticeably in the run-up to the exam.”
“Our daughter was drowning in the volume of A-Level Chemistry organic content. Her tutor turned it into a short list of mechanisms, checked each one with exam questions, and marked everything to the real scheme. The sessions are focused and very well prepared.”
“Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften in German had our son overwhelmed going into his final year. His Rundil tutor worked through Physik and Chemie in the language of the exam, rebuilt the fundamentals, and he passed comfortably.”
At-home science tutoring across every major Swiss city and its surrounding cantons — and online science tutoring everywhere else, at exactly the same price. Which matters here: a specialist for a particular science and board combination can be spread thinly, so online is often the fastest way to reach a genuine IB Chemistry HL or A-Level Physics tutor from Lugano or Chur.
Rundil provides one-to-one science tutoring across Switzerland for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, separately, combined or coordinated — IGCSE, IB Diploma, A-Level and the Swiss Matura Naturwissenschaften, from MYP foundations to university foundation science — at home in Zürich, Zug, Geneva, Lausanne and Basel, and online in every canton. Science is cumulative in a way that punishes a skipped year: a shaky grip on variables and units in MYP becomes a lost required-practical mark at IGCSE and an unstructured extended-response at IB Higher Level. A tutor who knows "science" in general is not the same as one who knows what an IB Chemistry data-based question actually rewards, or how Cambridge marks a required-practical write-up.
So we do that identification for you. You tell us the subject, the board and the year group; we assign a degree-qualified science tutor for that syllabus, typically within 48 to 72 hours, and confirm the name and schedule by WhatsApp. There is no gallery of profiles to sift through, no free-trial roulette, and no fee for changing your mind. If the fit is wrong, we reassign — and you never have to have the conversation with the tutor yourself.
Most of the marks we recover for science students in Switzerland were never lost to a failure of understanding. They were lost to a required-practical write-up missing a control variable, to a data-response question answered in prose when the mark scheme wanted a calculation with units, to a graph with an unlabelled axis, or to a student who understood the theory but ran out of time because the early questions were done beautifully and slowly. None of that is fixed by more content. It is fixed by a tutor tracing the marks back to where the technique broke, rebuilding from there, and putting the published mark scheme on the table next to the script until the student can see the practical and data marks as clearly as the examiner does.
That is also why every Rundil session is refundable in full if the student asks — not the first lesson, any lesson, from MYP right through to the final exam. It is a deliberately expensive promise. It is also the only honest way to say that we would rather sell you eight hours that close the gap than thirty that change the invoice.
Rundil charges CHF 89 per hour excl. 8.1% MwSt for science tutoring, or CHF 99 for IB Diploma Sciences at Higher Level, A-Level triple science and university foundation modules, whether the tutor sits at your kitchen table in Baar or joins from a screen in Lugano. Because a specialist for a particular science and syllabus combination can be scattered across Switzerland rather than clustered in one canton, online is frequently the fastest way to reach a genuine IB Chemistry HL, Matura or A-Level Physics tutor — so it would be perverse to charge more for it. There is no subscription, no registration fee and no minimum term: run a fortnightly session through the year, double it in the weeks before the exam, and stop the week after. Free cancellation runs until 17:00 the day before, and on Flexi you pay only for hours completed. The tutoring is the product. Everything else stays out of the way.
IB, IGCSE, A-Level, Matura and MYP specialists in Physics, Chemistry and Biology, every level from MYP to university — CHF 89/h excl. VAT, at home or online for the same price, assigned in 48–72 hours. Every session refundable, and nothing to cancel once the exam is done.
