IB Psychology tutors on Learnmate include Diploma graduates who scored 7 at Higher Level and qualified teachers, available online across Australia.
IB Psychology tutors on Learnmate include graduates who scored 7 at Higher Level.
The course guide changed, and the internal assessment changed with it.
Tutors work with both SL and HL students, and with Extended Essay writers.
IB Psychology lessons average $55/hr, with most tutors offering a first lesson free.
Tutors also cover IB Biology, Chemistry and Maths for students taking several sciences.
IB Psychology asks students to hold three approaches to behaviour in mind at once and apply them to material they have never seen. Marks are lost in predictable places. Students describe studies where the command term asked them to evaluate. They treat concepts as vocabulary rather than as the frame an answer is built on. They lose ground on command terms, where the difference between describe, explain, contrast and evaluate sets the mark ceiling before a word of content is written. A tutor works on the response, not just the recall.
The bigger change is the internal assessment. Under the current guide, students write a research proposal for a study they will not run, rather than a report on an experiment they carried out. Marks now come from justifying method choices, which is unfamiliar territory for most students and for plenty of teachers. Higher Level students also face data analysis and interpretation that Standard Level does not. Tutors on Learnmate work through both. You choose the tutor yourself, book directly, and payments are processed automatically by Learnmate after each lesson, with no direct payment to the tutor required. Students taking several Diploma subjects can find tutors across them on the IB Tutors page.
Learnmate is Australia's leading online tutoring marketplace, built around the idea that families should be able to see who is available and pick for themselves. Profiles carry Diploma scores, subject results, university study and reviews from students who have already had lessons, so the decision rests on evidence rather than a matching algorithm or an intake call.
There are no packages to buy and no lock-in contracts. Most tutors offer a first lesson free, which for IB Psychology usually means bringing a marked response along and finding out where the marks actually went. Payments are processed automatically after each lesson, and IB Psychology lessons average $55/hr.
Several IB Psychology tutors on Learnmate hold a 7 at Higher Level and sat the Diploma recently. They remember which topics the papers keep returning to and how examiners separate a 5 from a 7.
The internal assessment changed from a replicated experiment to a written research proposal. Tutors on Learnmate work to the guide a student is actually sitting rather than the one they studied themselves.
IB Psychology rarely travels alone. Many tutors here teach Biology and Chemistry at Higher Level too, so one tutor can cover more than one subject and the research methods carry across.
IB Psychology tutors on Learnmate include Diploma graduates with total scores of 40 to 43 out of 45, several holding a 7 in Psychology at Higher Level, and one awarded an A for an Extended Essay in Psychology. Among them are medical and science students at Melbourne, Sydney and Queensland, and qualified teachers with over a decade in senior classrooms.
Their subject spread suits students carrying several sciences: many teach IB Biology and Chemistry at Higher Level alongside Psychology, and some also take English and Sports, Exercise and Health Science. Dux awards in Psychology HL sit among their results. For other Diploma subjects, the IB Tutors page lists tutors across the full programme, and Psychology Tutors covers students on other curricula.
Jeannette very friendly and always goes above and beyond by asking for my input on lesson plans, ensuring that our time together is tailored to my needs, and always gives me helpful resources such as powerpoints and worksheets with past paper questions. Her personalised approach has made my learning experience very enjoyable and effective! I highly recommend Jeannette as an IB tutor!
Louisa is an outstanding tutor in Chemistry. I've had Louisa as my tutor for two months now and I can confidently say that she provides excellent academic support to her students. Although I am an IB student and she completed the QCE, Louisa still achieves to precisely teach me the difficult concepts of Chemistry and continually aspires to learn more about the particular IB standards.
Sai has always been able to explain tough concepts in a way that is easy for me to understand and is able to look at a question I've sent last minute and help me understand it with no problem. He has helped me go from a band 5 in IB Maths and Physics to a band 7 in Maths and a band 6 in Physics.
Vivien was my IB English Literature tutor for the past two years in Yr 11 and 12. She is absolutely amazing and is always ready to go out of her way to come up with more resources for practice writing tasks, oral commentaries/presentations & works in translations essays. Discussions are student driven and she will then add her input as to how she can make the said task better. She also provides handy tips to make the best use of time regarding exam revisions. Also, she is very accommodative as she pretty much sets up each class tailored to the student. Personally, I was scoring only 4s (out of 7) at the start of year 11 but obtained a high 6 (out of 7) in my year 12 IB final exam. This would not have been possible without Vivien’s excellent tutoring style and support. Importantly, apart from being just a tutor – she’s like a friend as she knows how intense year 12 can get sometimes and is always ready to provide advice and support to boost your confidence! Thank you so much Vivien!
My son just did his first session on IB essay writing with Rhaihana. When he finished, he was quick to tell me how knowledgeable and lovely she is and how he was feeling much more confident about a forthcoming writing task after just one hour. I am looking forward to his skills in essay writing growing as he does more sessions, as well as his enthusiasm for essay writing - which he currently dreads.
Kate is an incredibly efficient and compassionate english tutor. She has guided my development in several key areas including a clear formation of ideas and accurate grammar in an enjoyable manner. Her abundant resources and flexibility with her class structure has made my year 12 IB Literature experience significantly easier to manage. The most valuable part of my lessons with Kate is the individual component of her teaching structure. She evokes me to express my analysis of each text and asks insightful, thought provoking questions before she provides her own insight which is very helpful.
Course structure, assessment, related Diploma subjects and where tutors teach
IB Psychology is organised around three approaches to understanding behaviour, biological, cognitive and sociocultural, studied alongside research methodology. Around that core sit four contexts covering health and wellbeing, human development, human relationships, and learning and cognition, which are now studied by every student rather than chosen as options. Six concepts, among them bias, causality and measurement, run through the whole course and shape how answers are expected to be framed. Higher Level students take additional material on culture, motivation and technology, plus data analysis.
Assessment combines the internal assessment with written papers. The internal assessment is a research proposal for a hypothetical study, capped at 2,200 words and marked against four criteria covering introduction, methodology, data collection and discussion. Paper 1 mixes short answer and applied scenario questions with a concept based extended response. Paper 2 covers work done in class practicals and asks students to evaluate an unseen study. Higher Level students also sit a source based data analysis paper with a resource booklet.
Psychology shares more ground with Biology than students expect, particularly the nervous system, the brain and experimental design, so work in one subject tends to raise the other. Sports, Exercise and Health Science overlaps on motivation and wellbeing. English builds the extended response skills that Paper 1 rewards. Several tutors on Learnmate teach these subjects alongside Psychology, which makes it practical to work on more than one with the same person rather than assembling a panel.
Around 200 IB World Schools operate in Australia, with Diploma programmes concentrated in the capital cities but spread well beyond them. Because Diploma cohorts at any one school are small, a student looking for a tutor who took Psychology at Higher Level is unlikely to find one locally. Tutors on Learnmate teach online across every state and territory, and also in person in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide and Canberra.
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