When I was in class 5th my elder brother was in class 12th . So since my childhood I had heard about IIT JEE . My brother could not make it through because he did not have the right coaching but he always wanted his younger brother to clear IIT JEE . So after completing his 12th he packed a box with this written on top of it :
" Karan's IIT JEE material " . I did use few of his books for my preparation . I even remember going to his college when I was in class 6th , his friends asked me " So Karan planning to join AIT( my bro's college) " and I replied " No, I am planning to join IIT " . I had done average in class 10th . I had got 88% overall . Then my dad got to know about this coaching institute Bakliwal Tutorials (BT ) , Pune . I also had heard a lot about it . So went to the orientation classes , after those 4-5 classes they took a test and I got selected to get my coaching from BT for IIT-JEE 2010 . Soon my father had bought the stack of all the books that BT had suggested . One the same day , as my parents went for an evening walk I remember sitting in front of that stack of books and fear ran through my spine . My eyes were almost watery and I was wondering how much would I have to study . But I never knew preparing for IIT would be so much fun and not at all a burden for me .
In 11th class my dad used to drop me to the class and then wait outside the coaching centre as the classes would sometimes exceed the time limit by half or even one hour and at max 2 hours :D . I took some time to settle to this routine . I remember in 11th class I used to get a score of 50-60 / 240 . But I never gave up I kept on enjoying solving problems and enjoyed the classes too .
Then I shifted to another place in Pune( as you know my father's in the army ) where my home was near a friend of mine , Pranjal . Then in class 12th I started studying with him . In school we used to sit on the second last bench and study for JEE together . I remember in the English class we used to write a question on a piece of paper and it used to travel to 3-4 guys who were also in BT and in my class and we used to solve the question on the backside of the English textbook . It was the same even in other classes . There was this craze among us to solve questions , solving questions was like solving puzzles to us we enjoyed it thoroughly . Even our class teacher was very supportive , we used to go to the Computer lab carrying our JEE books along with us and after our programming got over we used to solve JEE problems in the lab itself .
Pranjal and I , we used to study at night when there was no school the next morning . Sometimes he used to come to my home and sometimes I used to go to his home . We used to start studying at night 10pm and go on till 5-6 am in the morning . When we used to study at his house his mom used to give us something delicious to eat and coffee to drink in the night if we felt sleepy , the same thing happened at my home . Our moms were very supportive . Even Pranjal sometimes used to make noodles or sandwiches late in the night at his home . He really motivated me to study , having a friend who is also serious in studying helps a lot to stay motivated . Although he also said the same thing that it was because of our group study that he used to study well , but I think he would have managed without me also .
We used to solve FIITJEE home tests together . Sometimes even 4-5 of us did group study at my home or at our coaching centre when there were no classes going on .
After this my performance really improved I started scoring 240 / 480 in the tests at BT as well as in the FIITJEE mock tests . At one point in 11th I really wondered whether I would be even able to clear IITJEE but now I was very confident that I would surely crack JEE and would get a rank of around 2000-3000 .
This was my story , pre IIT JEE 2010 . I still miss the joy of preparing for IIT-JEE , wish I could go back in time and relive my 11th and 12th class . Its fun making a goal and striving hard to achieve it rather than living life purposelessly .
Finally I got an AIR : 6871 ( as you can see it on my first post on this blog ) and Pranjal got an AIR:3059 in IIT-JEE . He is now doing Electronics Engg. from IIT-BHU( name got changed from IT-BHU) .
Thanks for reading :)
Karan Singh Mann
B.E(Hons)
Electrical & Electronics Engg.
BITS Pilani - Goa Campus .
" Karan's IIT JEE material " . I did use few of his books for my preparation . I even remember going to his college when I was in class 6th , his friends asked me " So Karan planning to join AIT( my bro's college) " and I replied " No, I am planning to join IIT " . I had done average in class 10th . I had got 88% overall . Then my dad got to know about this coaching institute Bakliwal Tutorials (BT ) , Pune . I also had heard a lot about it . So went to the orientation classes , after those 4-5 classes they took a test and I got selected to get my coaching from BT for IIT-JEE 2010 . Soon my father had bought the stack of all the books that BT had suggested . One the same day , as my parents went for an evening walk I remember sitting in front of that stack of books and fear ran through my spine . My eyes were almost watery and I was wondering how much would I have to study . But I never knew preparing for IIT would be so much fun and not at all a burden for me .
In 11th class my dad used to drop me to the class and then wait outside the coaching centre as the classes would sometimes exceed the time limit by half or even one hour and at max 2 hours :D . I took some time to settle to this routine . I remember in 11th class I used to get a score of 50-60 / 240 . But I never gave up I kept on enjoying solving problems and enjoyed the classes too .
Then I shifted to another place in Pune( as you know my father's in the army ) where my home was near a friend of mine , Pranjal . Then in class 12th I started studying with him . In school we used to sit on the second last bench and study for JEE together . I remember in the English class we used to write a question on a piece of paper and it used to travel to 3-4 guys who were also in BT and in my class and we used to solve the question on the backside of the English textbook . It was the same even in other classes . There was this craze among us to solve questions , solving questions was like solving puzzles to us we enjoyed it thoroughly . Even our class teacher was very supportive , we used to go to the Computer lab carrying our JEE books along with us and after our programming got over we used to solve JEE problems in the lab itself .
Pranjal and I , we used to study at night when there was no school the next morning . Sometimes he used to come to my home and sometimes I used to go to his home . We used to start studying at night 10pm and go on till 5-6 am in the morning . When we used to study at his house his mom used to give us something delicious to eat and coffee to drink in the night if we felt sleepy , the same thing happened at my home . Our moms were very supportive . Even Pranjal sometimes used to make noodles or sandwiches late in the night at his home . He really motivated me to study , having a friend who is also serious in studying helps a lot to stay motivated . Although he also said the same thing that it was because of our group study that he used to study well , but I think he would have managed without me also .
We used to solve FIITJEE home tests together . Sometimes even 4-5 of us did group study at my home or at our coaching centre when there were no classes going on .
After this my performance really improved I started scoring 240 / 480 in the tests at BT as well as in the FIITJEE mock tests . At one point in 11th I really wondered whether I would be even able to clear IITJEE but now I was very confident that I would surely crack JEE and would get a rank of around 2000-3000 .
This was my story , pre IIT JEE 2010 . I still miss the joy of preparing for IIT-JEE , wish I could go back in time and relive my 11th and 12th class . Its fun making a goal and striving hard to achieve it rather than living life purposelessly .
Finally I got an AIR : 6871 ( as you can see it on my first post on this blog ) and Pranjal got an AIR:3059 in IIT-JEE . He is now doing Electronics Engg. from IIT-BHU( name got changed from IT-BHU) .
Thanks for reading :)
Karan Singh Mann
B.E(Hons)
Electrical & Electronics Engg.
BITS Pilani - Goa Campus .
Sweet. i liked the details of events in the blog. Keep writing. am goona subscribe to this page of the feature is allowed.
ReplyDeleteliked what i read. keep it going. i guess fixing and working for an AIM gives you the required motivation to go on and on. then there is a reward in the form of better and better milestones or scores in the tests in this case. life would be rudderless without aims. one must set high aims in life so as to go through the process of hard work and efforts which one would remember later. they say that the journey is always more beautiful that the destination. so must enjoy it along the way.....
ReplyDelete@dad "they say that the journey is always more beautiful that the destination" . Very true . I cant put my feelings into words . The journey was very beautiful for me . Some of my friends do say there was a lot of pressure in 11th and 12th but I say the amount of fun was much much more than the pressure.
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