A 13-year-old Bihar boy, Satyam Kumar, cleared the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE), securing 679th position, thus becoming the youngest student to crack the IIT-JEE.
At least 1,50,000 candidates sat for the examination this year. Speaking from his native village, Akhaurapur, in Bhojpur district of Bihar, Satyam Kumar told The Pioneer that he wants to study Computer Science at one of the IITs and is expecting to get admission to either IIT Kharagpur or IIT Kanpur.
He passed Class XII in 2012 and subsequently appeared in the IIT JEE but secured 8,137th position. He wanted to improve his rank and therefore re-appeared in the examination this year. His uncle, Ram Pukar Singh who stayed with Satyam Kumar during his studies at Kota in Rajasthan, said that the entire family is proud of him as he achieved such a great feat at such a young age.
His father, Sidhnath Singh is all applause for his son, he proudly said that his son studied very hard to achieve something extraordinary in his life. Thanking his teacher, RK Verma, at Kota for his immense support, Satyam Kumar said he wants to create a social networking site and also establish himself as a leading technocrat. But his ultimate goal is to join Civil Services and he has made up his mind to appear in the examination once he reaches the age of 21.
Satyam said that he had been living in Kota since 2007 when he first got admission to the 9th Class in a local school. IIT-JEE (Advanced) results for admission into IITs were declared on Friday. Satyam plans to assist other IIT aspirants by organising special classes for them whenever he visits Bihar on vacation. He said that he would try to form a group of IITians through Facebook and subsequently persuade them to guide IIT aspirants by organising classes for them either at the district headquarters or in Patna.