Kannur girl bags 13th rank in IIT-M entrance exam

One month was all she got to prepare for the entrance examination of the coveted Humanities and Social Science Course of IIT-Madras. But this 17-year old girl from Kannur cracked the test in style and was ranked 13th in the all-India level test.

Meet Shalini Jithendran of Prashanthi House at Kuttimakkal near Thalassery in Kannur, who brought laurels to her native place by getting into one of the most prestigious institutions in the country.

IIT-M’s Humanities and Social Science is a five-year-long Integrated M.A. course for the best 46 students in the country. Shalini says she was never keen on applying for the Humanities course as she was preparing for medical and entrance examinations from Kanjirappally in Kottayam.

“I was taking coaching for medical and engineering entrance exams while studying in St. Antony’s Public School in Kanjirappally. I came to know about the IIT-M course very late and so I had only a month to prepare for it.

Ecology, History, Economics, Analytical Ability and English were the subjects of the entrance test. I referred to my old Economic textbooks, which helped me a lot. But it came as a surprise when I scored top marks and was ranked 13th,” she says.

After clearing the IIT-M test she has decided to leave her medicine and engineering aspirations behind and join the Humanities and Social Science course.

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