What we are actually
trying to do

Most students who leave Faridabad for Kota do not leave because the teaching here cannot be good. They leave because they believe it cannot be. Zigyan exists to make that belief wrong — and to do it without the thing that makes large institutes hard for a teenager: being one of two hundred.

Stated values are cheap. These three are worth writing down only because each one costs something measurable, and the cost is what keeps them honest.

Capping batch size caps intake, and intake is revenue. Every year there are more applicants than seats and the straightforward response would be to add students to existing batches, which costs nothing and would not be visible to anyone outside the room until results arrived two years later.

Publishing only checkable results rules out most of what coaching advertising is made of — aggregate claims, unnamed toppers, percentages with no denominator. It means our numbers look smaller than competitors' numbers, and they are smaller, because they only count our own students.

And deciding scholarships on the paper alone means giving away fee income every year to students who would otherwise have paid it, with no way to recover that from anyone else. A scholarship that costs the institute nothing is a discount with a better name.