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

✓

Pavan

Math Tutor

I find the exact point where a student's understanding breaks, then rebuild from there. It's far faster than re-teaching everything, and the results show up quickly across IGCSE, IB, and SAT.

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

✓

Shipra

English Tutor

Writing problems are usually a handful of specific habits. I identify exactly which ones are costing a student marks across IB and IGCSE, then correct them one at a time.

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

✓

Nitesh

Physics and Math Tutor

I teach physics and maths in connection, because each explains the other. Strengthening both together gives students a far steadier grasp than treating them as two unrelated subjects.

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

✓

Shakti

Math Tutor

Capable students rarely fail from lack of ability — they coast. I'm rigorous, I push, and I hold students to their real ceiling until the improvement is impossible to ignore.

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

✓

Shalu

Math Grader

Strong maths comes from clarity, not cramming. I make sure every step makes sense before we move on, building the kind of understanding that holds up when it counts.

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

✓

Khushboo

Math Tutor

For students who find abstract maths impossible, I make it visual. Once they can see what's actually happening, the formulas stop feeling arbitrary and finally start to make real sense.

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

✓

Georgy

English Tutor

I teach English with a literary eye — close attention to how a text actually works. That habit builds the deep analytical skill that carries students through IB, IGCSE, and competitive exams alike.

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

✓

Pratibha

Chemistry Tutor

I teach the principles behind chemistry rather than facts to memorise. That makes the subject far more manageable, and a good deal more interesting, for IGCSE and IB students alike.

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

✓

Ranjit Kumar

English Tutor

I pair deep literary knowledge with practical exam technique. Students get the scholarly understanding to read well and the strategy to turn it into marks at IB and IGCSE.

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

✓

Shreya

Economics Tutor

Economics is about argument and evaluation. I build genuine analytical depth, so students at IB and IGCSE level can weigh evidence and defend a position instead of sitting on the fence.

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

✓

Yash

French Tutor

Learning French well means actually communicating, not just passing. I build real communicative competence alongside exam technique, so IB and IGCSE students use the language with genuine confidence.

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

✓

Aakash

Math, Physics Tutor

Maths and physics are the same language spoken two ways. I teach them together, so the logic a student builds in one subject quietly strengthens their thinking in the other.

📘 IB & IGCSE Mathematics Specialist
🏆 8+ 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.

Pavan

Shipra

Nitesh

Shakti

Shalu

Khushboo

Georgy

Pratibha

Ranjit Kumar

Shreya

Yash

Aakash

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

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