How Sagar Joshi turned a local coaching into nationwide EdTech brand

What began in 2001 as a fledgling tutorial in the basement of a Jodhpur building has today grown into one of the most impressive EdTech success stories for India. That classroom belonged to Sagar Joshi, a young lawyer who believed law deserved the same kind of structured preparation and professional respect akin to medicine or engineering.

From being a small coaching centre catering to the aspirations of local students in preparing for law entrance exams, LPT Edtech has grown into a pan-India education brand, with 40-plus centres in 17 states mentoring thousands of aspirants seeking admission to CLAT, Judiciary, CAT, IPMAT & CUET.

Legal education in India was still looking for its moorings two decades ago, and most students did not look at law as the first choice for a career. But not so for Sagar Joshi, who had done his B.Sc. and LLB.

He started taking classes of a few students in a basement rented in Jodhpur with limited resources but an unlimited determination.

It was the year 2008 that brought a turning point in Sagar Joshi’s life when the CLAT was introduced-a common entrance test for all NLUs.

Whereas many educators were still coming to grips with the new format, Law Prep Tutorial had already begun to actually prepare students to meet the challenges of CLAT. It was amongst India’s first specialized coaching centres for CLAT, offering structured material, mock tests, and mentorship to meet the demands of this innovatively framed examination.

The results started pouring in from then onwards. Students from Law Prep Tutorial repeatedly secured top ranks and started getting into the best law schools in the country. What had started as a small coaching class at home now had gained national recognition.

But then, after the phenomenal success in Jodhpur, Sagar Joshi opened his second centre in Jaipur. Scaling was not the aim; maintaining quality was. Every new centre had to adhere to the same teaching standards, mentoring system, and student-care model that made Jodhpur successful.

Results from Jaipur further validated the model. Students there, too, started achieving top ranks in CLAT, proving that the approach could work anywhere. That confidence laid the foundation for nationwide expansion.

When the pandemic hit in 2020, traditional coaching faced a crisis. Many institutes closed their doors. Sagar Joshi flipped that challenge into an opportunity.

He oversaw a number of investments in technology for the company LPT, building an effective Learning Management System, a mobile learning application, and an AI-driven test analytics platform.

This service allowed students from all over India to prepare for CLAT and other exams using interactive online sessions, video lectures, and intelligent test analysis tools.

What began in a basement classroom would eventually become a fully thriving national EdTech ecosystem.

Beyond the Law

While CLAT remained its core focus, Law Prep Tutorial did not stop at that. In 2023, the Institute started Law Prep Judiciary, a specialized program catering to civil judge exams in various states like Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Gujarat, and many others.

The results turned out to be phenomenal: more than 100 aspirants cleared the RJS 2024 exam in the very first year and set a new benchmark for judicial preparation.

Building on that momentum, Sagar Joshi diversified further in 2024 into coaching for CAT, IPMAT, and CUET under LPT Edtech. And within the very first year itself, the platform produced some stellar results —

• CAT 2024 Rajasthan topper Ayush Biyani (99.70 percentile)

•  Himanshu Agarwal (99.64 percentile)

• Top ranks in IPMAT 2025: AIR 9, AIR 22, AIR 24

These achievements proved that the LPT model worked beyond law-it worked anywhere excellence mattered.

Sagar Joshi has obtained several prestigious honours such as the Education Excellence Award, International Glory Award-IGA, Pride of Rajasthan Award, Marwar Gaurav Samman, and Academic Excellence Award 2024 for the contribution of Law Prep Tutorial in Indian education.

But more than the awards, it’s the consistent results-a total of five All India Rank 1s in CLAT in the past eight years and over 1000 NLU selections every year-that prove a testimony to the brand’s credibility and result-oriented commitment. A True National Success Story The journey of Sagar Joshi from a small classroom to becoming a nationwide EdTech brand is indeed a great example of how great ideas don’t need big cities but big vision. Today, Law Prep Tutorial stands out as one of the most trusted names in India for legal and management exam preparation, and its story continues to inspire educators and entrepreneurs across the country. What began in the heart of Jodhpur has reached every corner of India … and it’s only the beginning.