Best IGCSE Physics Teacher in Saudi Arabia
There is no official ranking of IGCSE physics teachers in Saudi Arabia, and any page that claims to be the number one is claiming something nobody measures. What can be checked is a teacher's syllabus, their timetable, their past papers and their results. This page sets out how to judge an IGCSE physics teacher from Riyadh, Jeddah or Khobar, and then shows the record of Eng. Ahmed Sherif so you can judge him against the same list.
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 Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Khobar students live online, on Riyadh time, UTC+3, and every class is recorded.
See the resultsAbout the teacherWhy Saudi students are the easiest group to teach well
Saudi Arabia is the largest group of Shefo Squad students outside Egypt, which matters more than it sounds. A teacher with one student in a country builds the timetable around everyone else. With a full cohort in Riyadh, Jeddah and the Eastern Province, the class runs on Riyadh time because that is when most of the room is awake.
It also means the group is Saudi-shaped. When a school in Riyadh sets a mock in the second week of February, several students in the same class are sitting it, so the revision lands in the right week rather than a generic one.
A concrete example: a group of students from Al Majd International School, a British curriculum school in the Kingdom, study privately with Shefo Squad online, on Riyadh time and around the Saudi school week. They are now in their second year of these classes. That is private tuition arranged by the families rather than a contract with the school, and the part worth noticing is the second year: families in Riyadh do not renew a physics teacher across two academic years unless the grades moved.
Six things to check before you choose
British curriculum schools in Saudi Arabia sit either Cambridge IGCSE Physics 0625 or Pearson Edexcel International GCSE Physics 4PH1. They are different exams with different papers and different mark schemes. A teacher who cannot tell you which one they are teaching you is teaching a general physics course, not your exam.
A large amount of online IGCSE tutoring is sold from the UK and India on a timetable built for those countries. Check the actual slot in Riyadh time before you pay, not the promise that it can be arranged.
Physics marks in Saudi schools are lost on the wording of six-mark questions, not on knowing the topic. A teacher should be able to show you a student answer with the mark scheme points circled.
The alternative to practical is the paper most Saudi students prepare for last and lose the most marks on. Ask what the plan for it is in November, not in April.
Schools in Riyadh and Jeddah run tests, trips and national holidays that clash with any fixed class. A recording is the difference between missing a lesson and moving it.
Any serious teacher has one and gives it away. If the papers sit behind a payment or an account, ask why.
Where Saudi 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.
Students set up the equation with the pivot in the wrong place, or forget that a weight acts at the centre of mass of a uniform beam. Draw the beam, mark the pivot, then write clockwise moments equal to anticlockwise moments before any numbers go in.
p equals rho g h is not the pressure at the bottom of the container, it is the pressure due to the column of liquid of height h. If the question mentions atmospheric pressure, it has to be added, and a surprising number of marks go on that one word.
The mark scheme wants separate physical statements, not a paragraph. Write in short numbered points and use the technical word every time: not it gets bigger, but the current increases.
An otherwise perfect answer loses a mark for four significant figures where the data has two, or for writing J instead of J per kg per degree C. Copy the significant figures from the least precise number in the question.
E equals m c delta T fails when students use the temperature instead of the temperature change. Write delta T equals final minus initial as a separate line every time.
Extension is not length. If a spring is 12 cm unstretched and 20 cm loaded, the extension is 8 cm, and using 20 loses the mark before the calculation starts. Also check the limit of proportionality: past it, the equation no longer applies.
Each needs its own mechanism, not the word heat. Conduction is vibrating particles and free electrons in metals, convection is a fluid becoming less dense and rising, radiation is infrared and needs no medium. Answers that mix them get one mark out of three.
Distance and speed have no direction, displacement and velocity do. A question about an object returning to its start is testing exactly this: the distance is large and the displacement is zero.
Which exam you are actually sitting
This is the question most students in Saudi Arabia 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 Saudi Arabia students
- Cambridge June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results were released at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 8am in Riyadh.
- Pearson Edexcel International GCSE summer 2026 results went to candidates on 20 August 2026.
- 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.
British curriculum schools in Saudi Arabia
Students join from British curriculum schools across the Kingdom, including schools like these. Shefo Squad is independent and is not affiliated with any of them.
- British International School Riyadh
- The British International School of Jeddah
- British International School Al Khobar
The record
- Teaching IGCSE and O Level physics since 2019, more than 2,000 students taught.
- Around 90 percent of students finish the series with an A* or an A.
- June 2026 produced a 193 out of 200 in O Level Physics and multiple grade 9 results.
- A group of students from Al Majd International School, a British curriculum school in Saudi Arabia, are in their second year of private online classes with Shefo Squad.
- Saudi Arabia is the largest group of Shefo Squad students outside Egypt.
- The full Cambridge and Edexcel past paper library is free on this site, with every mark scheme.
- 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 Saudi Arabia
British curriculum schools across the Kingdom, including a group from Al Majd International School now in their second year of private online classes. These are arranged by the families rather than by the school.
Yes. Every class is online and live, run on Riyadh time, and recorded. Students join from Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam and Khobar.
Evenings, Riyadh time. Saudi schools run Sunday to Thursday, so Sunday through Wednesday evenings are the main class nights and Friday morning suits a longer revision session.
Both, taught separately. They are different exams. Check which one your school enters you for before you start, because many schools in Saudi Arabia do not publish it.
Cambridge released June 2026 IGCSE and O Level results at 05:00 UTC on 18 August 2026, which is 8am in Riyadh. Edexcel International GCSE results went to candidates on 20 August 2026.
Yes. Paper 6, the alternative to practical, is taught as its own unit rather than squeezed into the last month. One student scored all seven marks on the plan an experiment question after a single session on it.
Yes. The full Cambridge and Edexcel library with every mark scheme is open, with no account and no regional block.
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