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How to choose a tutoring platform in Bangladesh: seven questions

By BengalTutors Team · 31 Aug 2026

Search "best tutoring platform in Bangladesh" and you will find a dozen ranked lists. Read three of them and you will notice something: each list is published by one of the platforms on it, and that platform is always number one.

That is not a scandal, it is just how the market advertises. But it means the lists are useless for the only question you actually have, which is: will this one find my child a tutor who is still coming in six months?

This is not a ranking. It is the seven questions that separate the platforms that can answer that from the ones that cannot — and you can put them to any platform, including this one.

1. What does it charge, and when does the charging stop?

There are four models in this market and they are genuinely different.

A percentage of the first month's salary, taken from the tutor. Common, and workable — but ask how large the percentage is, because in some cases it is most of the first month's pay, and a tutor who has effectively worked their first month for very little starts the arrangement resentful.

A recurring monthly commission, taken for as long as the tuition lasts. This is the one to be most careful with. It means the platform earns more the longer it stays between you and the tutor, which is an incentive pointing in an odd direction.

Zero commission, funded some other way or not at all. Attractive, and it usually means no verification and no recourse either — nobody is paid to check anybody.

A one-time placement fee. What we do: charged once, in the first month, shared between the family and the tutor. From month two we take nothing at all; you pay the tutor directly and no money passes through us again. Every figure is published: what tuition costs.

Whichever model a platform uses, the test is the same: can you read the actual numbers on their site before you give them your phone number? If the pricing only appears after somebody rings you, that is the answer to a different question you were also asking.

2. Does anyone ever pay an advance to get a tuition?

Ask this one directly and listen carefully.

A tutor should never pay to be *given* a number to call. That model — money up front, in exchange for a lead that may or may not be real — is the single most common complaint in Bangladeshi tuition matching, and it has been for years. It is also the easiest thing in the world to dress up as a "registration fee" or a "membership".

A fee taken *after* a placement has actually happened is a different thing entirely. The tuition exists, the tutor has the work, and the fee is a share of something real.

3. Who verified the tutor, and what did they check?

"Verified" is a word, not a process. Ask what was actually checked.

At minimum you want to know that somebody confirmed the tutor is who they say they are and studies where they say they study. Ask whether the platform checks a national ID, an educational document, both, or neither — and whether the badge on the profile means a human looked, or a box was ticked.

Then do the thirty seconds of checking nobody can do for you: ask the tutor for their student ID and their department, and ask what they scored in the subject they are about to teach. Anyone genuine answers without being offended.

4. Can you say where you live, precisely?

This sounds trivial and it is the most common cause of a tuition ending.

If a platform only lets you choose a city, every arrangement it makes is a guess about travel time — and travel time is what kills tuitions, not teaching. A tutor who agreed to forty-five minutes each way meant it in month one and will not mean it in month four.

You should be able to say your area, not your district. We cover all 64 districts and more than 500 areas beneath them, which exists for exactly this reason: home tutors by district.

5. What happens when it does not work out?

Every honest platform will tell you that some placements fail. The question is what happens next.

Is there a replacement arrangement, and for how long? Is there anybody to ring who is not the tutor? Does the platform know which tuitions are running, or did it stop paying attention the moment the introduction was made?

A platform that cannot tell you what it does when a tuition fails is a platform that does nothing.

6. Is your phone number published?

Post a tuition on some boards and your number goes out to everyone. You will find out quickly, because the phone starts ringing.

Ask before you post: does the board show your contact details, or only what a tutor needs to decide whether to apply? Ours shows the area, the class, the subjects and the budget — never your address and never your number. Post a tuition and see what a tutor actually sees.

7. Does it work outside Dhaka?

Most of this market is Dhaka, with Chattogram as an afterthought. That is fine if you live in Dhanmondi and useless if you live in Bogura.

Ask directly whether the platform has tutors where you are — and treat a vague answer as a no. If the honest answer is that supply is thin in your district, the follow-up question is whether the platform lets you post a tuition so that local tutors come forward, which is the only mechanism that works in a thin market. Searching a list always favours whoever lives where the list is thickest.

What we would say about ourselves

We are a small platform, not the largest one. Two things we would put against any of them:

The money is published and it stops. One placement fee, first month, shared, nothing afterwards. You can read every figure before you speak to anybody, and it is the same figure our system uses to raise the invoice.

You can say exactly where you live, anywhere in the country. All 64 districts, more than 500 areas.

What we would not claim: that we have more tutors than everybody else, or that we can place anyone in 24 hours. Where we are thin, posting a tuition is the mechanism, and it works.

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