GURUGRAM: About 20 students from government schools in the city have been selected under the education department’s ambitious Super-100 programme. The selected candidates will undergo academic training for various competitive exams in five centres created across the state.
In the final list, 21 students from the district have been shortlisted for the free residential coaching for competitive exams like IIT-JEE and NEET. More than 120 students, who had scored over 80% in Class 10 board exams, had appeared for the first level of test on November 2 and 58 students had qualified for the second level of screening. Of these 58 students, 20 have been finally selected for the programme. Now, out of these 20 students, 10 have been selected for the Rewari centre, six for the Hisar centre, two for Karnal centre and one each for two centres in Panchkula.
In total, over 400 students have been shortlisted for the coaching programme. The maximum number of selections have been recorded from Hisar and Jind where 58 and 51 students respectively have made it to the final list.
“These students will undergo rigorous academic training. They’ll not only be given guidance to score well in their Class 12 board exams but also crack competitive exams. With the government calling students of Class 9 to 12 for classroom sessions, it appears that we’ll be able to continue with residential coaching schedule,” said an education department official.