3 Telugu boys bag top ranks in JEE
JEE-Advanced toppers want to join IITs; AP topper took classes from 6 standard
K.V.R. Hemant Kumar Chodipilli from Visakhapatnam, who secured All India Rank (AIR) 7, topped the Telugu states in the JEE Advanced. He topped the IIT-Kharagpur region.
Mavuri Siva Krishna Manohar from Vijayawada topped the OBC-noncreamy layer (NCL) category. Jatoth Shiva Tarun from Hyderabad secured AIR 1 in the ST category.
The results were declared on Sunday, and a total of 16,062 boys and 2,078 girls cracked the exam.
Hemant, 17, had secured the second rank in TS Eamcet and eighth in AP Eamcet. With a score of 350/360 in JEE Mains, he stood second in the open category and first in the OBC group. He studied at Sri Chaitanya Techno Schools from Classes VI to X and completed his Intermediate from Sri Chaitanya Junior College in Visakhapatnam. He said he was aiming for the JEE from Class VIII, and worked tirelessly to make his dream come true. He
I solved old question papers and took some mock tests. My patience and hard work and guidance and motivation of my teachers and parents helped me in fulfilling my dream... I also like to play computer games and watch cricket. K.V.R. HEMANT KUMAR from Visakhapatnam, all-India rank 7, topper in Telugu states
told this newspaper, “I was given IIT coaching from Class VI but I took JEE seriously from Class VIII. I was confident that I would do well in JEE Advanced and my dream has turned into reality.” He said his favourite subjects are mathematics, physics and computers. “I want to study computer science and engineering (CSE) at IIT Mumbai and then pursue research,” he said. Hemant said he was inspired by the discoveries of great scientists “which have changed our lives tremendously”.
“I studied nearly 7 to 10 hours a day to prepare for JEE,” he said, explaining how he cracked the exam. “I solved old question papers and took some mock tests. My patience and hard work and guidance and motivation of my teachers and parents helped me in fulfilling my dream.” He said he used to listen to music and watch TV during his free time adding, “I also like to play computer games and watch cricket.
His father, C. Nagaraju, a government employee, beaming with happiness, said, “I wish to see him as an IAS officer. But first he should finish his BTech. He really likes maths and was inspired by his maths teacher Parthasarthy.”
Eight hundred supernumerary seats have been created for female candidates alone across the 23 IITs in the country to improve the skewed gender ratio in the premier institution.
The decision was taken on the instructions of the Ministry of HRD. Supernumerary seats in IITs were created to accommodate foreign students earlier.
A committee constituted by IIT recommended that female enrolment needs to be upped, from eight per cent in 2017 to 20 per cent by 2020 by the creation of supernumerary seats.
Many female rank holders told this newspaper that they could now get seats in the streams that they prefer due to the increase in the number of seats.
The fear of sending girl children away from home by parents is often cited for gender disparities in engineering which is why most female students give very limited options during counselling i.e. for courses available in their hometown IITs. “The number of seats for medicine is very little as opposed to engineering. There are merely 50,000 seats as opposed to the lakhs of seats available for engineering. So, if a girl gets into a premier institute of engineering, she might be dissuaded by her parents who will ask her to join somewhere in their hometown. But in medicine, there is no choice,” says Professor Dheeraj Sanghi, IIT Kanpur.
Only 20 per cent girls cleared JEE 2017 and only 40 per cent of them accepted seats in IITs despite being qualified. Dheeraj Sanghi, a professor at IIT Kanpur, says, “It is a good step by the IITs. Female candidates will be encouraged and with an influx of female students, we will hopefully see more female participation from the next few academic years.” With
Twenty-six out of 30 students from Bihar’s ‘Super 30’ academy has cracked IIT-JEE (Advanced) this year.
The institute, founded by math wizard Anand Kumar in 2002, trains 30 meritorious students from underprivileged sections of the society for JEE exams.
“It is immensely satisfying to see students from the remotest corners, where winds of development have not reached yet and life continues to be a struggle, competing with the best and the privileged lot,” Kumar said.
Onirjit Goswami, Suraj Kumar, Yash Kumar and Suryakant Das - all from extremely humble backgrounds - are among those who have cleared the JEE test from the institute this year. Goswami, son of a small factory worker in Kanpur, said he always wanted to do well in life but cracking IIT was a distant dream.