Honing young minds to stand out

FIITJEE Director, R L Trikha talks about what a student needs to do to excel in competitive exams and stay ahead 
Honing young minds to stand out

It is rightly said that you can change the world through education in today’s competitive era. Heavy competition in every field is at an all-time high in today’s era. Also, facing it with a brave heart and thriving successfully is a matter of greatest concern. Students are struggling each day, whether it is to get through and gain admission into the right institutions or, scoring well and getting through competitive exams. 


 In such a scenario, the need to imbue the spirit of competitiveness amongst children from an early age becomes imperative, so as to avoid stress and pressure of preparation towards the end. At an early age, children are curious and have high potential to learn and imbibe new things. As quoted by Dr Hiam Ginnot, “Children are like wet cement.

Whatever falls on them makes an impression,” hence, starting at an early age helps the children to mould their minds accordingly. The students at a young age are able to apply and relate the concepts in day-to-day occurrences and phenomenon. Unfolding, rather than cramming of minds with rota learning, takes place.


In this noble endeavour of carving these young talents, coaching institutes play a vital role in preparing these students from grade VI onwards itself. However, the institute should be unique in the field of training aspirants for competitive examinations. It should also provide programmes that include the best quality, self-sufficient and easy-to-understand pattern proof study material and practice assignments.

Initiative to train ‘early bloomers’ and groom them for future competitive exams is a must for a good coaching institute.

They do this by nurturing and enhancing their basic analytical skill sets, which are necessary for these competitive exams. These programmes will not only help the students sharpen their basic skills, but will also provide an extra competitive edge over others appearing for the competitions. 


 Furthers emphasis on developing the intelligence quotient (IQ) and emotional quotient (EQ) along with the Analytical ability of students through a systematic and structured way should be provided by the coaching centre.

For instance, the institute should conduct several in-house tests to keep students on their toes with a high spirit of competition. In addition, they should guide their students to read, analyse and understand a question, and then apply the best technique to solve it.

This automatically develops the ability to think out of the box amongst the students appearing for these entrance exams. Therefore, a skill-based and unique study pattern helps in training a student for an ‘overall logical thinking’ and ‘scientific aptitude’ at an early age.

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