100% score again: Super 30 founder is on cloud nine IAS officer’s free coaching helps six fulfil IIT dream

Mathematician Anand Kumar’s Super 30 has done it again as all its 30 students on Sunday cleared the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2017 for admission to IITs.

This is the fourth time — 2008, 2009, and 2010 — that all the 30 students from the pioneering initiative cracked the JEE (Advanced). Last year, 28 out of the 30 students made it. “This year, it is again 30/30,” Kumar said.

Globally acclaimed for mentoring talented students mostly the underprivileged and with different schooling backgrounds, Super 30 has so far sent 396 students to the IITs in its 15-year journey that started in 2002.

Much before the results came out, all the Super 30 students were huddled in a room, with their parents waiting outside, as Kumar’s brother Pranav checked roll numbers on the portal, which was slow to load in the beginning.

One, two, three and it ended only at 30 and every result was followed by congratulations for the students and distribution of sweets.

For the parents — from a landless farm labourer to a vendor and a shopkeeper to a yoga teacher — it was a moment to cherish and as many were overwhelmed to know that their children have realised their dreams.

Kumar attributed the success story of Super 30 to the hard work and unwavering devotion of its students and told reporters that it’s time for Super 30 to expand, though it would be a challenge.

Most of the successful candidates are from schools under state-run Bihar School Examination Board that is grappling with huge embarrassment and uproar over the performance of students in the intermediate exams in which 70% from science stream failed to clear it.

Jharkhand IAS officer’s free coaching to six IIT aspirants, including a tribal and an OBC boy, hre achieved 100% results on Sunday after all of them cleared JEE Advanced 2017.

KK Khandelwal, the transport and civil aviation secretary of Jharkhand, taught physics and mathematics to the students from 2015 till the exam date last year.

The 54-year-old officer selected the students on the basis of a written test in October 2014. And since then, he has coached them for the exam at a private school campus in the state capital whenever he found time from his work.