How ICAD's most Successful Foundation Training developed?? Toppers track right from 2004.... Clear Success Path.

ICAD started with its IIT-JEE Training Program From 2004 onwards. In the very First result in 2006, ICAD's topper was Mr Debanjan Chatterjee (AIR 883). Debanjan is the third Nagpur Topper. First two toppers were Apoorva Nakade, and Abhishek Shivalkar, both were from HR coaching which doesn't exist today. The credit however goes to Dr Anil Kayande who taught these both for the Regional Mathematics Olympiad.

In 2007, Rohan Khot was ICAD topper (AIR 557), but Nagpur topper was Anay Joshi (AIR 79). Both Rohan and Anay qualified RMO.

Later, ICAD topper was Alap Kshirsagar (AIR 289). Alap was NTSE topper. ICADian, Pradip Gatkine (AIR 1008) was also an NTSE qualifier.

It is quite well known fact now that top rankers are the students who have trained themselves for competitive examinations in school years. So instead of waiting for such probable top rankers to take admissions in ICAD, which was quite unlikely, ICAD decided to start its 5 years training right from VIII.

Till now, Nagpur students are performing in one or two competitive examinations like NTSE, AMTI, RMO, etc. NTSE was shifted to X, and has very less components of Maths and Science. RMO maths was not related in JEE (Advanced) though it encourages students for deep study. Now, the exact path to be taken to get top JEE (Advanced) rank was not clear. ICAD competent Academic team took up the challenge of developing a sure path for Nagpur students. ICAD started developing its curriculum from a long term point of view - First two years are planned to build strong fundamentals of concepts and techniques.

Study techniques are important and cannot be developed overnight. There are few techniques which are required to be honed (1) How to prepare Current Topic, (2) How to Revise, (3) How to clear your Backlog, (4) How to clear doubts, (5) How to control Negatives, (6) Examination Techniques. Now this may be 2 hours read. But you got to practice these at least for 2-3 months each to get mastery on it. So the curriculum was developed in such a way that students get mastery of techniques and develop their strong subject fundamentals till their IX standard. Right from X standard, ICAD starts preparation for JEE (Advanced). This exercise will get students additional 4 months for JEE advanced revision and testing in XII.

In preparation of the curriculum, we faced two challenges over here. Few students don't have a craving for IIT-JEE (Now JEE (Advanced)) ranks. They were interested in qualifying KVPY and Olympiads, and are interested in building their career in Science. Later these same students may repent on their decision for not preparing for JEE.

To solve these issue, ICAD took up two challenges: (1) Top ranks in JEE (Advanced), (2) Simultaneous ranks in KVPY, Physics, Chemistry and Maths Olympiads. The whole curriculum is developed in such a way that if you get 80% and above in ICAD tests, you are most likely to meet both challenges. So when we got our First Result in 2014, Topper was Rupanshu Ganvir (JEE AIR 24, Silver Medal in International Physics Olympiad, INMO, KVPY). All others Anurag Bhardwaj (AIR 445, NSEP, NSEC, KVPY), Ameya Prabhune (Gold Medal in Indian National Chemistry Olympiad, AIR 442, qualified KVPY, NSEP), Aditya Bhagwat (AIR 409, KVPY, NSEP, etc). Four out of First 5 toppers of Nagpur were ICADians. This is the First time ICAD has seen such success. Now, we met both challenges successfully, and Success path is set for future batches.

Today, you can see all Foundation students get 99 percentile and above in JEE (Main), all qualify JEE (Advanced). Top JEE (Advanced) rankers of Vidarbha are from these batches, and lastly but not the least highest ICADians qualified RMO, INMO, InChO, InPhO, KVPY, till date since 2014.

Now, we are watching the same Foundation Prodigies are doing wonderfully well in their respective careers in India and abroad.

Sarang Upganlawar
Director, ICAD