Online tutoring

Online Tutoring in Pakistan

We teach from Lahore, so classes run 14:00–22:00 PKT on weekdays and 10:00–20:00 at weekends with no time conversion. Grades 1–10, Matric, O Level and SAT.

The short answer
Learning Loft Institute teaches from Lahore, so Pakistani families sit in our own time zone: weekday classes run 14:00–22:00 PKT and weekend classes 10:00–20:00 PKT, with no conversion and no clock changes. We cover Grades 1–10 across mathematics, science, English and Quran, on the Federal, provincial and Cambridge routes.

Our class times where you are

Weekdays: 14:00–22:00 PKT — the same clock you are reading. Most Grade 1–5 students take the 16:00–18:00 slots; Grade 9–10 students usually take 19:00–22:00.
Weekends: 10:00–20:00 PKT on Saturday and Sunday, which is where longer Matric and O Level revision sessions sit.
Our time (Pakistan): 14:00–22:00 PKT · Asia/Karachi

Pakistan Standard Time is UTC+5 and has no daylight saving. Daylight saving was trialled in 2002 and again in 2008–09 and then abandoned, so the timetable has not moved since. Every other market we teach into converts against us; Pakistani families never have to.

Curricula we teach

National Curriculum of Pakistan (NCP) — the federal framework launched in 2021 as the Single National Curriculum and later renamed
Provincial curricula and textbook boards — Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan each set and print their own textbooks
Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (FBISE) syllabus — Islamabad, cantonment schools and many private schools nationwide
Provincial Boards of Intermediate and Secondary Education — the mainstream Matric and Intermediate route
Cambridge International O Level, IGCSE and AS & A Level — the dominant English-medium private-school stream in urban Pakistan
Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) — a university-led private board offering Primary, Middle, SSC and HSSC programmes

Exams students sit here

SSC (Matric) Part I and Part II — Grades 9 and 10, board-set date sheets in the spring
HSSC (Intermediate: FA, FSc, ICS, I.Com) Part I and Part II — Grades 11 and 12, spring series with summer results
Cambridge O Level and IGCSE — May/June and October/November series, results in August and January
Cambridge International AS & A Level — May/June and October/November series
AKU-EB SSC and HSSC annual examinations

No conversion, and no clock changes

This is the one country page where the timetable needs no arithmetic. Our published hours are Pakistan hours: 14:00–22:00 on weekdays, 10:00–20:00 at weekends. A parent in Lahore, Karachi or Peshawar reads the same clock we teach by, and the schedule is identical in January and in July.

That matters more than it sounds. Pakistan has a single nationwide time zone and no daylight saving, so a slot booked in September is still the same slot in April. Families in every other market we serve have to re-check their offset twice a year.

14:00–16:00 PKT — primary students who finish school early
16:00–19:00 PKT — the busiest block, Grades 6 to 10
19:00–22:00 PKT — Matric and O Level revision, and students who travel home first
10:00–20:00 PKT at weekends — longer sessions and full past-paper work

Which board a student is actually on

Education is a devolved provincial subject, so there is no single syllabus to teach to. A Grade 9 student in Islamabad may be on FBISE, one in Lahore on BISE Lahore, one in a private school on Cambridge O Level, and one on AKU-EB — four different papers, four different date sheets.

We confirm the board and the exact board region in the first session rather than assuming from the city. Practising the wrong board's past papers is the most common wasted month we see in Pakistani students who come to us mid-year.

Matric and O Level are different races

The SSC route examines Grades 9 and 10 separately and aggregates the marks, so Grade 9 results are already part of the final total. The Cambridge route examines at the end, in a May/June or October/November series, with a different question style and a different mark scheme.

Students moving between the two — usually from an O Level school into a board school, or the reverse — lose ground on style rather than on content. A student who can do the mathematics can still drop marks because the paper is not asking in the way they were trained to answer.

SSC — Grade 9 and Grade 10 examined separately, marks aggregated, board-set date sheets
O Level and IGCSE — terminal examination, May/June and October/November series
IBCC equivalence at secondary level requires eight subjects, including English, Urdu, Islamiyat, Pakistan Studies and Mathematics

What we run at each stage

Grades 1 to 5 run as 45-minute sessions, three or four a week, in groups of no more than four, covering mathematics, science, English and Quran. Grades 6 to 8 move to 60 minutes and add history and geography. Grades 9 and 10 run 60 to 90 minutes, four to six times a week, which is what a two-year aggregated Matric actually requires.

Students on the Cambridge route usually take our GCSE Mathematics programme instead: 90-minute sessions in groups of at most four, because the reasoning marks have to be read individually rather than corrected from the board.

How the week is structured

Every student sits a weekly assessment, and the result goes to the parent rather than into a folder. It is the only reliable way to tell whether a session that felt productive actually was one.

The first class is a free demo. It exists so that a family can check the tutor, the board knowledge and the slot before paying for anything, and so that we can say honestly if a student needs a different programme from the one they enquired about.

Higher-secondary students at private institutions taking private supplementary tutoring: 66.4%Higher-secondary students at private institutions taking private supplementary tutoring[1]
The same figure for students at government schools: 33.6%The same figure for students at government schools[1]
Children aged 5–16 out of school in Pakistan: 25.37mChildren aged 5–16 out of school in Pakistan[2]

Common questions

What time do classes run in Pakistan?

14:00–22:00 on weekdays and 10:00–20:00 at weekends, in Pakistan Standard Time. Because Pakistan does not observe daylight saving, those times are the same every week of the year.

Do you teach the Matric board syllabus or Cambridge?

Both. We teach FBISE and the provincial BISE syllabuses for SSC and HSSC, and Cambridge O Level, IGCSE and AS & A Level. We confirm the exact board and board region before planning, because date sheets and paper styles differ between them.

My child is in Grade 9. How many sessions a week is realistic?

Four to six sessions of 60 to 90 minutes. Grade 9 marks are aggregated into the final SSC result, so the year is not a warm-up for Grade 10 — it is half of the qualification.

Do you teach Quran alongside school subjects?

Yes, in the Grade 1–5 programme, alongside mathematics, science and English. It is scheduled as its own session rather than attached to the end of an academic class.

Is the first class really free?

Yes. One demo class, with the tutor who would actually teach the student, before any payment. If we think a different programme fits better, we say so in that session rather than after enrolment.

Sources

Economic burden of private tutoring at higher secondary level in Pakistan — PMC, National Library of Medicine
25.37 million children aged 5–16 out of school (GESTR 2023–24, with the Pakistan Institute of Education) — The Express Tribune
Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education — SSC and HSSC date sheets and results — FBISE

Last updated August 7, 2026