New Delhi: Bihar's Super 30, which is a coaching institute in Patna, has seen 28 of its 30 students crack the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) 2007.
Pranav Prince, who is the top ranker among the Super 30 aspirants, has secured AIR 162 and his mother works as a tailor to support the family.
Another student is the son of a nurse while one is the son of a Food Corporation of India office watchman.
The institute was started five years ago and had been coaching promising but socially backward and poor IIT aspirants but some of the students of well-to-do families also join the coaching. The aspirants are also provided free food and accommodation.
In fact, six others candidates from well-to-do families took coaching at the institute and cracked the JEE though they were not a part of the Super 30.
The results were declared on Wednesday and the success of the Super 30 students has been doubly sweet for the state which also boasts of the All India CBSE class X topper- Manish Kumar.
The two Dalit students - Alok Kumar and Azad Kumar - who have missed the cut are also likely to make it when the preparatory results of SC/ST candidates come out, Anand Kumar, who teaches mathematics at the institute, said.
In fact 10 of the Super 30’ aspirants have secured ranks among the top 1,000 successful candidates.
Super 30 is the brain child of a mathematics teacher Kumar and a senior Bihar IPS officer Abhayanand, who is presently the Additional Director-General of Police (HQ) and from its first batch 18 of its students had cracked the IIT-JEE in 2003.
The institute is run by the income of the Anand Kumar-run Ramanujan School of Mathematics.
The number of successful candidates from the Super 30 has been steadily rising and in 2004, 22 students cracked the JEE while 26 cleared the exam in 2005. Last year, too, 28 students had cleared the JEE.
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