About
Studying alone stalls.
So we practise together, daily.
I'm Ehsun Newaz — economics graduate, IELTS Band 8, from Khulna. I studied for that band alone, with no Dhaka coaching centre and no teacher, and I know exactly how long it takes and where it goes wrong. I built ShikhiLab myself. It is still small on purpose.
What I kept seeing was the same problem wearing two different faces. A Class 3 child recites a maths rule perfectly and cannot say why it works. An adult stuck at Band 6.5 buys a fourth course, when what was missing was never another lecture — it was practising every day and having someone point at the mistake.
Both come from the same habit: we learn the answer and skip the foundation. Reading is not recognising words, it's understanding them. Learning is not listening, it's doing. And doing it once is not the same as doing it on Tuesday, and again on Wednesday, and again the week after that. Everything here stands on those three lines: learn by understanding, learn by doing, and keep showing up.
What ShikhiLab is not — and what it is
Drilling you until the rule sticks
Starting with why the rule is true
Tips, tricks, shortcuts
The foundation that is still there after the exam
Forty hours of lectures, sold once
Short practice, every day — the work is the product
The same syllabus for everybody
Your own mistakes, turned into your syllabus
A teacher you have to keep paying
A habit you can carry on without me
Everyone teaches the same material. What changes the result is how often you show up, and whether anyone tells you what you got wrong.
A course ends. A habit does not. Learning built on understanding stays put, while a memorised rule is gone the week after the exam — and neither survives if the practice stops in the third week, which is where almost everyone stops. So the work here is arranged around consistency: short sessions, every day, with your own mistakes as the syllabus. The aim is not to keep you enrolled. It is to get you to the point where you no longer need me.
People who showed the way: Arvind Gupta, who built science equipment out of rubbish; Singapore Math, which insists on the concrete before the abstract; Foldscope and PhET, for putting instruments in ordinary hands. And for IELTS, the band descriptors — a document anyone can download for free, and almost nobody reads.
What is running now
Adults · English & IELTS
ShikhiLab IELTS
Daily practice sessions and written feedback on your own work, plus a free essay series on how English is actually learned. Not a course you finish — a routine you keep.
Opening soon
Kids — worksheets, games, and science you can do at a kitchen table — is the 2027 plan, not a promise for this year. In-person coaching in Khulna comes after that. I will announce each one the day it is ready and not a day earlier.
Tell me where you are stuck
Your own English or IELTS, or your child's studies — write to me directly. I read everything that comes in, and I answer.
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