Another child prodigy from Bihar Shivanand Tiwari (14) has cracked the prestigious and the toughest Indian engineering entrance test IIT-JEE. The young Shivanand had to take court permission to sit in the entrance test and he got through it with flying colours.
Son of a humble farmer Kamlakant Tiwari from Dharampura village in Rohtas district of south-west Bihar, Shivanand reportedly is among the youngest students of the country to crack the IIT-JEE.Since childhood Shivanand had shown signs of his brilliance as at the age of just seven he had learnt the holy scripture Gita and other Hindu religious texts by heart. He even started traveling other places to preach on religion and religious texts and many of his villagers said, his discourses were all well attended.
“Since childhood I’d no doubt that he will excel in his life whatever he will do. He will go much beyond IIT,” said his father. But, Shivanand said he would like to advance research in physics.“I’d like to blend spirituality with physics for the benefit of human kind,” said Shivanand who has secured 2,587 rank in the IIT entrance test.His father said Shivanand with his spiritual aspirations in life wanted to serve God and opt for sainthood. But director of a coaching institute based in Patna and New Delhi spotted him in 2011.
“He was so impressed with his talent that he convinced Shivanand and me to take him along to his coaching institute for the IIT-JEE,” said his father.
Shivanand today feels obliged to the director of the coaching institute for taking him to Delhi from where he completed his school studies and later appeared in the IIT-JEE to crack it in his first attempt.“They made me focus much on English so that I could read and understand books in this language,” he said.
Earlier last year a 13-year-old student Satyam Kumar from adjoining Bhojpur district of the State had achieved the similar feat while securing impressive rank of 679 in the IIT-JEE.Similarly, another child prodigy from Bihar Tathagath Avtar Tulsi had cracked IIT at the age of 14 and currently he is serving as associate professor in IIT Mumbai.A total of 126,997 applicants had registered for the entrance examination out of which 27,151 candidates have cleared IIT-JEE (advanced) this year.
The IIT-JEE advance exams are conducted to secure admission to the undergraduate programmes offered by the 16 IITs and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad in Jharkhand. The intake of these institutes is 9,784.like every year the famous Super 30 of Bihar this year too has repeated its success story with altogether 27 out of 30 students from the coaching institute have got through the IIT test.
“All the students come from poorest of the poor families, even from the neighboring UP State. Among the successful candidates three are girls,” said the jubilant Anand Kumar of Super 30. Several international stories and films have been made on the success story of Super 30 and Anand Kumar.Recently a large group of filmmakers from France had come to shoot all the consecutive success stories of Super 30. Since 2002 altogether 308 students have cracked IIT-JEE test from Super 30.