Know your child before the choices arrive.
Compass gives your child one counsellor from class 8 to class 12 — someone who learns what they are actually good at, writes it down, and turns it into a plan you can see.
Free session: we explain the process. We do not assess your child.
By the time a child regrets a choice, the choice is years old.
Streams are picked in class 10, usually in a fortnight, usually on marks and on what a cousin did. Everything after that follows from it. The conversation that should have happened tends to happen far too late.
Choices made too fast
A child who has never been asked what they enjoy has nothing to answer with except marks. So marks decide, and the answer sticks for a decade.
Guidance that arrives late
One session in class 12 can only sort what is left. From class 8 there is still time to try something, drop it, and find out cheaply what fits.
Nobody has written the child down
School sees a rank. Relatives see a personality. Very few people have recorded what this particular child does when nobody is grading them.
How the options narrow
Illustrative — the shape, not a statistic
Preparation, then ninety minutes, then every month after
Homework, not a verdict
Your child answers questions about what they have actually done — projects, hobbies, what a free Saturday looks like. Classes 10 to 12 also complete the O*NET Interest Profiler questionnaire. Nothing here is a result.
You leave with a plan
A named counsellor who has already read the homework sits with your child and with you. Your child writes a one-page North Star. Together you set three to five milestones for the next six months.
Something to show for it, every month
Each month your child finishes one milestone, the next step gets sharper, and you get a short written note. At six months the plan is rewritten around what they actually did.
Finished things, not a feeling
Every milestone is something your child completes and can point to afterwards. Below are the kinds of things our counsellors set, with real examples.
A working app on the school fair table. A 15-page write-up on the water quality of a local lake. A short film shot, edited and screened.
A two-week internship at a small architecture studio. A day shadowing a paediatrician. A recorded interview with someone ten years into the job.
Weekend sketching becomes a portfolio of thirty pieces. Casual chess becomes a rated tournament. Cooking becomes a costed menu they actually served.
Teaching maths every Saturday at a nearby centre for six months, with attendance recorded. A collection drive run end to end, with the numbers written down.
The one-page North Star in your child's own words, a monthly note to you, and every dated version of the plan so you can see the thinking change.
These are examples, not a checklist. What your child is actually set depends on what interests them, what they can manage alongside school, and what is available where you live. The counsellor picks milestones your child can realistically finish — a stretch, but not a set-up for failure.
Talk to a counsellor first. Thirty minutes.
We walk you through the homework, the 90-minute session, what the following months produce, and exactly what it costs. Bring your questions.
Book the free conversation✕ We do not assess your child in this session.
✕ We do not tell you which stream to take.
✕ We do not write a plan. That is the Start session.
✓ We explain the process and answer everything.
Three steps. You decide at each one.
Nothing is bundled. The conversation is free, the first session is a one-time payment, and continuing is a separate decision you make after you have seen the plan.
The conversation
30 minutes, with a counsellor
How Compass works, what the homework asks, what you will hold at the end. Process only — this is not an assessment.
Book itStart — homework and 90 minutes
Homework, then 90 minutes with a named counsellor, then a written six-month plan. Classes 10 to 12 also complete the O*NET Interest Profiler questionnaire beforehand.
Credited in full if you continue within 30 days.
Tap a class band to ask on WhatsApp.
Carry on for six or twelve months
A plan nobody checks is just a document. Most of what Compass is worth shows up in the months afterwards, so we do recommend carrying on — but plenty of families take the plan and stop there, and that is a fine choice too.
All prices exclude GST. Families outside India are billed in local currency.
What Start looks like in your child's class
The plan is about trying things and meeting people who do the work. This is when experiments are cheap.
Same 90 minutes, with the interest questionnaire added. Stream questions are worked through in the room, not printed out.
A narrower plan: shortlist, exam timeline, essay coaching.*
* Compass does not promise admission to any university or programme.
How we get to know your child
The form is preparation. The counsellor is the method. The plan is the output. No computer decides anything.
What they have already done
Our own questions. What a free Saturday looks like. Whether they have ever spoken to someone who does the work they say they want.
Kinds of activity they lean toward
Classes 10 to 12 only. Six kinds of work activity, from a long-published theory of interests — not a personality test. Administered as the O*NET Interest Profiler questionnaire.
Indian paths we researched
A map of the routes families here actually take. The counsellor uses it in the room. You will not be handed a printout of “your career”.
This page includes information from the O*NET Career Exploration Tools by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY-ND 4.0 license. O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. The questionnaire was built and tested on American adults; there is no Indian version; that is exactly why a counsellor reads it rather than a computer.
The questionnaire is the US Department of Labor's public career-interest questionnaire. It was built and tested on American adults, there is no Indian version, and that is exactly why a counsellor reads it rather than a computer.
One counsellor. By name. For years.
Your child keeps the same person from the first 90 minutes onward, unless you ask us to change. Everything else works because someone who already knows them is doing the interpreting.
Nobody is compared to another child. There is no leaderboard and no ranking.
We introduce the person who will sit with your child before the first session, not after it.
What we will not do
We will not write your child's essay. We will teach them to write it.
We will not file applications on your behalf.
We will not promise a university place.
We will not tell you which stream to take.
We will publish what we measure once a cohort is old enough to measure.
Questions
No. It covers the process only. Start is the session that produces a plan.
It is the point. By class 11 the stream is chosen. Classes 8 to 10 are when trying things is cheap.
Good — that is the programme working. We keep every version of the plan.
No. The written plan is yours either way. Continuing is decided in the room, after you have seen it.
Start with a conversation. It costs nothing.
Thirty minutes with a counsellor who will tell you honestly whether Compass is right for your child right now.
Compass sits in University & Beyond, beside SAT Ready. India prices exclude GST. The promise is clarity and a plan you can see — not placement.
Compass — a counsellor who stays
Compass sits in University & Beyond beside SAT Ready. A parent of a child in class eight can start with a free thirty minute conversation. We walk how homework works, what the ninety minutes produce, what the next months are for, and the price. We do not assess the child in that slot.
If they continue they buy a Start session. The child answers what they have actually done. Class 10 to 12 also sit the O*NET Interest Profiler questionnaire — six kinds of work activity from a long-published theory of interests, used verbatim, not as a personality test. The counsellor has already read that homework. They leave with a one-page North Star and three to five milestones for six months.
The same counsellor stays for the block. Classes 8 to 10 meet one hour a month. Classes 11 to 12 meet two. Each month has a named output: evidence on a milestone, a refined next step, a short note to the parent. At six months the plan is revised from what they did. India prices are exclusive of GST. Nobody is compared to another child. There is no percentile and no leaderboard.
The honest promise is clarity and a plan you can see, not placement. We will not write the child's essay, file applications, promise a university, or tell you which stream to take. The questionnaire was built and tested on American adults; there is no Indian version; that is why a counsellor reads it rather than a computer.
Key benefits
- Families of children in class 8–12 who want a named counsellor
- Parents who want a written 6-month plan, not another chat
- Class 8–9 starters who are not sitting an interest questionnaire yet
- Class 10–12 families who want stream questions in the room, not a printout
What students learn
- 1Homework: what they have done; class 10–12 also the public interest questionnaire
- 290-minute Start: North Star + 3–5 milestones
- 3Monthly sessions: evidence, next step, parent note
- 4Six-month Review from what they did