Let us start with a number that does not get said plainly enough: the average Indian family with two school-going children in CBSE coaching spends between Rs. 12,000 and Rs. 20,000 every month on tuition fees alone. Before books. Before test series. Before the cost of commuting to a coaching centre twice a week.
Over a full academic year, that is between Rs. 1.5 lakh and Rs. 2.5 lakh — for a single child. For families with two children in Classes 9 and 11, the number can touch Rs. 4 to 5 lakh annually.
This is not an expense that most families can absorb comfortably. It is a sacrifice. And the question that most families are too anxious to ask — because they feel they have no alternative — is whether the sacrifice is producing the outcome it promises.
What Rs. 5,000 a Month Actually Buys
When a family pays Rs. 5,000 a month for a single subject tuition, here is what they are typically receiving. Their child attends two to three classes per week, each lasting one to one and a half hours. The class has anywhere from ten to forty students depending on the centre. The tutor teaches to the group, at a pace the group can broadly follow. Doubt resolution happens at the end of class, if time allows, for students confident enough to raise their hand.
That is approximately four to five hours of instruction per week, shared across an entire batch of students, with limited opportunity for individual attention.
A good tutor in this format can still make a significant difference. Their explanation of a difficult concept, their ability to read the room and slow down when students are confused, their experience knowing exactly which topics trip students up every year — these are genuine advantages. The problem is not that tutors lack skill. The problem is that the format prevents that skill from reaching each student individually.
The student who is too shy to ask is left behind. The student who needs to hear the explanation three times before it clicks gets it once. The student who understood three slides ago is bored and disengaged. Everyone pays the same Rs. 5,000.
What That Rs. 5,000 Can Now Do Instead
An AI-powered online learning platform for Class 6 to 12 delivers the following for a fraction of that cost. Every chapter of every CBSE subject — Science, Maths, Social Science, English, Hindi, and more — has comprehensive notes written at the correct grade level. Not textbook reproductions. Actual explanations, structured to help a student understand, not just read.
Every chapter has flashcards for the definitions, formulas, and key facts that need to be memorised. Every chapter has practice questions across three difficulty levels — easy, medium, and hard — with instant feedback. A student attempting hard-level questions on Chemical Reactions and Equations in Class 10 is doing exactly the kind of practice that builds board exam readiness. The NCERT solutions with explanations are available for every problem, so a student who gets stuck can see not just the answer but the reasoning behind each step.
And available at every hour of the day or night, there is an AI tutor that knows which class the student is in, which chapter they are studying, and which concepts they have been working on. When a student asks why the answer to a Maths problem is what it is, the response they receive is calibrated to Class 10 CBSE — not a generic mathematical explanation, not something written for an engineering student, but something useful to a fifteen-year-old preparing for their board paper.
This is what makes it a genuine replacement for Rs. 5,000 a month in coaching — not a compromise, not a supplement, but a replacement for everything the coaching was providing, delivered at the pace and level of each individual student.
The Honest Comparison
There are things a human tutor provides that an AI platform does not. Accountability — knowing that someone will notice if you skip studying. Mentorship — a trusted adult who cares about your progress beyond the syllabus. The social experience of learning alongside other students, which motivates some children.
If a family has access to a genuinely exceptional tutor who builds a real relationship with their child, knows them well, and adapts their teaching to that child's specific gaps — that tutor is worth paying for.
But that is not what most families paying Rs. 5,000 a month are receiving. Most families are paying for batch instruction at a fixed pace in a crowded room, with limited doubt resolution and no real personalisation. For that — for that specific thing — an affordable education app India now offers a better alternative.
The student who uses an AI platform gets instruction at their pace, doubt resolution at any hour, practice at the difficulty level that challenges them without overwhelming them, and NCERT-aligned explanations that map directly to what their board exam will test. The student in the coaching batch gets a fraction of that — and pays significantly more for it.
What Families Are Finding When They Make the Switch
A mother in Pune described the shift clearly. Her daughter in Class 9 had been attending Science and Maths coaching for two years. The fees were Rs. 4,500 a month. Her daughter was keeping up but not thriving — she understood enough in class to follow along, but when she sat down to study alone, she was always stuck waiting for the next session to clarify her doubts. Three weeks after switching to an AI learning platform, her daughter had worked through the entire current chapter independently, attempted all three difficulty levels of practice questions, and asked for the tuition to be cancelled. The saving was immediate. The improvement in independent study habits was something the mother had not expected.
A father in Jaipur with two children — one in Class 8, one in Class 11 — calculated that the switch saved his family Rs. 9,000 a month. What surprised him most was that both children preferred the platform to the coaching they had left. The younger one liked being able to study at her own pace without feeling like she was slowing anyone else down. The older one liked having NCERT solutions available at 11 PM when he was revising the night before a test.
The Calculation Worth Making
Take the coaching fees your family pays each month. Multiply by twelve. That is the annual cost of maintaining a system that may not be serving your child as well as you believe.
Now ask: is my child genuinely receiving personalised attention? Can they resolve doubts at any hour? Are they building the ability to study independently? Or are they dependent on a schedule, a batch, and a tutor's availability?
If the honest answer to those questions gives you pause — the alternative is worth trying.
Kedovo is free to try. Every chapter, every subject, Class 6 to 12 — available right now at kedovo.com.