WITH Sri Chaitanya Educational Institutions (SCEI) emerging as the pioneering institution in making Andhra Pradesh the foremost State in terms of the number of students getting admitted to the Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) and other prominent centres of education, it is clear that its chairman, Dr B.S. Rao, has changed people's perceptions of competitive examinations.
He says
I get job satisfaction when I look at the progress achieved by Andhra Pradesh in nationally held competitive examinations like IIT-JEE [Joint Entrance Examination]. Andhra Pradesh used to be way behind and was in the eighth or ninth position. We began educating the public and creating awareness on the significance of an IIT education and the respect earned by an IIT alumnus. This helped create an impact on the parents, and students, too, expressed a keen desire to go to IITs.
Today, Andhra Pradesh is in the numero uno position, and students from the State are securing maximum admissions in any IIT in the country. This was corroborated by the Union Ministry of Human Resource, which lauded the State for sending a large contingent of students to the IITs. What more satisfaction can one get? Similar is the story with the medical stream. Be it AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi], JIPMER [Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry] or Christian Medical College, Vellore, students from here are in substantial numbers. Again in the AIEEE [All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination], Andhra Pradesh's share is increasing, and the State is leading insofar as admissions are concerned.
Students from the SCEI secured the eighth and ninth ranks in the open category in the AIEEE, apart from the top rank in IIT-JEE this year. No other institution got three ranks in the open category in the first 10 positions. Besides, in the first 100, we got 15 ranks in the open category in IIT-JEE. Except Sri Chaitanya, there is no other institution in the country to have performed as well. In the State, too, no other institution got three ranks in open category in AIEEE.
In the State-level EAMCET [Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test], the SCEI got all the top 10 ranks in the medical stream and as many as 78 ranks among the first 100.
In the engineering stream, students from our institutions got 60 ranks out of the first 100, whereas all other State colleges together secured 40 ranks. Coinciding with the Silver Jubilee of the SCEI, for the first time, we got the top IIT rank this year.
At Sri Chaitanya, we have struck a balance between the medical and engineering streams. I have travelled to many countries, but in all these places, you mostly find institutions focussing on either of the streams and not both.
Basically, the nationally held competitive exams are concept-based, and we at Sri Chaitanya began imparting conceptual teaching right from school so that students can easily face such exams. The rote method will not help as the student should ultimately get a good rank and enter the best professional college.
My aim is to produce more civil servants from Andhra Pradesh. The trend must get reversed, and students from Delhi and other places must come here to get coaching for the Civil Services exams.
We are putting in the necessary effort, and I hope that I will be successful in that. Another goal which I have set is to produce the maximum number of chartered accountants.
With about 200 institutions of Sri Chaitanya spread across the country, we have the infrastructure and professional chartered accountants working with us. That way students aiming to pursue C.A. courses will get training from the C.As and they need not go anywhere else. I am confident that I will produce the maximum number of C.As.
He says
I get job satisfaction when I look at the progress achieved by Andhra Pradesh in nationally held competitive examinations like IIT-JEE [Joint Entrance Examination]. Andhra Pradesh used to be way behind and was in the eighth or ninth position. We began educating the public and creating awareness on the significance of an IIT education and the respect earned by an IIT alumnus. This helped create an impact on the parents, and students, too, expressed a keen desire to go to IITs.
Today, Andhra Pradesh is in the numero uno position, and students from the State are securing maximum admissions in any IIT in the country. This was corroborated by the Union Ministry of Human Resource, which lauded the State for sending a large contingent of students to the IITs. What more satisfaction can one get? Similar is the story with the medical stream. Be it AIIMS [All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi], JIPMER [Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry] or Christian Medical College, Vellore, students from here are in substantial numbers. Again in the AIEEE [All India Engineering/Architecture Entrance Examination], Andhra Pradesh's share is increasing, and the State is leading insofar as admissions are concerned.
Students from the SCEI secured the eighth and ninth ranks in the open category in the AIEEE, apart from the top rank in IIT-JEE this year. No other institution got three ranks in the open category in the first 10 positions. Besides, in the first 100, we got 15 ranks in the open category in IIT-JEE. Except Sri Chaitanya, there is no other institution in the country to have performed as well. In the State, too, no other institution got three ranks in open category in AIEEE.
In the State-level EAMCET [Engineering, Agriculture and Medicine Common Entrance Test], the SCEI got all the top 10 ranks in the medical stream and as many as 78 ranks among the first 100.
In the engineering stream, students from our institutions got 60 ranks out of the first 100, whereas all other State colleges together secured 40 ranks. Coinciding with the Silver Jubilee of the SCEI, for the first time, we got the top IIT rank this year.
At Sri Chaitanya, we have struck a balance between the medical and engineering streams. I have travelled to many countries, but in all these places, you mostly find institutions focussing on either of the streams and not both.
Basically, the nationally held competitive exams are concept-based, and we at Sri Chaitanya began imparting conceptual teaching right from school so that students can easily face such exams. The rote method will not help as the student should ultimately get a good rank and enter the best professional college.
My aim is to produce more civil servants from Andhra Pradesh. The trend must get reversed, and students from Delhi and other places must come here to get coaching for the Civil Services exams.
We are putting in the necessary effort, and I hope that I will be successful in that. Another goal which I have set is to produce the maximum number of chartered accountants.
With about 200 institutions of Sri Chaitanya spread across the country, we have the infrastructure and professional chartered accountants working with us. That way students aiming to pursue C.A. courses will get training from the C.As and they need not go anywhere else. I am confident that I will produce the maximum number of C.As.