BENGALURU: Jaiyul Joshi’s nine-year-old son, Yash, is an all-rounder, bright in academics, a state topper in abacus, and excels in sports too. Going by his academic achievements, his parents were keen he joins the Defence. But when a fingerprinting analysis was done, Jaiyul was ‘shocked’ that the results pointed to Yash excelling at music and sports, and had the potential to become the next ‘AR Rehman and Sachin Tendulkar’.
“Our entire approach changed. We had been pushing him to take up science. When we realised that music and sports were in his DNA, we’ve been encouraging him to take those up, and have even enrolled him for cricket coaching. We went to his school to discuss the report with the faculty, and they’ve said they will pay attention to the areas the analysis highlighted,” he says.
In fact, Yash is surprised with his dad’s change in attitude. “I asked him if wants to discontinue his abacus classes, and he was taken aback. I’m now trying to understand his musical and sporting abilities,” he says.
Ekta Kohli was contemplating changing her daughter Dhwani’s school to one that would focus on the arts but dropped that thought somewhere along the way. Post analysis, which reiterated her daughter’s dance, drama and music abilities, she is again seriously considering a change in school. “I’m not pushing her into something that would make her miserable,” she says. Dhwani has joined the Bangalore Little Theatre group and is taking Bharatanatyam seriously — at a professional level.
While many are sceptical, parents going in for it believe that this is backed by research. “It reiterates a child’s strengths. They have to try it to believe it,” Ekta says. Some parents, like Saptarshie Bose, are coming to the city just for this. “We used to push our daughter to study, but her grades were always in the ‘B’ range. We thought she was wasting her time with arts and crafts. However, the results showed that art was, in fact, her areas of strength,” Saptarshie says about his 10-year-old daughter, Sammriddi.
Saptarshie also says that he used to push his daughter to study, which usually backfired. “The results showed that her nature was such that pushing would never yield results. So we changed our strategy, and in her latest test, she’s got straight-A’s for the first time,” he says.
Sheelaa M Bajaj, founder of BrainGorithm, and Arnaaubh Chakraborrty, co-founder, have at least 10-12 clients coming every week for the test, which costs Rs 5,000. Sheelaa got her son to take the test too. “He gets straight-As in every subject. While my husband is keen that he get into IIT, we wanted to see where his potential truly lies,” she says. When the analysis revealed that business was his strong point, Sheelaa decided to switch her son’s school and put him into an IGCSE curriculum to suit his learning style.
Arnaaubh looks into the tech aspect, analysis and counselling post analysis.
“The fingerprints of ten fingers (centre and sides of each finger) are taken, after which the ridges are counted and patterns analysed. We then feed it into our software and generate a report that highlights learning styles, abilities, brain dominance, skills, personality and quotients,” says Arnaaubh, who is also the head trainer for those taking up franchises.