Eleven-year-old Agastya Jaiswal of St Mary’s College, Yousufguda, on Sunday became the youngest student to clear the Intermediate second-year exam in the state. He got 63 per cent marks in CEC.
Agastya is the younger brother of national table tennis player Naina Jaiswal, who cleared the exam at the age of 10 in undivided Andhra Pradesh.Agastya will be joining the BA Journalism course at the same college. His father Ashwani Kumar said Agastya dreamed of becoming a doctor once he meets the eligibility requirements.
“We will be enrolling him for the UG course. If he is serious about MBBS, then he needs to do Intermediate again with BPC and appear for the medical entrance test for which the minimum age is 17 years. It is too early to think of it now as he is just 11,” he said. Agastya had taken permission to write the SSC exam in 2015 and passed age 9. No such permission is required in Intermediate.
