WHY AASANKA

• Should you study at home or coaching class?

• Go to private coaching or organised coaching

• Go to kota or study in your city

• Should I aim for IIT or be happy with anyengineering college?

• When to go to college?When to go to coaching class? When? When?

• Instead of feeling decisive,parents and children feel helpless

CLASS X1: TIME FOR DECISIONS,TIME FOR CONFUSION

• Simple: let the child go a coaching class

• Which coaching class?Well, any one will do

• They publish such large adspromising easy entry into IITs and engineering colleges

• Is this true? Is life really so easy

HOW DO PARENTS DECIDE TODAY

• IIT JEE - Out of 36 students, 1 selected 35 fail (Of the 311,258 candidates who appeared in the examination conducted on April 13, 2008, 8,652 candidates have been declared qualified to seek admission, giving a selectivity of 1 in 36 overall )

• India’s BEST coaching in Kota -Out of 20 students, 1 selected 19 fail

• Mumbai’s BEST coaching - Out of 22 students, 1 selected 21 fail

• New Delhi’s Best coaching -Out of 24 students, 1 selected 23 fail

COACHING CLASSES:MYTH AND REALITY

SO HOW DO THEY GET RESULTS

The choosen few

• The bright students who would have qualified with or without coaching - strong focus by coaching class with the best teachers. The “photo” students

• The rest of the class - unimportant and uncared for. Inexperienced teachers. These students’ photos will NOT appear in the newspapers

The neglected many

• From 80 to 1500 students in a class

• Can’t understand a lecture?Sorry, no time to repeat the lecture.Forgot a lecture? Well, bad luck

• Would like to clarify some concept?Sorry, the professor has no time

• Spending time talking to your friends?Unfortunately the professor can’t bebothered

AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REST

• Teaching of basic concepts? Sorry no time for that. The curriculum has to be finished first

• The focus is only on assignments and hard problems - this is the only thing that matters to coaching classes

WHERE DO COACHING CLASSES FAIL

• Students are given tests to solve at home

• The next day, a few assignments are solved by the teacher

• Your individual assignments? Sorry, the teacher has no time for individual attention

• Who is supposed to check the papers? Who is supposed to be the expert? You, or the teacher?

SO WHAT HAPPENS TO ASSIGNMENTS

• Imagine a strong teacher’s 3 hour class of 80 students

• In 1 minute a doubt is asked. The teacher takes 2 minutes to answer. Time taken in each Q&A is 3 min

• Even a strong teacher can answer only 60 studentsand maximum of 1 doubt per student - 3 hours will be gone with no further teaching

• What actually happens - Even great teacher targetsfinishing the course and NOT answering doubts

• Still want to raise doubts? You will be lucky if theteacher hears you.

• So what do you do? Check with your friends? Orforget about the doubt

DO THEY HANDLE DOUBTS AT ALL? SOMETIMES - THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS

• Tests are conducted periodically

• After the test students are given solution

• Students are made to analyse their test attempt against standard solution

• Marks and rank in the coaching is the ONLY personal feedback

• Don’t know your strengths and weaknesses? Unfortunately neither does your teacher

SO IS THERE ANY FEEDBACK AT ALL?

• Because the school system is not able to dofull justice

• Because the coaching classes prey on thehelpnesses of parents

• Because parents don’t know how the systemworks

• Because parents are not able to see beyondthefull page ads and the top rankers

• Because every parent wants his child to bea top ranker

WHY DO COACHING CLASSES SUCCEED IN ATTRACTING SO MANY STUDENTS

• Because they teach a crowd, not a student

• Because they want to finish the curriculum, not explain concepts

WHY DO COACHING CLASSES AND THE SCHOOL SYSTEM FAIL

SO WHAT’S THE IDEAL WAY

• Where the student is at the centre ofthe teaching system

• Where his individual strengths andweaknesses are analysed

• Where his doubts are immediatelyclarified

• Where the path from concept toassignment is smooth and seamless

IN A CLASSROOM OF ONE

WHERE DOES THIS HAPPEN

WHAT IS A CLASSROOM OF ONE

• More than 3000 concept lectures created by a team of IITians under the leadership of Atul Nigam, the 1st IITian to start coaching classesin India

• Atul has so far created over 1000 IITians in his teaching career

TOP-RANKER OR LOW RANKER - EVERYBODY GETS THE SAME LECTURE

• Forgotten a lecture? No problem. Just go back to the lecture and hear it as often as you need

• Don’t feel like studying in the mornings? No problem. Study whenever you feel like. The system is at your disposal

• Commuting is tiring you out? Save your energies for your studies

COACHING CLASSES TIE YOU DOWN -AASANKA SETS YOU FREE

• Our mentors are on call

• Raise any doubt - as often as you need to.Our mentors will guide you and coach you

HAVE DOUBTS?DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK

• Aasanka is a personalised tutoring system

• Our personalised approach tells you where you are weak,what you should study, which references you should go thru,in what sequence to study

WEAK IN SOME? STRONG IN SOME?NOT CLEAR IN SOME?

• Aasanka has over 40000 problems for you to solve

• You get immediate feedback on every question that you attempt

COACHING CLASSES GIVE YOU MANY PROBLEMS TO SOLVE - WHAT DOES AASANKA DO?

• ALL coaching classes thrive by herding students into a class and getting them to mud equations

• Aasanka starts with basics - only when you have mastered the basics do you to the stage of problem - solving

FUNDAMENTALS OR ROTE?THERE IS NO DEBATE

• Some coaching class fees are like marriage expenses - a huge burden on the parents

• Aasanka fees are designed to appeal to every class of society

• At Rs 10000, it does not burn a hole in anyone’s pocket

COACHING CLASSES ARE EXPENSIVE - WHAT ABOUT AASANKA

• Coaching classes teach a crowd -Aasanka teaches one-on-one

• Coaching classes give you equationsto mug, aasanka gives you live examplesto understand

• The coaching class teacher wants tocomplete the curriculum - aasanka wants you to understand

COACHING CLASSES HAVE A TEACHER - HERE, THERE’S ONLY A COMPUTER

• Aasanka is a low risk, high reward tutoring format

• It is cheap - so it is accessible to the masses

• It is designed to make your understand - so learning becomes fun

GAME, SET, MATCH AASANKA?