He comes from a conservative family where business is in the blood and education comes only second. But Pratik Agarwal chose to tread a different path and quite stylishly he entered the track with a bang by taking the first rank in the highly competitive EAMCET. The topper in the engineering stream this year says it was a pleasant surprise for him though he was expecting a rank in the first 10.
A student of Narayana Junior College at Mehdipatnam, Partik owes his success to the systematic approach to the tough examination apart from hard work. Hard work alone will not help since there are thousands of guys putting in the same effort. The difference between being the topper and other equally good students is just one or two marks. And he feels it is here that assistance from teachers and tips help. “The help comes from systematically designed teaching methods,” he feels.
The 14 to 15 hours of preparation every day was not taxing but there was pleasure in studying. But the topper does not prefer to study in the State engineering colleges and prefers admission in either Birla Institute of Technological Sciences (BITS) or the National Institutes of Technology (NITs). “I want to pursue Aeronautical Engineering and then go to NASA to explore the sky and the unlimited scope for research it offers,” says this son of an accountant in a private firm.
His dream is to be a scientist in NASA..,
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