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  • I want to win a gold medal, says IIT-JEE topper

    HYDERABAD: Immadi Prithvi Tej’s favourite film is the Pawan Kalyan-starrer, Tammudu. The IIT-JEE first rank-holder admitted he identifies with the character ‘Subbu’ played by Pawan Kalyan. Like Subbu, he also bunked classes in school.

    Four years back, 16-year-old Prithvi Tej, a native of Dwaraka Tirumala in West Godavari decided to follow in Subbu’s footprints to bag a gold medal. “My favourite actor Pawan Kalyan achieved a gold medal in boxing, inspired by his brother in reel life. Like him, I want to bag a gold medal, but in the Mathematics and Science Olympiad, which will be held on July 4 in Bangkok. In real life, I am inspired by my maternal uncle T Gopal Krishna efforts to clear the Civil Services in 2007. But I want to go one step further by becoming an IAS officer after completing my IIT studies,” the topper replied.

    Prithvi Tej spent at least eight hours per day at his training institute for his IIT-JEE preparations. Yet, he found time to play badminton, watch IPL matches and movies and chat with friends. He also harboured dreams of becoming a cricketer like his idol Sachin Tendulkar. He is, however, clear at what he wants do at the IIT, pursue Engineering from IIT-Bombay. The next goal is to become an IAS officer to solve problems of people in rural areas.

    He was always good in studies right from school, chemistry being his favourite subject. His father, Immadi Srinivasa Rao is a businessman and mother Rani a housewife. “He secured the top rank due to his intelligence rather than hard work. We never forced him to prepare for IIT-JEE. We encouraged him to follow his interests. He is very keen to prepare for Civil Services and I hope he gets his goal,” says Srinivasa Rao.

    He reads Edex regularly, the education tabloid of the New Indian Express. “I read articles published in the Edex online. It is very helpful for students,” he added.

    Source: IBNLive

  • Andhra Pradesh hits jackpot in IIT-JEE.

    HYDERABAD: The state’s craze for IIT education hit a crescendo for the second successive year when AP students bagged top honours in the IIT-JEE results. Andhra Pradesh hit a jackpot on Wednesday, bagging five of the top ten ranks in the entrance examination. In 2010, the state had bagged seven of the top 10 ranks.

    I Prudhvi Tej from West Godavari district scored the first rank in the examination. Other rank holders from the state include V Shaimak Reddy (3rd), B Saikiran (4th), T Bhargava Reddy (8th) and J Varun (9th). The results of the reserved categories too had students from AP sitting pretty on the first ranks. Rama Krishna Banoth was the top ranker in the ST category and J Varun was the topper in the OBC category.

    A jubilant Prudhvi Tej said he stuck to his study schedule, skipped the state engineering entrance and aimed only at a good rank in IIT. A film buff, Tej said he was looking forward to doing his electrical engineering from IIT-Bombay. “I was sure I would get a good rank in IIT,” he said.

    The results created much frenzy among the coaching centres in the city, which held various events to felicitate the toppers from their institutions.

    Officials overseeing the examination said that AP bagged over 15 ranks in the top 100 in the general category section. The south zone, comprising all four southern states, secured 30 of the top 100 ranks. In reserved categories, AP bagged 35 ranks in top 100.

    IIT-JEE experts said that students from the state perform well in the examination as they grasp the basic format of the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) question paper. “In the entrance test, several concepts are mixed to form a question. There are no straight forward questions in JEE and the IIT trainers from AP have understood the idea better than those in other states,” said Prof T S Natarajan from IIT-Madras, who is also chairman of JEE South Zone Committee.

    Others attributed the rich harvest of ranks to AP’s IIT focus over the last three decades. “We as a state are so clued in to IIT preparations that even the state government recently changed the Intermediate syllabus to suit the interests of JEE takers. Students feel that landing a seat in IIT is the ultimate goal,” said D V Rao, vice-chairman, Narayana group of institutions. He explained that the state is the only place where IIT syllabus is taught right from Class VI.

    Explaining the 2011 success, JEE teachers said that this year, too, it was the Mathematics paper that helped students climb the rank ladder. AP students are traditionally good at Mathematics and score higher than their compatriots from other states.

    “Like last year, the mathematics paper was tough in JEE-2011. This could have worked in favour of the students from the state many of whom have scored well in the subject. The saying is if Chemistry is tough, students from other states score well and if the Math paper is tough we score better,” explained an IIT expert.

    However, the faculty of IIT coaching institutes are still unimpressed with the state’s performance. They said that more students from AP would have bagged top ranks had the JEE paper-setters avoided question paper errors. “The state could have scored at least two more ranks had there not been errors in the paper. There were two students who missed it by three to four marks,” said a faculty member.

    Source : TOI

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