Beyond the Score: How AssessPrep Helps Schools See What Students Really Know
A test score tells a school how a student performed. It does not show where the student’s understanding is strong or weak. AssessPrep is an assessment platform that tags every question to a specific topic and curriculum standard. This lets schools see exactly where one student or a whole class is falling short.
The company is based in Gurugram and also has operations in Jaipur. It helps schools create, deliver, grade, and analyse tests. Most of its work focuses on international curricula such as IB, Cambridge IGCSE and Advanced Placement. AssessPrep works with more than 800 schools and uses an AI-first approach. The goal is to save teachers time while giving schools clearer data on student learning.
Where the Idea Began
Co-founder Karan Gupta noticed a problem during college and in the years after. Governments around the world were spending more money on education. Yet student results in reading and mathematics were not improving at the same speed.
He concluded that assessment, not teaching, was the weak link. Schools could not accurately measure what students knew and what they did not know. That idea became the foundation of AssessPrep.
Gupta studied economics at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and completed a master’s degree in economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). He co-founded the company in 2013 with two college friends, Shikhar Sethi and Abhimanyu Jhajharia. Both are computer science graduates from BITS Pilani’s Dubai Campus. The three first worked on a different product and launched AssessPrep in 2016.
Making the Full Assessment Cycle Easier
Gupta describes AssessPrep as covering five stages of the assessment cycle: creating a test, delivering it, monitoring students, grading it, and analysing the results.
Test creation begins with the curriculum. A teacher chooses a subject and question type. The AI then generates questions that match that curriculum’s framework. Teachers can also pick from a bank of nearly 70,000 exam-style questions. They can upload an old paper test as a PDF and turn it into a digital test.
The platform can lock a student’s screen so they cannot open other tabs or apps during the test. Schools use this feature to reduce cheating. Schools that still prefer paper can deliver the same test on paper.
The interface supports 13 languages. This is useful because AssessPrep works in many countries.
Once students start the test, teachers can give extra support with a simple toggle. Options include extra time, a spellchecker, text-to-speech or a calculator. This removes the usual paperwork.
Grading and Analysis That Go Deeper
Grading is more complex. Multiple-choice questions can be marked automatically. Essays need closer judgement, closer to how a human would mark them.
AssessPrep’s AI grades written answers against criteria set by the teacher, such as vocabulary or argument structure. Gupta says the current accuracy is between 85% and 90%. Teachers can also give the AI a few essays they have already graded so the system learns their style. Every AI-graded answer is then sent to a teacher for review before the student sees it.
Paper tests follow a similar path. A teacher photographs the answer sheets. The platform matches each page to the correct student and then grades it.
The analysis stage is where AssessPrep tries to answer questions that a simple percentage cannot. Every question is tagged to one of more than 600 built-in curriculum standard sets. These include IB, Cambridge, NGSS, Advanced Placement and ACARA. Results can therefore be broken down by topic instead of showing only an overall score.
“A score doesn’t tell a teacher what a student does or doesn’t know,” Gupta says. “Tagged data does.”
Technology with Clear Guardrails
AssessPrep connects with tools schools already use, including Google, Microsoft, Canvas and ManageBac. The platform runs on Ruby on Rails and React. It is hosted on Google Cloud across different regions to meet local data rules.
It uses several AI models, including those from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. AssessPrep tests which model works best for each task and can switch models when better ones appear.
Working with student data in more than 85 countries makes privacy central. AssessPrep says it is GDPR-compliant and meets the EU AI Act. No name, gender or race is shared with the AI during grading. The models are not trained on any school’s data.
Teachers stay in control. Every AI-graded answer and every AI-generated assessment is reviewed by a teacher before it reaches a student.
“Our platform is an assistant for the teacher to make their processes more efficient,” Gupta says. “You review whatever the AI has done before you publish it.”
Schools choose how much the AI does. Some use it only to draft feedback while teachers assign the marks. Others let the AI handle both marking and feedback, as long as a teacher approves the results first.
The Business and Its Reach
AssessPrep sits in the digital assessment and e-learning software part of the K-12 edtech sector. That sector was valued at $13.85 billion in 2024 and is expected to reach $32.04 billion by 2033, growing at about 9.9% each year, according to Grand View Research. Competitors include Exam.net, Canvas LMS and Otus.
The platform sells an annual subscription charged per student. Prices range from $6 per student for large US districts to $24–25 for smaller schools, depending on the plan.
It currently works with more than 800 schools in over 85 countries. Most are private international schools for Grades 6–12. It also has a growing number of US public districts and budget schools in Africa.
AssessPrep says it has saved teachers more than one million hours. In a 2025 survey of 93 international schools, 78% of teachers said AI grading saved them over 30 minutes per assessment. Seventy-three percent said tools such as anonymous grading and automated scoring improved efficiency.
“AssessPrep is helping us use AI in a meaningful, responsible, and relevant way,” says Shefalika Kumar Chitkara of Singapore International School, Mumbai.
At American International School of Guangzhou, Audrey Boettcher calls the platform’s lockdown mode “the game changer for me this year.”
Bootstrapped and Focused on Steady Growth
AssessPrep has never raised external funding. Growth has been paid for entirely by the founders’ own money, which has been put back into the business. The founders say the company is now profitable and does not need outside investment.
Revenue has grown by roughly 60% year on year for the past four years. This year’s revenue is expected to be between $2 million and $2.5 million. The company has a team of about 50 people across Gurugram and Jaipur.
“We have enough in the bank to avoid the growth pressure that comes with investors,” Gupta says.
In the near term, AssessPrep plans to grow further in its existing British and American curriculum markets. It also wants to expand into Indian national-curriculum schools as CBSE moves toward digitisation.
Longer term, Gupta wants to take what AssessPrep has learned from international curricula and make digital assessment affordable for schools of all budgets. The company has no plans to move into universities or hiring assessment platforms.
AssessPrep’s story shows how careful use of technology can turn a simple test score into useful insight. By tagging every question and keeping teachers in charge, the platform tries to help schools understand not just how students performed, but what they still need to learn.