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From Padang to the world — IELTS, scholarship mentorship, and STEM camps taught by teachers with TESOL & CELTA credentials.

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7.5 Highest IELTS · Nicholas · Finland 🇫🇮

5.5→7.0 Kenzie · Academic IELTS

11+ Scholarship awards / year

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2018Founded in Padang

500+Alumni worldwide

7.5Peak IELTS band

11Scholarship countries

— Kursus unggulan

Three paths, one North Star

Every course is taught live by CELTA/TESOL-certified teachers. Start free, upgrade when you're ready to go further.

No. 01 · Starter

Intro to IELTS Writing

Free 4-lesson crash course. Writing Task 1 fundamentals, band descriptors explained, and a sample essay graded by our team.

FreeStart free →

No. 02 · Most popular

IELTS Writing Task 1
Mastery Program

Eight weeks of live classes, weekly writing corrections from a CELTA-certified teacher, and full mock test simulations. Our alumni average band 7.0+ after completion.

Rp 299,900/moReserve seat →

No. 03 · Summer intensive

STEM Summer Camp — Guangzhou

Jun 11–19, 2026. An immersive week of English-taught robotics, AI, and design thinking in Guangzhou. Visas, meals, and mentorship included.

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— Guru kami

Taught by teachers who have stood where you stand

Our small faculty holds CELTA, TESOL and PhD-level credentials, and have trained thousands of Indonesian students for international study.

✦ Founder & lead mentor

I started Elia because Padang deserves English teaching that is rigorous, warm, and proudly local.

Aretha Nasroen, PhD

Founder · TESOL · CELTA · PhD Applied Linguistics

Stewart

Native speaker · IELTS speaking coach

"Your accent is not the problem. Your confidence is — and we can fix that in six weeks."

— Stewart

Suryaneta

Senior writing coach · Cambridge certified

"I grade your essays the same way an IELTS examiner does — then we rewrite them, together."

— Suryaneta

✶ Behind the band score

Inside the IELTS examiner's mind

Our founder walks you through what a 7.0 Writing Task 1 actually looks like — and what separates it from a 6.5.

Watch the breakdown →

— Cerita alumni

Band scores change. But first, stories do.

Five hundred alumni across 11 countries — and every journey started with one trial lesson in Padang.

In three months I went from panicking at Task 1 line graphs to actually looking forward to them. Suryaneta ma'am breaks everything down so it finally clicks.

Kenzie

IELTS · 5.5 → 7.0

+1.5

Elia didn't just prep me for IELTS. They mentored me through the full scholarship application — essays, interviews, visas. I'm now studying in Finland.

Nicholas

IELTS 7.5 · Finland 🇫🇮

7.5

The STEM camp in Guangzhou was the first time I used English outside a classroom. Ten days later, my whole world felt bigger.

Dira

STEM Camp '25 · SMA 1 Padang

STEM

Your next level is one free lesson away.

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