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

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Khushboo

Physics Tutor

Real physics is intuition, not formula substitution. I build genuine physical understanding for IB and IGCSE students, so they grasp what an equation means before they plug any numbers in.

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

✓

Debdutta

Math Tutor

Mathematics is a set of logical patterns, not a pile of formulas to memorise. I teach the reasoning underneath, building students who can work through almost any problem they meet.

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

✓

Nikita

Economics Tutor

Economics is won in the evaluation. I build the analytical writing and judgement that IGCSE and IB examiners reward, so students argue both sides and reach a conclusion that genuinely convinces.

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

✓

Nilomit

Math Tutor

When a student feels completely stuck, there's usually a single root cause hiding underneath. I find it, fix it, and watch the rest of the subject fall back into place.

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

✓

Ashima

English Tutor

Reading and writing improve fastest together. I keep sessions warm but structured, strengthening comprehension and clear writing side by side across SAT, IB, and IGCSE.

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

✓

Prashant

English Tutor

I teach students to write as well as they think — developing academic register and clear argumentative structure, so their essays finally match the quality of their ideas.

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

✓

Sadia

Ecomomics, History Tutor

I teach Economics and History together, and each sharpens the other. Both reward evidence, argument, and judgement, so the thinking students build in one subject pays off directly in the other.

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

✓

Shuchita

Economics Tutor

Economics finally clicks when theory meets the real world. I connect the two, then build the analytical writing that turns a student's understanding into the marks the examiner is looking for.

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

✓

Abhinav

Physics Tutor

Physics makes sense from first principles, not memorised formulas. I build real physical intuition across IB and IGCSE, so students understand why something happens before they ever calculate it.

📘 IB & IGCSE Physics Specialist
🏆 8+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Mercy

English Tutor

I build analytical reading and academic writing together for IGCSE and IB students, because the strongest writers are first taught to read a text closely and think about it carefully.

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

✓

Anu Gupta

Math Tutor

No student is bad at maths — they've usually just been taught to memorise instead of understand. I rebuild the foundation properly, one concept at a time, until it genuinely clicks.

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

✓

Shreya

Math Tutor

Abstract maths stays abstract until someone makes it concrete. My job is turning symbols into something a student can picture, reason about, and use calmly when the exam pressure is on.

📘 IB & IGCSE Mathematics Specialist
🏆 11+ 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.

Khushboo

Debdutta

Nikita

Nilomit

Ashima

Prashant

Sadia

Shuchita

Abhinav

Mercy

Anu Gupta

Shreya

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

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