Dr Nikhil Vasan is a medical doctor and expert in the HSC sciences with over a decade of experience at the highest levels of HSC tuition.

Dr Vasan graduated as the dux of James Ruse Agricultural High School with a 99.95 ATAR and two state ranks in the sciences. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Advanced) and Doctor of Medicine from the University of Sydney’s double-degree medicine program.

Dr Vasan recently spent a decade teaching and overseeing the HSC science and mathematics courses at a major Sydney tutoring firm, where he held the position of Academic Director.

Dr Vasan is also a practising medical doctor and has most recently held a role as a neurosurgical registrar at Westmead Hospital. He is actively involved in medical research, and has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in international journals including the Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, Internal Medicine Journal, Heart, Lung and Circulation, and NeuroImage.^[1,2,3,4]

To read more about Dr Vasan’s academic background, qualifications, and teaching experience, please see our Enrolment Guide.

All classes are taught by Dr Nikhil Vasan.

Dr Vasan offers an obligation-free two-week trial for all of his courses. Learn more about our trial enrolments here.

We accelerate our Year 10 and Year 12 courses by one term, and our Year 11 course by two terms. We do this in order to ensure a significant period for revision and consolidation before the final HSC exams.

Learning the course before it is introduced at school confers significant advantages for students who are looking to get ahead of their peers. Accelerating not only crucially extends your revision time prior to exams, but it also means that your encounter with the material at school is a form of revision in itself. While others are wrapping their heads around the concepts for the first time, students who have accelerated are already analysing it from different angles and thinking about how to attack the most challenging exam-style questions.

At the same time, accelerating too much can be detrimental. Attempting to learn content that is too advanced before having a grasp of the basics can be dangerous and discouraging. It also increases the likelihood that students will rote-learn the content rather than fostering a true understanding of it, greatly affecting their capacity for thinking critically and adapting to atypical exam questions.

It is in view of these reasons that Dr Vasan’s courses are accelerated one to two terms ahead of school. Our teaching commences early enough that students feel well ahead, and are well ahead, of what they are covering at school, but not so early that they feel out of their depth and foster poor learning habits.

Yes, you can enrol at any point during the term and your tuition fees will be prorated based on the remaining duration of the term. Once you choose to continue enrolment after your two-week trial, we will provide you with the course material for the weeks you have missed free of charge.

Please let us know at and we will record the class for you. You can also collect your course material for that class the following week.

The new Foundations course is a three-term accelerated program that will commence for Year 9 students in Term 4, 2024. The course, which will be taught exclusively by Dr Nikhil Vasan, will cover all three core areas of Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, equipping students to excel in their Year 10 work while also providing a significant head start for further studies in Year 11 and Year 12.

Approximately three weeks of each term will be devoted to each of the three core subjects. In each of these three-week blocks, Dr Vasan will cover one Year 11 module while also previewing how the relevant concepts are extended in Year 12. Each term will conclude with an examination.

The Foundations course will enable students to enter their Year 11 studies with the foundations already in place, allowing them to focus on applying the concepts to more challenging questions, understanding their broader scientific context, and exploring the more difficult aspects of the syllabus in greater detail.