Online, Home Tuition, or a Live Batch: Which Suits Your Child?
Most families default to home tuition because it is what everyone does. It is often right — but not always, and the alternatives cost meaningfully less.
Here is how the three compare in practice.
Home tuition
A tutor comes to you, usually three days a week.
Best for younger children, for students who need supervision as much as teaching, and for anyone who will not concentrate in front of a screen. It is also the easiest to keep an eye on, which matters to a lot of parents.
The costs are the tutor's rate plus their travel time, which is priced in whether it is itemised or not. It is the most expensive of the three and the least flexible on timing, because a cancelled session cannot easily be moved.
Our fee for home tuition is a placement charge in the first month only — 25% from you, 25% from the tutor. From month two you pay the tutor directly and we take nothing at all, ever.
Online one-to-one
The same one-to-one teaching, over a screen.
Best for HSC and above, for admission preparation, and for any family outside the big cities. The decisive advantage is not price — it is access. A student in a district town can be taught by someone who cleared the BUET or medical admission test, which may be impossible locally at any price.
It suits self-directed students and suits written subjects well. It suits a distractible twelve-year-old considerably less.
Rates run a little below home tuition, and there is no travel to absorb. The first month runs through us and is held for the full month, so you are covered if it does not work out; from month two our share drops to a tenth, or you may arrange directly with the tutor.
Live batches
A small scheduled group, taught online on a fixed timetable.
Much the cheapest per student, because the tutor's time is shared. Best for a motivated student who is broadly keeping up and needs structure, revision and pace rather than someone to unpick a personal gap.
The trade-off is real: the tutor cannot stop for one student. If your child is genuinely lost in a chapter, a batch will move past them.
Our share on batches is a tenth each month, and the timetable is fixed — which is a feature for students who need externally imposed discipline, and a problem for families with unpredictable evenings.
Choosing honestly
- Behind in one specific area? One-to-one, home or online. A batch will not find the gap.
- Broadly fine, needs pace and revision? A batch, at a fraction of the cost.
- Preparing for admission tests? One-to-one with someone who sat that exam. This is where paying more genuinely returns more.
- Outside Dhaka or Chattogram? Online, almost always. The local pool is the binding constraint, not the money.
- Under Class 8? Home tuition, usually. Attention is the deciding factor at that age.
You can combine them
A common and sensible arrangement: a live batch for routine coverage and revision, plus one-to-one for the single subject that is genuinely a problem. That costs far less than two full tuitions and targets the money where it does something.
The full fee model for all three is published here, with worked examples. Browse home tutors, online tutors, or live batches — or tell us the situation and we will suggest which fits.