In the academic journey, several students have encountered the problem of getting the right resources to aid in their preparation. Be it study material, reference books, or even the previous year’s question papers, there is a lot of time spent in procuring them. This results in wastage of precious efforts that could have otherwise been utilized in studying. The team at MUQuestionPapers.com understood this issue and have concentrated their efforts to be a part of the solution.
Aspiring to be a structured, one-stop provider of valuable study resources to students, they created the website that offers the previous year’s question papers, solutions, model answers, syllabus, time-table, latest news related to Mumbai University, and also information on part-time jobs. All this is made available with just one click thus, facilitating a student’s smooth academic journey.
However, the travel for Nirav Shah, co-founder of MUQuestion Papers.com hasn’t been this easy. With the motto of ‘Giving back to Society’, he started the website in 2013 offering the previous year’s question papers of various streams of Mumbai University. This venture did not grow as expected. Not one to get disheartened, he along with his friend, Chintak Dholakia, instead, saw this as an opportunity to learn from. They then launched the site with more groundwork. Bhavin Shah (SAKEC alumni), then a student also joined them.
Relaunched in 2015, the MUQuestionPapers.com has gradually expanded to provide other services such as model answers and other important information related to Mumbai University. This freemium subscription model is now seeing a year on year exponential growth and is currently the number one ranked site on Google. This claim is backed with rock-solid statistics; from 503k Users, 3.5 Million paper downloads in 2018, it has reached 651k Users, 5.2 Million paper downloads in 2019.
Elaborating on their model Nirav Shah says, “The platform is a free service to students. They are also not required to log-in as a result, we do not capture their information for monetization.” He further adds, “We do not promote our site on social media and receive our entire traffic through Google.” In their bid to help students, they regularly interact with them to understand their problems and offer solutions through the website. Speaking on their expansion plans, Shah says, “We are replicating the same template with Savitribai Phule Pune University and Gujarat Technological University and plan to eventually take the same across the nation.”
MUQuestionPapers.com has seen a phenomenal rise akin to a phoenix and the reason behind this is their never say die attitude and deep urge to be a part of the solution. A valuable lesson that all can learn in this university called Life.
