S.
Adhithyan from Coimbatore has cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint
Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) (Advanced) with an All-India rank of 549 in the
Scheduled Caste category.
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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