Guidance

Overview

Most advice about cracking an exam is written for everyone, which means it fits nobody in particular. “Revise your weak topics” is true and useless. Guidance is the same conversation you would have with a senior who cleared the exam — except the guide has already read your work on the site before you say a word, so the talk starts from your numbers: which chapter is costing you marks, what you have never been tested on, how your mocks are trending, how steady your last two weeks were.

There are two kinds of guide, and both end in the same thing: a plan you can act on and tick off.

What your guide reads

Before every talk the guide reads a one-page brief built from what you have done on the site. You can open the exact page on the Guidance screen — “See everything your guide reads” — so nothing about you is used that you cannot see.

• Subject by subject — your average where measured, and how much of each subject you have touched at all.
• Costing the most — your weakest measured chapters, each linked to its page.
• Never tested — large areas nobody has asked you about. The guide is told these are unknown, not weak.
• Where the thinking slips — the kinds of mistake that cut across topics (reading the question, precision, speed…), with how sure the estimate is.
• If the exam were today — the rank engine's projected marks and rank, as a range, for exams that publish ranks.
• Recent tests, your error book, how many of the last 14 days you were active, what you are working on now, and your goals in your own words.
• Your last guidance — what was agreed, how much of it you ticked, and what has moved since.

You can ask about an exam you never named — a JEE student asking about NEET, say. The guide then reads your evidence against that exam's syllabus, and your Physics still counts.

Talking to the AI guide

1. Choose the exam at the top — yours are listed first.
2. Pick what you want to talk about, and add a line if there is something the guide should know first (“my mocks are stuck at 140 and I have 90 days”).
3. Choose English or Hindi, and whether the guide speaks aloud.
4. Press Start talking. The guide opens with what it noticed in your profile.

What to talk about

In the talk

The talk happens in the same call room as the mock interviews: the guide in the main tile, you beside them. Press Talk (or Space), speak, press Done. Turn on hands-free and it listens by itself once the guide has finished, sending what you said after a short pause. Typing is always one click away, and on browsers without speech recognition it is how you talk.

• On the table — when the guide talks about something from your profile or the paper, it puts it on the table: the chapter with your score and a link to it, a subject's numbers, the paper's sections. Only things that exist appear there.
• The side panel — the transcript, exactly what the guide read about you, and what the guide will and won't do.
• Your notes — a private pad, kept on this device.

A talk runs up to 30 turns. When you are done — or when the guide says you have a plan — press End & get my plan. If you leave without ending, you can carry on later from “Your talks”.

Your plan

Every talk ends in a plan, whoever gave it:

• A few sentences on where you stand and the one idea behind the plan.
• What matters most — up to three priorities, each with the reason, taken from your profile.
• What to do — the actions, each opening the page on the site that does it (the chapter, practice, a mock, the brain scan). Tick them as you go.
• Your rhythm — how a day or a week runs, if you talked about it; exam-room tactics if the talk was about sitting the paper; and the signs that the plan isn't working.

Add to my goals puts the plan on your Goals page, each action a milestone. All your plans, from the AI guide and from real guides, are under Your plans.

Checking in

Each plan has a check-in date, usually a week or two out; move it from the plan. When it comes round you get one reminder, and the next talk starts from the last: what you agreed, how much you ticked, and how your numbers moved since. A guide who remembers is most of what makes guidance work.

Real guides

The Real guides tab lists people who guide for your exam, each with the line that says why to listen to them, how they guide, their languages, ratings from students they have guided, and their next open time. Open one to see their times and book. Each guide also has a public page you can read, or send to someone, before you sign in.

The call is live video in the call room. Afterwards the guide writes your plan in the same form the AI guide uses, so you tick it, turn it into a goal and check in on it the same way.

Sharing your profile

When you book, you are asked outright whether the guide may read your learning profile. There is no default: a guide who can see your mocks is most of the value of booking one, but it is your decision.

• Yes — they see the same page the AI guide reads, read fresh when they open the call, not the day you booked.
• No — they see your name, the exam, what you want to talk about and your note.

You can change your mind from “Your guidance calls” any time before the call starts; turning it off removes the copy they would read.

Booking, moving, refunds

Guidance calls run on the same rules as real mock interviews:

• One free guidance call a month, and one demo per guide.
• A paid call is held for ten minutes while you pay. Cancel 24 hours or more ahead and you are refunded in full; later, it is not refunded. If the guide cancels, you are always refunded.
• Move a call to another of the same guide's guidance times up to 24 hours before, twice.
• The room opens ten minutes before. If the other side doesn't join, either of you can report it after 15 minutes; if a guide doesn't turn up, a paid call is refunded.
• Report a problem within seven days of the call; the team reads every report.
• Calendar entries, reminders and receipts work as they do for interviews. A minor's live call needs a parent's consent, as live classes do.

For guides: setting up

Tutors, institutes and interviewers can guide from the account they already have. Anyone else can start from a student account: opening Guidance and publishing a guidance profile makes it an expert account.

1. The exams you guide for — any exam with a pattern on the site, and the Class 10 and 12 boards.
2. One line on why students should listen to you — “AIR 212, JEE Advanced 2019 · mentoring droppers since 2021”.
3. How you guide, in a few lines of your own.
4. What you take calls on — or leave it open to everything.
5. Your calls — free, demo and paid, each with its length and price.

Then open times. Guidance times share one calendar with any mock-interview slots you keep, and no two of your slots may overlap. Your name, photo, languages and bank details live on My Profile, as they do for interviews.

Once you publish, you have a public page of your own at tuition.in/guides/your-name — your line, how you guide, the exams you chose, your prices and your next open times — and you are listed on the public page of each of those exams, such as JEE Main guidance. The link to your page is on your Guidance page. Pause your profile and both stop showing you straight away.

For guides: calls and plans

• Before the call — each booking shows the topic, the student's note and whether they shared their profile. If they did, open it from the call list or the call's lobby.
• In the call — the side panel has their profile, the plan form and the call's details. Your notes are private.
• After the call — write the plan: where they stand, up to three priorities with the reason for each, at least two things to do (each can link to a chapter of the exam, their weakest ones first, or a tool on the site), their rhythm and a check-in date. Sending it completes the call and tells the student. You can edit it for seven days; their ticks are kept.
• Earnings — paid calls earn exactly as mock interviews do and appear on your Earnings page. Ratings from guidance calls go on your guide profile, separate from your interview ratings.

What guidance won't do

• Make up numbers. The AI guide may only state figures about you that are in your profile, and figures about the exam that are in its pattern on this site. If it doesn't have a number, it says so.
• Call an untested area weak. Unknown is not weak, and it is told so.
• Promise a rank or a selection. Projections are ranges from a model, not results.
• Sell you a coaching institute. It recommends what is on the site and plain habits, and official sources like NCERT.
• Do your homework. It points to the chapter and comes back to the plan.

When it is more than exams

Common questions

Does the guide remember our last talk?
Yes. It reads your last plan, how much of it you ticked, and what changed since, before it says anything.

Can my tutor or parents read my talks?
No. Your talks and plans are yours. A real guide reads your profile only if you shared it for that call.

Why four AI talks a day?
Each talk reads your whole profile and runs up to 30 turns. Four is plenty for a real student; the plan, not the number of talks, is what moves your score.

My board isn't CBSE. Does the board-exam guide still work?
Yes, with a caveat it states: the paper structures it holds are CBSE's, so it tells you so before relying on a number.

Can I use Guidance for interviews?
For the interview itself, use mock interviews. Guidance is about the preparation around it.