Best IGCSE Physics Teacher in Oman
Oman is the hardest Gulf country to find a specialist IGCSE physics teacher in person, especially outside Muscat. That makes the online choice more important here than anywhere else in the region, and it makes the checks below worth doing properly. This page sets them out and then gives the record of Eng. Ahmed Sherif against them.
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 Muscat, Salalah and Sohar students live online, on Muscat time, UTC+4, and every class is recorded.
See the resultsAbout the teacherOman keeps its own combination of clock and week
Oman shares its clock with Dubai and Abu Dhabi, an hour ahead of Riyadh, Doha, Manama and Kuwait City. But unlike the UAE, Omani schools still run Sunday to Thursday. That combination is unique in the Gulf, and it is the reason an Omani student can end up in a class built for the UAE on the wrong nights, or in a class built for Saudi Arabia at the wrong hour.
Distance matters here too. A student in Salalah has far fewer in-person options than one in Muscat, and the honest answer is that a live online class with a recording is usually better than the nearest available in-person alternative, not a compromise on it.
Six things to check before you choose
Oman runs Sunday to Thursday on Dubai's clock. Ask for the actual start time in Muscat and which nights, not a promise of flexibility.
British curriculum schools in Oman sit Cambridge 0625 or Edexcel 4PH1. Confirm which one your school enters you for before choosing a teacher.
Recorded classes and downloadable notes are not a nice extra outside Muscat, they are the thing that makes online teaching work at all.
Paper 6 asks you to describe experiments in writing. Students whose schools have limited lab time are not at a disadvantage on it if they are taught it properly.
One class a week with nothing in between does very little. Ask what you are meant to do on the other days and who marks it.
Every Cambridge and Edexcel past paper and mark scheme on this site is free from Oman, with no account and no regional block.
Where Omani 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.
The area under a speed time graph is the distance travelled, and for a triangle that is half base times height. Students find the gradient out of habit and answer the wrong question.
Deceleration is negative acceleration, and the sign has to survive into the final answer. Write the direction you are calling positive at the top of the working.
Work equals force times distance moved in the direction of the force. If the object does not move, no work is done, however hard it is pushed.
Efficiency is useful output over total input, and it can never exceed 100 percent. An answer above 100 means the wrong two numbers were divided, and it should be spotted before it is written down.
Paper 6 is a written paper. Students with limited lab time are not at a disadvantage on it, as long as they have practised writing the method, the variables and the sources of error.
Momentum is mass times velocity and it is conserved in a collision. Velocity has direction, so one of the two objects usually carries a minus sign. Decide which direction is positive and write it down first.
Stopping distance is thinking distance plus braking distance. Tiredness and distraction change the thinking distance; wet roads and worn brakes change the braking distance. Marks are lost by putting a factor in the wrong half.
Power is the rate of energy transfer, in joules per second. A question that gives you a time is almost always asking for power even when it does not use the word, so watch for it.
Which exam you are actually sitting
This is the question most students in Oman 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 Oman students
- Cambridge June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results were released at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 9am in Muscat.
- The Cambridge November 2026 exams run from late September to mid November, with IGCSE and O Level results on 14 January 2027.
- Cambridge June 2026 AS and A Level results were released on 11 August 2026.
- Cambridge also runs a March series, but it is offered in India only and not in Oman.
British curriculum schools in Oman
Oman's British curriculum schools include schools like these. Shefo Squad is independent and is not affiliated with any of them.
- British School Muscat
- British School Salalah
- Knowledge Gate International School, Muscat
The record
- More than 2,000 students taught since 2019, around 90 percent finishing at A* or A.
- Every class is recorded, which is what makes this work from Salalah and Sohar as well as Muscat.
- June 2026 included a 193 out of 200 in O Level Physics and multiple grade 9 results.
- Paper 6 is taught as its own unit, so limited school lab time is not a disadvantage.
- The whole Cambridge and Edexcel archive is free from Oman, with no account.
- 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 Oman
Yes. Classes are live online on Muscat time and recorded, which is what makes them workable from Salalah and Sohar as well as the capital.
Evenings, Muscat time. Oman shares Dubai's clock but keeps the Sunday to Thursday school week, so the nights are the Gulf nights and the hour is the UAE hour.
Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625, Edexcel International GCSE Physics 4PH1, Cambridge Combined Science 0653 and Cambridge AS and A Level Physics 9702.
Cambridge released June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 9am in Muscat. Edexcel International GCSE results went to candidates on 20 August 2026.
Every class is recorded and stays available, so a missed lesson is watched later rather than lost.
Yes. The full archive is free with no account and no regional restriction.
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