Academic track Senior High tutor, for the track that leads to a degree
Academic track Senior High tutoring starts from the five core subjects every learner now takes, General Mathematics and General Science among them, then follows the electives your school built on top. The structure changed with Grade 11 in June 2026, so a plan made around a strand needs updating, and we match the tutor to the new one.
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Program Definition
What is Academic track tutoring?
Academic-track tutoring works one subject at a time with a Grade 11 or 12 learner headed toward university admission under the Strengthened Senior High School Curriculum. The five subjects on this track's schedule are fixed nationwide; what a session covers beyond those five comes from the elective cluster the learner's own school assembled.
Key Points
Grades 11 and 12, Academic track
All five subjects on this track's roster stay the same no matter the school: Pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan at Lipunang Pilipino, Life and Career Skills, General Science, General Mathematics, and Effective Communication
Electives come in clusters each school assembles from its own list
Grade 11 already sits under this structure as of June 2026, and SY 2026-2027 is the year it applies in full
The hourly figure above sets the floor for Academic-track pricing; grade level, home or online format, and area shape the final quote for each learner, confirmed in writing ahead of the first session
Learning Formats
How support is arranged
Senior High schedules are crowded; both options are built around that
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Online
Grade 11 and 12 run a longer school day than Junior High, often with a commute on top. An online slot after school does not ask a tired learner to travel twice, so most Academic-track sessions happen here, especially before a quarterly assessment.
60-90 minutes
Evening slots that do not need travel
Shared workspace for working through problems
Easy to intensify before a quarterly assessment
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At your home
Worth it where the learner works better with somebody present, or where a subject involves a lot of drafting and paper. The tutor comes to the desk where the homework already gets done.
90-120 minutes
Written work marked as it is produced
Fewer distractions than a shared screen
A fixed weekly slot that fits around the school schedule
Reasons to Choose Us
How we work with Senior High
Including where we stop and hand back
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We ask for the subject list first
Elective clusters are assembled school by school. Any tutor who describes what a Senior High contains without first looking at that school's list is describing a different school.
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Built on the curriculum now in force
SY 2025-2026 was the pilot year, run across 841 schools nationwide. Full implementation began with Grade 11 in June 2026, the grade and the year the learners on this page are sitting in right now. A study plan built from anything written before that pilot describes a structure DepEd has already retired.
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One subject at a time
Senior High learners have no spare hours. Taking on three subjects at once usually produces three shallow efforts, so the plan fixes the one that is actually failing, completely, and then closes.
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School guidance owns the track decision
Which track, which cluster, which course to aim at: those belong to the learner and their school. A tutor explains the structure accurately, so the choice inside it is made with full information.
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A commitment you can hold us to
What's committed to is concrete: a tutor who arrives prepared for the specific subject on today's agenda, and a different tutor, free, whenever you ask for the change. A quarterly grade, a passing grade in General Mathematics, or a university seat all rest on the learner's own work and on each school or university's own standard.
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Rate before booking
There's no separate quote to request. The starting hourly figure on this page already reflects Academic-track pricing, and what the learner's subject, grade and format add up to is put in writing ahead of that first booking.
Learning Roadmap
Where a learner usually is when this starts
Two years, and the reason for calling changes completely between them
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Entering Grade 11
The jump nobody warns about
Senior High is a genuine step up from Grade 10, and the first quarter is where that becomes obvious. Learners who coasted through Junior High on memory frequently meet the limit of that here, inside a structure that is brand new to everyone around them, older siblings and classmates included.
Subjects
General MathematicsGeneral ScienceEffective CommunicationStudy method for a heavier load
Focus Areas
Getting the first quarter right from week one
Habits that survive a heavier schedule
Understanding what the core five actually demand
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Mid Grade 11
One subject is dragging
The most common point of contact. Most of the load is manageable and one subject (usually General Mathematics, sometimes General Science) is not. Narrow, fixable, and worth catching before it becomes two.
Subjects
The single weak core subjectUnderlying gaps from Junior HighAssessment techniqueCatching up without falling behind elsewhere
Focus Areas
One subject at a time, deliberately
Repairing the Junior High foundation under the chapter
Weekly until it stabilises, then less
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Grade 12
Two things at once
The final year runs Senior High subjects and college entrance preparation in parallel, with applications in the middle of it. Hours are the scarce resource, so the plan ranks every task and spends the week on the ones that count most.
Subjects
Remaining core and elective subjectsEntrance exam overlapWorkload triageFinishing requirements
Focus Areas
Subjects that also serve entrance exams get priority
Fewer hours, each one spent better
A plan with an end date
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Any point, elective trouble
A subject the school assembled
Every school names its own clusters differently, so the first step is reading what the learner's cluster actually contains. Share the subject title and, if the teacher issued one, the course outline, and we match it to the tutor on our roster who teaches that exact material.
Subjects
Whatever your school's cluster containsThe subject's own assessment styleUnderlying core subject where it appliesA tutor matched to the exact elective
Focus Areas
We ask for the school's actual subject list first
The match confirmed against the course outline
Core subject support where the elective rests on one
Learning Content
The five core subjects, and what tutoring does with each
Every Academic-track learner carries all five, whichever electives they chose
Every school builds its own elective cluster, so the plan starts from the subject list the learner's school issued. Send it, and each elective on it is paired with the tutor who teaches that subject.
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General Mathematics
The most common reason an Academic-track learner gets in touch. It is core for everyone now, learners who would once have picked a strand light on math included, and that lands as a surprise on plenty of Grade 11 students in their first quarter.
Topics
Functions and their behavior
Business and financial mathematics
Logic and reasoning
Gaps carried up from Junior High
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General Science
Also core for everyone. Broader and less specialized than the old strand science, with more weight on reasoning from evidence than on memorized content.
Topics
Scientific reasoning
Evidence, data and measurement
Science in public argument
Writing an explanation that scores
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Effective Communication
Mabisang Komunikasyon absorbed the old English subject and changed the grading standard: a paragraph earns marks for doing its job for a stated reader and purpose, a different bar than the old essay-shape rubric.
Topics
Academic writing
Speaking and presenting
Reading dense material
Adjusting register for the reader
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Life and Career Skills
A core subject that most Grade 11 learners have never met in an earlier grade. The material itself is manageable; the points slip away when a learner files it as the unimportant one on the schedule.
Topics
Planning and self-management
Working with other people
Applying learning outside school
Meeting the subject's own requirements
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Pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan at Lipunang Pilipino, studying Philippine history and society together
Philippine history and society as a core subject. Assessment rewards argument and use of evidence, so learners who review by memorizing dates tend to underperform what they actually know.
Topics
Reading historical sources
Building an argument with evidence
Writing under time pressure
Connecting the past to present issues
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Managing the whole load
Five core subjects plus a cluster is more than most Grade 11 learners have carried before. Frequently the real problem is scheduling, and that is worth naming and planning for directly.
Topics
Deciding what gets the evening
Working before a deadline exists
Recognizing which subject is actually failing
Stopping tutoring when it is no longer needed
Service Coverage
Where this is available
Online Tutoring
The whole Philippines is reachable this way, provided the learner's internet connection can carry a video call without dropping
Online reaches every town in the country, which matters for an Academic-track learner, since school blocks and, in Grade 12, entrance-exam season already eat most of the flexible hours in a week. A session that starts the moment a laptop opens, with no travel time added on either side, is often the only way a Grade 12 schedule fits a tutor in at all.
Evening slots without travel
Shared workspace for working through problems
Simple to intensify before an assessment
Timezone: Philippine Standard Time (UTC+8)
In-Person Tutoring
At home, for work marked on paper
Learners often ask for this format for General Mathematics problem sets or Effective Communication drafts, which are easier to mark on paper than on a shared screen. Send your barangay and grade level, and we match the Academic-track tutor nearest your street.
Who This Program Serves
Who asks for this
Senior High learners reach out for reasons that barely overlap
Did fine in Junior High and is struggling with the volume and the level. Common, and usually about method, which is a very fixable problem to have.
Recommended:
Start with the weakest core subjectStudy method addressed explicitlyWeekly through the first term
The advice came in STEM or ABM terms, from an old school tour, a cousin or a counselor, and the school now describes something else. The first session lays out the current structure, then the tutor works on the subjects the learner is actually taking under it.
Recommended:
Read the What Happened to the SHS Strands pageBring the school's subject listDecide what support is needed after that
Senior High subjects and entrance exam review at the same time, with applications between them. The work is as much about triage as about teaching.
Recommended:
Prioritize subjects that serve bothCoordinate with any entrance reviewFixed end date at the last exam
A subject struggle here is sometimes actually a track struggle. A learner who picked Academic mainly for its reputation, without much thought to what the coursework demands day to day, may genuinely fit better in Technical-Professional or a different cluster. The school's guidance office settles track changes, and an early conversation there gives the tutoring a clear subject list to work from.
Recommended:
Talk to the school's guidance officeLook at the Technical-Professional trackTutoring aimed at the track the learner lands in
The starting rate for Academic-track hours
Home visits, online sessions, and a Metro Manila or provincial address each land at a different point on the table below; grade level and how many hours a week the subject needs move the total further from there.
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₱500 / hour
Home visit, Metro Manila
₱700 / hour
Online
₱500 / hour
Home visit, provincial areas
₱500 / hour
Per hour, one tutor with one learner. Home visits run at least 1.5 hours. Packages: 12 hours at 5% off, 24 hours at 10% off.
A Grade 11 learner catching up on one core subject usually needs less time than a Grade 12 learner running entrance-exam review alongside a full course load, and home sessions run in blocks of at least 1.5 hours to make the visit worth arranging. Booking a package brings the average down. Whatever the learner's subject, grade and format add up to is confirmed in writing before the first session is booked.
FAQ
What Senior High learners ask
Most of these start with the same confusion
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What happened to STEM, ABM, HUMSS and GAS?
DepEd retired all four in the transition that started with the SY 2025-2026 pilot in 841 schools and became mandatory for every school from SY 2026-2027, when Grade 11 moved onto it in June 2026. In place of STEM, ABM, HUMSS and GAS, and the separate Sports and Arts & Design tracks, learners now choose between two tracks, Academic and Technical-Professional, and assemble an elective cluster inside whichever one they pick. If you heard 'STEM' or 'HUMSS' recently, ask the school what that translates to under the new system, since the label alone no longer maps to a fixed subject list. We cover the full change on its own page for anyone who wants the complete picture.
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Math is my weakest subject. Can I avoid it on the Academic track?
No, and this surprises almost every incoming Grade 11 student. General Mathematics sits inside the required core now, for Academic and Technical-Professional alike, which closes the old route where a HUMSS or ABM student could skip heavy math entirely. It is, by a wide margin, the most common reason an Academic-track learner contacts us.
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Should entrance exam review start at the same time?
In Grade 12, often yes, as one combined plan. The core subjects and the subtests of the major entrance exams overlap a great deal, and a good plan puts that overlap to work so the weekly hours stay manageable. Tell us which exams are in view and we will say what can be combined.
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How much does it cost?
Academic-track cost is not a flat number: a Grade 11 learner catching up on one core subject needs fewer hours than a Grade 12 learner running entrance-exam review at the same time, and arranging for a tutor to come to the house costs more than logging into a shared screen. The rate shown above is the starting point for every learner; the table beneath it moves with home or online, and with a Metro Manila or provincial address. Home sessions run in blocks of at least 1.5 hours, and stacking twelve or twenty-four hours into one package trims the per-hour average. The final figure for the learner's plan is written down before we lock in a schedule.
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Which subjects are certain on the Academic track?
Effective Communication (Mabisang Komunikasyon), Life and Career Skills, Pag-aaral ng Kasaysayan at Lipunang Pilipino, General Science, and General Mathematics: those five hold their place on every Academic-track schedule no matter which school the learner attends. What sits alongside them comes from the elective cluster that school put together on its own, which is why we ask to see the actual list before building a plan.
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Do you tutor the elective subjects?
Yes. Every school builds its own cluster, so we start from the elective the learner's school assigned and match it to the tutor who teaches that subject. Send the subject title and any course outline you have, and we confirm the matched tutor before the first session is booked.
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Is the Academic track better than TechPro?
These two tracks lead toward different destinations, evaluated on different terms. Academic sets a learner up for university admission and a degree. Technical-Professional sets them up for an industry certification and quicker paid work, standing as a complete path on its own merits. If the question only comes up because a familiar strand disappeared, the useful next move is a conversation with the school's guidance counselor about where the learner's own interests point.
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Send the exact subject list the school handed out, the grade, and the one core subject or elective that's actually the problem this term. Someone on our side reads it personally and comes back with a workable plan, what the hourly rate looks like for that subject and grade, and a tutor to meet before we schedule the first session.