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This is an archive article published on May 26, 2009

Daily wager’s son,10 Muslim students in another Super 30 IIT success story

The fairytale success of Bihar’s “Super 30” experiment continues,with 76 of its students clearing this year’s IIT-JEE entrance test....

The fairytale success of Bihar’s “Super 30” experiment continues,with 76 of its students clearing this year’s IIT-JEE entrance test,results for which were announced on Monday.

While the Ramanujam School of Mathematics’ Super 30 under Anand Kumar has sent all its 30 candidates to IITs,the breakaway Super 30s,run by Additional Director General of Police Abhyanand,has managed to send 48 of 54 students to the premier institutes.

Among the successful students,drawn from poor socio-economic backgrounds and minority communities,is Vishwaraj Kumar,the son of a daily wager. Having enrolled with Anand Kumar,he cracked the IIT-JEE entrance test and now hopes to fulfill his dream of working with the Indian Space Research Organisation.

Divided and multiplied,Super 30s show multiple success

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ADGP decided to chart his own course and took the experiment to minority students and other districts. All 10 Muslim boys coached by his Rahmani 30 succeeded.

Mathematician Anand Kumar,whose Super 30 has sent 180 students to IITs now,attributes the success to the hard work of his students and their tested formula of repeated mock tests.

“We are enthused and humbled at the success and now want to take students from Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand as well,” Kumar said,adding that Ramanujam School of Mathematics would pick 90 students from next year.

ADGP Abhyanand played down the “ego clash” with Anand that resulted in them parting ways,and said his goal was to work for betterment of Bihar.

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Explaining the success mantra,he said: “We conduct some 600 tests within a year to make students fully prepared for the entrance test.”

Enthused at the success of all the 10 Muslim students of Rahmani 30,he is also planning to expand it. All the students at Rahmani 30 and Triveni 30 in Patna,Ang 30 at Bhagalpur,Nalanda 30 at Biharsharif and Magadh 30 at Gaya were given free food and lodging during their nine-month coaching stint with Abhyanand. The list of the successful 48 candidates,most of whom are OBCs,includes two girls.

With both Abhyanand and Anand Kumar calling their coaching institutes Super 30,the ADGP said it was “a concept of society” and did not belong to any individual.

Anunay Kumar,a successful student from Ang 30,credited his success to teachers. “We did work hard but finally it was up to the teachers to show us the way,” he said.

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Vikas Kumar,the son of an office attendant at the Patna High Court and a successful student from Anand’s Super 30,said: “I know I have made my father proud. My father has been getting congratulatory calls from senior lawyers. I am at the top of the world today.”

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