Insights from Dr. Aniruddha Malpani
Explore conversations, FAQs, and field notes on dismantling the factory coaching mindset and building curious, self-directed JEE aspirants with AI tutors.
Solution-first mock review feels productive but trains recognition. A retrieval-first protocol to turn wrong answers into durable JEE performance gains.
Motivation is unreliable under exam pressure. Cognitive science shows how if-then planning, friction design, and habit architecture can make JEE prep consistent even on low-energy days.
Why Eklavya kept RAGFlow for clean NCERT retrieval but moved conversation, behavior, and long-term student memory into its own stack, so JEE/NEET chats stay controllable as usage scales.
Studying with playlists feels like focus, but it often taxes working memory and makes recall fragile. A blunt JEE protocol to build silence stamina and perform when it matters.
Group study reduces anxiety, not mistakes. Here is why it fails (social loafing, recognition, task switching) and a strict protocol that makes it actually improve your JEE score.
If you only study in one perfect setup, your recall becomes fragile. Train context variability so concepts transfer to the exam hall.
Strategy videos feel productive because they reduce anxiety and give you clarity. But they are mostly passive input. Replace them with measurable weekly experiments built on retrieval practice, testing, and active learning.
Most students use AI like a kinder version of a coaching sir. They paste a question, ask “explain”, read a neat solution, and feel smart.
Blocked chapter practice feels productive but hides the real JEE skill: choosing the right tool. A blunt interleaving protocol to train discrimination, reduce choice errors, and perform under mixed exam conditions.
Blanking out in mocks is usually cue-dependence plus stress, not lack of intelligence. A 10-minute daily cold-start drill to train retrieval, choice, and clean starts under pressure.
A 3-minute end-of-day ritual that protects sleep, reduces anxiety, and makes your next JEE study session start fast.
A 20-minute movement protocol that improves focus, reduces anxiety, and upgrades the quality of your JEE practice reps.
Stop trading sleep for one more DPP. Sleep protects attention, working memory, and consolidation, the real bottlenecks in JEE performance.
Confidence is cheap and wrong. Use a ‘betting’ habit to calibrate what you truly know, convert mistakes into targeted drills, and stop wasting revision on illusions.
Spacing only works if you let yourself forget a little. A blunt JEE protocol for picking the right lag, designing redoes, and turning revision into performance.
If you study like you will teach, you stop hand-waving and start owning the decision points JEE tests. A 15-minute daily protocol to convert concepts and mistakes into exam-ready skill.
Feeling like you understand a chapter is not the same as being able to perform under exam conditions. Here’s a blunt JEE protocol to kill fake understanding and build explainable, transferable skill.
Hours are input. JEE scores are output. A blunt, practical way to track retrieval, redo laps, and decision errors so your practice stops lying to you.
Chapter revision feels disciplined but trains recognition. A mistake-based loop that fixes triggers, builds judgment, and makes revision actually move your score.
Formula sheets fail because JEE tests conditional knowledge: knowing when a tool applies, and when it doesn't. A practical protocol to train the choice step.
Most JEE practice jumps from spoon-feeding to grinding. Use worked examples, self-explanation, paired problems, and step fading to build real exam skill.
A big chunk of JEE underperformance is not concept gaps. It is anxiety stealing working memory. A blunt, research-backed protocol to train calm under pressure.
Most JEE practice jumps from spoon-feeding to grinding. Use worked examples, self-explanation, paired problems, and step fading to build real exam skill.
Redoing the same hard problems with spaced retrieval turns fragile familiarity into exam-ready execution. Volume feels productive, ownership wins ranks.
Most JEE prep trains recognition: you see a familiar pattern and replay a memorized method. JEE rewards discrimination: noticing what is different, choosing the right approach, and resisting the first tempting move. This piece explains the science behind that gap and gives a practical way to train the "choice step" using mixed sets, prediction, and ruthless error analysis.
Checking solutions too early trains recognition and kills the exact struggle that builds exam skill. This piece explains why errorful attempts plus feedback work, and gives a strict JEE protocol for using solutions and AI without turning practice into self-deception.
Full-length mocks don’t create learning by themselves. Use them for diagnosis, convert mistakes into micro-drills, and schedule spaced redoes so your score actually moves.
Daily practice sheets can become mindless completion. A deliberate-practice protocol to turn DPPs into diagnosis, micro-drills, and real score movement.
Timing practice too early trains panic and shallow pattern-matching. Build accuracy and a repeatable method first, then compress with timed work.
AI hints feel helpful, but they often erase the very struggle that builds exam-ready skill. This essay uses learning science to explain why “unstuck fast” is a trap, and gives a practical protocol for using AI to force retrieval, build discrimination, and stop lying to yourself during practice.
Your phone trains you to outsource thinking. A JEE-focused system to remove the crutch and build real problem-solving stamina.
Even a silent phone nearby taxes working memory. A practical JEE-focused protocol to protect deep work from attention residue and multitasking.
Self-explanation is the fastest way to turn worked solutions into real JEE skill: justify each step, name the condition, and train judgment instead of recognition.
Notes store information. An error log changes your behavior. A simple 7-field system to eliminate repeat mistakes, train the right triggers, and turn practice into exam-ready performance.
Pretesting feels stupid: attempt questions before you study, fail, then learn faster. Cognitive science calls it unsuccessful retrieval, and it can turn JEE chapters from passive coverage into targeted, exam-ready skill.
Highlighting feels productive but mostly trains recognition. A blunt, research-backed replacement: turn highlights into questions, do retrieval first, and build exam-ready discrimination.
Highlighting feels productive but mostly trains recognition. A blunt, research-backed replacement: turn highlights into questions, do retrieval first, and build exam-ready discrimination.
Highlighting feels productive but mostly trains recognition. A blunt, research-backed replacement: turn highlights into questions, do retrieval first, and build exam-ready discrimination.
Most JEE prep feels fluent, so students overestimate readiness. A blunt protocol to fix your self-assessment using prediction, retrieval practice, and honest error classification.
Most JEE students write notes to feel in control. But notebooks usually become a storage system, not a learning system. This article explains why note-making often fails (and what to do instead) using the testing effect, generation effect, and a simple “minimum notes, maximum retrieval” workflow.
Most people asking for "guidance" actually want comfort and a guaranteed path. The only real path is a loop: ship something messy, show it, get feedback, fix it, repeat. A blunt 14-day protocol to build production instincts by shipping real demos and asking for sharp feedback.
Reading solutions feels like progress but trains recognition, not skill. A cognitive-science-backed way to practice JEE honestly without the answer-key addiction.
Most JEE students study in ways that feel productive but fail under exam pressure because they train recognition, not retrieval. This article explains the testing effect, spacing, and interleaving, and shows how to build a daily study system that creates “desirable difficulties” without burnout. Evidence-based, blunt, and designed for students tired of doing everything right and still forgetting.
Blocked practice makes you feel fluent without building exam-ready discrimination. Interleaving, spacing, and retrieval feel harder but train the choice step JEE/NEET actually tests, and AI can enforce that practice design.
Most JEE/NEET prep feels productive because it’s fluent, not durable. Here’s how to use retrieval, spacing, and desirable difficulty so your learning survives exam pressure.
Indian exam prep glorifies brute-force problem solving, but cognitive science says novices learn faster with the right guidance. This essay explains cognitive load, worked examples, and why “solve 1,000 problems” often produces effort without understanding. A practical progression shows how to convert clarity into exam-ready performance.
Cramming produces confidence, not competence. This piece explains the cognitive science behind why coaching-style fluency collapses under exam pressure, and what students can do instead: retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving.
Every Indian student has taken this test. Your coaching class hands you a questionnaire. You check boxes about how you prefer to learn. Do you like diagrams? You're a visual learner. Do you prefer lectures? You're auditory. Do you learn by doing? You're kinesthetic.
Neuroscience research proves that sleep-deprived students lose the ability to form lasting memories. This article exposes how coaching schedules destroy learning capacity and why AI tutors that respect sleep biology outperform marathon study sessions.
Cognitive science has known for over a century that cramming doesn't work, yet coaching classes ignore the research. Discover the forgetting curve, testing effect, and interleaving, and how AI tutors apply these principles to help you actually remember what you study.
Studying 16 hours a day does not make you a serious student. It makes you an exhausted one. Here is what the research actually says about effective learning.
The fluency illusion makes students feel confident after watching lectures, only to fail on exams. Here is what 140 years of cognitive science says about why passive learning does not work.
Print textbooks were designed for a world that no longer exists. In the age of AI, learning should be interactive, adaptive, and personalised - not static pages printed years ago. Here's why AI tutors represent the future of education, and how they can make world-class learning accessible to every student.
Your brain deletes 75% of what you learn within a week. Rereading won't fix it. Here's what 140 years of cognitive science says actually works.
India's ₹58,000 crore coaching industry fails students, some fatally in Kota. I paid ₹66,000 I didn't have and still lost my medical dream. So I built Eklavya. Funded by Dr. Aniruddha Malpani, it now serves 45,000 students free.
From rickshaws to boardrooms in one generation. A story about class, climbing, and what nobody tells you about crossing distances most people never cross.
A note from someone who still loves this country and is terrified for it.
India has a humongous talent pool, but our hiring processes fail to surface it. The system rewards speed over thought, volume over clarity, and buzzwords over understanding.
The real story behind EmpoweredIndian.in - a civic tech project that faced threats, went viral, and is now cited by AI tools. A journey about fear, courage, and shining light on how public money is spent.
A personal story about building India's first pothole tracking platform, the fears of launching publicly, fixing production bugs on tea breaks, and why unfinished projects can shape you more than perfect ones.
A long, honest story about fear, luck, talent, chance, growth, and a man who changed my life. From night shift call center employee to Entrepreneur in Residence at Malpani Ventures.
A comprehensive Q&A exploring why AI tutors are transforming education and replacing expensive, overcrowded coaching classes.
Two classmates compare their learning journeys – one trapped in expensive coaching chaos, the other thriving with an AI tutor at home.
Two parents debate expensive coaching vs AI tutors, discovering how technology is making quality education affordable, accessible, and joyful.
Two teachers share their frustration with commercial coaching and discover how AI tutors are bringing back the joy of learning for students.
Discover the bite-sized AI learning assistants helping JEE students master concepts independently. From question solvers to adaptive practice generators, see what's available now and what's coming soon.
Discover how the high-tech, high-touch model combining ApniPathshala community learning pods with Eklavya AI tutoring is creating a generation of self-directed learners and transforming Indian education.
Education has evolved from slates to books to AI tutors. Discover how AI-powered learning is democratizing education and creating self-directed learners across India.
Discover how the high-touch, high-tech model of ApniPathshala learning pods and Eklavya AI tutoring is creating self-directed learners for just ₹199/month – making world-class education accessible to every Indian student.
A frustrated graduate discovers why degrees fall short and how self-directed learning builds employable skills.
An anxious parent and Dr. Malpani unpack the toll of marathon commutes and why AI tutors let students learn safely at home.
A candid exchange on how exam-obsessed schooling drains India's entrepreneurial spark and how AI tutors restore agency.
Two JEE aspirants compare the anxiety of factory coaching with the freedom of an adaptive AI tutor built for deep understanding.
A blunt FAQ that dismantles the coaching-industrial complex and lays out how AI tutors build curiosity, not compliance.
A parent and Dr. Malpani unpack why discipline comes from ownership, and how AI tutors give JEE aspirants structure without the coaching grind.
A veteran educator and Dr. Malpani explore how AI tutors liberate teachers from factory-style instruction and spark self-directed learners.
A frank dialogue on how rote-first coaching creates compliant graduates-and why autonomous, AI-guided learning rebuilds real problem solving.
A visit to Apni PathShala in Virar reveals how this education initiative has built sophisticated technology systems - from Linux deployments to remote device management - that make sustainable impact possible at scale.