Best IGCSE Physics Teacher in Bahrain
Bahrain is a small market for IGCSE physics, which cuts both ways. There are fewer specialist teachers on the island, and the online options that appear first in search are mostly directories listing tutors anywhere in the world. This page explains what to check before choosing one, and gives the record of Eng. Ahmed Sherif against the same checks.
Eng. Ahmed Sherif (Shefo) has taught IGCSE and O Level physics since 2019, to more than 2,000 students, with around 90 percent finishing with an A* or an A. He teaches Manama, Riffa and Muharraq students live online, on Bahrain time, UTC+3, and every class is recorded.
See the resultsAbout the teacherSmall country, small class, and why that is the point
The usual complaint from Bahraini families about online physics is that the class is enormous. A student sits in a room of eighty, watches someone else ask the question they wanted to ask, and comes away having learned less than from a video they could have paused.
Bahrain also shares a clock and a school week with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, so a Bahraini student can sit in the main Gulf group without a timetable compromise. That means the choice here is genuinely about teaching quality rather than logistics.
Six things to check before you choose
If nobody will tell you, assume it is large. Ask whether you can speak in it.
British curriculum schools in Bahrain sit Cambridge 0625 or Edexcel 4PH1. Ask your school which one you are entered for, then ask the teacher whether they teach that exam specifically.
A good first lesson diagnoses. It should end with the teacher telling you which two topics and which paper are costing you the most marks.
Paper 6 is written, not practical, and it rewards a very specific way of describing an experiment. Ask when it is taught.
They should be. A missed class should be a rescheduled class, not a lost one.
This site has a worked answer for every major IGCSE physics question and a free past paper archive. Judge the teaching from that, not from an advert.
Where Bahraini students lose the most marks
These are the places marks go missing most often, taken from marking student scripts rather than from a textbook contents page. Each one is a specific habit, not a topic to revise again.
Half life questions are usually about counting halvings, not about a formula. Write the sequence of activities out and count, and remember background radiation is subtracted first.
Each needs its own three facts: what it is, what stops it, and how it behaves in a field. Answers that mention only penetration get a third of the marks available.
The top number is nucleons, the bottom is protons. In beta decay the bottom number goes up by one and the top stays the same, which students reverse under time pressure.
Density needs volume, and irregular objects need displacement. The mark is usually for the method of finding the volume, not for the division.
A correct number with no unit, or with the unit of the wrong quantity, loses the last mark on a question you have otherwise done perfectly.
A neutron is absorbed, the nucleus splits into two smaller nuclei, and more neutrons are released, which is what makes the chain reaction possible. Fission and fusion get confused under pressure: fission splits, fusion joins.
It comes from rocks, cosmic rays, food and medical sources, and it must be subtracted from a count rate before any half life calculation. Forgetting it is the most common single error in the whole radioactivity topic.
Mass is in kilograms and does not change. Weight is a force in newtons and equals mass times gravitational field strength. On the Moon the mass is the same and the weight is not.
Which exam you are actually sitting
This is the question most students in Bahrain get wrong, and it is worth settling in five minutes. British curriculum schools across the Gulf enter students for one of two different physics exams, and many schools do not publish which one on their website. Check your entry code with your school office.
- Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625. Core students sit Paper 1, Paper 3 and a practical paper; Extended students sit Paper 2, Paper 4 and a practical paper. The practical is either Paper 5, a real lab exam, or Paper 6, the written alternative to practical.
- Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Physics 4PH1. Two written papers, Paper 1P and Paper 2P. The modular route uses 4WPH1 and 4WPH2.
- Cambridge IGCSE Combined Science 0653, where physics is one third of a single award.
- Cambridge International AS and A Level Physics 9702, for students carrying on after IGCSE.
- Cambridge IGCSE 9-1 Physics 0972 is the same syllabus as 0625 with a 9 to 1 grade scale, and is offered in the UK administrative zone rather than the Gulf. If your school enters you for it, the 0625 past papers are the right practice papers.
Dates that matter for Bahrain students
- Cambridge June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results were released at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 8am in Manama.
- Pearson Edexcel International GCSE summer 2026 results went to candidates on 20 August 2026.
- There is no January International GCSE series. Pearson ended it after January 2023, so the series are now summer and November only.
- Edexcel International GCSE Physics 4PH1 Paper 1P is on 11 November 2026 and Paper 2P is on 18 November 2026.
British curriculum schools in Bahrain
Bahrain's British curriculum schools include these two long established ones. Shefo Squad is independent and is not affiliated with either.
- St Christopher's School, Bahrain
- The British School of Bahrain, Hamala
The record
- Teaching since 2019, more than 2,000 students, around 90 percent at A* or A.
- Small live classes rather than a lecture to eighty people.
- June 2026 included a 193 out of 200 in O Level Physics.
- Bahraini students sit comfortably in the main Gulf group on the same clock and school week.
- Every past paper and mark scheme on this site is free.
- Currently teaching Cambridge IGCSE Physics at Saint Fatima School in Suez, Egypt, and IGCSE and A Level Physics at Coursatee Education Center in New Cairo and Madinaty.
- BSc in Mechatronics Engineering, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, 2022.
Real results slips and messages
Questions from Bahrain
Yes. Classes are live online on Bahrain time and recorded. Bahrain shares its clock and Sunday to Thursday school week with Saudi Arabia and Qatar.
Small enough to ask a question in and get an answer during the lesson, which is the whole reason for running them live.
Both are taught, separately, along with Combined Science 0653 and AS Physics 9702. Check your entry code with your school first.
Cambridge released June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 8am in Manama. Edexcel International GCSE results went to candidates on 20 August 2026.
Not for International GCSE. Pearson ended the January International GCSE series after January 2023, so the series are now May or June and November. Cambridge IGCSE runs June and November.
Yes. The full Cambridge and Edexcel archive with mark schemes, no account needed.
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