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Home Tutor Jobs Singapore, at the table where homework happens

One-to-one lessons at the student's own table, in the estates you choose to cover, on the evenings you keep free.

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Intake confirmed 7 September 2026 for Primary to JC. Next intake review 15 November 2026.

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  • Starting from S$15 per hour
  • Part-time contract
  • Islandwide: at the student's home
Become a tutor with Eduprime Singapore

Home tutor jobs in Singapore are a way of working before they are a subject. The classroom is the student's own dining table or bedroom desk, the bell is a doorbell, and the timetable is one hour a week that stays in the same place until the syllabus is done. You arrive with your materials in a bag, sit beside one student, and open the file that student actually carries to school: the returned class test with the method mark missing, the workbook with three questions left blank, the compo covered in red. Eduprime matches you to students whose address falls inside the radius you say you will travel, whose subject and level sit inside what you can genuinely teach, and whose slot fits the evenings you keep free. Levels run from Primary through Junior College.

Why tutors build a home round

  • You draw the map. Name the estates and the travel time you accept, and matches come from inside that line, so the route is one you can hold week after week.
  • The hour belongs to one student. No second learner waiting, no board split between two topics, no pace set by an average.
  • You teach with the real evidence in front of you: the school's own worksheets, the marked script, the topic list on the wall. Diagnosis moves quickly when the folder is open on the table.
  • The slots are the ones students book: weekday evenings once school and CCA are done, and daytime hours at the weekend. They sit around a degree, a full-time job or a household of your own.
  • The relationship runs long. Return to the same doorway across a term and you watch a whole syllabus year unfold in one student, from the first shaky topic to the paper itself.
  • Assignments are offered to you as students request them and the agreed rate is paid on time, so your effort goes into the lesson and the journey to it.

The role

What the hour at the table asks of you

  • Plan the journey to the student's address with enough margin to be seated and ready when the agreed hour starts.
  • Teach one-to-one using what you carry in: your practice material, paper, a spare pen, and whatever past papers the lesson needs.
  • Begin from the student's own material (school worksheets, the class file, the teacher's marking) before adding work of your own.
  • Hold the focus of the hour inside a real home: a shared table, a sibling doing homework across from you, a television two rooms away.
  • Set work for the six days you are away and check it at the top of the next lesson, so the week between visits counts for something.
  • Close each lesson with a short, honest account the student can hold on to: what was covered, what is solid, what needs another pass. When the student is a young Primary child, pass the same account to the parent who arranged the lessons.
  • Keep a running record of dates and topics so the term leaves a visible trail for the student and for you.
  • Carry yourself as a guest: shoes at the door, punctual arrival, a clean finish at the agreed time, and early notice whenever a slot has to move.

Who this way of working suits

  • Command of every subject and level you put your name to, anywhere from Primary to Junior College, with the honesty to hand back what sits outside your range.
  • Willingness to travel to homes each week inside a radius you set, and the discipline to keep that slot once it exists.
  • Availability when lessons actually run: weekday evenings after school and CCA, and daytime hours across the weekend.
  • The legal right to work in Singapore.
  • Composure in a lived-in room: teaching with paper and your own explanation, without a whiteboard, a projector or silence.
  • Clear spoken English for the end-of-lesson debrief with the student, and with the parent when the learner is a young child. Other languages are an asset with younger learners and Mother Tongue work.

Pay

The rate, the journey, and when money arrives

Starting from S$15 per hour

Travel is the number this mode lives or dies on, so start there: the paid hour sits inside a longer block once the trip either way is counted, and a tight, honest radius earns more across an evening than a scattered one. The rate itself is set per assignment. A Primary table and an H2 table are priced differently, and a strong teaching record pushes the figure up. Each address comes with its rate stated in advance, and what was stated is what lands, on time.

Who can take home assignments

Home tuition in Singapore is open to Singapore citizens, permanent residents, and holders of a valid pass that allows this work. We check your eligibility before your first lesson. Serving MOE teachers need MOE approval before taking paid tuition.

How it works

From your application to the first doorbell

  1. 01

    Send us your map and your hours

    Apply through the tutor form with the subjects and levels you teach, the areas you can reach, and the evening and weekend hours you keep free.

  2. 02

    A conversation about range

    We talk through where you are genuinely strong, which levels you would rather leave alone, and how far you are prepared to travel on a weeknight.

  3. 03

    A match with the details attached

    Each offer reaches you with the level, the subject, the neighbourhood, the slot and the rate stated before you commit. Turning one down costs you nothing.

  4. 04

    The first visit

    You meet the student (and, for a younger child, the parent who made the booking), read through the file and the recent marking, and settle a weekly hour both sides can hold.

  5. 05

    The weekly rhythm

    The slot repeats, the record grows, and the agreed rate is paid on time for as long as the arrangement runs.

Questions

What tutors ask before their first house visit

Do I need my own room or study space to tutor?

No. Every lesson happens at the student's home, at whatever table or desk the student already works at. You bring the materials; the space is waiting.

How far will I be expected to travel?

As far as you say and no further. You name the estates or the travel time you accept when you apply, and matches are drawn from inside that line. Widening it later stays your call.

When do most lessons run?

Weekday evenings, once school and CCA have finished, plus daytime hours across the weekend. Tutors with free afternoons also pick up younger Primary slots earlier in the day.

What do I need to bring with me?

Practice material, paper, a spare pen and anything the topic demands. Work from the student's school worksheets and marked scripts first. They tell you more in five minutes than any diagnostic quiz.

Which subjects and levels can I take?

The ones you can teach without bluffing, anywhere from Primary to Junior College. You declare the list and we match inside it. A tutor holding P4 Maths at one address and Sec 3 Chemistry at another on the same evening is ordinary here.

Do I have to be a trained or serving teacher?

Students judge a home tutor on subject command, clarity and reliability, and those three decide every match here. Trained teachers, graduates, undergraduates and career changers all tutor with Eduprime.

Is this full-time work?

It is a part-time contract built out of weekly slots. How many you hold is your decision, bounded by the evenings you have and the distance between addresses.

What happens when a lesson has to move?

Exams, holidays and illness shift slots on both sides. Give as much notice as you can and tell us; we work with the student on a replacement time, or on a fresh match once an arrangement has run its course.

How is pay handled?

At the hourly rate agreed for that student, starting from S$15, paid on time. The figure you accepted at matching is the figure that applies.

Ready when you are

Draw your radius. We will find the doorways.

Tell us the subjects you teach, the levels you are comfortable with, the areas you can reach and the evenings you keep free. Matches come back with the address, the slot and the rate attached.

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