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Online Physics Tutor Jobs for SPM, STPM, IGCSE and IB

Online Physics Tutor Jobs: teach Malaysian learners physics one-to-one by video. Run simulations where a lab bench would stand, draw every diagram live, and keep the hours that suit you, from Malaysia or abroad.

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Posting updated 30 October 2026

  • RM20 to RM60 per hour
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The job

Online Physics Tutor

Pay
RM20 to RM60 per hourEach offer states its exact rate before you accept
Where you teach
Online, from Malaysia or abroad
Hours
Part-time, hours you choose
Experience
No prior tutoring experience needed.
Posting updated
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Why teach online

Why teach physics online with Edustar

Online physics tutor jobs with Edustar mean teaching one Malaysian learner at a time, from Malaysia or abroad. Whether the paper is SPM Physics 4531, STPM Physics 960, IGCSE 0625 or IB Physics, you plan each lesson, run the simulations, sketch the diagrams on screen and set your own part-time hours.

  • 1A simulation turns a textbook experiment into something the learner can steer. Change the angle of a ramp, the length of a pendulum or the resistance in a circuit, and the result appears on screen within seconds, ready to be explained.
  • 2Free-body diagrams, ray diagrams and circuit diagrams are drawn live on a shared board, so the learner watches each arrow and each component appear in the order a strong answer needs.
  • 3Experiment-design questions stay concrete. The learner names the manipulated, responding and fixed variables, then tests the plan in a simulation during the same lesson.
  • 4Learners come from across the syllabi: Form 4–5 science stream candidates sitting SPM, STPM candidates moving through three semesters, and IGCSE and IB students. Your timetable can carry one level or several.
  • 5Every offer from Edustar arrives with its details up front, already matched to your level, the physics topic and your schedule. You take the lessons that fit, the same way thousands of tutors across Malaysia already teach with Edustar.
Your online classroom

The online physics classroom you will run

  • A computer on a steady internet line, able to keep a video call, a shared screen and an open simulation running together for a whole lesson.
  • Clear audio matters when you talk a learner through a derivation line by line, so wear a headset whose microphone sits close to your voice, plus a webcam that lets them watch you point to each step.
  • A pen tablet for sketching free-body, ray and circuit diagrams by hand, with labels, arrows and units added as you speak.
  • Physics simulations such as PhET for motion, waves, optics and circuits, used in place of bench apparatus, plus a graphing tool to plot experiment data and read gradients and intercepts.
  • A routine for checking calculations: the learner holds their calculator work and written steps up to the camera, so you can catch a slipped unit or a wrong power of ten straight away.
How it works

How to start teaching physics online

  1. Step 01

    Apply in under a minute

    Physics applicants give us a name, a reachable inbox, a WhatsApp number and their current country. Sending it is free, and online physics hiring never pauses.

  2. Step 02

    Set out your physics profile

    Our reply carries a link into the educator app. Build your physics profile there: SPM 4531, STPM 960, IGCSE 0625 or IB, whichever you cover, with qualifications and documents attached.

  3. Step 03

    Ready your physics kit

    Install your simulations and graphing tool, connect the pen tablet, and run one free-body diagram and one circuit sketch on the shared board so the first lesson flows from minute one.

  4. Step 04

    Accept a learner and teach

    Offers arrive from Edustar matched to the levels and hours you listed. Pick the learner who suits you and teach them one-to-one online. Edustar bills the learner by invoice, and every session that is validated is paid to you.

The role

What an online physics tutor does

  • Fit each lesson to where the learner stands, whether that is SPM 4531 topics in Form 4–5, an STPM 960 semester, IGCSE 0625 or IB Physics SL or HL.
  • Teach the core topics one-to-one: forces and motion, pressure, heat, waves and light, electricity and electromagnetism, and nuclear and quantum physics.
  • Build the material for each paper yourself: worked solutions, practice sets drawn from past papers, worksheets and a plan for every lesson, all aimed at the exam the learner will sit.
  • Coach calculation-heavy answers step by step, with correct units, significant figures and a clear line of working that an examiner can follow.
  • Build graph and experiment-design skills through simulations, so the learner can plot data, describe a relationship and plan a fair test with confidence.

What we ask of you

  • Solid physics knowledge at every level you teach, shown through a degree, a diploma or exam results in physics, engineering or a closely related science.
  • A clear grasp of at least one of the syllabi learners follow: SPM Physics under KSSM, STPM Physics 960, IGCSE Physics 0625 or IB Physics.
  • Comfort teaching on camera and handling several tools in one lesson: video call, shared screen, pen tablet, simulation and graphing tool.
  • Fluent English for explaining concepts and marking written answers; Bahasa Melayu is a strong asset for learners who sit SPM Physics in Malay.
  • Reliability with a regular weekly slot in Malaysian time (UTC+8), often weekday evenings and weekends, kept whether you live in Malaysia or overseas.
Pay

Hourly pay for online physics lessons

RM20 to RM60 per hour

Every online physics offer, from Form 4 SPM topics to STPM semester work, sits inside the band shown above. The rate for that particular learner is written into the offer itself, so you weigh the syllabus, the weekly hours and the pay together before saying yes.

Living in Malaysia? Teach it at home too

Fizik Tutor

Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) · home or online

Teaching electromagnetism in three dimensions on a flat screen

Electromagnetism is the stretch of physics a screen makes hardest. Fleming's left-hand rule, the right-hand grip rule and the direction of an induced current all ask the learner to hold field, current and force at right angles in their head, while a flat diagram squeezes one of those axes into a dot or a cross.

The fix is to bring the learner's own hand into the frame. The learner holds it up to the camera with the fingers set along the field and the current, and you check the thumb before a single arrow goes on the board. An upright pen on the desk becomes the wire, and a sheet of paper becomes the plane of the page.

Each problem then closes with the same set-up redrawn from a second viewpoint, first looking down the wire and then side-on. SPM candidates working on the force on a current-carrying conductor in Form 5, and STPM candidates meeting electromagnetic induction in their second semester, both gain from seeing one situation drawn two ways.

The opening four weeks of teaching physics online

The opening week goes into building a physics profile that matches what you teach. Name the levels you teach, from SPM in Tingkatan 4 and 5 to STPM in Tingkatan 6, mark the topics you teach best, such as mechanics or circuits, and hold open the hours that suit you in Malaysian time. A precise profile lets each offer land on a learner you can move forward.

The first offer states which physics syllabus the learner sits, SPM or STPM, together with the hourly rate attached to it. Once you accept, the opening lesson works as a map: a short run of questions across several chapters shows whether marks slip on units, on rearranging equations or on reading what the question asks.

By the fourth week the rhythm has settled. Lessons fall in a fixed weekly slot over Edustar's video link, and the topic plan points at the next school test or trial paper. A few lines written after every lesson name the chapter covered and the slip that keeps returning, such as a dropped sign when resolving forces. The learner reads them before the next homework set, and a copy goes to whoever handles the enrolment.

Physics hours on Malaysian time, from any time zone

Learners in Malaysia study physics after school and at weekends, so the fullest online timetable sits on weekday evenings and across Saturday and Sunday. Tingkatan 6 candidates add daytime slots during their own study breaks, which suits tutors who keep mornings free.

Tutors abroad map those hours onto their own clock. Malaysia runs on UTC+8 all year, so an 8 pm lesson in Kuala Lumpur lands around midday or early afternoon in the United Kingdom, mid-afternoon in the Gulf, and late in the evening on Australia's east coast.

Exam seasons shape the year. Requests for extra revision lessons climb ahead of the SPM papers that close Form 5, and again before each STPM semester examination, and a tutor who keeps one spare evening in those months can give a current learner the extra hour they ask for.

Habits that make an online physics lesson land

A strong online physics tutor makes the learner do the reasoning out loud. The learner states the principle before touching the calculator, names the quantity being found and writes its unit first, so a wrong path shows up in the second line of working.

Lessons end with something the learner keeps: a photographed page of their own working, a saved simulation setting or a single ray or field diagram they must redraw from memory once the next call begins. That small carry-over gives the following lesson a running start and shows the learner how much of the chapter has already stuck.

  • Opens by asking the learner to recall one formula from the previous lesson
  • Asks for a sketch before every calculation
  • Checks units and powers of ten at every step
  • Ties each simulation back to an exam-style question
  • Notes one target for the next lesson in the progress note
Questions

Questions from physics tutors

Can I teach physics online for Edustar while living outside Malaysia?

Yes. Physics tutors based in Malaysia and those living overseas can both take this role. Your slots follow Malaysian time (UTC+8), so build your hours around the weekday evenings and weekends when learners in Malaysia sit down to study.

Which physics levels can I take on?

Any level you teach with confidence. Learners prepare for SPM Physics 4531 in Form 4–5, STPM Physics 960 across three semesters, IGCSE Physics 0625 and IB Physics SL or HL. Your profile sets the levels you receive offers for.

How do practical and experiment questions work in an online lesson?

Simulations stand in for the lab bench. The learner changes one variable, records the readings, plots them in a graphing tool and then writes up the method, so experiment-design questions are practised with real data on screen.

Do I need to buy special equipment?

You use your own computer, headset, webcam and internet connection. A pen tablet is the one piece that lifts physics lessons most, because free-body, ray and circuit diagrams come out quicker and cleaner by hand.

Ready when you are

Teach physics online with Edustar

Bring your SPM, STPM, IGCSE or IB physics to learners across Malaysia, from your desk at home or abroad. The application is four short fields.

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