Ilmu Learning Centre After school tuition in maths, English and science, grades three to twelve
On Orchid Magu since 2013

Eight students to a teacher, and a plan for each of them

Maths, English and science from grade three to A level. We start by finding out what a student actually cannot do yet, which takes one session and changes everything after it.

Book a free assessment Subjects and grades

We do not teach the syllabus again, more loudly

A student who is behind in maths is almost never behind in this year's work. They are behind in something from two years ago that this year's work is standing on, and no amount of repeating the current chapter will fix it.

So every student starts with an assessment, which is one free session and a written page telling you exactly where the gap is. Sometimes the answer is that there is no gap and the child needs practice and confidence rather than tuition, and we say so and charge nothing.

Everything after that is built on the gap rather than on the term.

What we teach

Subjects, grades and examination years

Six regular programmes, plus one to one tuition and full practice examinations with marking.

Maths, grades six to ten

Two sessions a week in groups of eight, taught from the gap rather than from the chapter.

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English language and writing

Reading, writing and the examination skills, for students whose spoken English is ahead of their written work.

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Science: physics, chemistry and biology

Grades eight to ten, taught by subject specialists, with the calculations and the written answers both.

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O level examination preparation

A two term programme with full practice examinations, marked to the real scheme, and a written plan for the last six weeks.

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A level tuition

Mathematics, physics, chemistry and business studies, in groups of six, for students whose jump from O level was steep.

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Primary support, grades three to five

Reading and number, twice a week, for children who are quietly falling behind while nobody has noticed.

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How we work

Four things every parent gets

Eight students, never more

A class of twenty five is what school already is. If tuition is the same shape, it is the same outcome.

An assessment before anything else

One free session and a written page saying where the gap is. Occasionally it says your child does not need us.

A written report every term

What was covered, what improved, what did not, and what to do in the holidays. Two pages, in plain sentences.

Attendance told to you weekly

You hear from us the same week a student misses a class, not at the end of term.

Students and groups

Three that are worth reading about

An O level maths group, a student who arrived from an island mid year, and a resit class where four of five passed.

An O level maths group and what the breakdown found
O level maths, one cohort 2025

An O level maths group and what the breakdown found

Fourteen students, three practice examinations, and a common gap nobody had noticed because the totals looked ordinary.
A grade nine student 2025

A student who arrived from an island in October

Two terms behind in maths and science, one term left before the examination year, and a plan that gave up on some of it deliberately.
A resit group, and the four who passed
Resit class, maths and physics 2024

A resit group, and the four who passed

Five students who had failed, half of whom had never been told what they actually got wrong.
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In their words

What parents and students say

They spent six weeks on rearranging formulas and reading questions, which felt like going backwards and I said so. Her second practice examination answered me better than they could have.

A Aishath Nazeera Parent of a grade ten student, Male

They told us not to enrol her in biology because she did not need it. Any other centre would have taken the money for three subjects. That is why we trusted the rest of the plan.

I Ibrahim Faseeh Parent of a grade nine student, Male

They got my old script and read it with me. I had spent a year thinking I was bad at algebra and I was actually giving up on long questions. Nobody had ever told me that.

M Mohamed Athif Former student, resit class, Male
Before you enrol

The questions parents ask first

How does my child start?

With an assessment, which is one session and free. You get a written page: what is solid, where the gap is, what we would do and roughly how long it should take.

There is no obligation afterwards, and about one family in fourteen is told their child does not need tuition.

How big are the classes?

Eight students, and six at A level and in primary support. We do not add a ninth.

A class of twenty five is what school already is. A family paying for tuition should be buying something different rather than more of the same.

Can we join in the middle of a term?

Usually yes, if there is a place in the group. Fees are charged from the week you start rather than from the beginning of the term.

In the examination programmes we will be honest about whether joining in the last six weeks is worth it. Sometimes it is, and sometimes the better answer is practice examinations with marking instead.

My child says they do not need tuition.

Bring them for the assessment anyway, and let them read the page with you. A student who has seen where their own gap is behaves completely differently from one who has been enrolled in something.

A student who genuinely does not want to be here is also not going to learn much, and we would rather tell you that after a month than take a year of fees.

Do you talk to the school?

Where you ask us to, yes, and it helps. A teacher's view of a student is worth more than a term of our guessing.

We will also say plainly when we think a child should be assessed by a specialist for a learning difficulty. We are teachers rather than specialists and knowing that line is part of the job.

Start with the free assessment

One session, no charge, no obligation. You get a written page telling you where your child actually is.

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Get in touch

Tell us the grade and the subject

And what the last report said, if you have it. That is usually enough for us to know which group to assess for.

We reply to every message. Leave a phone number if you would rather we called.

  • Where we are Third floor, Nooraaneege
    Orchid Magu, Male 20188
    Maldives
  • Call us +960 332 9381
  • WhatsApp 9607729381
  • Email us office@ilmulearning.mv
  • Opening hours Classes: Saturday to Thursday, 2pm to 8pm Office: Saturday to Thursday, 10am to 8pm Friday: revision clinics 9am to 11am in examination terms Closed Friday otherwise