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Pathways World School Aravali — Gurgaon, India
School type: IB Continuum School (India) · Live coaching in IST (India)
Pathways World School Aravali is a residential and day IB Continuum school in the Aravali range south of Gurgaon, founded in 2003. It runs the full IB continuum (PYP, MYP and DP), which makes it one of the longer-established full-continuum IB schools in the Delhi NCR region. Day students commute from DLF, Golf Course Road and Sohna Road; boarders study on campus through the evening.
Pathways Aravali carries one of the larger IB Diploma Biology cohorts in NCR, offering Biology at both HL and SL. Because so many of its students apply to US universities alongside UK and Indian ones, a meaningful share layer an AP Biology exam onto their IB profile as a College-Board-standardised US-admissions credential — the school itself teaches the IB syllabus, and the AP work is done independently for the May exam.
For Pathways Aravali families the practical need is a track that adds AP Biology without disrupting a demanding IB Diploma load. We run AP Biology as a parallel programme in IST evening slots that fit both day-scholars (joining from home after the commute) and boarders (during scheduled evening study), with weekend intensive blocks when a student is compressing AP prep into the DP timetable.
Sourced from publicly available rankings (US News, Niche, Boarding School Review), CEE / USABO TRC press releases, and the school's own publications.
Pathways Aravali graduates apply broadly across US, UK and Indian universities. For the US-bound cohort — especially pre-med and life-sciences applicants — a 4-5 on AP Biology is a common way to add a College-Board-standardised signal on top of IB Diploma predicted grades, and it can earn first-year credit or placement at many US universities.
IB Diploma Biology and AP Biology overlap heavily in content but differ in assessment: IB rewards the long-response mark scheme and the IA, while AP rewards the six free-response-question (FRQ) rubric and the multiple-choice section under strict timing. We align AP prep to the school's DP calendar — content consolidation through the DP1/DP2 year, then FRQ rubric drilling and timed full-length AP papers in the run-up to the May exam — so the AP layer reinforces rather than competes with IB work.
Pay-as-you-go hour packages. Same pricing nationwide.
$1,800 – $5,760
$120–$150/hr
12 / 24 / 36 / 48-hour packages with AIIMS-trained biology specialists
$900 – $2,880
$60–$75/hr
12 / 24 / 36 / 48-hour packages
$640 – $1,600
$40/hr flat
16 / 24 / 32 / 40-hour group programmes
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