Part-time tutor jobs for USM students in Penang. From the Minden main campus, take home lessons across George Town, Bayan Lepas and the Penang mainland, or teach online. USM is Malaysia's APEX research university, with strong science, engineering, education and pharmacy programmes.
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Teach more in the quiet weeks and less before your finals; you choose the number of learners.
Gelugor, George Town and Bayan Lepas are a short ride from Minden, and the bridge opens Seberang Perai if you drive.
Each confirmed session is paid per hour in MYR, so one steady weekly slot becomes steady income.
Penang learners book USM tutors most for STPM and SPM sciences. Strong in another subject? Add it to your application.
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 6 路 RM50鈥揜M150/hr
Tahun 1 to Tingkatan 3 (KSSR + KSSM) 路 RM50鈥揜M140/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M170/hr
Tingkatan 4 to Tingkatan 6 (SPM + STPM) 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tingkatan 4-5 路 RM60鈥揜M160/hr
Tingkatan 6 / Pre-University 路 RM80鈥揜M200/hr
Tell us your USM school, year and best science papers.
A short review of your science results and the hours your lab schedule allows.
Learners around Gelugor, George Town or Bayan Lepas, or online.
Teach at the times you set; each confirmed lesson is paid in MYR.
Other public campuses have pages of their own below.
UM 路 Lembah Pantai, Kuala Lumpur
UKM 路 Bangi, Selangor
UPM 路 Serdang, Selangor
UTM 路 Skudai, Johor Bahru
UiTM 路 Shah Alam, Selangor
IIUM 路 Gombak, Selangor
Taylor's 路 Subang Jaya, Selangor
Sunway University 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
Monash Malaysia 路 Bandar Sunway, Selangor
MMU 路 Cyberjaya, Selangor
UNIMAS 路 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak
UMS 路 Sepanggar, Sabah
UNITEN 路 Kajang, Selangor
UMT 路 Kuala Nerus, Terengganu
UMK 路 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan
Nottingham Malaysia 路 Semenyih, Selangor
Home lessons around the island, plus the mainland for tutors with transport.
Minden sits on a hill above Gelugor, and most home lessons start with the short walk down to Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah. Rapid Penang buses on that road run north to Jelutong and the George Town grid and south to Sungai Dua, Bukit Jambul and the Bayan Baru housing estates. A tutor with a motorcycle reaches Relau, Sungai Ara or Batu Uban in a quarter of an hour outside rush hour.
Edustar matches by area as well as subject, so a USM tutor who lists Gelugor and Sungai Dua as home ground receives offers clustered there. Two learners on the same side of the island let a tutor teach back to back on one evening. Each offer names the place before you accept, so you can check the bus or the ride first.
The mainland opens through two bridges. The Penang Bridge lands near Seberang Jaya and Butterworth, and the second bridge from Batu Maung reaches Batu Kawan. Tutors who drive often take one weekend learner across the water and keep weekday sessions on the island.
USM organises Minden into schools, and the strongest tutoring matches line up with them. Students from the School of Physics carry SPM and STPM Physics comfortably, including the mechanics, electricity and waves chapters that decide many SPM grades. The School of Chemical Sciences supplies Chemistry tutors who can take a learner through mole calculations, organic reactions and the practical write-ups that KSSM now asks for.
Biology learners match well with students from the School of Biological Sciences and with pharmacy students, who already work daily with physiology, genetics and cell biology. STPM Biology, with its heavier content load across three semesters of Form 6, suits final-year and postgraduate students who have revised the same ground for their own degree.
The School of Educational Studies trains future teachers, and its students often take lower secondary Sains under KSSM, where PBD tracks the learner across the school year. English learners preparing for SPM 1119 or MUET pair well with students from the School of Languages, Literacies and Translation, who teach the writing and speaking components with confidence.
Many USM students live in the desasiswa on campus, such as Restu, Saujana or Tekun, and the online lane lets them teach without leaving the hill. Each online session opens in a video-call room that Edustar sets up, so a tutor in a desasiswa room needs only their own kit. That means a laptop with a working camera, hostel Wi-Fi strong enough to hold a full hour, and a surface the learner can watch them write on, such as a pen tablet or a phone propped above a notepad.
A good online science lesson shows working in real time. Balancing a redox equation, sketching a free-body diagram or labelling a nephron reads far better handwritten than typed, so tutors who set up the camera over paper keep learners following each step.
Online learners come from every state, and some register from abroad while studying on Malaysian time. A USM tutor can hold an evening slot with a Form 5 learner in Kuching and a weekend MUET session with a candidate in Johor Bahru, all from the same desk.
Science timetables at USM pack lectures into the mornings and labs into set afternoons, which leaves a recognisable pattern of free hours. Most school learners in Penang finish class by mid afternoon and do homework in the evening, so the 5 pm to 9 pm window is the natural home for most home and online sessions.
A typical week for a second-year chemistry student might hold two weekday evening sessions near Gelugor and one Saturday morning lesson in Bayan Baru. Lab days stay clear. Sunday is kept for assignments and lecture notes. Because the tutor chooses the hours and the number of learners, the pattern shifts each semester as the lecture timetable changes.
Long semester breaks open more room. Students who stay in Penang over the break often take an extra learner or two, while those heading home switch their regular learners to online sessions and keep the same weekly time.
Final examinations at USM arrive at the end of each semester, and they rarely line up with the school calendar that SPM and STPM learners follow. A learner in Form 5 needs the most help in the months before SPM, which can coincide with a tutor's own revision. Planning for that overlap early keeps both sides on track.
Tutors who handle it well tell Edustar their exam weeks in advance, move a home lesson online for a fortnight, or shorten one session while keeping the learner's day and time. A learner who keeps the same weekly slot through the busy weeks keeps momentum too. When a tutor needs to step back for a full semester, Edustar arranges a replacement for the learner at no charge, so nobody is left mid-syllabus.
A tutoring record is welcome and optional. Current USM undergraduates and postgraduates at Minden, from pure science, pharmacy, education and engineering, qualify when they know their subject well and can keep a fixed weekly slot.
SPM Physics, Chemistry and Biology lead, followed by STPM science papers for Form 6 students across the island, and English for SPM 1119 and MUET. USM's science and pharmacy students cover these comfortably.
Around Minden and Gelugor first, then George Town, Bayan Lepas, Air Itam and Tanjung Bungah, plus the mainland via the Penang Bridge for tutors with transport. Online lessons reach learners anywhere in Malaysia.
Your pay arrives in MYR from Edustar after every session you complete, at the per-hour range listed for the subject. Apply with the short form, name USM Minden as your campus, and list the sciences or languages you can teach.
Tell us which sciences you are strongest in, and Edustar lines up learners in George Town, Bayan Lepas and the mainland or online.