Independent · Family-owned · Since 2011

We've been quietly tutoring +15,000 students since 2011.

No franchise. No celebrity tutors. No marketing tricks. Just a small team of specialists who've spent 15 years figuring out how to help children walk into exams confident and walk out proud of their score.

Our story

It started in a Mumbai apartment.

In 2011, Chirag Arya returned to India from Georgia Tech. Soon after, friends started asking him to tutor their younger siblings. He said yes. Then their cousins. Then their cousins' friends.

Within a year, what began as informal sessions at his dining table had turned into a small operation — three tutors, twelve students, and a slowly-growing reputation among Mumbai parents who'd noticed something different: this wasn't tutoring optimised for the company. It was tutoring optimised for the child.

Fifteen years later, AP Guru tutors students across 20+ countries, has helped 15,000+ students achieve scores they didn't think were possible, and remains stubbornly independent — no investors, no franchise, no shortcuts.

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I kept noticing the same gap. Big tutoring chains had infrastructure but no soul. Small tutors had soul but no infrastructure. Parents deserved both.

Chirag Arya

Co-founder · AP Guru

Key Milestones

2011

The beginning

First 12 students tutored from a Mumbai apartment.

2014

First international student

Online tutoring goes live in Singapore & Dubai.

2017

Crossed 2,000 students

Quality dipped. We rebuilt the entire tutor vetting process.

2020

Online-first reset

Pandemic accelerated our shift to a fully remote model.

2022

Hit 8,000 students

Coordinator program launched. Parent satisfaction jumped 24%.

2026

15,000+ students & counting

20+ countries, 150 tutors, still family-run.

What we believe

Four principles. No exceptions.

These aren't marketing copy. They're the operating rules we hire against, fire against, and reject revenue against.

One human owns your child's file.

From the first inquiry to exam day, one coordinator and one tutor own your child's progress. No handoffs, no "who's that?" emails, no being passed between departments. Continuity isn't a feature — it's the entire product.

Specialists, not generalists.

An IB Math HL tutor doesn't teach SAT. An AP Chemistry specialist doesn't teach IGCSE Bio. Every tutor does one thing, deeply. The result: they recognise patterns from teaching the same exam 200+ times, not 10.

Honest projections, not promises.

If your child's diagnostic suggests a 1450 SAT is realistic, we tell you 1450 — not 1550 to win the deal. Setting expectations honestly is how we keep families for years instead of months.

We'd rather lose a student than mislead a family.

About 1 in 5 demos end with us recommending a different solution. Sometimes it's a different curriculum specialist. Sometimes it's group classes if that's a better fit. Trust compounds. We're playing the long game.

By the numbers

15 years of quiet work.

Numbers we track because they matter to families. Not vanity metrics. Not pageviews. The stats that mean something to your child's outcome.

15,000+

Students mentored

15 yrs

Family-run since 2011

150+

Specialist tutors

20+

Countries served

120K+

Hours of teaching

1000+

Verified student stories

3000+

SAT 1500+ scorers

400+

IB 40+ scorers

Leadership

The people who started this.

Three people lead AP Guru day-to-day. Two of them have been here since 2011. At least one of the three is still involved with every student.

Chirag Arya

Head of technology

Started AP Guru in 2011 after graduating from Georgia Tech. Still teaches a handful of students every year because, in his words, "you stop getting better the moment you stop teaching."

✨Fun fact: Used to coach SATs along with various AP courses

Sneha Arya

Head of operations

Joined Chirag in 2014. Leads the team that designs every program. Built our IB curriculum from scratch — it's now used by 100+ students a year across 15 countries.

✨Fun fact: Worked hard for a degree in actuarial science

Anita Arya

Head of Tutor Operations

Runs the four-stage tutor vetting process. Personally screens every new hire. Has rejected over 2,400 applicants in the last three years — our acceptance rate is under 4%.

✨Fun fact: Has personally interviewed every single AP Guru tutor since 2011.

Meet the tutors

The people your child actually learns from.

Not a marketplace. Not a roster of freelancers. Every AP Guru tutor is full-time, specialised in one curriculum, and vetted through a four-stage process.

✓Top 1% exam scorers

✓Full-time educators

✓Single-subject specialists

✓5+ years experience

✓

Sona

English Tutor

A strong essay is really a well-built argument. I teach students to structure their thinking first, so the writing that follows is clear, persuasive, and convincing under exam conditions.

📘 IB & IGCSE English Specialist
🏆 25+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Daizy

Economics Tutor

Economics clicks when theory meets the real world. I connect the two and build strong applied writing, so IGCSE and IB students explain real events rather than reciting definitions.

📘 IB & IGCSE Economics Specialist
🏆 14+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Sagar

Math Tutor

Falling behind in maths isn't permanent. I'm patient, I rebuild the basics the right way, and I've watched students go from quietly lost to comfortably ahead of where they began.

📘 IB & IGCSE Mathematics Specialist
🏆 17+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Koutheesh

CS and Math Tutor

I teach Computer Science and Maths together, and the combination builds real problem-solvers. That joined-up logic gives IB and IGCSE students a far stronger grasp of how computing actually works.

📘 IB & IGCSE Computer Science Specialist
🏆 12+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Azim

Math Tutor

Maths anxiety almost always traces back to a gap left open years ago. I teach in the right sequence, close those gaps, and the fear quietly disappears on its own.

📘 IB & IGCSE Mathematics Specialist
🏆 15+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Jeeya

English Tutor

I strengthen reading analysis and academic writing in parallel, because at IB and IGCSE level they feed each other. Better readers become sharper, more convincing writers.

📘 IB & IGCSE English Specialist
🏆 11+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Aarthi

Math Tutor

I work with students across the whole US admissions track — AP Calculus, SAT, GRE Quant. My job is making the maths reliable, so it never stands between them and the score.

📘 AP & SAT Mathematics Specialist
🏆 6+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Harmeen

English Tutor

I bring an English Literature graduate's love of language to the verbal sections of the GMAT, SAT, and ACT — building the comprehension and critical reasoning that test success depends on.

📘 English Specialist
🏆 15+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Hafsa

English Tutor

A decade of teaching taught me that English rewards critical thinking and creativity. I build both, so students across IGCSE, A-Level, and SAT Verbal write with confidence and real ideas.

📘 English Specialist
🏆 10+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Nishita

Spanish Tutor

After ten years and more than ten thousand students, I know Spanish sticks when lessons are interactive — language, culture, and confidence built together across IB, IGCSE, and CBSE.

📘 IB & IGCSE Spanish Specialist
🏆 10+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Udit

Math Tutor

Knowing the maths isn't enough if the marks don't follow. I build exam technique alongside content, so a student's results finally reflect what they're genuinely capable of.

📘 IB & IGCSE Mathematics Specialist
🏆 10+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Avaani

Chemistry Tutor

Chemistry makes sense once you see the logic of how systems behave. I make that underlying logic visible for IGCSE and IB students, so reactions stop feeling like things to memorise.

📘 IB & IGCSE Chemistry Specialist
🏆 5+ Years of Teaching Experience

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We've been quietly tutoring +15,000 students since 2011.

It started in a Mumbai apartment.

Four principles. No exceptions.

One human owns your child's file.

Specialists, not generalists.

Honest projections, not promises.

We'd rather lose a student than mislead a family.

15 years of quiet work.

The people who started this.

Chirag Arya

Sneha Arya

Anita Arya

The people your child actually learns from.

Sona

Daizy

Sagar

Koutheesh

Azim

Jeeya

Aarthi

Harmeen

Hafsa

Nishita

Udit

Avaani

Tell us your curriculum. We'll handle the rest.

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