Students get loans, scholarships, and endless prep support for college admissions. But for the tests that decide all of it, students carry the full cost alone.
A single test like the IELTS or PTE costs ₹15,000 to ₹19,000. Prepare for months, have one off day, miss your target by a few points, and the only option is to pay the full amount again. There's funding for tuition, funding for coaching, funding for the degree itself, but nothing standing behind the test that decides whether any of it happens.
We started Frexam to put a guarantee behind that cost. You take an accurate mock test that sets your level. If your real score falls short of it, your retake is half price. So a bad exam day stays a bad day, instead of becoming an expensive one.
Who's behind it
Piyush started his first company at 19, The Optimist Citizen, and ran it for seven years, growing it to 25,000+ print readers across 27 cities and recognition from Forbes Asia.
Since then he's built and run operations across three very different companies: as an early team member at Skiller Whale, a London-based e-learning startup; managing an early-stage portfolio at WTFund, a fund backed by Nikhil Kamath; and as Founding Head of Operations at Human Archive, a Y Combinator-backed Physical AI startup, building its operations from zero.
The throughline across all of it: a founder who operates, and an operator who thinks like a founder. He started Frexam to fix a problem no one else was addressing, the financial weight of standardised tests landing entirely on students.
Hemant brings 20+ years across international education, assessment, and supply chain, with a track record of building large operations and making them run well. As Associate Director at IDP, he led IELTS operations across multiple regions, delivering 10x growth and AUD 50M+ in revenue while building 2,000+ partnerships and leading large teams.
Before education, he built a deep operational foundation at DHL, Kuehne+Nagel, Safexpress, and Aditya Birla Retail, driving supply-chain optimisation and earning performance awards for cost efficiency and execution.
He is known for pairing strategy with execution, across market expansion, digital transformation, and P&L ownership. At Frexam, that means the partnerships and operations behind every exam a student books through us.
Retakes are expensive. We believe in second chances that don't break the bank.
How we keep the promise
Frexam is run by a leadership team that has built and scaled operations across international education, testing, and fast-growing startups.
An official IELTS partner via IDP, an official Pearson PTE Partner, and an official Duolingo English Test partner. Bookings and scores run on official systems.
Your threshold and every condition are in your hands before you pay a rupee. No fine print added later.
Big score drops are rare, which is exactly what makes the guarantee affordable to offer and dependable to honour.
We're happy to walk you through how Retake Guarantee works, no pressure, no scripts.