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Students from underprivileged background crack entrance exam JEE results 2013:

28 of the 30 students from Bihar's Super 30 free coaching center cracked the Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE).

Abhishek Kumar son of amechanic cleared the prestigious engineering exam. Abhishek aspires to become an electrical engineer, a trait that runs in his genes.

Others students of Super 30 like Bhanu Pratap son of Rampyare Pratap, a poor laborer from Uttar Pradesh also cleared the exam.

Pranav Kumar from Samastipur district in Bihar is the son of a landless farmer, Pankaj Kumar. Pranav studied in a government school. On cracking the exam, he said that AnandKumar "not only taught us but gave us the confidence to excel even in the face of odds".

When Ankit Kumar from Vaishali district in Bihar lost his father, a lineman in the telephone department, in a road accident last year, his life seemed to come to a standstill.

"I came to know of Super 30 and cleared its screening test. Here, I seemed to have found my new father," he said.

Shivangi Gupta, daughter of magazine vendor in Deha, 50 km from Kanpur, saw acute hardship from her childhood as her father Viresh Chandra Gupta struggled to make both ends meet.

"I was provided all help and stayed in Anand Kumar's and finally cracked my dream exam,"Shivangi said.

Farhad and YasmeenShafi's son Hanjala has also made it through the IIT-JEE. Hanjala's parentshave a small shop in Patna. They somehow scraped together money to pay his school fees. "Today my son is set to go to IIT," said a proud Yasmeen.

Santosh Kumar's father Sanjeev Mallik from Madhubani is worried how he will pay his son's IIT fees,but he has faith in god to see them through. "I don't have the money to buy him new clothes and books. But when god has brought him this far, he will take care of his future also. I am a driver and don't even know what IIT is," Mallik said.

A proud Afsar NathMishra, a Sanskrit teacher and priest from Banka, is proud that his daughter Preeti Kumari will be an engineer. "She will be our support when we are old," Mishra said.

Source: Indian Colleges

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