Saturday, February 4, 2012

SUPER 30 TO SUPER 50 BY ANAND KUMAR(BIHAR)

Mathematician Anand Kumar, who is well known for his Super 30 programme, will now step out of Patna and conduct written exams in other Hindi speaking states. Super 30 selects meritorious but poor students and prepares them for IIT-JEE exams, and this year the number of students to be selected has been increased to 50.

Speaking at the India Today Aspire Education Summit 2012 in Delhi last week, Anand said, "Due to the success of Super 30 programme, there was demand from various quarters to increase the intake of students and so it was decided that we would select more students through written exam to be conducted in April 2012 across 10 centres in the Hindi belt."

Every year Super 30 selects 30 extremely talented students who come from financially poor families but aspire to get into the IITs. Anand and his colleagues coach these students free of cost and guide them. Between 2003 and 2011, Anand and his team coached 270 students of whom 234 made it to various IITs across the country.

Anand said the exam centres would be in Delhi, Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur, Muzzaffarpur (Bihar), Kanpur, Lucknow, Banaras, Gorakhpur (Uttar Pradessh) and Rewari (Haryana). Apart from these centres, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh and four to five other exam centers are also being considered.

To take the entrance exam, students have to pay Rs.50 for the entrance exam and download the form from the Super 30 website. The students who are selected will be prepared for the 2013 IIT-JEE exam. "These students would be coached for a year at Patna in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. Accommodation would also be provide free of cost to the students," Anand said.
Informing about the way the students are prepared, Anand says that every day the students take one and half hour classes in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics. Classes are held six days a week with 5-6 tests being conducted every month. Anand's brother Pranav and mother Jayanti Devi look after the boarding and food for the students.

Anand and his colleagues coach other students in the evening to fund the Super 30 programme.

The world has acknowledged the success of Super 30. Anand's education model has been praised world over with Time ranking it among the top educational institutions of Asia.

Anand gives credit for the success to his students, "It is the students who put in the effort; most of the students study for 14 hours every day, therefore they should be credited for their success," he says.

Anand, who is now preparing his students for International Olympiads, says he wants to open schools that provide free education if state governments are willing to give land at concessional rates.

1 comment:

  1. THANK YOU...FOR UR PRECIOUS GUIDELINES.....MAY I KNOW THE SYLLABUS OF SUPER 30 IN BIHAR

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