Mumbai, May 28 -- Edtech major PhysicsWallah is pulling back on its ambitious expansion into K-12 schooling announced in the previous quarter (Q3 of FY26), and reverting to a sharp focus on profitability in its core online and offline education businesses, a top executive of the company said.

"K-12 is the mother of all markets. But if you see the journey of PhysicsWallah, we essentially were an online company and then we went offline. A similar strategy is being taken in our K-12 approach as well," Prateek Boob, co-founder of PhysicsWallah, told Mint in an interview after the company's earnings call on Wednesday.

"We did some Rs.100 crore of investment there earlier. And now we have decided not to further allocate capital to that," he a...