JEE Advanced 2017: Toppers don't believe in beginning early training
Hyderabad: IIT coaching begins at a young age in India. Parents look for good coaching options even before the child reaches high school.
This eventually builds tremendous pressure on the child and can lead to unsatisfactory results. Toppers and their parents do not believe in early coaching.
The JEE Advanced results for 2017 is a fine example of students faring well despite joining IIT coaching at a later age.
Satvik Ambati, the 27th all India rank holder claims to have not begun serious preparation till about a year before the exams.
“As a student I have never taken on too much stress. Neither have I only focused on marks. Even after joining coaching, I would often take breaks during the first year. I started focusing and concentrating on studies and my preps during the second year which helped me achieve this result. Coaching at a very young age will not yield great results. If a child cannot dedicate himself fully to his studies, pushing him or her is pointless”, says Satvik.
Dr. Ananda Raman, mentor, says, “Robbing a child of his childhood and forcing him to go for coaching at a tender age of 12 or so is nothing less than criminal. We see examples of so many students who have come from rural backgrounds with no previous history of coaching and they have still managed to score well.”