This startup can tell students exactly where their academic strengths lie

Ever wondered if you could have figured out which subjects you were good at without taking exams?

As teachers and schools realize that the focus of learning has become more holistic than before, students and their parents want to know more about the pupil’s academic strengths to make an informed decision in the future in regards to career prospects or even further education.

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Vidyartha is a learning guidance platform that provides data led deep profiling & personalized learning recommendations to high school students in Grade 8 to Grade 12. Through continuous engagement, Vidyartha collects varied student data that influences and impacts their learning and arrives at tactical recommendations to not just improve scores but also strengthen each student's unique capabilities and improve life-skills - example problem solving, critical thinking etc. Vidyartha’s platform has reached over 250000 students across 3000+ schools in India and the Middle East.

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Every student has a learning style as unique as their fingerprint. Combining their academic scores, their interests and their aptitude scores that are obtained through psychometric assessments, general aptitude & subject specific application assessments along with class performance inputs from the school, each student’s unique learning story and a personalised learning plan (PLP) is created with long term goals broken down to short term targets.

Each student’s learning plan includes:
● Interest profiling
● Personality profiling
● General & subject specific aptitude strengths & weaknesses
● Interest in capability match
● Subject wise focus areas based on long term goals & targets
● Learning gaps between school performance & conceptual application
● Competitive benchmarking - Where they stand among their peers within the school, across the region and countrywide
● Subject combinations recommended post Class 10 for students in Grades 8,9 & 10
● Personalised course recommendation for students in Grades 11 & 12

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Vidyartha’s focus is on increasing student’s academic performance and keeps them engaged while understanding their unique needs and continuously working with their specific learning challenges. Each student hence gets his unique Personalised Learning Plan (PLP).

With these distinct profiles, students can evaluate where they stand against their peers on school, regional and national levels, for each interest area. This helps in fixing learning gaps for each subject and create unique learning paths for students to excel.

These PLPs help teachers understand students beyond the report cards, identify their learning styles, tailor learning content and bridge the gap between academic scores and conceptual learning.