Education
12th (Delhi Public School, Ranchi - 2015)
Experience
Education, Qualifcations, Awards and Citations 1. Awarded the National Child Award for Exceptional Achievement, 2011, in the field of academics by the Ministry of Woman and Child Development, Government of India. 2. Cleared the National Talent Search Examination, organised by NCERT in the year 2011. All India Rank 22. 3. Secured Rank 4 in the Regional Mathematical Olympiad-Jharkhand 2012. 4. Secured Rank 1 in the Regional Mathematical Olympiad-Jharkhand, 2013 and was awarded a Gold Medal and Certificate of Honour. 5. Secured CGPA 10 in Secondary School Examination (Class-X) Session 2011-2013 conducted by Central Board of Secondary Education. 6. Cleared Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojna (SA) in the year 2013 with All India Rank 110. 7. Selected for the 17th Indian National Astronomy Olympiad Orientation-cum-Selection Camp organized by Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (Tata Institute of Fun- damental Research) for selection to the Indian National Team for the 9th International Olympiad for Astronomy & Astrophysics. 8. Awarded Certificate of Merit by the Indian Association of Physics Teachers for being placed in National Top 1% in National Standard Examination in Physics 2014-15. 9. Secured 95.8% with A1 Grade in all subjects in the All India Senior School Certificate Examination, 2015 conducted by CBSE. 10. Cleared JEE (Mains), 2015 with AIR-596 (Score 285/360) and JEE (Advanced), 2015 with AIR-708. Selected for admission to 4-Years B. Tech course in Engineering Physics at IIT, Mumbai. 11. Cleared BITSAT with Score-403/450. Selected for admission to BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus. 12. Selected for admission to 4-Years Bachelor of Science (Research) Program of Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Currently in the second year of the programme. 13. Selected for admission to the following institutes: (a) Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai. (b) Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. (c) Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (Department of Space, Govt. of India), Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. 15. Selected in written part of Special Class Railway Apprentices Examination, 2015 conducted by Union Public Service Commission. Interview not attended. 16. All India Rank 13th in the Madhav Mathematics Competition,2015 and selected for Madhav Mathematics Nurture Camp. 17. Selected among national top 28 students in the National Graduate Physics Examination, 2016. 18. Member of the IISc, Bangalore Team, winner of MIMAMSA-2016 edition, a Science Quiz Competition organized by Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Pune. 19. Selected for National Initiative on Undergraduate Science (NIUS) (Physics) Batch 13. 20. Selected for Radio Astronomy Winter School, 2015 jointly conducted by the Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, (IUCAA), Pune and the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) of the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) Pune, 21. Was featured as a top scorer in the Spirit of Ramanujan Talent Initiative Organised by Emory University and expii.com.
Tutoring Approach
Since high school, I have been asked by my peers and juniors to advise and mentor them in academic matters, owing to my relative success. Though reluctant at first, once I started doing this, I was intrigued by the amount of insight and clarity this lent to my own understanding of the subject. I slowly developed a sense that allows me to perceive and even anticipate where a student might get stuck. Another reason why I enjoy teaching is that I have an almost academic interest in the manner in which pedagogy directs the content of a subject. For example, the "Euclid's Elements" paradigm of teaching mathematics will give rise to a different kind of mathematician than, say, the "new math" curriculum of the 60's. Apart from teaching subject matter, I have also done considerable research in problem solving heuristics, techniques for studying effectively, exam temperament, and study skills in general.