ARA: A 13-year-old child prodigy from Bihar'sBhojpur district, who had created history by becoming the youngest student to clear the IIT-JEE entrance exam last year, had cracked the prestigious examination again with an improved ranking this year.
Satyam Kumar, whose father is a farmer, secured an all India rank of 679. He had got 8,137th rank last year and took the exam again to improve his ranking.
The boy had broken the record of Delhi's Sahal Kaushik last year. Kaushik had cracked the IIT-JEE exam when he was 14.
Born on July 20, 1999, Satyam had shownexceptional talent since childhood. He left Patna's Central Public School to move to Kota in Rajasthan to join an IIT coaching institute.
The institute's director, R K Verma, took his test and found his so talented that he helped financehis studies for one of the toughest examinations in the country.
Satyam, who passed his Class X examination from a Kota school, said he wants to be a scientist to contribute to aeronautical and aerospace engineering.
At a function organized to felicitate him, Satyam told students to solve difficult problems of mathematics and physics playfully through duplet method.
source:TNN
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