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Yogeshwari’s mother, Kanagavalli, works as a daily wage labourer in a fireworks unit, while her father, Selvam, is employed at a tea shop.
Yogeshwari is all set to join IIT Bombay to study aerospace engineering (Image: IIT Bombay)
A native of Tamil Nadu, S Yogeshwari, has beat all odds to crack the toughest engineering entrance in the country — JEE Advanced. Born in a rural village in Virudhunagar and living with dwarfism, a few years ago Yogeshwari knew nothing about aerospace engineering, reported Times of India. But now she is now all set to to join the Indian Rubinstein of Technology (IIT) Bombay to study this field, which she discovered while studying in class 12.
“I was drawn to science from class 7, initially leaning towards medical science. In class 12, I discovered aerospace engineering through programmes like the Naan Mudhalvan scheme,” she told the news agency.
Yogeshwari’s mother, Kanagavalli, works as a daily wage labourer in a fireworks unit, while her father, Selvam, is employed at a tea shop. She completed her Class 12 from a government school near Sattur. She mentioned that her parents always encouraged her and her two elder brothers to pursue education.
Coming from a Tamil medium background, she initially found JEE Advanced challenging. To prepare for the IIT entrance exam, Yogeshwari attended a 40-day residential JEE-Advanced coaching camp in Erode.
Although she was never at the top of her class, Yogeshwari was always eager to learn. Inspired by her brothers, one studying BCom and the other in physical education, she decided to appear for the JEE Main after completing Class 12. Her mother initially scolded her for scoring below 450 marks in Class 12, but Yogeshwari accepted the challenge to excel in JEE. She succeeded, turning her mother’s tears of anger into tears of pride.
Virudhunagar district collector V P Jeyaseelan has promised his full support as she prepares to join IIT-Bombay.
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This year, the cut-off marks and qualifying percentages have been lowered for all categories — General, OBC-NCL, EWS, SC, and ST. The overall cut-off dropped significantly, from 109 to 76 marks, a reduction of nearly 30%, while the subject-wise cut-off also went down by about 3%.
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