IGNITTE, the Teaching Club of National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi (NITT), has launched online coaching classes for NEET and JEE aspirants among students from socio-economic backward sections of the society.
The YouTube channel featuring videos of NITT students coaching sessions in English, Hindi and Tamil was launched on Friday by the Institute Director Mini Shaji Thomas.
The concept of online classes to benefit needy students countrywide had crystallised on the basis of the experience the IGNITTE members had in Perambalur district since the Club's inception in 2016 under the collective guidance of the then Collector N. Nandakumar and the then Director In-Charge of NIT-T G. Kannabiran.
Of the 20 rural students in Perambalur trained for the entrance examinations, 13 could clear NEET and two passed the JEE-Main. “We learnt that the main problem was not language barrier or the economic status or the board they were in, but their ignorance about JEE,” V. Sanjeev, president, IGNITTE Teaching Club, said.
Most of the students did not know that 135 marks out of 360 - solving 34 out of 90 questions - was sufficient for a Home-State OBC candidate to get a seat in NIT-T. The IGNITTE has been seeking to raise awareness, Mr. Sanjeev said, adding that reaching out to as many students as possible through video lectures in three languages was the very purpose of the launch of the YouTube channel.
The IGNITTE Club, with its 52 members, is confident of translating its vision into reality, with mentoring support of its Faculty Advisor M. Venkata Krithiga and Dean - Students Welfare - Samsom Mathew. Students from economically backward families can henceforth be free from the worry of incurring heavy expenditure on coaching for NEET and JEE. The coaching as it comes from those who have gone through the grind themselves, the impact is bound to be effective, Prof. Mini Shaji Thomas said, and advocated some modules on counselling as well, to de-stress the learners.
