Everyone gets into IIT here.

All 30 students of Super 30, an innovative coaching class for the under-privileged in Patna, cracked the IIT-JEE this year.
Super – 30, Bihar’s famed springboard into the Indian Institute of Technology has done it again, this time with cent percent success. All the 30 aspirants enrolled at the Coaching Institute have cracked the 2008 IIT Joint Entrance Examination. Thirty seven other students, guided at its Super-100 group, guided free of cost at the centre, too, made it to the IIT’s.
Like previous year, majority of the successful candidates are from the underprivileged section of the society. The 67 successful candidates include sons of a construction laborer, a vegetable vendor and many other low income group people. They spent 8 grueling months at the pioneering coaching centre, living and pursuing their IIT Dreams together.

This is the sixth consecutive year that Super 30 has achieved phenomenal success in what is believed to be one of the toughest competitive examinations in the world. This is also the first time that the institute has scored cent per cent. In 2003 only 18 of the 30 students had managed to clear the examination. The success rate has soared with every passing year. In 2004, 20 students were selected and in the next year , 22 made it to the IIT’s. In 2006 the number of successful aspirants was 26 which rose to 28 the last year.
But for the founders of Super-30 mathematician Anand Kumar, who is the director of the centre and Bihar’s additional DGP Abhayanand, who teaches the aspirants Physics- this year’s super success is sweeter because it has silenced critics.
Last year, Anand and Abhayanand had announced the closure of the institute after a few institutes claimed that some of the successful Super-30 students had benefitted from their coaching too. However public pressure forced the duo to reconsider their decision for the sake of thousands of meritorious but poor students.
“This year’s results are a great morale booster for all of us. We’ll strive to repeat it every year from now on”, a jubilant Anand said, adding that last year’s controversy had made the students and the faculty more determined.
Till last year, Dalit and Backward caste students cracked the IIT-JEE “But this year some students of the minority community have succeeded.” said Abhayanand.
It is the method of teaching at the Super-30 that makes all the difference say the students. One of the two successful girls this year, Palak Agarwal, said the teachers don’t leave a single topic untouched and provide novel methods to solve them.
As for its founders, the secret of Super 30’s success lies in its difference from other Coaching Centres. For one, Super-30 takes in only under-privileged children and they aren’t charged at all.
The rewards are more than ample: seeing the most deprived gaining foothold on the bright future.
Anand had once dreamt of higher studies in the US but financial constraints shattered them. Today, he sees his ambition being fulfilled through the more than 150 IITians he has tutored over the years.

Chemistry Today, July 2008