Neha Pushkarna | TNN
New Delhi: The boy sat hunched, his eyes on the floor and his hands held in a twisted clasp below his knees, clearly uncomfortable with all the attention. On Wednesday, 14-year-old Sahal Kaushik had left everyone gasping in disbelief by not only becoming the youngest ever to crack the tough IIT-JEE test but also topping it in Delhi and notching an all-India rank of 33.
Sahal, tutored at home by his mother, Ruchi Kaushik, a doctorturned-homemaker, took a long pause before answering the barrage of questions—which IIT would he join? Would he study electronics engineering? He looked up: “I want to study pure science, physics or mathematics, not engineering.’’ He looked down again. “I took the JEE because I could also get science courses through it.’’
Sahal may look like any other budding teenager, but is clearly very special. He could spell long words when he was just two; he recited tables till 100 at the age of four; and by the time he was six, he had finished reading H G Wells’s Time Machine.
7 of Top 10 rankers are from Andhra
The IIT-JEE results, announced on Wednesday, threw up many firsts. The talk of the town is Madras zone beating Bombay with the highest number of candidates (32) in the top 100. Seven of the top 10 are from Andhra Pradesh. While only 22 students from the Bombay zone made it to the top 100, the zone produced the largest pool of qualifiers. Mumbai girl Aakanksha Sarda, at rank 18, is the all-India girl topper. But she has decided to skip the IITs and head to MIT.
The IIT-JEE results, announced on Wednesday, threw up many firsts. The talk of the town is Madras zone beating Bombay with the highest number of candidates (32) in the top 100. Seven of the top 10 are from Andhra Pradesh. While only 22 students from the Bombay zone made it to the top 100, the zone produced the largest pool of qualifiers. Mumbai girl Aakanksha Sarda, at rank 18, is the all-India girl topper. But she has decided to skip the IITs and head to MIT.
SC qualifiers exceed quota, OBCs do badly
For the first time this year, IITs have decided to do away with the preparatory course for Scheduled Caste candidates, as more students have qualified than seats available. While 1,773 SC candidates qualified across the country, 1,426 seats are reserved for them across the 15 IITs. But candidates from Other Backward Classes registered a lacklustre performance and the engineering colleges will transfer 220 seats to the general category pool, which will now have about 5,000 seats.
For the first time this year, IITs have decided to do away with the preparatory course for Scheduled Caste candidates, as more students have qualified than seats available. While 1,773 SC candidates qualified across the country, 1,426 seats are reserved for them across the 15 IITs. But candidates from Other Backward Classes registered a lacklustre performance and the engineering colleges will transfer 220 seats to the general category pool, which will now have about 5,000 seats.
CHILD PRODIGY: Sahal Kaushik is the youngest successful candidate ever in the IIT entrance exam. He was taught entirely by his mother till age 12
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