Winner

               When, I ponder over to pick up the heroes of my success stories, this boy comes as a pick of choice, not for his heroics, but, because of his down to earth attitude.

              He is a boy hailing from a small village ,in India belonging to southern states. He started his schooling in Schools, which are not so resourceful, and, the environment was not suitable to try out competitive exams and get selected.

            I saw this bright boy, when, I was to go there to  give a series of lectures, twice a week, in this school situated in a downtown hamlet nearby our Academy. He was a late entrant in that year in this school, where state syllabus was followed. He came in the middle of the year from some other place. How ever, he made himself so comfortable with the ongoing course and was so keen in following the lectures.

           He was one guy, who stood out ,to appear for  All India Engineering entrance rather than medicine ,though, he has a choice of appearing for medical entrance, because ,he pursued Bio, Maths  combination like many others in the state. His choice was tough owing to the nature of the exam and the type of schooling he had till then. He was very confident, despite the difficulties at least that appeared to be there on the paper.

         I along with other colleagues completed our course, intended to help the students to appear for competitive exams just before their Board exams started.

          After their board exams were over , some of those students in that school came and joined in crash course in our academy, where as this boy preferred to prepare on his own staying back at home. Some how, he managed to get a reasonably good score, although not sufficient enough to get in to reputed Engineering institutes.

        The following year, he joined in our academy and started to attend the classes ,staying in the hostel. I always saw a spark in the eyes of this boy ,gleaming  confidence of a would be winner in the race.  How ever, I thought, had he selected medical entrance, he would have been one among the toppers in that stream, but, his selection of Engineering stream might not be that fruitful.

           He was a humble guy, down to the earth, who has always shown promise, improving himself from one test to the next, and always keen in getting the doubts clarified, asking the legitimate questions pertaining to the lessons, that were taught. He soon found his areas of weakness and strengths ,and identified, where he should improve himself ,and where he has to work out on the speed required ,immediately sprang into the action keep improving himself time to time.

          He asked me to revise ,some of the important chapters ,where he required to improve his basics and some other concepts, where he can go to the maximum depth. He toned up his logic, his temperament, his analytical skills and confidently appeared the exam. Here, I would definitely say, that our coaching was heavily leaning on medical entrance stream rather than Engineering stream, and the students appearing for Engineering stream would get a lesser attention than the other stream. Still, his confidence, his obedience towards the teachers, his attention towards learning the subject, his undeterred approach to crack the exams come what may helped him secure the highest percentile, in the preliminary rounds and secured a very good rank, that would definitely help him to get a seat in any decent Engineering college.

        His aim was to crack the highest level exam conducted at All India level in that stream and started preparing on his own ,from then on wards except occasionally enquiring the teachers ,about, which reference books ,that should be followed and one or two puzzling questions sometimes. It is his sheer will, his determination, his fighting spirit that lead him to the success ultimately, and made him a winner at that Highest level exam in the Engineering stream. 

I applaud his relentless efforts, his character, his obedience, his patience and confidence, that lead him to the pinnacle of the success. 

             Some students get fame because of their Teachers ,like Arjuna ,because of Lord Krishna and some teachers, get fame, through their, students like Sandeepani . the teacher of Lord Sri Krishna. 
He is a student ,who brought laurels to his Gurus because of his self discipline, character and ultimately the success ,he deserves.  

       let us meet on another blogging day ,with another interesting success story and, for now,

                                 Signing off 

                                 SREE