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Physics Tutor Jobs in Malaysia: SPM Fizik to STPM and IB

Physics tutor jobs from SPM Fizik 4531 to STPM and IB: walk Tingkatan 4 to 6 learners through forces, electricity and waves with worked problems they can repeat alone.

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Posting updated 31 October 2026

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The job

Fizik Tutor

Pay
RM60 to RM170 per hour
Where you teach
Anywhere in Malaysia: home or online
Hours
Part-time, hours you choose
Experience
1 year+ tutoring or teaching
Posting updated
路 Recruiting all year.

Why teach Fizik with Edustar

Physics tutor jobs follow Fizik, one of the toughest electives in Malaysian secondary school and a subject students ask for again and again. From mechanics and electricity in SPM Fizik 4531 to modern physics in STPM and IB Physics SL and HL, learners want laws and formulas turned into problem solving they can repeat alone.

  • 1SPM and STPM Physics students, matched to your strongest chapters and the area you cover.
  • 2Each confirmed Fizik or Physics session is paid hourly in MYR.
  • 3Your hours, your learners, and a choice of home visits or online lessons.
  • 4Coordinators pass on each learner's weak chapters before the first session.
  • 5Teach across SPM Fizik 4531, STPM Physics, IB Physics SL/HL and IGCSE Physics, pick the levels you know best.

The role

What you will do

  • Plan and deliver 1-to-1 or small-group Fizik lessons aligned to the KPM syllabus for Tingkatan 4-5 (SPM Fizik 4531) and Tingkatan 6 (STPM Physics, 3-semester modular).
  • Build deep conceptual grounding in mechanics, thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, waves and modern physics (quantum/nuclear), with real understanding that goes past formula memorisation.
  • Drill structured and free-response questions for SPM, STPM, IB Physics SL/HL, IGCSE Physics and Cambridge A-Level Physics, with strong exam technique on units, derivations and graphs.
  • Coach practical/eksperimen skills for SPM Paper 3 (Kertas 3) and STPM practical assessments: apparatus setup, error analysis, and marking-scheme-aware write-ups.
  • Set past-year LPM and MPM papers, give clear written feedback, and update your student honestly after each topic or examination.

Who we are looking for

  • A degree in Physics, Engineering or a related science field.
  • IPG-trained tutors and ex-KPM Fizik teachers are strongly preferred.
  • Deep command of the KPM Fizik syllabus (SPM 4531), STPM Physics modular structure, and Cambridge specifications (IB Physics SL/HL, IGCSE, A-Level) where relevant.
  • Confident with practical/eksperimen Paper 3 technique, including apparatus, data analysis and error treatment.
  • 1 year or more teaching Physics or Fizik.
  • Resident in Malaysia with work rights, and able to make mechanics and electricity feel concrete.
How it works

How it works

  1. Step 01

    Apply

    Submit your details through our contact form: it takes a few minutes.

  2. Step 02

    Quick screening

    We confirm your Physics subjects, levels and experience in a short call.

  3. Step 03

    Get matched

    We match you with SPM, STPM, IB or IGCSE Physics students near you who need help at your level.

  4. Step 04

    Start teaching

    Set a weekly Fizik timetable with your student and begin, with our team supporting you throughout.

Pay

Pay range

RM60 to RM170 per hour

The level (SPM Fizik up to STPM, IB or A-Level), your qualifications and the format decide your position in the band. STPM Physics, IB Physics HL and Cambridge A-Level Physics sit at the upper end of the range.

Why teach physics online with Edustar

Planning a Fizik year around Tingkatan 4, Tingkatan 5 and the STPM semesters

KSSM Fizik in Tingkatan 4 opens with measurement, then moves through force and motion, gravitation, heat, waves, and light and optics. Tingkatan 5 carries the heavier load: pressure, electricity, electromagnetism, electronics and quantum physics, all of it before SPM at the end of Form 5. A Physics tutor who maps these chapters against the school's pace can stay one chapter ahead, so the hard ideas arrive in tuition first.

Experiments sit at the heart of KSSM Fizik, and the learner's lab work feeds the PBD record kept at school. Tuition supports that thread directly: reading a vernier calliper and a micrometer screw gauge, naming manipulated, responding and constant variables, plotting a straight-line graph and quoting a gradient with its unit. Learners who rehearse these skills at the desk walk into school practicals already fluent.

STPM Physics is sat as three papers, one at the end of every Tingkatan 6 semester, so the year has three peaks. Mechanics and thermodynamics lead the first semester, electricity and magnetism the second, and oscillations, waves, optics and modern physics the third. Tutors plan in blocks that finish ahead of each paper, leaving room for full timed sets and a review of every derivation.

One Tingkatan 4 Fizik session on momentum, from recall to homework

The first five minutes are a cold recall check: the learner puts down the definition of momentum and its unit, then explains in plain words why a loaded lorry is harder to stop than a motorcycle travelling at the same speed. Whatever goes wrong in that answer tells the tutor exactly where to aim the next fifty minutes.

Conservation of momentum comes next, built from a picture the learner can hold: two trolleys meeting on a runway. The tutor sketches the before and after states, fixes a sign convention, and the learner solves one case where the trolleys separate and one where they move off together, talking through each line. A recoil example follows, showing the same law with a total momentum of zero.

The last twenty minutes turn to SPM-style questions: a structured calculation, then a written explanation of why a fielder draws both hands back while catching a fast ball. That answer bridges into impulse and impulsive force, the following lesson. Homework is four graded questions plus one everyday example of a collision the learner finds and explains, and the session note records the step that slowed them.

Who books a Physics tutor, and the result each candidate is chasing

Many requests come from Tingkatan 4 science-stream learners who met the first chapters and found that physics leans harder on algebra and graphs than lower secondary science did. Their goal is a firm footing before Form 5 adds electricity, electromagnetism and electronics. Tingkatan 5 candidates book with SPM in clear view, aiming for a grade that opens matriculation, foundation and diploma routes into engineering, medicine and computing.

Tingkatan 6 learners take STPM Physics as their path to university places in engineering and the physical sciences, and they need fluent derivations, calculus-based reasoning and confident handling of vectors. Private candidates sitting SPM again, along with adults returning to study, form another steady group. They arrive with a clear target and value a tutor who rebuilds method from the first principle upward.

  • Tingkatan 4: measurement, forces and graph skills made solid
  • Tingkatan 5: SPM readiness across electricity, electromagnetism and quantum physics
  • Tingkatan 6: STPM semester papers, derivations and modern physics
  • Private SPM candidates: a clean method for a second sitting
  • Adult learners: physics refreshed for further study or technical work

A Physics tutor's week: preparing, marking and writing the notes

A steady Physics timetable holds several learners, each with a regular weekly slot. Preparation runs per learner: choose the chapter, pick two worked examples that match the school's pace, and line up one exam-style question for the closing segment. For STPM learners, the tutor works every derivation through beforehand so each step can be shown cleanly on the board or the screen.

Marking is where Physics tuition gains real ground. Checking homework means tracking units, significant figures, sign errors in vector problems and the sentence a learner writes to explain a phenomenon, since many marks reward that written reasoning. Handing back the marked script as the following lesson opens gives the learner a sharp first ten minutes and a clear sense of progress.

Online Physics lessons run in a call link Edustar sends before each session. What the tutor sets up on their own side is the drawing: a stylus on a tablet, or a phone clipped above the desk filming the page. That matters, because an ammeter wired in series, a ray bending through a convex lens or the forces on a block resting on a slope all have to be sketched live. After the call, the tutor writes up which law the hour worked on, perhaps Hooke's law or refraction, and names one habit to drill before the next lesson, such as drawing normals before measuring angles. The learner and whoever arranged the lessons both read that write-up, so the next hour opens on the diagram where the last one stopped.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be IPG-trained to tutor Fizik?

No. IPG-trained tutors and ex-KPM teachers are preferred and earn at the higher end, but Physics or Engineering graduates with strong subject knowledge and tutoring experience are welcome to apply.

Which Physics syllabuses can I teach?

SPM Fizik 4531, STPM Physics (MPM, 3-semester modular), IB Physics SL/HL, IGCSE Physics and Cambridge A-Level Physics. You tell us which levels and boards you are strongest in.

Do I need to coach the SPM Paper 3 practical?

Ideally yes for SPM students. Practical/eksperimen technique (apparatus handling, tables, graphs, error analysis and marking-scheme-aware write-ups) is a big part of the SPM Fizik grade.

Are international school students common?

Yes. IB Physics and IGCSE Physics demand is strong from international schools in Klang Valley, Penang and Iskandar EduCity Johor, alongside the SPM and STPM mainstream.

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