Rajasthan students shine in many national competitive exams

JAIPUR: It's raining success stories for Rajasthan in competitive exams. Students from the desert state have inked a phenomenal success in nationally acclaimed competitive exams. State lads snatched three top positions in countries most sought after exams?IAS, IIT-Advanced and CA. For other competitive exams of national repute beginning at primary level to graduate level, state can boast of having its lads made their presence felt in top 10 all-India ranks.
Topper Gaurav Agarwal (IAS), Chitraang Murdia (IIT-Adv) and Sanjay Nawandhar (CA) are not the lone shining stars. The year opened with CAT in January 2014. Jaipur lad Aditya Singhal, an engineering graduate from Malviya National Institute of Technology (MNIT) missed the historic 100% by 0.3% in Common Admission Test (CAT) 2014.
Another city boy, Abhishek Rao, stood 2nd all India in CLAT. From Sun City Jodhpur Kunal Jethani grabbed all-India second rank in CA. Even students from small towns have success stories to their credit. Mridul Rathi of Kishangarh in Ajmer secured 8{+t}{+h} rank. When the state has a poor performance in girls' education, Isha Gupta of Jaipur secured 13{+t}{+h} rank in AIPMT exam and is set to inspire several others girls.
The ratio of success achieved by our lads becomes difficult to believe considering state's poor performance in literacy rate, enrolments, drop outs and learning levels. A quick analysis of success stories will say that most of them had CBSE background and from elitist schools. Barring Sanjay, who has completed his schooling from a school in Vaishali Nagar, both the IAS and IIT toppers were from established schools like St Anslems' School in Jaipur and Delhi Public School in Udaipur and were coached.
Decoding the high success ratio, Lata Rawat, principal, Cambridge Court High School, said, "Some centres in state including Jaipur and Kota offer a holistic environment to develop competitive spirit among students. Be it emergence of good schools with result-oriented teachers or fast developing coaching hubs, all have made students, especially those who belong to middle class, progressive towards career."
Every year 8-10 schools of international repute make a place in the market bringing in a fierce competition in the school segment catering to the professional migrant class. State students are also beneficiaries of coaching hubs in Kota and Jaipur. Surprising figures have come from Kota city, where domiciled students have alone inked stories equivalent to those of the entire state.
In fact, some schools have roped in coaching institutes to prepare students for competitive exams from primary levels. The participation has doubled in exams like Olympiads, NTSE, Kishore Vigyanik Prothashan Yogna to name a few. Besides, many private players are also holding national level exams to test students' skills.