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INSPIRING: No ‘Masti’ For These Guys….
Posted by Pradeep Sadanapalli | June 4, 2007 | 268 views
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Loading ...It was focus IIT for P Santosh Kumar who studied for six months, away from home, parents and friends living in a hostel cut off from all kinds of ‘masti’ to become the state topper in the IIT Joint Entrance Examination (JEE).
All the hard work paid off for Santosh who came 15th in the country and in all probability is the south zone topper. “I want to take up computer science or electronics engineering in either IIT Kanpur or IIT Kharagpur,” Santosh says.
His father is an employee of the South Central Railway and mother a housewife, while his elder brother is studying engineering in the city. Santosh who is a Narayana Academy, Habisguda branch, student hails from Narsapuram in West Godavari and scored an impressive 41st rank in the Eamcet earlier this year.
“I expected to get a rank below 100. The hard work I put in the last six months paid off. I and a few other classmates were selected by the faculty for the short term residential programme where we studied for about 14 hours a day with lecturers always available to clear our doubts,” Santosh said.
“He used to follow our instructions to the T. I have never seen any student so sincere in doing what we asked him to do or the effort we asked him to put in,” said his principal, A Krishna Kumar.
It was easy to mould him to be a winner, he added. Santosh, never took any foundation course for IIT unlike many whose IIT foundation starts as early as class VI. For Varun, it was more his family who had to make sacrifices. Scoring the 18th in the country, T Varun attended foundation classes in IX and X. But it was more his parent’s adjustments that got him the rank.
The family had to move from BHEL to Nallakunta and his parents had to spend three hours travelling just one way to office everyday, so that Varun got the chance to study in Ramaiah IIT Study Circle. All their efforts paid off, as Varun stood first in Ramaiah’s academy with an impressive 18th in the country.
“I expected a rank between 200 and 300, but getting 18th was a pleasant surprise, as there are many people in my class who are definitely better than me,” Varun said.
He says the question paper pattern that was changed this year to incorporate more objective type questions may have helped him.
“But it all comes down to how your frame of mind is on the day of the test. At least 20 per cent of your result is determined by how quick you are in thinking of ideas to solve the paper. This makes a difference of 40 marks at least,” Varun said.
Varun wants to do either electronics and computer science engineering at IIT Chennai.
SOURCES:
Times Of India
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