Cracking the IIT-JEE (Advanced) in style
He
has attended the first round of seat allocation and has selected
B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering course at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Varanasi. This IIT is his tenth choice. He plans to attend
the second and third rounds of seat allocation to try his luck for a
seat of higher preference, i.e. in an older IIT such as IIT-Madras or
IIT-Mumbai. Though his first choice is mechanical engineering, as he
wants this to be his base to pursue higher education in avionics or
space science, his other interest in computer science is no degree
lesser. If he gets B.Tech. computer science in another IIT in the
forthcoming counselling sessions, he plans to grab it first and then
decide on a suitable higher education option.
This
year, only the top 1.5 lakh candidates of the IIT-JEE (main) were
allowed to sit for the IIT-JEE (Advanced), and those selected were
allotted seats based on category-wise all-India ranking. Having
completed school from G.K.D. Matriculation Higher Secondary School,
Adhithyan started coaching at the IIT Study Circle from Std. IX. For one
who “ wanted to clear the IIT-JEE (Advanced) and enter any IIT”, it is a
dream come true.
But the dream did not just happen.
It involved the toil and sweat of Adhithyan and also his parents. At
his time of elation, he, in all humility attributes his success to his
parents’ support – V. Soundarapandiyan and G. Balambal, both working as
Superintendents in the Customs and Central Excise office in Coimbatore –
than to his hard work.
“The IIT Study Centre had an
intensive coaching session every Sunday. I spent one hour or more every
day studying the material. Though both of them are working, my parents
were always there, to drop me or pick me up from classes, and always
encouraging me, but never pushing me,” he says.
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