Two years of Reddit posts from Vidyamandir Classes students describe the same pattern: Advanced-level teaching pushed to the end, moved online, or left to the student. Others say the institute served them well.
For most of its history, Vidyamandir Classes (VMC) sold itself to Delhi-NCR families on one promise: preparation for JEE Advanced, the exam that decides entry to the IITs. A long run of posts on Reddit’s JEE forums suggests many of its recent students feel that promise was not kept.
We read 18 threads posted between January 2024 and September 2026 on r/JEE, r/JEENEETards, r/JEE27tards and r/JEE28tards. The accounts are anonymous and could not be independently verified, and VMC has not been asked to respond. But the complaints are specific, they repeat across centres and years, and they centre on one change.
The Part A / Part B split
Students say that in 2024 VMC reorganised its study material. Each chapter was divided into a “Part A” module covering school and JEE Main level, and a “Part B” module covering harder Main questions and JEE Advanced.
The first detailed complaint appeared in October 2024. “Module A contains around 125-150 qs per chapter and so does module B,” a class 11 student wrote, adding that Part B arrived “2-3 months later,” by which time the class had moved on to new chapters.
In February 2025 the same complaint, posted under the title “DO NOT JOIN VMC,” drew more than 80 comments. The author, who said they attended a Patna centre for most of class 11 before leaving, said they studied “over 8 hours everyday” and still fell behind on three-quarters of the class 11 Advanced portion. Their central claim was that no separate time was set aside for Part B, and that top batches in Delhi received both parts together while regular batches did not.
Two months later, a class 12 student who reported scoring 98.6 percentile in JEE Main described the consequence. “They skipped all the adv topics such as solid state, s block, p block,” the student wrote. Advanced chapters were then taught online during board exams, leaving “35 days” after the second Main session to cover them. That post was the most upvoted complaint in the set.
A commenter on the same thread asked: “can the entirety of class 12 physics of adv prep be finished in 64 hours of lectures?” Another suggested the institute change its slogan to “THINK NIT, THINK VMC.”
Paying for offline, taught online
A second theme is that students who paid for classroom coaching say the hardest material was delivered by video link.
“Only school level is taught offline; all the Advanced and higher Mains is put in online classes,” a student wrote in January 2026 (translated from Hindi). A June 2026 post made the same point in its title: the student took an offline batch, and the Advanced syllabus came as online classes. One former Pitampura student said introductory organic chemistry was moved online, on top of a full day of offline classes.
Teacher turnover and a two-tier system
Several students describe repeated changes of faculty mid-year. One, who said they scored 95.4 percentile in their first Main attempt, wrote that their chemistry teacher changed six times. Another, at the Netaji Subhash Place centre, said their maths teacher changed “3-4 times.” Two commenters claimed teachers had left their centres over the new curriculum, one alleging that faculty were told not to teach Advanced content in regular batches. None of this is confirmed.
The most consistent advice in the threads, even from critics, is that the experience depends on the batch. Students in the top-tier “Illuminati,” “COE” and “SP” batches report being taught Advanced material alongside Main. Regular-batch students say they were not, and that promised reshuffling tests to move up were not held.
One student in the 2026 Pitampura batch alleged that after her father paid two years’ fees in advance, a teacher shouted at her in the staff room for asking that theory be explained properly, and that a coordinator later mocked her in front of the class.
Refunds and scholarships
In June 2025 a student wrote that their family paid ₹30,000 to the NSP centre on 28 May, withdrew on 30 May, before classes began on 9 June, and was told ₹22,000 was non-refundable, including ₹17,000 described as administrative fees. A commenter replied that the non-refundable amount is stated in VMC’s terms. A separate user asked in May 2025 how much they could recover after paying ₹89,000 of a ₹3.77 lakh fee and attending four classes; another user later asked whether any refund came, and no answer is visible in the thread.
Scholarships, awarded through VMC’s National Admission Test, also draw scepticism. In a March 2026 thread, several users openly described cheating on the online version of the test. One claimed: “they gave me 100 scholarship without giving the NAT,” and another said the percentage is open to negotiation by parents.
The other side
Not every account is negative. “I studied here, 4 year course and it was worth it,” one user wrote. A Janakpuri student in a top batch said: “everything is smooth. Our faculties are amazing.” Anand Vihar students defended their teachers and described extra and doubt-clearing classes.
A former student, congratulated in the thread on an IIT (BHU) seat, called the workbooks “pretty great” and the final test series “100% relevant,” while advising extra practice for Advanced. Others praised the organic chemistry module and the quality of Part B questions. One user said that of eight VMC students at their school, five scored above the 97th percentile in JEE Main and three above 99.6.
Some put the responsibility on students. “Coaching will only contribute 20 percent in your prep,” one wrote. Even the author of the “DO NOT JOIN” post conceded that VMC is “good for mains” and worth considering for a top Delhi batch.
What prospective students can check
The threads point to questions worth asking any centre before paying:
- Will Part A and Part B be taught and issued together in the batch being offered?
- Which parts of the syllabus are delivered online?
- Who are the named teachers for that batch, and when are reshuffling tests held?
- What exactly is non-refundable, in writing, and from what date?
Any response from VMC to these accounts will be added to this article.
Sources (Reddit threads)
- r/JEE, 23 Feb 2025, “DO NOT JOIN VMC (READ DESC)”
- r/JEENEETards, 27 Apr 2025, on JEE Advanced prep
- r/JEENEETards, 17 Oct 2024, “VMC’s new module system is terrible imo”
- r/JEE, 10 Jun 2025, refund complaint
- r/JEE27tards, 1 Jan 2026, online classes
- r/JEENEETards, 26 Jun 2026, offline batch taught online
- r/JEE27tards, 14 Nov 2025, “so called OFFLINE coaching”
- r/JEE, 12 Nov 2024, Pitampura reviews
- r/JEE, 16 Apr 2025, class hours
- r/JEE27tards, 12 Oct 2025, chemistry modules
- r/JEE28tards, 25 Mar 2026, “Is VMC bad?”
- r/JEENEETards, 24 Dec 2025, “Is VMC really bad for Adv”
- r/JEENEETards, 13 Aug 2024, “Thoughts on VMC”
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