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Basically had the same experience, thankfully did go to the best school available(in Russia there is an alternative way to get into, bypassing the SAT analogue), but picked up personal tutor gig as a side hustle and had to learn all of it anyway.
Offtopic question but how saturated is the personal tutor market in India? Here it is not all, almost any 95th percentile and higher can earn decent money from it, while working remotely, people most often just don't consider this an option.
I'd say it's gotten about as saturated as the market can bear, and believe me the demand is massive. Everyone wants their kids to have a leg up, and the quality of education even in the better schools is questionable, in part because the school teachers correctly expect that their students will be going elsewhere for in-depth coaching.
Most personal tutors who make a name for themselves aim to move past one-on-one coaching to larger batches, it's just more lucrative that way. There are plenty of large coaching/Ed-tech companies, but we've crossed Peak Education, because the billion dollar Byjus disintegrated.
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