American families have been hiring tutors in India for a decade, and most of what they find is a marketplace where the tutor changes, the method is Indian and the time is wrong. This is the other kind: a small team of master's-qualified women teachers in Chandigarh, the same tutor every week, teaching your child's own American curriculum in the order the school uses, at a time that suits a US school day.
Every class is one tutor with one child on a shared whiteboard: a five-minute recap, the new topic explained with diagrams, guided practice where the tutor watches every step, then notes, an assignment and the recording. Before tests we switch to the real formats: STAAR, MCAS, Regents, SBAC, SAT and AP past papers, marked to the real rubric.
| Your time (Eastern) | Chandigarh | Who books it |
|---|---|---|
| 7:00 – 8:30 am, before school | 4:30 – 6:00 pm | Elementary and middle school; the most popular slot |
| 4:00 – 8:00 pm, after school | 1:30 – 5:30 am | High school and AP; our tutors teach these hours in shifts |
| Saturday and Sunday, 8 am – 1 pm | 5:30 – 10:30 pm | Everyone; test preparation blocks |
Central, Mountain and Pacific families: the same three windows, shifted. Each US city page has a planner that converts your local time.
| Science with Shobha (India) | US marketplace ($14 – $60/hr) | US agency or center ($40 – $250/hr) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who teaches | A master's-qualified teacher, the same one every week | Whoever you pick; often a student | A pool; the tutor can change |
| Curriculum | Your school's American order and test formats | Depends on the tutor | American |
| Format | 1-on-1, camera on, recording and notes after every class | 1-on-1, usually no recording | Often groups of 3 to 6 |
| Time | Before school, after school, weekends | Flexible | Center hours |
| Commitment | Monthly, stop when you want; free first class | Per lesson | Packages, often a semester up front |
| Price | US$10 to $13 an hour, all included; see prices | Low to mid | High |
The reason an Indian maths tutor fails an American child is not the maths; it is the order. American schools teach ratios before algebra, geometry as a separate year, and statistics as a course of its own, and the state tests and the SAT are written in that order. Our tutors hold master's degrees in mathematics and have taught the US sequence since 2018, so your child is taught the school's method first, in the school's vocabulary, and stretched only after the class work is secure.
| Grade | What the school teaches | What the class does |
|---|---|---|
| K – 2 | Counting, place value, addition and subtraction facts | Number sense with objects on the whiteboard, fact fluency in five-minute rounds |
| 3 – 5 | Multiplication, fractions, decimals; the state tests begin (STAAR, MCAS, SBAC, NY State) | Fractions with diagrams, multi-step word problems, the test format from Grade 3 |
| 6 – 8 | Ratios, integers, expressions, Pre-Algebra; Algebra 1 for accelerated Grade 8 | The bridge to algebra done slowly, then Algebra 1 a unit ahead of the class |
| 9 – 10 | Algebra 1, Geometry, Algebra 2 (Integrated Math 1 to 3 in California) | Proofs written out, functions graphed by hand first, Regents and EOC practice where the state has them |
| 11 | Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus or Statistics; the SAT and PSAT | Pre-Calculus a unit ahead, SAT maths from the real papers, timed |
| 12 | Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus AB or BC, AP Statistics | AP free-response questions marked to the College Board rubric from the first month |
Physics, Chemistry and Biology (including AP), English reading and writing, and the SAT and ACT follow the same rule: the school's order, the real test format, one child at a time. All 100+ subjects →
| Where you live | Per hour, 1-on-1 |
|---|---|
| United States | US$10 to $13 |
| Canada | about C$14 to C$18 |
A US agency charges US$40 to $250 an hour for the same hour; a marketplace tutor from India at US$5 to $8 is usually a student with no recording and no continuity. Full price table →
Families who want the depth of an Indian maths education without the child being taught methods the school does not use. We teach the school's method first, then the stretch, and Hindi or Punjabi if you want the language kept.
Most US families who come to us are not Indian; they want a qualified 1-on-1 teacher for Algebra, Chemistry or AP Biology, weekly, without the agency's price. The class is in English; the tutor's accent is the only thing that is Indian about it.
Every class is recorded and the recording is yours. Parents can sit in on any class. The tutor never contacts the child outside the class. Nothing is paid up front; the first class is free and you decide afterwards.
Indian families in the US ask us a version of the same question: the child is doing well at school, but the cousins in Pune are two years ahead in maths, so is the school too easy, or is the comparison wrong? Both, usually. The American curriculum goes slower in arithmetic and faster in reasoning, data and writing, and a child who is first in an American class is being measured on exactly the thing an Indian class barely tests. So we do not teach an American child the CBSE syllabus. We teach the school's work to a very high standard, then add the Indian stretch where it helps: harder problems on the same topic, the Kangaroo and AMC 8 papers, mental arithmetic, and the habit of showing every step.
The rest is practical. Classes are in English, with Hindi or Punjabi if the family wants the language kept alive in a natural way, ten minutes of conversation at the end of a class. Grandparents in India can sit in, because the tutor is in India too. And when the family spends the summer in India, nothing stops: the same tutor, the same whiteboard, Indian times for six weeks, then back to the US schedule.
Eight commitments, in plain words. Hold us to them.
A real lesson, not a sales call. No card, no obligation — parents are welcome to sit in.
You only book paid classes after the demo, with the tutor you met.
Switch to another tutor free, or the first paid class is refunded. Just tell us.
Life happens — move a class a day ahead at no charge.
What we covered, what your child mastered, what to practise before next time.
A short parent call each month: results, gaps, next goals. Result-focused, exam-smart practice.
Simple monthly plans. Pause or adjust any time.
WhatsApp, call or email — every message answered, in English, Hindi or Punjabi.
