Online Tutoring in Bahrain

Our class times where you are

Weekdays

12:00–20:00 Bahrain time, across a single nationwide zone. The after-school window from about 14:00 to 20:00 is entirely inside our teaching day.

Weekends

08:00–18:00 Bahrain time, which is where past-paper work sits before the May examination period.

Our time (Pakistan)

14:00–22:00 PKT · Asia/Karachi

Bahrain observes Arabia Standard Time, UTC+3, all year with no daylight saving and a single time zone across the kingdom. The two-hour gap to Pakistan never changes. Government second-term finals fall in May, earlier than several neighbouring systems, so Bahraini revision peaks in March and April.

Curricula we teach

• Bahraini national curriculum set by the Ministry of Education — Arabic-medium, basic education to Grade 9 and then a credit-hour secondary stage covering Grades 10 to 12
• Three government secondary pathways — general academic, technical and vocational, and religious education
• British and Cambridge curriculum (IGCSE and A Level) across a large private sector
• American curriculum (US high school diploma with Advanced Placement) at several private schools
• International Baccalaureate at established bilingual and international schools
• Indian CBSE — a long-established network including The Indian School Bahrain, founded in 1950
• Pakistani curriculum at community schools — Pakistan Urdu School, founded 1956, and Pakistan School Bahrain

Exams students sit here

• Cambridge and Pearson IGCSE and A Level — May/June and October/November series, sat locally in Bahrain
• General Secondary Education Certificate, with parallel Technical and Religious Education certificates — Grade 12, second-term finals in May with resits in mid-to-late June
• BQA National Examinations — Grades 9 and 12, administered in classrooms during the school year
• CBSE Class 10 and Class 12 board examinations — February to April, at Bahrain's CBSE-affiliated Indian schools
• International Baccalaureate Diploma and Advanced Placement — May

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One zone, two hours, no changes

Bahrain runs a single time zone across the whole kingdom at UTC+3 and makes no daylight saving changes. Our weekday block of 14:00–22:00 PKT is 12:00–20:00 in Manama, Muharraq, Riffa and Isa Town; our weekend block is 08:00–18:00.

Because Bahrain is small enough to have no internal time differences and stable enough to have no seasonal ones, the timetable is settled once and then left alone. That is not true of most of the markets we teach into.

• 15:00 PKT = 13:00 Manama
• 18:00 PKT = 16:00 Manama — the most-booked Bahraini slot
• 22:00 PKT = 20:00 Manama
• Weekends: 10:00–20:00 PKT = 08:00–18:00 Manama

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Basic education to Grade 9, then a credit-hour secondary stage

The Bahraini national system runs basic education to Grade 9 and then a secondary stage over Grades 10 to 12 organised on a credit-hour basis, adopted in the early 1990s. Students choose between general academic, technical and vocational, and religious pathways — Bahrain has run technical education in the region since 1936.

A credit-hour secondary stage behaves differently from a two-year aggregated system such as Matric. Marks accumulate across the stage rather than arriving in one series, so a weak semester is a live problem at the time rather than something to be repaired at the end.

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BQA National Examinations at Grades 9 and 12

Since 2010 the Ministry of Education and the Education & Training Quality Authority have jointly run National Examinations at Grade 9 and Grade 12, administered in classrooms during the school year. Grade 9 covers Arabic, English, mathematics and science; Grade 12 covers Arabic, English and mathematical skills.

These sit alongside, not instead of, the certificate examinations. Families sometimes assume one replaces the other and plan revision for a single date; there are two distinct assessment tracks in a Bahraini Grade 12 year.

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Two terms, finishing in May

Bahrain runs two terms. In 2025/26 students started on 3 September 2025, the first term ran to 12 January 2026, the mid-year break was 18 to 29 January, and the second term ran from 1 February to 25 May, with the year formally closing on 30 June after resits.

That May finish is earlier than Kuwait's late-June Grade 12 season and earlier than Oman's, which can run into July. The consequence for planning is that Bahraini revision peaks in March and April, and our Bahraini weekend load concentrates there.

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How we work with families in Bahrain

Cambridge IGCSE and GCSE Mathematics run as 90-minute sessions, two to four a week, in groups of no more than four. Students on CBSE or the national route take our international-curriculum or Grade 9–10 programmes, and international-curriculum support is one-to-one.

For IGCSE students the entry decision comes first. Cambridge 0580 Core is capped at grade C and Extended runs A* to E, so we work a full Extended past series under timed conditions before advising, rather than entering a student for the safer route by default.