Kishore — Founder, Scholar
B.Tech student at RGUKT RK Valley, Idupulapaya, YSR Kadapa.
Built Scholar because the attendance problem was real, and no existing app solved it the right way.
The real story
RGUKT RK Valley runs a tight schedule — eight periods a day, attendance tracked strictly per subject, and a 75% cutoff that decides whether you're allowed to sit the exam at all. Like most students, I didn't have a clear picture of where my attendance stood in each subject until it was almost too late to fix it.
The problem wasn't that I was skipping class carelessly. The problem was that I genuinely didn't know my number. The college doesn't send you a weekly update. You find out when the notice goes up — usually two or three weeks before exams — and by then, the only options are to attend every single remaining class and hope it's enough, or start filling out a condonation application.
I tried tracking it in a notebook. Then a spreadsheet. Both worked for about a week before the effort of updating them every day made me stop. What I needed was something that took ten seconds to update after class and showed me the number instantly — not at the end of the week, right now, so I could decide whether today's skip was worth it.
That's what I built. First just for attendance. Then a timetable, because entering it fresh every semester into a new app was its own frustration. Then tasks with deadlines, because assignment submissions were getting lost in WhatsApp groups. Then a study timer, because I wanted to know how many hours I was actually putting in, not just how many hours I sat near a book.
What makes RGUKT different — and why Scholar fits
RGUKT's 6-year integrated program is unlike any other college structure in India. The first two years (PUC) feel like an extended 11th and 12th — intensive, residential, away from home for most students. The next four years are B.Tech level, but you're still on the same campus, still under the same attendance rules, still managing the same kind of schedule pressure.
The attendance cutoff at RGUKT is the same 75% that JNTU and most other AP universities follow — but the residential nature of the campus means there's no "I was late because of the bus" excuse. If you're short, you're short. Scholar was built in that environment, which is exactly why it handles fixed period timings, per-subject tracking, and daily visibility the way it does.
What we believe about student tools
Your data stays on your device
Scholar stores everything — attendance records, tasks, diary entries, your timetable — directly on your phone. No account to create, no server holding a copy of your class schedule. If you use the optional AI assistant (Jarvis), it runs on an API key you provide yourself, so even that stays under your control.
The number should be visible before it matters
Attendance percentage is only useful if you see it in time to act on it. Scholar updates the moment you mark a period — not at the end of the month, not when the college posts a notice.
Setup should happen once
A timetable doesn't change week to week. Neither should the effort of entering it. Fixed period timings and a simple weekly grid mean you configure your subjects once per semester and get on with studying.
Who Scholar is for
Scholar was built for engineering and college students in India — especially students at RGUKT, JNTU-affiliated colleges, and any institution with strict attendance requirements and a fixed daily timetable. If your week has seven or eight periods a day and a hard cutoff you can't afford to miss, this was built specifically for you.