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What "Premium" Actually Buys You
Career counselling covers a wide range, from a quick paid conversation to a fully tracked, multi-session program built around real psychometric testing. AptiGuide's 1:1 sessions sit toward the fuller end of a single-session conversation for a specific reason: every session is handled directly by Anshul, not passed off to a rotating junior team, and comes with a written summary you can actually reference later, not just a verbal takeaway.
That doesn't mean paying is the only way in. Anshul personally answers 50 or more free career queries every single day, no booking or payment involved. Hundreds of students take AptiGuide's free career aptitude test daily, at zero cost, with no signup wall to see their result. Paid sessions exist for people who want to go deeper than a free query or a test result can take them, they're an option once you need one, not a gate before anything else.
This page covers AptiGuide's career counselling and clarity sessions specifically. Mentorship programs and study abroad application guidance are separate, larger-scope services with their own pricing, quoted individually based on what a specific student needs, not represented by the figures on this page.
What Actually Drives the Price
Career counselling isn't one product sold at different markups. A budget session and a deeper, multi-session program usually differ on these four things, not by accident. Tap each to see how.
1Who Actually Meets You
2How Deep the Assessment Is
3Number of Sessions and Follow-Through
4What You Walk Away With
Is Paid, Structured Counselling Worth It For You?
Toggle on whatever is true for you right now. This isn't a scorecard, it's a genuine starting-point recommendation based on your answers.
I've already tried a free test but still feel unclear on what to do next.
I'm actively choosing between two or more specific options right now (streams, colleges, or an exam versus a degree).
Getting this wrong would cost a real year or a meaningful amount of money.
I want someone tracking this decision over more than one sitting, not just answering a single question once.
What You Actually Get at Each Level, at AptiGuide
Using AptiGuide's own two tracks as a concrete example of how the price drivers above translate into an actual offering.
Rs. 1,499–2,500, by duration and format
- No formal psychometric testing
- Founder-led Zoom conversation on your specific options
- Single focused session
- Written summary of what was discussed
Fits a student who has a reasonably clear picture already and needs one focused conversation to decide between specific options.
Quoted individually, by scope
- Full validated psychometric assessment
- Multiple sessions across the decision timeline
- Written, referenceable roadmap report
- Continued check-ins as the plan plays out
Fits a student who is genuinely unclear on direction, or a family that wants a decision tracked properly across stream, exam and college choices rather than answered once. Priced by how much ground it needs to cover, a strategy session gets you a direct quote.
Career Counselling, By Level
Where AptiGuide's own session sits, and how the wider market generally breaks down. Full sourcing is in the Sources box near the bottom.
| Level | Typical Price | What's Usually Included |
|---|---|---|
| Basic / Single Session (market) | Rs. 500+/hr | One conversation, informal or no formal assessment, verbal takeaway |
| AptiGuide 1:1 Session | Rs. 1,499–2,500 | Founder-led Zoom conversation, single focused session, written summary |
| Deeper / Multi-Session Programs | Priced by scope | Full psychometric assessment, multiple sessions, written roadmap, ongoing tracking. AptiGuide's own comprehensive track, plus mentorship and study abroad guidance, are quoted this way too. |
A Pattern I See Around This Exact Decision
A composite, anonymised pattern drawn from real counselling conversations, not a single case study, and not a promise of the same outcome for everyone.
A family came to me after paying for a single, low-cost session elsewhere that ended in a verbal "engineering or commerce, whichever you like" and nothing written down. Nothing wrong with that session for what it was, but it hadn't actually resolved the decision, and they were back to square one within a month. What they needed wasn't a cheaper version of the same thing, it was a different product entirely, a proper psychometric assessment and a plan tracked across the actual decision, not one conversation about it. The lesson isn't "pay more is always better." It's that the two things being compared often aren't the same service.
Our Method, In Plain Words
The general market figures on this page are pulled from published, named sources, career-guidance and tutoring marketplaces (Toprankers, Mindgroom, Superprof) and a third-party industry analysis (Lyfepath), current as of 2026, not invented or estimated by AptiGuide. Where a figure is itself a secondary citation rather than a primary government or census statistic, that is flagged directly under the number rather than presented as settled fact. AptiGuide's own figures, the Rs. 1,499 to 2,500 session price, the 50-plus daily free queries, the hundreds of daily free test-takers, and the 567-result archive, come directly from Anshul Wadhwa as the business owner, not from a third-party source, and are labelled as such. Deeper, multi-session programs, including AptiGuide's own comprehensive track, mentorship, and study abroad guidance, are quoted individually because they genuinely scale with what a specific student's situation needs, rather than fitting a single published number.
Questions People Actually Ask
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Start Free, Upgrade Only If You Actually Need To
Anshul is a career counsellor who works with students across India, and personally answers 50 or more free queries a day. The free test is the right next step for most people reading this. A Rs. 1,499 to 2,500 1:1 session is for when you already know you're stuck on a specific decision, and a deeper, quoted program is there for when the decision needs tracking over time.
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