We teach Cambridge IGCSE Chemistry online, one to one, to students anywhere in Malaysia. After your WhatsApp enquiry we assign an experienced teacher to you, and you begin with a paid one-hour trial at that teacher’s confirmed rate, starting from RM80. The rate is confirmed with you before the lesson.
Everything after the trial, including further lessons, schedule and fees, is arranged directly between you and the teacher. The trial is a taught class where your own questions and working are the material.
Who is this Chemistry tuition for?
It suits the student who can copy the notes and still loses marks between three layers of the subject: the particles, the equation and the calculation. Each layer makes sense on its own page. The marks go missing where one layer has to be turned into the next.
You might recognise yourself in one of these situations:
- You balance an equation by changing a formula, then the next step cannot work. Our guide to changing subscripts while balancing describes this habit.
- Your arithmetic is correct, but the answer is wrong because the mole ratio came from the wrong place. See using the wrong mole ratio.
- You describe a rate trend correctly and still lose the mark, because the explanation in terms of particles is missing.
- You write the name of a substance in a practical question when the question asked only what you observed.
- A parent sees long revision hours and flat marks, and wants the time spent on the real gap.
This page is written for both of you. The student does the thinking in the lesson, and the parent decides whether a trial is worth trying.
What can individual teaching do that notes cannot?
A teacher sitting with your working can see the exact line where understanding stops. In Chemistry that line is rarely “I forgot the formula”. It is usually a link between layers that was never made: what the particles are doing, what the equation says about them, and what the numbers then mean.
Here is an original example of how a teacher might take that apart.
The question. 2.4 g of magnesium reacts with excess dilute hydrochloric acid. What volume of hydrogen is made at room temperature and pressure? (Ar of Mg = 24. One mole of gas occupies 24 dm³ at room temperature and pressure.)
A student’s first attempt. “Mg + 2HCl → MgCl₂ + H₂. Moles of Mg = 2.4 ÷ 24 = 0.10. There is a 2 in front of HCl, so moles of H₂ = 0.20. Volume = 0.20 × 24 = 4.8 dm³.”
The arithmetic is tidy, and the answer is wrong. A teacher does not say “wrong”. They ask the student to go back to the particles and say what each Mg atom does.
Layer 1, particles. Each magnesium atom gives away two electrons. Each hydrogen ion in the acid takes one electron. So one Mg atom needs two H⁺ ions, and the two hydrogen atoms that result join as one H₂ molecule.
Layer 2, equation. Written as ions, Mg + 2H⁺ → Mg²⁺ + H₂. The 2 belongs to the acid. The ratio of Mg to H₂ is 1 : 1, because one Mg atom produces one H₂ molecule.
Layer 3, calculation.
- Moles of Mg = 2.4 ÷ 24 = 0.10 mol.
- Mole ratio Mg : H₂ = 1 : 1, so moles of H₂ = 0.10 mol.
- Volume of H₂ = 0.10 × 24 = 2.4 dm³.
The check. The student also finds the acid needed: 2 × 0.10 = 0.20 mol HCl. The 2 was real, it just described the acid and not the gas. Asking “which substance does this number belong to?” is the habit that fixes the error for later questions, such as finding the mass of MgCl₂ (0.10 × 95 = 9.5 g).
The lesson is the link between the layers, not the formula. You can practise the pieces in formulas and equations and relative masses and amounts. The mole and equation-ratio tutor and the equation balance reasoning trainer let you rehearse the same moves on your own.
Where does tuition reach its limits?
A teacher cannot sit your paper, and cannot replace the practice you do between lessons. Progress depends on you trying questions alone, then bringing the stuck points to the lesson.
Some practical boundaries:
- We are not an exam centre. Registration, entry, results and access arrangements belong to your school or exam centre and to Cambridge.
- Practical and assessed work must remain yours. A teacher can teach the method and the reasoning, not produce your results.
- Syllabus scope depends on your exam year and your entry. Check the current Cambridge page and our 0620 code and exam-year guide before lessons begin.
- Self-study may be enough if your errors are occasional slips. A few original practice sets and a careful read of your marked papers can fix those.
How does it work, from enquiry to trial?
- Enquire on WhatsApp. Tell us you want Chemistry, your year, and the topics or question types that trouble you. You do not need to send marks or papers.
- We assign a teacher. An experienced Chemistry teacher is assigned to you, and we confirm that teacher’s rate for the paid one-hour trial, starting from RM80.
- Prepare a short agenda. The one-hour trial agenda builder helps you pick two sticking points, so the hour goes on your real difficulty.
- Take the trial. It is taught, one to one, online. Bring a question you could not finish.
- Reflect, then decide. The post-trial reflection guide separates understanding, communication and clarity about next steps. Further arrangements are discussed directly with the teacher.
The full process is on the trial page and in how tuition works.
Will the teacher find where my reasoning stops being understood?
This is the question Chemistry students and parents ask most, and it is the right one. You can test it in the trial, because reasoning is visible when a teacher works aloud.
Listen for four things:
- Do they ask you to explain the particles before writing the equation?
- Do they ask which substance each number in the equation belongs to?
- Do they let you attempt the step first, and only then step in?
- Do they end with a fresh question, so you prove to yourself that the repair worked?
Bring one calculation you got wrong, with your working visible. A teacher who finds the line, names the layer that failed and gives you a new question on the same idea is doing what this page describes.
More than 9,000 students have been helped through our service across all subjects. That figure is service-wide, not a Chemistry result, so judge fit by the trial itself.
What will we work on in Chemistry?
The teacher builds lessons from your marked work, usually across the areas where layers have to connect:
- Particles and structure: particle models, atoms and isotopes and bonding and structure.
- Equations and amounts: formulas and equations, relative masses and amounts and concentration, gas and yield calculations.
- Explaining change: rates of reaction, energy changes and equilibrium.
- Reading and writing answers: practical-data interpretation and extended explanation and error repair.
The other modules, including organic chemistry, metals and analysis, are in the Chemistry learning guide.
Where to go next
Start with the Chemistry learning guide for the full topic map and a study order. The difficulty guides cover particle size and particle spacing and rate trends without explanations.
If you are still weighing things up, read considering Chemistry tuition for a fair look at self-study, group classes and one-to-one. When you are ready to try a session, choosing a useful lesson focus will help you plan the first hour.