A rate on every offer
Every class Edutara offers you names its rate before you accept it, and Edutara pays you that rate for each class you teach and log.
Tutor jobs in Chennai
Tutor jobs in Chennai, in the part of the city you already live in
Tutor jobs in Chennai go to people who can sit beside one learner and take them through a paper: a college student who still remembers the Samacheer Kalvi maths book, a postgraduate, a retired teacher. Thousands of Chennai students look to Edutara for that, at home or online. Say what you teach and where you can reach.
- Free to join
- Paid for every lesson
- No charge per lead
- Open all year
- Samacheer Kalvi, CBSE and ICSE
- At the learner's home or online
- College students and graduates
- Teach in Tamil or in English
Applying takes a few minutes, and you get an email with the next steps.
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What is a tutor job in Chennai?
A tutor job in Chennai is a standing arrangement with one learner. You reach their home in Kolathur or Kotturpuram at a fixed hour every week, or you meet the learner online, and you work on the subjects that learner is losing marks in until the March public exams are behind them. Edutara makes the introduction and pays you for every class you teach. You and the learner settle the timing, and the first class is a trial. Joining costs you nothing and stays that way for as long as you teach.
- One learner at a time, at home or online, in the language that learner follows best.
- You pick the classes, subjects and boards you take on: Samacheer Kalvi, CBSE, ICSE and ISC.
- Edutara pays you for every class, at the rate on the class offer.
- College students, graduates, postgraduates and retired teachers are all welcome to apply.
- Nothing is deducted from what you are paid, and no charge falls on you at any stage.
Subjects
What you can teach in Chennai
Name the papers you are sure of. Most of the tuition this city runs on sits inside the school syllabus, and the rest is built around NEET-UG, JEE Main and the Class 12 marks that decide an engineering seat.
Maths, Classes 6 to 10
Samacheer Kalvi, CBSE and ICSE, up to the SSLC public exam the state board holds every March.
Science, Classes 6 to 10
Physics, chemistry and biology, which the state board sets as one paper and CBSE and ICSE split into separate ones.
Class 11 and 12 maths
HSC, CBSE and ISC maths, the paper that carries the heaviest weight when the engineering cut-off is worked out.
Class 11 and 12 physics and chemistry
Theory and practicals for HSC, CBSE and ISC, and the volume-two chapters that students leave until February.
Class 11 and 12 biology
Botany and zoology as the state board splits them, biology as CBSE and ISC set it, with NEET-UG running alongside.
NEET-UG and JEE Main preparation
One-to-one work beside a coaching class: previous papers, timed practice and the chapters a student keeps dropping.
Tamil
The Part I language paper in state board schools, and Tamil as a second language in CBSE and ICSE schools here.
English and spoken English
School English from Class 6 upwards, and spoken English for college students and working adults in the city.
Computer science and coding
Class 11 and 12 computer science, and C, Python and data structures for engineering students around the city.
Commerce and accountancy
Accountancy, commerce and economics at Class 11 and 12, in the state board, CBSE and ISC streams alike.
Classes 1 to 5, all subjects
Reading, number work and homework company for younger children, in English or in Tamil at home.
Areas
Where in Chennai you would teach
Chennai stretches a long way north to south, and an evening class only survives when the travel survives. Pick the zones you can reach after college or after work, add the Tambaram and Chromepet side if you live that way, and take the rest online.
Anna Nagar
Anna Nagar West, Shenoy Nagar, Aminjikarai, Kilpauk, Ayanavaram, Villivakkam
Purasaiwalkam
Perambur, Vepery, Otteri, Kolathur, Sembiam
T. Nagar
West Mambalam, Kodambakkam, Ashok Nagar, K. K. Nagar, Saidapet
Mylapore
Alwarpet, R. A. Puram, Teynampet, Nungambakkam, Gopalapuram, Royapettah
Adyar
Besant Nagar, Thiruvanmiyur, Kotturpuram, Indira Nagar, Guindy
Velachery
Madipakkam, Adambakkam, Nanganallur, Pallikaranai, Medavakkam
Sholinganallur
Perungudi, Thoraipakkam, Karapakkam, Semmancheri, Injambakkam
Ambattur
Mogappair, Padi, Korattur, Thirumullaivoyal, Avadi
Porur
Valasaravakkam, Virugambakkam, Saligramam, Ramapuram, Mugalivakkam
Local education
Learning in Chennai
The schools and colleges learners here attend, and facts about education in the city, each with its source.
Schools
Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan Senior Secondary School
CBSE school
K. K. Nagar
Chettinad Vidyashram
CBSE school
R. A. Puram
Sishya School
ICSE and ISC school
Adyar
Sir Sivaswami Kalalaya Senior Secondary School
CBSE school
Mylapore
Colleges and universities
Anna University
State technical university
Guindy
University of Madras
State university
Chepauk
Indian Institute of Technology Madras
Institute of National Importance
Adyar
Loyola College
Autonomous arts and science college
Nungambakkam
Madras Christian College
Autonomous arts and science college
East Tambaram
Dwaraka Doss Goverdhan Doss Vaishnav College
Autonomous arts and science college
Arumbakkam
Queen Mary's College
Government autonomous women's college
Triplicane
Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology
Deemed university
Semmancheri
Education facts
1
Chennai district returned a literacy rate of 90.18 per cent at the last census, 93.70 per cent among men and 86.64 per cent among women.
2
Tamil Nadu's 2026 engineering admissions covered 2,65,594 seats in 484 colleges, and 2,36,017 candidates were ranked on their Class 12 marks.
Source: DT Next, 1 July 2026
3
The engineering cut-off is scored out of 200 from school marks alone, with no entrance paper of its own, and 53 candidates reached the full 200 in 2026.
4
Since 2020 Tamil Nadu has set aside 7.5 per cent of its undergraduate medical, dental, Indian medicine and homoeopathy seats for government school students.
5
The School Education Department runs free NEET and JEE coaching for government school students after class hours, organised district by district under the Chief Educational Officer.
Source: DT Next, 27 June 2024
Requirements
Who Edutara is looking for here
There is no degree to hold and no years to have put in. What a Chennai learner asks for is someone who knows the paper and turns up on the evening that was promised.
Who can apply
- -College students in the city, graduates, postgraduates and research scholars.
- -Retired teachers, and people who teach outside the school system.
- -Anyone who can hold a class in Tamil, in English, or in both together.
- -Serving school teachers cannot take private tuition, which the RTE Act settles for every kind of school.
What you should be sure of
- -The syllabus of the board you take on, whether that is Samacheer Kalvi, CBSE, ICSE or ISC.
- -The Class 12 papers behind the engineering cut-off, if you want senior science learners.
- -A way of explaining that holds up when a learner has stopped asking questions.
How you work with a learner
- -A fixed hour every week that you keep, through the March exam season and after it.
- -Readiness to begin where the learner actually stands, even when that is two classes lower.
- -A word now and then about what has improved and what is still stuck, with the learner, and with the parents too when the learner is a child.
If you teach online
- -A laptop or a phone on a connection that holds through a whole evening class.
- -Some way to show your working: a notebook under the camera, a tablet, a small whiteboard.
- -A corner of the house where an hour can pass without the television in the background.
What You Gain
What the work gives you in this city
Chennai has more graduates walking around with a subject in their head than almost any city its size, and tuition is how a good many of them put it to work.
A rate on every offer
Every class Edutara offers you names its rate before you accept it, and Edutara pays you that rate for each class you teach and log.
Hours that fit around college
School tuition in Chennai runs in the evening and over the weekend, which leaves your lecture hours and your own semester exams where they are.
Learners in the part of the city you can reach
You name the zones: Anna Nagar, Adyar, the OMR stretch, Porur. A class that costs an hour of travel each way is a class you will quietly begin to skip.
You have sat the same papers
A Chennai graduate has already written the SSLC and HSC papers the learner is about to write, and remembers where the marks hide in each of them.
One learner in front of you
A coaching hall moves at the speed of the syllabus. Sitting with one student you move at the speed of that student, and you see the moment it lands.
Room to take on more
Begin with one subject in one class. As you find your feet, higher classes, a second board, or the NEET-UG and JEE Main side of the work open up.
Online for the weeks travel stops
Chennai loses evenings to the north-east monsoon from October to December. A class that can shift online that week is a class that keeps going.
How to Join
How to apply from Chennai
The form is the only part that asks anything of you, and it is short. Everything after it comes back to you in writing, and no stage of it costs money.
- Step 1
Fill in the form
Say what you can teach, which classes and boards, and which parts of Chennai you can reach in an evening, or whether you would sooner teach online.
A few minutes - Step 2
An email reaches you
It carries the next steps in writing, so you have them in hand and are not left guessing what happens after the form.
- Step 3
Your application is read
Someone goes through the subjects you named, the classes you said you are comfortable with, and the areas of the city you can cover.
- Step 4
You meet a learner, and the first class is a trial
A learner in the city turns out to need the paper you named, and Edutara introduces you. That first class is a trial: the learner decides afterwards whether to carry on, and from then on Edutara pays you for each class.
Every step above is free, with no joining fee, and every lesson you teach is paid by Edutara.
FAQ
Questions people in Chennai ask
On applying, on pay, and on how tuition actually runs in this city.
No. What counts is whether you can teach the paper in front of you. A final-year student who did well in Class 12 maths can take a Class 9 learner through algebra, and a postgraduate in zoology can sit with someone preparing for NEET-UG. Name the classes and boards you are sure of, and leave out the ones you are not.
Yes, and students from the city's colleges are exactly who Edutara is looking for. Evening tuition sits outside lecture hours, so the two rarely collide. Choose a slot you can hold through your own semester exams, because a learner will build the week around the hour you promise.
Section 28 of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act, 2009 keeps a teacher who is in service at a school out of private tuition, and that applies to government, aided and matriculation schools alike. Once you retire, the bar lifts and you are welcome. People teaching in colleges, in coaching centres and outside the school system may apply as well.
Edutara pays you. Each class offer states its rate before you say yes, whether it is a board-year slot in Anna Nagar or an online hour from home, and Edutara pays that rate for every class you teach. Learners pay Edutara, and no joining charge falls on you.
Chennai schools sit across three. The state board follows the Samacheer Kalvi syllabus under the Tamil Nadu Uniform System of School Education Act, 2010, and beside it are CBSE schools and ICSE schools that go on to ISC at Class 12. A learner almost always wants the board their own school follows, so you will be asked which of the three you know thoroughly.
Yes. Mark yourself online in the form and you will be considered for online classes alone. It suits anyone who is away from the city for part of the year, and it keeps lessons alive through the monsoon weeks when crossing Chennai in the evening turns into an ordeal.
Whichever language the learner follows. Plenty of learners here want the explanation to come in Tamil while the answer goes down on paper in English, and plenty of others work entirely in English. Say in the form which languages you are comfortable teaching in, and the matching follows that.
Any of the zones listed further up this page, and you may name more than one. Someone living in Velachery usually covers Adyar and the Perungudi side without trouble. Someone in Ambattur does better staying west towards Mogappair and Padi. Traffic settles this question far more than the distance on a map does.
The run-up to the March public exams. The Directorate of Government Examinations holds the Class 12 papers first and the Class 10 papers behind them, with practicals falling in February, so from December onwards learners look for help with revision and previous papers. Work that begins in June, at the start of the school year, tends to last much longer.
Nothing, at any stage. There is no joining charge and no price on being put in touch with a learner, and Edutara pays for every class you teach. That is a standing rule at Edutara for everyone who teaches through it.
For learners
Looking for a home tutor in Chennai?
This page is for people who want to teach. If you are looking for a tutor in Chennai, for yourself or for someone you are signing up, Edutara can look for one who teaches exactly what the learner needs.
Take one learner in Chennai this term
Tell us the subjects you are sure of and the parts of the city you can reach. The form is short, it asks nothing of your pocket, and the reply comes by email with the next steps in writing.
- Free to join
- Paid for every lesson
- No charge per lead
- Open all year