Surat's evenings are set by the trade. In households working the textile and diamond markets, the hour a lesson can actually happen is often late at night or before school in the morning, so the slot is worth settling before the subject or the fee. The city is quicker to cross than the larger metros, with Adajan, Vesu, Piplod, Katargam and Varachha each a manageable ride, and online is how most tutors here pick up students outside the belt they already work.
Surat draws its workforce in from across the country, so the medium of instruction is a real question here and not a formality. Gujarati-medium GSEB homes in Varachha and Katargam, Hindi-speaking households whose children are in Hindi- or English-medium schools, and the newer CBSE schools on the Vesu, Pal and Dumas Road side where the parents may have arrived only a year or two ago are all ordinary. Ask which language the child is examined in and which one they think in, because in this city those are frequently not the same.
The trade sets the year as well as the day. Families connected to the diamond units travel home for a long break around Diwali, and lessons stop for longer than a school holiday would suggest — worth knowing before you plan a term around one household. In the senior classes the commerce subjects, accounts and statistics and business studies, are a steady ask in a city built on trade, while the younger classes carry most of the year-round work and are usually where a fixed weekly slot comes from.