pehli baar mein IIT clear nahi hua toh drop lena pada…aur fayda yeh batate hain ki hamko zyada experience hai

What prompted me to write this blog was an article I read about a girl, how preparing for IIT in kota literally changed her life (not for the good), and I decided how I had to share my experiences of how I became one of the sharma ji ka beta (or rather singh ji ka beta) and how I now help other students become sharma ji ka beta.

So, how did I end up being the quintessential nerd. For starters, I always discourage the term super-intelligent or very intelligent to describe me. I feel I was always the ‘decently intelligent’ person, who happened to have a super-intelligent twin brother and was to always live life in his shadow and always gave me the inferiority complex. 

I was the guy who would constantly compare myself to others all the time. The worst times were discussing the paper after the tests. I would normally stay quiet, lest some idiotic phrase come out of my mouth and I be thought of as a stupid-trying-to-be-intelligent-but-not-really-intelligent person, and that was totally not cool to me. 

When I share my story of how I happened to get into IIT, sometimes even I can’t believe I did it. So, I go back to facebook to check my photos and friends’ profiles, I call them up to make sure that they know me and have spent time with me and I am not just hallucinating and that I really went to IIT. 7 years passing out of that place, the feeling hasn’t yet sunk in, that I (yes, ME) went to one of the most prestigious (and one of the most glamorous-sounding) engineering college in India. But, well, that’s the truth. I got an AIR of 3066 (yeah nothing much to boast about). Actually one of the apprehensions I had was, why would someone listen to a 3000+ rank holder. They would rather listen to a top 10 or a top 100 rank holder, doling out advices on how to clear IIT. But sadly, the top 100 rankers aren’t the ones that will really help you or be able to motivate or inspire you. Why? These people are way more intelligent than the rest of the crowd, and rest of the crowd here meaning rank 100 downwards. In my teaching career, I have come across such students. 

A general outline of what these students usually share – I used to study daily for 8-10 hrs or more. I stopped fb, whatsapp (for the new generation of toppers), sports, tv (basically every form of activity that doesn’t mentally stimulate me). More or less the message that comes out is – I never left my books and always lived with them, ate with them, slept with them and at times even pooped with them (and this is not even Kota style teaching or the ones prevalent in south india which is absolutely pathetic). 

And parents are really happy to lap up all these advices and put them on their now-entering 11^th standard son/daughter. 

So I share this unreal-ly-real story in the hopes that it will give those in need the sad-buddhi to ……

I couldn’t clear IIT in the first attempt. YES, I DIDN’T. Now, stop looking at me like that. Yes, that – what a loser – look.  

Sharma ji ke bete ka IQ – 165 (bas Einstein se thoda neeche reh gaya)

Sharma ji ke bete ki IIT – JEE (advanced rank) – 25 (thoda peeche reh gaya)

Sharma ji ka beta din mein kitne ghante padhta tha – 10 +

Sharma ji ka beta kya iit ki taiyyari ke samay koi sports khelta tha – nahi

Sharma ji ka beta kya iit ki taiyyari ke samay tv dekhta tha – nahi

Sharma ji ka beta kya iit ki taiyyari ke samay ladki ghumata tha – bilkul nahi (tauba tauba)

Sharma ji ka beta kya iit ki taiyyari ke samay 

Sharma ki ji ka beta....kahani ki shuruat yahan se hoti hai

(rakesh sharma bday pic)

Sharma ji ka beta is the quintessential being in our country today. 

It has become a reference point today…to bash all those people up who have shown immense hard-work to reach the IIT’s (just an example)…

Is vichitra praani ke baare mein vishesh aisa vishesh kya hai? 

Over the time, sharma ji ka beta has come to be associated with certain qualities…

To be honest, I was a mixed breed…especially in my drop year.