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Online STPM Tutor Jobs: Teach Form 6 Candidates Semester by Semester

Online STPM Tutor Jobs with Edustar: one-to-one video lessons for lower six and upper six candidates, matched to your subject, on a part-time schedule you control.

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Posting updated 2 November 2026

  • RM25 to RM60 per hour
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The job

Online STPM Tutor

Pay
RM25 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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The role

What you will do

  • Map each semester with the candidate: the syllabus units, the coursework deadline and the exam date, then plan lessons backwards from that final paper.
  • Teach the hard topics of your STPM subject one-to-one, checking understanding through worked problems, short written answers and timed past-year questions.
  • Guide coursework planning, research method and presentation of the kerja kursus or projek, while the candidate writes every word of it.
  • Reset the plan when one semester closes, carrying forward weak areas and opening the next syllabus with a short review of what the last paper exposed.
  • Send a brief progress note after lessons to the candidate and the person who enrolled them, covering the topics finished and the next semester target.

What we look for

  • Deep knowledge of one or more STPM subjects, shown through your own results, a degree in the field or teaching work at pre-university level.
  • Familiarity with the Majlis Peperiksaan Malaysia format for your subject, including the semester structure and how papers are marked.
  • Clear spoken and written English, plus Bahasa Melayu for subjects examined in Malay such as Sejarah, Geografi and Pengajian Am.
  • A personal device, camera, headset and an internet line that stays up for a full lesson.
  • Steady availability across a semester, since candidates build their study plan around a fixed weekly slot.
  • A habit of preparing your own worksheets, lesson plans and past-year practice sets for the topics you teach.
Pay

Pay for online STPM lessons

RM25 to RM60 per hour

Online STPM pay sits inside the hourly band shown at the top of this page. Every STPM match you are offered spells out its own figure, set for that subject and that semester's candidate, so you say yes already knowing the number.

Why teach online

Why teach STPM online with Edustar

Online STPM Tutor Jobs with Edustar seat you beside a single Form 6 candidate per lesson, working toward the paper that closes each of the three STPM semesters. You might coach Mathematics (T) 954, Economics 944 or Pengajian Am 900, planning every lesson back from that semester's exam date and coursework deadline.

  • 1STPM runs on a semester calendar with its own paper at the end of each term, so your lessons always have a clear finish line and a fresh syllabus waiting after it.
  • 2Form 6 candidates are close to university age and steer their own revision, which makes the online lesson a working session between two people who both know the target.
  • 3Matching, timetables and invoices are run by our team. Your time stays on Form 6 syllabus content, and fee collection never lands on your desk.
  • 4You choose your weekly hours and how many candidates you take on, and you can widen or narrow that load when a new semester begins.
  • 5Edustar runs a network of thousands of tutors across Malaysia, with steady demand from Form 6 colleges, school-based sixth forms and private candidates sitting STPM on their own.
Your online classroom

Your online STPM classroom

  • A pen tablet or stylus screen for writing out Mathematics (T) derivations, calculus steps and Physics 960 working live on the shared whiteboard.
  • A shared spreadsheet for Accounting 949 ledgers and Economics 944 data tables, so the candidate edits figures while you watch the reasoning unfold.
  • A shared document for essay subjects such as Sejarah 940 and the Pengajian Am essay section, where you comment on structure paragraph by paragraph.
  • Screen sharing for past-year paper practice, marking schemes and the semester timetable you build together with the candidate.
  • Your own computer, camera and headset, with a microphone clean enough for an Economics essay discussion and a line steady through a two-paper revision block. Edustar sends no equipment, and lessons follow Malaysian time (UTC+8).

One online hour of Mathematics (T) 954, start to finish

The opening minutes belong to the candidate's own question: a limit that refused to settle, or a matrix inverse that came out wrong during last night's revision. The tutor asks for a screen share of the notebook, finds the exact line where the reasoning slipped, and repairs it before any new topic begins.

The middle half hour is board work. On the pen tablet the tutor writes the first step of an integration by parts, then the candidate takes over and writes each following step on the shared whiteboard while the tutor annotates in a second colour. Errors stay on the board in plain sight, so they become material for the close.

The last stretch is one timed past-year question under exam conditions, with the candidate's camera angled down at their paper. Tutor and candidate then mark it together against the scheme, line by line. Two lines go into the progress note: the topic now secure and the topic queued next, which hands the next call its opening problem before either of them logs in.

Form 6 timetables on Malaysian time

Sixth formers spend the day in class and often carry co-curricular duties into the afternoon, so most online STPM lessons sit in the weekday evening and late evening, with longer blocks on Saturday and Sunday mornings. Private candidates and working adults add early morning and lunchtime slots around their own jobs.

Tutors applying from abroad anchor their week to UTC+8. An eight o'clock evening lesson in Kuala Lumpur lands around midday in London and late evening in Sydney, which suits many Malaysians studying or working overseas who still know the STPM syllabus from their own Form 6 years.

The calendar has a rhythm worth planning around. Requests climb in the weeks leading into each semester paper, when candidates ask for an extra weekly slot or a weekend revision block, and they return as soon as the next semester opens. Tutors who keep spare hours for those peaks build the longest-running matches on the platform.

What the strongest online STPM tutors bring to every lesson

They read the marking scheme as closely as the syllabus. In Economics 944 they show where a correctly labelled diagram and a weighed evaluation earn their marks; in Physics 960 they train candidates to state the principle before the substitution, because structured answers reward each stated step. Candidates leave knowing how their work will be read.

They also run the screen with intent. Every diagram drawn live is saved and shared after the lesson, every past-year question goes into a running log with its date and score, and every coursework conversation about the kerja kursus stays on method, sources and presentation while the candidate keeps full authorship.

  • Opens each lesson from the candidate's most recent mistake
  • Keeps one shared folder per semester with boards, notes and marked papers
  • Times practice to the minutes the real paper allows
  • Plans the first lesson of the next semester before the current paper is sat
  • Writes progress notes the candidate can act on that same week

The candidates who choose online STPM lessons

Online lessons let a candidate in any state study with a specialist in their exact subject combination, from Biology 964 and Chemistry 962 to Geografi 942 and Accounting 949. A lower six student pairing Mathematics (T) with Economics can see two different specialists in the same week without leaving their study desk.

Private candidates sitting STPM outside a school, working adults returning to the exam as their route into university, and candidates resitting a single semester paper all lean toward online lessons because the hour fits around shifts and commutes. They arrive with focused goals and value a tutor who holds the same weekly slot from the first lesson to the paper.

Whenever an STPM candidate asks for a different tutor, in lower six or deep into the upper six revision term, Edustar arranges the replacement at no cost, so the pairings that last to the final paper are the ones where the fit is real. Tutors who prepare well and keep their slot steady often carry the same candidate from lower six through upper six, which makes for some of the most rewarding teaching on the online lane.

Questions

Online STPM tutor jobs: common questions

Which STPM subjects are in demand?

Mathematics (T) 954, Mathematics (M) 950, Physics 960, Chemistry 962, Biology 964, Economics 944, Accounting 949 and Business Studies 946 draw steady requests, alongside Pengajian Am 900, Sejarah 940, Geografi 942 and Bahasa Melayu 910.

Who are the learners?

Most are Form 6 students aged 17 to 19 in sixth form colleges and schools. Private candidates and adults sitting STPM again also join, and they tend to arrive with a clear plan for the semester ahead.

How am I paid?

You see the rate inside each offer and only then decide. Edustar bills the candidate's side and releases your payment per validated session; cash never changes hands between tutor and candidate.

Do I need years of tutoring experience?

There is no fixed minimum. Subject strength and a clear way of explaining STPM content online carry the most weight in screening.

Can I help with coursework?

Yes. You guide topic choice, planning, method and presentation of the kerja kursus or projek. The candidate writes the work in their own hand and hands it in.

How many candidates can I take on?

As many as your hours allow. You set your weekly availability, and the team matches you within it, semester after semester.

How it works

How it works

  1. Step 01

    Apply

    List your STPM subjects and weekly free hours on the quick application form.

  2. Step 02

    Screening

    We read through what you sent, then hold a short screening conversation about your subjects and the way you teach them online.

  3. Step 03

    Matching

    We match you with a Form 6 candidate by subject, semester and schedule. The rate for each learner is stated in the offer before you accept.

  4. Step 04

    First lesson

    You meet the candidate online, agree the semester plan and start teaching. Each session counts toward your payment once it is validated.

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