Founder & Chief Mentor
Prashant R. Sahay
A Physics teacher first, an institution builder second. Three of his students have
finished first in India — the most recent in NEET 2024, from Mangalore — and many
more have taken single-digit All India Ranks in JEE Advanced and NEET.
He teaches by a method he states plainly as minimum mathematics, maximum
visualisation. An Irodov problem or an Olympiad question is taken apart on the
board until the physics is visible; only then is anything written down. Students
taught this way stop memorising formulae, because they stop needing to. It is also
the reason he can teach at IPhO level, which very few faculty in the coaching
system attempt at all.
Sahay Gurukul is wholly owned and directed by him. He designs each campus
programme, selects the faculty deployed to it, and reviews it himself — which is
precisely why the number of campuses is kept small.
- AIR 1 on three occasions — JEE Advanced 2013 and NEET 2024 among them
- 17 years mentoring JEE Advanced, NEET and IPhO-level Olympiad aspirants
- Leaders in Education Award, conferred by Dr. Ram Shankar Katheria, then Minister of State for Human Resource Development, and Dr. Satyanarayan Jatiya, Chairman of the MHRD Parliamentary Standing Committee
- Senior Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations
- Architect of the Sahay Classes integrated campus partnership model
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