Tutoring That Started Before It Became a Profession
 

My tutoring journey began when I was in Grade 12.

A friend of mine was struggling badly with Physics, and I helped him prepare well enough to pass. That moment stayed with me. It was the first time I realised that explaining a difficult concept clearly could actually change someone’s confidence.
 

After that, I started helping my school juniors too. Slowly, what began as helping friends turned into something I genuinely loved doing.

Over the years, I have taught students across different curricula, including CBSE, JEE Physics, Cambridge IGCSE, A Level, IB MYP and IB Diploma Physics. My experience comes not only from tutoring, but also from teaching in different schools that followed different academic systems. This helped me understand how students learn, how exams are structured and how the same Physics concept can be tested very differently across curricula.
 

My first formal tutoring setup was an offline institute called Padre Pio Coaching Institute, which I started on the terrace of my house. It mainly supported CBSE and JEE students, and the response was encouraging. Later, after relocating to Hyderabad, I moved completely online because I did not have a physical space to teach. Renting a classroom was not exactly part of my budget at that time, so the internet became my classroom.
 

That shift opened up a much bigger world !!
 

I later worked with online education platforms such as Unacademy, Seven IB and Chitti NEET, where I got to teach students from different backgrounds, curricula and learning needs. These experiences helped me become more flexible as a teacher and understand how to support students beyond just “covering syllabus.”
 

By 2025, I started LumiKnow, my own learning venture. Through LumiKnow, I now tutor students from India, the US, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands and Sweden. My students come from IB MYP, IB Diploma, Cambridge IGCSE, A Level and JEE Physics backgrounds. Some also find me through my YouTube channel, usually after deciding that Physics and confusion have been friends for too long.
 

My main strength is working with students who feel they are weak in Physics. I try to understand what actually happens during exams: where they panic, which skills are missing, why they lose marks and how they think when solving a question. Many students do not struggle because they are not capable. They struggle because they have gaps in basics, unclear methods, weak exam habits or low confidence.

At LumiKnow, I work with a small but wonderful team of four people who help me manage the learning process, feedback, practice tracking and student support. Together, we try to make learning more structured, personal and less scary.
 

My goal is simple:
 

To help students stop fearing Physics, understand what they are doing and walk into exams with a little more confidence — and hopefully fewer dramatic breakdowns over formulas.