SUTD tutor jobs put your maths, science and design-technology grounding to work in the east. Tampines, Bedok, Pasir Ris and Simei are a short ride from Upper Changi, and students there need exactly that grounding as the final papers approach. Online assignments stay open island-wide.
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Intake confirmed 7 September 2026 for Primary to JC. Next intake review 11 October 2026.
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Why tutor while you study
Freshmore puts every SUTD student through the same core in maths, physics and chemistry, and pillar work in EPD, ESD or DAI keeps drawing on it afterwards. Material you keep using stays fluent, so calculus, mechanics and stoichiometry are available to you in the middle of a session, at whatever pace the student sets. It is also why a single SUTD tutor often ends up carrying two or three sciences at the same time.
A tuition assignment is a promise to be in the same room at the same hour every week for months. Tampines, Simei, Bedok and Pasir Ris all sit a short ride from campus, courtesy of the Downtown Line stop at Upper Changi and the interchange at Expo, and that is the practical reason those slots survive the weeks when your own workload spikes. Students in the east notice the tutor who arrives in exam season with the punctuality he showed at the start of the year.
A design and technology degree runs on briefs with hard deadlines: you decide what has to exist on the day, then break it backwards into weeks. The second half of the school year asks a tutor for that same shape, a paper on a fixed date, a syllabus to finish, and a sequence of past papers and timed drills that lands ahead of it. A student who has been drifting from one worksheet to the next feels the difference the week a plan appears.
In studio you defend how you got there, and a half-built idea with visible reasoning carries more weight than a finished object nobody can follow. Maths and Physics papers reward the same thing: working a marker can follow. Someone who has been assessed on process teaches process without having to be told.
In demand near you
A strong starting point based on your campus. You can apply for any subject you know well.
Pay
S$25 to S$60 per hour
Where you sit in the band depends on the level you teach and the experience you bring. The rate is agreed before you accept an assignment and paid on schedule.
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. Lessons run at the learner's home or online, and online lessons are taught from Singapore.
How it works
Apply
Tell us you're a current SUTD student and your subjects.
Screening
A short review of your subject strength and availability.
Get matched
We match you with students near Upper Changi or online.
Teach
Start lessons around your timetable and get paid in SGD.
Questions
Yes, and the second half is the busiest part of the tuition year. Students heading for O-Level and A-Level papers reach the point where they need weekly timed practice and someone to mark it honestly, and they go looking for that help during the run-in. Joining mid-year also shortens the diagnosis: the student already has marked schoolwork in hand, so the topics leaking marks show up immediately. Tell us your travel radius and your strongest subjects when you apply and we match from there.
Your teaching blocks sit at roughly Week 1-6 and Week 8-14; a break falls between them, exam weeks follow, and the school year hits its heaviest stretch as the final papers approach. Where the two collide is predictable, so we plan for it in advance: a heavier tutoring load in the earlier weeks of your term, sessions pre-agreed as movable, and the recess week plus inter-term gaps kept for catch-up. Send your term dates when you apply and the schedule is built on them from the start.
Submission dates are published at the start of your term, so they can go into the schedule on day one and stop being an emergency. Mark them when you apply and we settle the plan with the student before the first session: which weeks drop to a single session, which get made up, and how far ahead they hear about it. Two weeks of notice keeps a student holding the slot for you; a message on the morning of the class is what makes them ask for a different tutor.
Start where your memory is sharpest. Lower and Upper Secondary maths and science sit directly on top of the Freshmore core and your own recent papers. Recency is worth something here: the questions that actually cost you marks are still fresh, so you can steer a student around them. A-Level Maths and Physics assignments more often go to students further into EPD, ESD or DAI, where the same material has been revisited at depth. Build a record at secondary level first and the A-Level work follows.
Most often O-Level and A-Level Maths, Physics and Chemistry. That comes straight out of how much maths and physics the SUTD curriculum carries. Coding and secondary Computing come up too, usually for students on the computing and AI side. Planning follows the MOE syllabus in every case, and timed papers are set and marked so the student can see exactly where they stand without guessing.
Online is open island-wide, and it is the usual choice when a week is tight, particularly during submission stretches when travel time is the first thing to cut. In-person assignments are matched to your travel radius, and from Upper Changi the eastern estates are the easiest ones to hold for the long run. Say which mode you want when you apply; one tutor can carry a mix of both.
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