Bahrain 🇧🇭 · Manama and the whole island

IGCSE & A-Level Online Classes for Students in Bahrain

Stop piecing together revision alone. These live Chemistry and Biology classes give Edexcel IGCSE and International A-Level students in Bahrain the full structure — teaching, past papers, marked homework and mocks — in one weekly programme on Bahrain time.

  • Same timezone as Bahrain (GMT+3)
  • 20+ years teaching · 16 at A-level
  • 8 textbooks · 20,000+ copies sold

Structured weekly system · Recordings included · WhatsApp support

Students in Bahrain studying IGCSE Chemistry together in a live online class group

Can students in Bahrain prepare for IGCSE and A-level sciences without a local tutor?

Yes — and many already do. Bahrain shares the class schedule's timezone (GMT+3), so students on the island attend the live Chemistry and Biology lessons exactly as timetabled, in the late afternoon and evening after school. The self-study trap — hunting for past papers, decoding two-line mark schemes, never knowing whether an answer would score — is replaced by a weekly system: taught lessons, past-paper sessions, homework returned with the missing marks explained, and mock exams before each series.

What studying alone costs — and what replaces it

Talented students in Bahrain lose grades to the process, not the science. Here is the swap the programme makes, piece by piece.

  1. Searching becomes receiving

    Hours spent hunting for the right past papers are replaced by classified, up-to-date solved papers delivered as part of the course.

  2. Guessing becomes knowing

    Instead of decoding a two-line mark scheme, students study full model answers keyed to every marking point.

  3. Hoping becomes feedback

    Homework comes back marked, so the question "would this answer score?" is answered every single week.

  4. Cramming becomes rhythm

    Two sessions per subject per week, all year, ending in mocks — the exam arrives as a repetition, not an event.

Both levels, one island-friendly schedule

Separate groups per level and subject. Bahrain students join whichever matches — and progress from IGCSE into IAL inside the same programme.

A note from Mr Hosni

Studying alone is the most expensive mistake a science student can make — not in money, in marks. After 20-plus years of teaching Biology and Chemistry, I can tell you exactly how it happens. A determined student in Bahrain downloads the papers, checks the mark scheme, sees a two-line answer, and assumes their own three paragraphs must be worth something. The examiner disagrees. Session after session, the same story.

One of my own students from Bahrain put it perfectly: she started on her own, and the time simply disappeared — finding papers, solving them, then searching the scheme for answers that never quite explained themselves. The moment she switched to solved papers with the reasoning written out in what we call baby steps, everything accelerated. The fact that someone had already done the decoding meant she could spend her hours actually learning.

That is what this programme does for the whole island, live, every week. Try one class, compare it with a night of studying alone, and you will have your answer. I wish you all best of luck in your exam.

— Mr Hosni, Head of Science · Author of 8 textbooks

Results from students in Bahrain

I started studying by my own but it takes a lot of time to find and solve past papers and then search for answers in the mark scheme — this booklet helped me a LOT.

Fatema Al-Khalifa · IAL Biology · Bahrain

The teacher must have put a lot of effort to make this package — he did answer all the questions in full detail, in baby steps.

Fatema Al-Khalifa · IAL Chemistry · Bahrain

Questions from families in Bahrain

Do the class times suit Bahrain?

Perfectly — Bahrain is on GMT+3, the schedule's own timezone, so lessons fall in the late afternoon and evening straight after the school day in Manama.

Is a live online class really as good as sitting with a tutor?

The classes are interactive: students ask questions and get answers in real time, homework is personally marked, and the recordings add something no in-person hour can — the ability to rewatch the explanation.

Which boards are covered for Bahrain schools?

Edexcel IGCSE and IAL are taught live; students at Cambridge-curriculum schools use the matching Cambridge solved past papers and notes provided with the programme.

Can a unit be retaken if a result disappoints?

On the IAL, yes — units are retaken individually in the January, June or October sessions, and the programme prepares targeted single-unit retakes.

What if a card payment fails from Bahrain?

Try any other bank or credit card first; failing that, PayPal completes the payment without needing a PayPal account.

Hosni, author of 8 IGCSE and IAL Biology and Chemistry textbooks

Mr Hosni — Head of Science · Author of 8 textbooks

20+ years turning exam mark schemes into answers students can learn from — for classes across the Gulf and in the guides on the Chem-Bio blog.

Trade the lonely late nights for a system

Live IGCSE and A-Level Chemistry & Biology classes for students in Bahrain — everything a self-studier is missing, included until the final exam day.