Abhisekh Kumar is an ordinary guy from Jamshedpur. He scored 76 percent in his 10+2 exams, dropped a year to prepare for the Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Exam (IIT JEE) and cracked it in the first attempt. In 2006, Kumar graduated from IIT Bombay with a cumulative grade point average of 8.34 (maximum is 10), ranking third in his batch. He worked for a few years, didn’t like what he was doing, quit, and started eveningflavours.com, a Bangalore-based food & beverages portal, with three other IITian friends in February 2009.
(This story appears in the 20 November, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Good article, in fact a great article because boards and competitive exams are entirely different. One can't mix up, we still need more examples and we need to put all the articles on the table of honorable minister Kapil Sibal to make him think and decide properly.
on May 17, 2011BITS Pilani has the 80% rule along with special "Logic" and "English" sections.
on Nov 12, 2009Well said....even I know hundreds of examples where a student did not score more than 80% in Board Exams; still cracked IIT-JEE Mr Kapil Sibal
on Nov 10, 2009USA system of education is being forced on Indian student by some conspiracy as US, etc. are facing challenges from Indian students. It is an attempt to try and destroy this system. Our politicians, educationists and Bureaucrats should not get into this trap.
on Nov 10, 2009