If your child is in Grade 4 to 9 and scores low at School.
You sense something's wrong. But don't know what.
We can help.
Most children, who are not performing at school, can be classified into one of the following 6 archetypes
The Careless Performer
Knows everything, still loses marks
The Avoider
Capable, but runs away from difficulty
The Passive Learner
Attends, listens, but doesn’t think
The Inconsistent Child
Good some days, completely off on others
The Underconfident Child
Knows, but doesn’t trust themselves
The Rote Learner
Memorizes, but collapses in application
But that's not all
Even If your child scores high.
you are not spared, because many outperformers are also fragile in disguise. Check out these archetypes and identify the one that looks closest to your child
The Procedural Topper
I know how to solve it—but don’t ask me why.
The Speed Performer
I finish first. Accuracy… mostly.
The Tuition-Dependent Achiever
If taught, I can do anything.
The Pattern Recogniser
I’ve seen this type before.
The Grade-Focused Performer
Marks matter. Everything else later.
The Silent High Performer
I understand—but I don’t speak.
Now as a parent or educator
When you try guessing the suitable archetype for your child, you might observe that most children are a mix of 2–3 archetypes.
So you can have a child who has:
- Primary Archetype – Careless Performer (70%)
- Secondary Archetype – Avoider (20%)
- Tertiary Archetype – The Underconfident (10%)
This makes things even more difficult and that is why, we need a system that is more intelligent and personal.
So what should parents do? How can they solve this challenge?
Tuition is not the answer (for 5 reasons)
- Not every child needs a tuition. You see in past, extra tuition was considered as a sign of an incapable child, but today we have made it a norm. The child is constantly under pressure.
- Tuition is also making your child cognitively a low performer. If the tutor is not right (which is the case most of the time), one does not allow the student to struggle and gradually the student starts believing that they know it all, but in reality don’t.
- Tuition usually focus on finishing home work from school. So we are making children dependent. Without an external help, now your child does not work.
- Tuition does not allow a child to prepare for the future. Since, it is all about home work from school, and school has become a space, just for academics, so the time afterschool should have been used to prepare children for the future, but tuition eats up that time too.
- Tuition is not a practice dojo. Most parents believe that more practice is good for children. Not always. If your child is already good at math, more and more practice can work negatively. You need a really informed tutor to be able to solve this side.
But yes, for a few children, Tuition can be a boon, and parents should know, when and when not to choose tuition.
So it is not easy for parents to take decisions.
Most of them are just doing guesswork. They do not know
- what is the current status of their child
- what kind of actions they should take to help their children,
- whether tuition is good and if that is, what kind of tutor
- what ways can they help children prepare for the future skills
- and many more such questions
If you are a parent, we suggest you to follow these 3 steps
Step 1: Invest your time
To take right decisions for your child, get ready to look beyond status quo:
Step 2: Identify the Gap
Get a comprehensive diagnostic (40-50 min assessment + detailed report)
Step 3: Take Action
Based on your child’s situation, we start sharing a weekly action plan.
Step 1: Invest Your Time
You can learn the basics in just a week if you are ready to invest at least one hour daily. Can you?
The first thing that we suggest is to look at a few videos by us. Visit our Instagram.
Alternatively, you may also look at the list of Research that we have curated for you to explore.
And then third is our weekly newsletter, where we publish Research Notes and Field Notes
Once you have explored all 3 above mentioned sides (Instagram Videos, Curated Research, and our own created Notes in our newsletter) of Step 1, you may contact us for the next steps.
We're building in public—with transparency, not polish.
EdMonks Learning Systems is a product in making. We’re researching, testing, iterating, in real-time:
- Running free workshops with 200+ parents
- Conducting diagnostics with 100+ students
- Helping Children come out of their Learning Gaps
- Documenting what works (and what doesn’t)
Our long-term vision:
A comprehensive Gurukul-inspired middle school program (eventually Grades 3–8, possibly a micro-school).
But we’re not building this in isolation.
We want to talk to parents, teachers, students—anyone thinking critically about education.
If you have ideas, questions, or skepticism—reach out.