Education Inflation
The rising costs of higher education in India have become a significant barrier for many students, threatening to undermine the country’s aspirations for inclusive growth and development.
Gradeup, one of India’s largest preparation platforms for competitive exams, has announced the growth of its exam-specific community to 13 million registered users through a span of 3.5 years, since its inception in 2015.
Gradeup is freely available to anyone who downloads the app or visits the website. Anyone, who is preparing for competitive exams, has access to plenty of material to practise and prepare for their exams.
Their purpose is to make the exam preparation process simpler and more effective for the aspiring candidates. Users can avail the platform’s premium offerings including “Classroom live courses” and Test Series for an improved groundwork.
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Gradeup provides high-quality content that is curated by competent and skilled faculties. Since its inception, the company has seen steady growth with crossing the 10 million subscriber mark in September 2018.
The platform makes use of the latest in technology as it runs an app, a website, and three YouTube channels. The content is customisable and interactive, thus giving users an immersive preparation experience.
Shobhit Bhatnagar, Co-founder, Gradeup, said, “As a 3-year-old company, crossing the 13 million mark is quite a feat. It’s an exciting time for us at Gradeup, where our platform has a number of users that equals the population of a small country. The success rate for competitive exams is between 1 to 3 per cent on average.”
The platform’s top 5 markets are Hyderabad, Patna, Lucknow, Delhi and Pune. Additionally, access to Gradeup in Tier II and Tier III cities has especially benefitted those aspirants who lack coaching institutes.
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