He is a student of St Mary's Junior College, Yousufguda, and appeared for the exam in March this year.
Child prodigy Agastya Jaiswal has achieved the rare feat of passing the class XII examination at the age of 11. Agastya’s father Ashwani Kumar said he passed the intermediate second year examination with 63 per cent.
He claimed his son is the first person in the state to have passed the examination at such a young age.
“I want to do my graduation in commerce in the next three years but my ultimate goal is to be a doctor,” Agastya told hours after the result was announced.
A commerce graduate and a doctor? Well, Agastya has a plan.
After he completes BCom, he will repeat intermediate.
“...but with biology, physics and chemistry. I will then write medical entrance exam and get a seat in an MBBS course,” he said.
He is a student of St Mary’s Junior College, Yousufguda, and appeared for the exam in March this year. The results of the exam were announced today. Agastya cleared the SSC examination at the age of 9 in 2015, and had then taken permission from the Telangana SSC Board to appear for the exam, Kumar said.
But no such special permission is needed to appear for intermediate examination, Kumar said. An official with the Board of Intermediate Education said the students appearing for the class XII exam only have to give information related to the subjects, medium of instruction and the second language, but not age.
The Board of Intermediate Education relies on SSC data for other information, he said.
Agastya needs to be back in junior college also because he has to be at least 17, the average age at which a student passes Class 12, to sit the test to get into a medical college.
And, he doesn’t want to waste time.
“I don’t want to sit idle and want to go ahead with BCom,” said Agastya, who was all of eight when he passed Class 10. He took a “gap year” before enrolling for intermediate.
Aren’t economics and commerce difficult to understand? “I don’t mug up topics, but understand them and write answers,” he said in a matter-of-fact tone, adding his parents trained him well to understand the subjects. He also thanked his lecturers for helping him.
Starting young seems to be a family trait.
At 17, his sister, Naina, has enrolled for PhD.
