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

✓

Maurine

Chemistry Tutor

Chemistry makes sense when the topics stop feeling separate. I build the connections — especially in organic chemistry — so students reason across the syllabus instead of memorising it in fragments.

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

✓

Prachiti

French Tutor

I teach French as a living language: grammar, vocabulary, conversation, and culture together. That blend keeps students engaged and makes the language stick far better than rote learning ever could.

📘 French Specialist
🏆 7+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Madhav

Math Tutor

My own background is in competitive mathematics, so I know what genuine depth looks like. I take strong students past 'correct' toward the fluency that lands them in the top percentile.

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

✓

Pooja Chanana

Economics and Psychology Tutor

I teach Economics and Psychology together, and the overlap is powerful. Both are about understanding why people behave as they do, and that connected view strengthens a student's work in each.

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

✓

Shalu

EVS Tutor

I teach Environmental Studies with real scientific rigour. Complex systems like climate, ecosystems, and sustainability become understandable when taught carefully, so students grasp the science, not just the headlines.

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

✓

Sonal

Science Tutor

I teach physics, chemistry, and biology as one connected foundation. At junior secondary level, building strong cross-discipline basics is what sets students up to specialise with confidence later.

📘 IGCSE Sciences Specialist
🏆 5+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Jayashree

English Tutor

From IELTS and TOEFL to IB and A-Level language and literature, I teach English as one connected skill set. Strong comprehension and clear expression travel across every exam.

📘 English Specialist
🏆 6+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Manish

Math Tutor

Maths makes sense the moment it connects to something real. I teach through real-life applications, so students don't just solve problems — they understand why the method works at all.

📘 Mathematics Specialist
🏆 6+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Vaishalee

Math Tutor

I don't teach students to recognise question types — I teach them to think. So when an exam asks something unfamiliar, real understanding is what lets them work it out.

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

✓

Yamini

Math Tutor

I came to teaching from engineering, where maths is a tool you use, not just study. My sessions are high-energy and student-first, because confidence is what turns ability into results.

📘 Mathematics Specialist
🏆 6+ Years of Teaching Experience

✓

Amith Pattar

Mathematics Tutor

Thoroughness is underrated. I make sure every topic is genuinely understood and properly retained, so students aren't relearning the same material a month before the exam.

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

✓

Bodhisatya

English Tutor

Textual analysis should be interesting, not intimidating. I make it intellectually engaging, building the analytical essay skills students need while they actually enjoy taking a text apart.

📘 IB & IGCSE English 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.

Maurine

Prachiti

Madhav

Pooja Chanana

Shalu

Sonal

Jayashree

Manish

Vaishalee

Yamini

Amith Pattar

Bodhisatya

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

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