Believe in yourself and you can achieve
Things you never thought possible
Believe in yourself and you can discover
Talents new, that lie away hidden

Believe in yourself and you can reach
New heights that you thought unscalable
Believe in yourself and you can solve
Problems that defy any solution

Believe in yourself and you can conquer
Any situation, however difficult
Believe in yourself and you can make
The most complicated things seem simple

Believe in yourself and you can learn
The skills of gaining knowledge from experience
Believe in yourself and you can enjoy
The beauty in nature’s abundance

Believe in yourself and you can perceive
New depths your senses can apprehend
Believe in yourself and you can perform
Way beyond your expectations

Believe in your goal and work towards it
With determination and dedication
Believe in yourself and output enhance
By contributing to a given situation

Believe in yourself and you’ll feel blessed
As God’s very own special creation.

Shashi Tharoor was the official candidate of India for the succession to United Nations Secretary - General Kofi Annan in 2006 and came second out of seven official candidates in the race. Tharoor served as the UN Under - Secretary General for Communications and Public Information Between June 2002 and February 2007. He is an Author journalist and fellow of the USC Center on Public Diplomacy who was asked to address a Global Gathering of IIT Alumni shortly before Christmas in 2006 at IIT - Mumbai.

Shashi Tharoor began reading books—Enid Blyton’s Noddy series - when he was three. By the time he was ten, he had published his first work of fiction, Operation Bellows, a credulity-stretching saga of an Anglo-Indian fighter pilot. In between were years when he read a book a day. And in the years since, he has published nine books and written for many Indian and foreign publications. 'Bookless in Baghdad' brings together pieces written over the past decade by this compulsive reader and prolific writer on the subject closest to his heart reading.
Born in London in 1956, Shashi Tharoor was educated in Bombay, Calcutta, Delhi (BA in History, St. Stephen's College), and the United States (he got his PhD at the age of 22 from the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy at Tufts University). His father was a newspaper executive and mother a housewife. His family has roots in Palakkad, Kerala, India.
Since 1978, he has worked for the United Nations, serving with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, whose Singapore office he headed during the "boat people" crisis. Since October 1989, he has been a senior official at UN HQ in New York, where, until late 1996, he was responsible for peacekeeping operations in the former Yugoslavia.
From January 1997 to July 1998, he was executive assistant to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. In July 1998, he was appointed director of communications and special projects in the office of the Secretary-General. In January 2001, he was appointed by the Secretary-General as interim head of the Dept. of Public Information.
On 1 June 2002, he was confirmed as the Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information of the United Nations. Tharoor’s prolific writing style is reflected in numerous articles, short stories and commentaries in Indian and Western publications. His books include Reasons of State (1982), a scholarly study of Indian foreign policy; The Great Indian Novel (1989), a political satire; The Five-Dollar Smile & Other Stories (1990); a second novel, Show Business (1992), which received a front-page accolade from The New York Times Book Review and was made into a motion picture titled Bollywood; India: From Midnight to the Millennium (1997), published on the 50th anniversary of India's independence and cited by President Clinton in his address to the Indian Parliament; Riot (2001), a novel about Hindu-Muslim violence in India; Nehru: the Invention of India (2003), a biography of India's first Prime Minister; and most recently, Bookless in Baghdad (2005), a collection of essays on writing and writers. He also co-authored, with the eminent painter M. F. Husain, a "coffee-table" book, Kerala: God's Own Country (2004).
Tharoor is known for his passionate interest in cricket, especially Indian cricket, about which he has written in such publications as The Cricketer International, The Illustrated Weekly of India and The Hindu. An outstanding actor and debater in school and college, Tharoor won numerous prizes at inter-collegiate "winter festivals" and similar competitions. He played Antony to Mira Nair's Cleopatra in a 1974 production of "Antony and Cleopatra". At St. Stephen's
in the early 1970s he founded the Quiz Club, which is still in existence, and revived the Wodehouse Society, which is not. Upon election as President of the College Union (campaign slogan: "Shashi Tharoor jeetega zaroor") he relinquished the editorship of the campus humour magazine "Kooler Talk". He was invited by St Stephen's College to deliver the college's 125th Anniversary Jubilee Lecture in 2005. He is an elected Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and a member of the Advisory Board of the Indo-American Arts Council.
At the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1976, he founded and was the first chair of the editorial board of the Fletcher Forum of International Affairs, a journal examining issues in international relations.
Tharoor writes a fortnightly column for The Hindu newspaper since 2001 and a weekly column, "Shashi on Sunday", in the Times of India starting January 2007. Previously he was a columnist for the Gentleman magazine and the Indian Express newspaper, as well as a frequent contributor to Newsweek International and the International Herald Tribune. His op-eds and book reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times, amongst other papers.
Most of Tharoo’rs literary creations are centered around Indian themes and they are markedly "Indo-nostalgic". Perhaps his most famous work is The Great Indian Novel, published in 1989, in which he uses the narrative and theme of the famous Indian epic Mahabharata to weave a satirical story of Indian life in a non-linear mode with the characters drawn from the Indian Independence Movement. His novel Show Business (1992) was made into the film Bollywood (1994). The late Ismail Merchant had announced his wish to make a film of Tharoor's novel Riot shortly before Merchant's death in 2005.


Works Fiction
*    Riot (2001)    
*    Show Business (1992)
*    The Five Dollar Smile and     Other Stories (1990)
*    The Great Indian Novel (1989)

Non-fiction
*    Bookless in Baghdad (2005)
*    Nehru: The Invention of         India (2003)
*    Kerala: God's own country     (2002)
*    India: From Midnight to the     Millennium (1997)
*    Reasons of State (1982) 

IIT Success Story

The former Vice Chairman of Citigroup N.A. USA, Victor
J. Menezes is an IIT-Trained Engineer - Turned Banker, who joined Citigroup in Citibank's fort Branch Bombay in 1972 as a management associate on a monthly salary of Rs. 2000 in 1972, earned the title of "the banker beyond compare" with annual pay packet of Rs. $27,397,700/- in just 27 years before he quitted. He is being considered as a possible candidate to head the investment commission of India. Mr. Menezes, a non-resident Indian, is seen as the most prominent American CEO of Indian origin. He directed Citigroup’s Mergers & Acquisition activities and has been responsible for managing relationships with important customers and government regulators. He was also responsible for Citigroup’s senior management development programs and leading the company’s recruiting efforts internationally.

Victor Menezes, who graduated from IIT Bombay
in 1970, donated $3 million to IIT Bombay Heritage Fund lately for building a world class convention centre. The ceremony was attended by faculty and staff members as well as current students and alumni of IIT.
"It is my way of giving back to society," says Menezes.

Menezes was born in Pune, 180 kilometers from Mumbai to Mr. Manuel, a senior railway official and Mrs. Nina menezes on
May 19, 1949.
IIT Mumbai, from where he acquired a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, taught him nearly all the lessons he would need to call upon in his career. It was at his father's insistence that Victor decided to go to IIT. It proved to be the best decision of his life. Menezes was a good student at IIT, but not outstanding. The boy who made good grades and knew his subjects well was better known for his skills as an orator. The debating society at IIT helped Menezes hone his communication skills. The soft-spoken, shy boy emerged as an unlikely champion in the fierce verbal duels that characterized the debates at Powai. "Victor won most of the time. He knew how to keep his head at the debates and attack his opponents' arguments. Everyone wanted him on their team because he could win," recalled one of his seniors at IIT.
After IIT, Menezes went to the Sloan School of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for an MBA, majoring in finance. It was the desire "to do something broader" that prompted the switch. "I wanted to have more options I did not want to join a technical firm and work there for the rest of my life," he said.
Though, "It may seem surprising that Victor, an electrical engineering graduate, became CEO of the world's largest bank. But this is emblematic of the quality of the all-round education provided by the IITs. It is not so much a mere apprenticeship in technical skills but truly a broad based liberal education. IIT taught us how to think, analyze and apply. These are universal skills and are as useful to an engineer in Silicon Valley as they are to a banker on Wall Street," he says.
After MIT Menezes interviewed with many financial firms on Wall Street. He chose Citibank because it offered him a chance to come back home. He wanted to spend time with his family, something he could not do during school and college. In 1972, Menezes joined Citibank's corporate banking division in Mumbai on a monthly salary of Rs 2,000. With his first salary he took his folks out to dinner. He worked with the bank since. Five years later, in 1977, when he took over as Citibank's CEO for India, he was only 28.
Menezes' biggest role model has been his father. In that sense he too has always given priority to his family after having given 100% at the office. His father who retired as chairman of indian railways taught his children that success and happiness are not defined by who you are and what you do, but by living life with a compass of principles, a bushel of ideas, a generous dose of fun and most of all in sharing and making a difference to the lives of those around you. In 1982, Menezes left India to go to New York. From then on, he moved countries, each time adding another conquest to his career.
In Hong Kong, he went as head of the bank's largest Asian operation. In Latin America he played a key role in Grafting a $ 3 billion
write-off during the 1987 debt crisis. In Europe he integrated Citibank's mergers and acquisitions.
Credit for some of that down-to-earth attitude can be attributed to his attractive wife, Tara. A former Miss India, and the second Indian to be crowned Miss Asia Pacific in 1973, Tara Ann Fonseca gave up the limelight once she became Mrs Victor Menezes. She gives Victor a very stable family life and provides him with a lot of strength and is a help to him keep his sense of balance. Menezes daughter, Pia says,
"I think my father is an incredibly intelligent and gifted person, but what I will always admire is his humility and  keen sense of humor. Despite his high pressure job, he always knew how to leave the office  behind and have a good time with the family."

He has said: "Technologies come and go. Much of what you learnt may change five years from now. But, the fundamentals remain. It is clear from all the rubble in Silicon Valley that those people who focussed on core and fundamental technologies prospered, and those caught up in the dot.com marketing phase got burnt up."

He always believes that education is the single biggest driver of economic growth rate. he thinks India has done very well, but the world is changing and we must to keep up with it, we have to invest a lot more in education and we should get the help from wherever we can..

A message of hope

First of all I would like to congratulate all those students who made it to IITs this year. Once again you have proved that the Power of Action is undoubtedly an extremely important part of realizing and utilizing the unlimited potential that each one is gifted with. One of the laws of success is that the universe rewards those who take action. And acting on your goals brings success into YOUR lives.
IIT-JEE paper has always been full of surprises. It's highly unpredictable in nature and that only makes IIT-JEE as is one of the toughest entrance exam in the world. This year's the format was primarily designed to favor those who kept themselves in touch with NCERT books. Despite the change, Resonance students met unprecedented success. It is not a number game, yet when each seat in IITs means so much efforts, a figure of 883 selections in IIT-JEE 2007 is an achievement worth an applause. The classroom programme students deserve a pat on their back considering the number of aspirants who battled. Besides, It is a tough task imparting training to the lot with average IQ and turning them into a skilled infantry. The 5 Ranks in Top 50 - 14, 20, 25, 33 & 46 from yearlong classroom programme vouch for the skills indicted in the successful JEE lot. Two of the Classroom students (Jaipur Study Centre) had rare distinctions of winning 38th  National Physics Olympiad award and to become part of  the five member team to represent in the International Olympiad in Iran being held between 13 to 22 July 2007. Institute faculty stood with the students all along with the students and produced 2591 successful JEE products in short span of six years much to the astonishment of the well establish coaching Institutes. In this regard, I owe much to the institute's devoted faculty and the efficient management team. The Hindi medium batches produced good results. The All India 3rd rank in ST category was bagged by
Mr. Radhey Shyam Meena from RH-1 batch. Let me mention Rahul Nawani also who was the proud recipient of AIR - 1 in PD category.
The Distance Learning Programme Division (DLPD) lent it's helping hand to thousands of students all across the country by providing them the relevant study material and the Rank added test series brought an opportunity to its potential students to map up their preparation against a standardized scale. Be it a student from the southern far end of pondichery or a student in mumbai, will  equally benefit from this programme. The effectiveness of the DLP programme is evident from the ranks which its students reflected this year with All India Ranks - 3, 8, 19 & 42 in top 50. I would like to make a special mention of the 8 Rank holder Mr. Harsh Pareek who was selected in Physics, Chemistry & Math Olympiad at the national level.
I had made a reference about various scholarships - USP (VIBHUTI) and GSP in the previous issue of Anunaad. It should be understood that the scholarships are not means to attract the students but they are the means to reward the talent of the deserving students and to motivate others who have yet to perform. A new initiative that DPPs will now have to be done in the classrooms only by coming one hour early, is going to immensely benefit the students and eventually bring favorablel results. Consistency always helps. Even to those who are considered not good performers.  A live example is Mr. Vinod Songra, who made it to IITs this year, although his cumulative percentage in all Resonance Test was 19.66.
Awaken your potential knowing that the power of action is within you. Here, I would like to share with you words of our student Vivek Jhunjhunwala, 14 Rank holder that he spoke at the felicitation function held on 11 June 2007, "I thank the institute, I thank My Parents and I also thank My Self for my success in IIT-JEE". Our own action decides our best out come. I hope you will gain from the message and will make your journey to IITs a joyful one.
With love and affection.


R.K. Verma
Managing Director

Stephen Hawking

The British Physicist
Stephen Hawking brings
light to black holes,
cosmology and quantum
gravity with his remarkable
theories and popular works.
He combines family life, and
his research into theoretical
physics together with an
extensive programme of
travel and public lectures.

Stephen Hawking, one of the globe’s best-known scientists experienced eight rounds of weightlessness on 26 April 2007 in a specially modified Boeing 727 jet just three months after the celebration of his 65th birthday on January 8, 2007. Hawking took eight turns with ease and described the Zero-G flight as the first step towards a trip in space. This expedition is to prepare for a sub-orbital space flight in 2009 on Virgin Galactic’s space service.
Hawking is severely disabled by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a type of motor neuron disease. When he was young, he enjoyed riding horses and playing with the other children. At Oxford, he coxed a rowing team, which, he stated, helped relieve his immense boredom at the university. Diagnosis of his  disease came when Hawking was 21, shortly before his first marriage, and doctors said he would not survive more than two or three years.
He gradually lost the control of his arms, legs, and voice, and is now wheelchair bound. The computer system attached to his wheelchair is operated by Hawking via an infra-red ‘blink switch’ clipped onto his glasses. By scrunching his right cheek up, he is able to talk, compose speeches, research papers, browse the World Wide Web, and write e-mails. The system also uses radio transmission to provide control over doors in his home and office.
Professor Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England, which is exactly 300 years after the death of Galileo. From a very early age Hawking showed the qualities of a scientist, he was always inquisitive. He liked to build models to see how things worked.
Hawking’s father who was a doctor, wanted him to study medicine at Oxford. However, he was more interested in Mathematics. It turned out that he studied Physics, as the University College did not provide degree studies in Mathematics. Hawking was awarded a first class honors degree in Natural Science after 3 years of studies.
At the age of 20, Hawking went on to do research in Cosmology at Cambridge. This was also about the time when he was diagnosed with the incurable disease ALS. He was losing control of his muscles. and was told he would die soon . At first, Hawking was shocked and upset. He could not find a reason for living before he met his wife Jane Wilde. Later the progress of his illness slowed down, and he finished his Ph.D.
He took the post of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics since 1979.
Hawking’s principal fields of research are theoretical cosmology and quantum gravity. He has worked on the basic laws which govern the universe. With Roger Penrose he showed that Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity implied space and time would have a beginning in the big bang and an end in black holes. Hawking suggested that, upon analysis of gamma ray emissions, after the big bang, many objects as heavy as 109 tons the size of a proton would be created. With Bardeen and Carter, he proposed the four laws of black hole mechanics, drawing an analogy with thermodynamics. In 1974, he calculated that black holes should thermally create and emit subatomic particles, known as Hawking radiation, until they exhaust their energy and evaporate.
In collaboration with Jim Hartle, Hawking developed a model in which the Universe had no boundary in space-time, replacing the initial singularity of the classical Big Bang models with a region akin to the North pole; while one cannot travel North of the North pole, there is no boundary there. While originally the no-boundary proposal predicted a closed Universe, discussions with Neil Turok led to the realization that the no-boundary proposal is consistent with a Universe which is not closed also.
His many publications include The Large Scale Structure of Spacetime with G F R Ellis, General Relativity: An Einstein Centenary Survey, with W Israel, and 300 Years of Gravity, with W Israel. Stephen Hawking has two popular books published; his best seller A Brief History of Time, and his later book, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays.
Professor Hawking has twelve honorary degrees, was awarded the CBE in 1982, and was made a Companion of Honour in 1989. He is the recipient of many awards, medals and prizes and is a Fellow of The Royal Society and a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences.
Hawking receives a new computer every 18-24 months donated by Intel. The most recent computer was donated in April of 2005 and is based on the Centrino chipset. It consists of two pieces, a rear chassis which houses 3 160Whr batteries and various external peripherals, and a front chassis, which houses a Tablet-PC and the speakers which project his hardware-synthesized voice. The two chassis are connected via a custom-designed umbilical cable which allows power and electrical signals to travel back and forth. Hawking’s computer can run for up to 16 hours without needing a recharge.
The computer utilizes a wireless data card that runs on mobile phone networks. This allows Hawking to check his email and browse the web while away from a wireless LAN network. Hawking can also make and receive voice phone calls via a mobile phone with an external microphone in front of his computer speakers.
Despite his disease, he describes himself as “lucky” — not only has the slow progress of his disease provided time to make influential discoveries, it has also afforded time to have, in his own words, “a very attractive family”. When Jane was asked why she decided to marry a man with a 3-year life expectancy, she responded: “These were the days of atomic gloom and doom, so we all had a rather short life expectancy.”

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Steven Covey |90/10 Principle|

Have you read this before? Discover the 90/10 Principle. It will change your life (at least the way you react to situations). What is this Principle? 10% of life is made up of what happens to you. 90% of life is decided by how you react.
What does this mean? We really have no control over 10% of what happens to us. We cannot stop the car from breaking down. The plane will be late arriving, which throws our whole schedule off. A driver may cut us off in traffic. We have no control over this 10%. The other 90% is different. You determine the other 90% How? By you reaction. You cannot control a red light. However, you can control you reaction. Do not let people fool you;
You can control how you react. Let us use on example: You are eating breakfast with your family. Your daughter knocks over a cup of coffee onto your business shirt. You have no control over what just happened. What happens next will be determined by how you react. You curse. You harshly scold your daughter for knocking the cup over. She breaks down in tears. After scolding her, you turn to your spouse and criticize her for placing the cup too close to the edge of the table.
A short verbal battle follows. You storm upstairs and change your shirt. Back downstairs, you find your daughter has been too busy crying to finish breakfast and get ready for school. She misses the bus. Your spouse must leave immediately for work. You rush to the car and drive your daughter to school. Because you are late, you drive 40 miles an hour in a 30-mph speed limit zone. After a 15-minute delay and throwing $60 traffic fine away, you arrive at school. Your daughter runs into the building without saying goodbye. After arriving at the office 20 minutes late, you find you forgot your briefcase. Your day has started terrible. As it continues, it seems to get worse and worse. You look forward to coming home, When you arrive home, you find small wedge in your relationship with your spouse and daughter. Why? Because of how you reacted in the morning.
Why did you have a bad day?
1.    Did the coffee cause it?
2.    Did your daughter cause it?
3.    Did the policeman cause it?
4.    Did you cause it?
The answer is you had no control over what happened with the coffee. How you reacted in those 5 seconds is what caused your bad day. Here is what could have and should have happened. Coffee splashes over you. Your daughter is about to cry. You gently say, Its ok honey, you just need to be more careful next time. Grabbing a towel, you rush upstairs. After grabbing a new shirt and your briefcase, you come back down in time to look through the window and see your child getting on the bus. She turns and waves. You arrive 5 minutes early and cheerfully greet the staff. Your boss comments on how good the day you are having. Notice the difference? Two different scenarios. Both started the same. Both ended different. Why? Because of how you REACTED. You really do not have any control over 10% of what happens. The other 90% was determined by your reaction. Here are some ways to apply the 90/10 Principle. If someone says something negative about you, do not be a sponge. Let the attack roll off like water on glass. You do not have to let the negative comment effect you! React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc. How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic?* Do you lose your temper?* Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off)* Do you curse?* Does your blood pressure skyrocket?* Do you try to bump them? WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive.
water on glass. You do not have to let the negative comment effect you! React properly and it will not ruin your day. A wrong reaction could result in losing a friend, being fired, getting stressed out etc. How do you react if someone cuts you off in traffic?* Do you lose your temper?* Pound on the steering wheel? A friend of mine had the steering wheel fall off)* Do you curse?* Does your blood pressure skyrocket?* Do you try to bump them? WHO CARES if you arrive ten seconds later at work? Why let the cars ruin your drive.
Remember the 90/10 Principle, and do not worry about it. You are told you lost your job. Why lose sleep and get irritated? It will work out. Use your worrying energy and time into finding another job. The plane is late; it is going to mangle your schedule for the day. Why take out your frustration on the flight attendant? She has no control over what is going on. Use your time to study, get to know the other passenger. Why are stressed out? It will be amazed at the results. You will lose nothing it you try it. The 90-10 Principle is incredible. Very few know and apply this Principle. The result? Millions of people are suffering from undeserved stress, trails, problems and heartache. We all must understand and apply the 90/10 Principle. It CAN change your life!

Success Story

Govind spent his childhood in a 12x8 ft rented room shared among his parents and three sisters. But, now at the age of 23 he is expecting to be an IAS officer, still found room for dreams. And the will to realize them. Govind has achieved 48th rank in this year’s civil services results. Born in abject poverty to a rickshaw-puller father, Govind got a head start in life when his father made sure he sent his children to school in Varanasi’s Usmanpura area. But his father Narain Prasad had to stop pulling rickshaws when a leg injury restricted his mobility. He now repairs and rents out rickshaws, earning Rs 5,000 per month. “A large part of what I earned went into educating the children,” he said over the phone. Govind making it to the IAS has made Narain happy, but he can’t grasp what it means. “My father believes one has to bribe his way into a government job and I got one without paying anything,” Govind said. Through school, Govind wanted to appear for the civil services exam but IAS seemed out of reach. And the financial back-up was thin. “So I told myself I had to clear the exam in the first attempt,” he said. And clear it he did. So how does he feel? “I want to tell all those youngsters living in deprivation that anything is possible if they have the will.”

Team Resonance - This is Special.

What does it take to be in IIT ?

Abhishek Katyal, IIT-JEE 2007 AIR(25) Reso Roll No. 501752 IIT-Delhi - Com. Sc. & Engg.

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are an elite group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education. They are established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India.
In order of establishment, the seven IITs are located at Kharagpur, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati, and Roorkee.
IITs conduct a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) every year for the admission to its B.Tech. and other courses offered at various IITs, IT Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad. Preparing for the IIT-JEE requires determination, devotion, perseverance and above all guidance.
We talked to Abhishek Katyal, a student of 2007 batch of Resonance, to delve his Success secrets in IIT-JEE 2007.

Q. What is required to get into IIT?
Ans. A tough question I must say, lots of hours of studies, clear concepts, knowledge of the previous questions of JEE, speed (important factor), good examination temperament, objective approach, and balance in all the three subjects.

Q. How much time did you devote on an average for your preparation?
Ans. 11-12 hours including the classes.

Q. Which books did you refer for clearing your doubts?
Ans. I only referred to class notes and in case of any doubts, I used to think over it and if could not get it, I would ask the teacher. Thanks to our good faculty of Resonance.

Q. Give some tips for increasing one’s Productivity while Studying?
Ans. First of all never go for short of sleep and food, it never helps. Have a good sleep and a light but nutritious meal. Don't talk to anybody while studying. In case you get a doubt don't ask anyone immediately unless it is very important, note it down on a separate paper and get it clarified afterwards. Concentrate on what your teacher has taught you, not on what he has not taught you. Don't go for quantity but for quality study material, revise the DPP at home after it has been discussed in the class. Analyze your mistakes and get them sought out.

Q. How many questions one should attempt to get into IIT?
Ans. It depends on the difficulty level of the paper and also on the person. Some have great speed but less accuracy whereas some have the case vice versa and the person who has both speed and accuracy is what we call AIR 1. I think one should go at his natural speed. The experiments with speed and accuracy should be done in DPP's and monthly tests so that you automatically get to know your strengths and weaknesses.

Q. What are the important topics for paying special attention?
Ans. Maths - Vectors and 3D geometry, calculus.
Chemistry- NAME reactions in organic chemistry, REAL gases in gaseous state, thermodynamics. Physics - Everything is interrelated you cannot skip topics in physics.

Q. How important is emotional quotient in preparation for IIT-JEE. Please explain?
Ans. Emotional quotient is very much important. One should try to remain calm and composed. Never see what the others are doing during the exam time. In case you find the paper very difficult choose some easy questions and do them first. Once you get the momentum, it becomes easy then. But always be aware of the cutoff marks.

Q. How does one cope up with the school syllabus and preparation for the
IIT-JEE?

Ans. School syllabus is not at all difficult if you go through the IIT- JEE syllabus properly. In board examination questions are generally stereotype and they can be easily done by going through the ten year papers. They should be studied at the time of board exams only.

Q. How did you refresh yourself from the hectic schedule?
Ans. Just by ambling here and there or talking with some friend or taking a short sleep.

Q. To whom you want to give the credit of your achievement?
Ans. I want to give the credit to RESONANCE, my parents, my sister, my luck and myself too. Thanks to almighty God.

Q. What is your Success mantra?
Ans. I always have faith on my teachers and used to study a lot. By God's grace I had good objective speed-that is my success mantra.

Q. Give some advice to your successors at Resonance who are preparing for
IIT-JEE?
Ans. Have full faith in your teachers. If the teacher is not good even then never miss classes and always be fully attentive in the classes. Do not run for extra books and other coaching institutes.

The Birth of Harry Potter

Creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series J. K. Rowling is a British writer who has gained worldwide attention, won multiple awards and sold over 325 million books. She is the biggest female earner with an annual salary around six times greater than the queen. She is ranked as the thirteenth richest woman in Britain. Forbes named Rowling the second richest female entertainer in the world and ranked her as the forty-eighth most powerful celebrity 2007.

In 1990, while Joanne Rowling was on a four-hour-delayed train trip from Manchester to London where she had gone for a flat-hunting, she developed the idea for a story of a young boy attending a school of wizardry. When she had reached her Clapham Junction flat, she began to write immediately, conceiving Harry Potter, who first featured in the 1997 book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. (In the US, the book was titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.) Potter is a student wizard at Hogwart School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he belongs to the house of Gryffindor, plays the odd broom-riding sport of quidditch and battles the villain Lord Voldemort. Rowling's original book was a smash hit and Potter became an international fad, with parents and children standing in line for the release of sequels. Says Rowling about Harry Potter, "I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea before. I didn't have a functioning pen with me, and I was too shy to ask anybody, if I could borrow one. I think, now, that this was probably a good thing, because I simply sat and thought, for four (delayed train) hours, and all the details bubbled up in my brain, and this scrawny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who didn't know he was a wizard became more and more real to me.
Unemployed and living on state benefits, she completed her first novel. She did her work in numerous cafes and wrote the manuscript on a manual typewriter finally it was done. And she covered the first three chapters in a nice plastic folder and set them off to an agent, who returned them so fast they must have been sent back the same day they arrived. But the second agent she tried wrote back and asked to see the rest of the manuscript. It was far and away the best letter she had ever received in her life, and it was only two sentences long.
It took a year for her new agent, Christopher, to find a publisher. Lots of them turned it down. Then, finally, in August 1996, Christopher telephoned her and told her that Bloomsbury had 'made an offer.'
Rowling was born in Yate, near Bristol, a few miles south of a town called Dursley on 31 July 1965. Her father Peter Rowling was an engineer for Rolls Royce.
The worst thing that happened during her teenage years was her mother was diagnosed with . Rowling left her wyedean secondary school in 1983 and went to study at the University of Exeter, on the south coast of England, she studied French. multiple sclerosis, which is a disease of the central nervous system. Rowling left her wyedean secondary school in 1983 and went to study at the University of Exeter, on the south coast of England, she studied French.
After leaving university she worked in London.
On December 30, 1990, Rowling’s mother succumbed to the 10-year battle with the disease. Rowling commented, “I was writing Harry Potter at the moment my mother died. This death heavily affected her writing and that she introduced much detail about Harry's loss in the first book, because she knew about how it felt.
Rowling married Portuguese television journalist Jorge Arantes on 1992. They had one child, Jessica. Unfortunately they separated in November 1993.
The seventh and final book'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows', of the series was released on July, 2007 and became fastest-selling book.All seven volumes of the Harry Potter series, one for each of Harry's school years, have broken sales records.
Rowling has stated that she plans to continue writing after the publication of the final Harry Potter book. In an interview published on July 2007, Rowling said that she wants to dedicate "lots" of her time to her family, but is currently sort of writing "two things", one for children and the other for adults.
The other face of Rowling is that she has actively contributed money and support for research and treatment of multiple sclerosis, for a society called Multiple Sclerosis Society Scotland, as her mother died because of this disease.
Recently she received the order of British Empire for her contributions to literature.

Invaluable Time

There are a lot of valuable things in this world - property, possessions, work and so forth. But the most valuable thing is time. Like an arrow shot from a bow, it never returns. It is something you cannot onto and it is impossible to recapture.
“Now” lasts only for an instant; by the time you have said “now”, that now has already passed and you will never be able to catch it again. That is the nature of time. It is precisely that nature that makes time so valuable. You can always get another job and you can always get new possessions, but you can never recapture time.
It is in the nature of youth to easily forget the value of time. Being young means that you have a lot of time ahead of you, so you might think that there is nothing wrong with wasting a little time. That is not the case, however. I compared time to an arrow to emphasize the fact that it never returns, but I also used that comparison to stress the fact that time flies, and it flies, and it flies as fast as an arrow.
Success and failure depend entirely on how you spend your time. Perhaps two people may succeed at the same thing, but of the two, the person who uses time wisely will be more successful in terms of the quality and amount success.
Days are too short for me. I wish they were 30 or 40 hours long.
A great deal of the driving force that propelled Resonance into what it is today is our respect for and use of time. Although at Resonance we began relatively late in comparison to Kota’s other coaching, our greatest powers are youth and time. Because we are young, we are creative, determined and oriented towards intellectual growth and expansion. Our rapid growth was possible because we knew the value of time and because we were willing to make sacrifices for the future.
A lot of people refer to our spectacular growth over the last 6 years as a miracle, but there are some people who are skeptical. What I have to say to such people, however is that we do not calculate in terms of 6 years.
We actually worked doubled the time of other coaching.
We often have meetings after work that last well into the night, so we wound up sleeping in same thoughts.
We worked hard, and twice as long as others, so in that sense we accomplished in 6 years what another would accomplish in 12 years. Any institution that worked as hard as we did could accomplish the same thing, and if they did not, there would be something wrong somewhere.
The day is 24 hours long for everybody. The difference lies in how you utilize those 24 hours. If a person works or studies three times longer than another person in a single day, then he is three days ahead of the other person. Of course, more important than the actual time volume is the quality of productive time in terms of the person’s life.
Use time wisely. Each moment comes only once, and something that comes only once is precious. More importantly, time, when you are young is more valuable, three or four times more valuable than time when you are old. How you spend your time as a youth determines the quality and standards for the rest of your life. youth determines the quality and standards for the rest of your life.
Life was sufficiently long, and if you used your time effectively, it was long enough to accomplish something great. But if you wasted life in dissipation and laziness, and did not live for something worthwhile, you would later realize that it was already too late. It was not that life was short by nature, but that we made it short by wasting time. Somebody can amass a fortune, but if he is not careful with it, he can lose it in an instant. Another person may have comparatively little, but if he is careful with it he can maintain it for a long time and even increase its value. The same Principle applies to time.
Life is too precious to waste. Always be doing something. There are not many things worse than wasting time and doing nothing. Do not take even a moment for granted, for things are built upon the accumulation of moments.
As young people, you should know how to invest time. An hour invested at your age can result in great dividends.
So invest all your sweat and effort. Use all of your time wisely. As I said before, there are many valuables in this life, but nothing is more valuable than time.

IIT Success Story

Science and technology has captured the imagination of the people of India. The success stories of the high tech entrepreneurs have further spurned the interests of Indian Americans who have made a great impact with their contributions to the field of science and technology.
We were pleasantly to see so many India born women holding those coveted positions. Out of those one renowned name is Mrs. Vinita Gupta.
Vinita Gupta was born in India. She completed her B.E. in Electronics and Communication from the Indian institute of technology, Roorkee in 1973.
She came to the United States in 1974 and earned her Master's degree of science in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, and degree in General Management from the University of Santa Clara in 1976.
Vinita has also acquired a legendary reputation as a woman entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley and is a role model to many aspiring entrepreneurs.
From March 1978 to February 1985, Mrs. Gupta held various engineering management positions at Bell Northern Research Incorporated, (now part of Nortel Networks).
Vinita Gupta's entrepreneurial career has been characterized by risk taking, perseverance, and the ability to dive in and grasp new business disciplines. Mrs. Gupta started Digital Link, a high tech design and manufacturing company in telecommunications in 1985. Under her able leadership, Digital Link grew as a very successful company, which is now known as Quick Eagle Networks Incorporated. She served as the CEO of the company.
At present Vinita Gupta is the President, CEO, and COO of Quick Eagle Networks. As the founder and CEO, she has been credited with being the first Indian-origin-woman to take her company public in 1994.
Quick Eagle has continued to expand manifold with its office in India too. Her success speaks highly of her shrewd business sense, a thorough understanding of the telecommunication market and remarkable administrative acumen.
Achievements:
Vinita has received several prestigious awards and recognition for her leadership in entrepreneurship. The San Francisco Business Times awarded her the Women in Leadership Award in 1998 and the Working Women's magazine named Quick Eagle Networks Incorporated amongst the Top 500 Women Owned Businesses in the United States in 1998. The Silicon Valley Journal named her amongst the Top Women in Business in 2001.
IIT Roorkee honored Mrs. Vinita Gupta with Distinguished Alumnus Award on Fifth Annual Convocation on 21st September, 2005.Vinita Gupta has a legendary reputation as a woman entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley. While active in Silicon Valley business, Mrs. Gupta still makes time to help the causes in her community that are important to her. For instance, Mrs. Gupta is supporting the Asian Pacific Fund as one out of many charities because she values the work, the Fund is doing to help the community and to help others give back. For this noble cause she has been rewarded for philanthropic activities by the Asia Pacific Fund. Her concern for women, especially of South Asian origin, is reflected by her committed involvement as Chief Patron in MAITRI, an organization for the welfare of such women. She holds the Chair of Research Institute of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, California. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad.business, Mrs. Gupta still makes time to help the causes in her community that are important to her. For instance, Mrs. Gupta is supporting the Asian Pacific Fund as one out of many charities because she values the work, the Fund is doing to help the community and to help others give back. For this noble cause she has been rewarded for philanthropic activities by the Asia Pacific Fund. Her concern for women, especially of South Asian origin, is reflected by her committed involvement as Chief Patron in MAITRI, an organization for the welfare of such women. She holds the Chair of Research Institute of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, California. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Indian School of Business at Hyderabad.
Vinita Gupta believes that "Women have a nurturing instinct which I think makes them prime candidates for the CEO position," About woman being disadvantaged Gupta says "Everyone has some disadvantage. For some it is their color, for others it may be their national origin. But we should not worry about that. When I was speaking to VCs to raise funds for my first venture, I was pregnant. Yet I was successful."
Vinita Gupta has brought glory to the name of our country. She has made a distinct position among all the successful Indo-American women entrepreneurs.

Vinita Gupta holds two US Patents : One for "solid state relay," issued in 1984, And an other one for the "square root circuit," issued in 1986.

SOLID STATE RELAY Abstract

A solid state relay provides for a discontinuous transfer contact function. The solid state relay includes a first field effect transistor (FET) in a first switch, and second and third FETs in a second switch. The first and second FETs are each connected with AC responsive bias circuits for biasing the respective FETs into a non conductive condition. A control circuit operates the first and second switches to provide a transfer contact function. In a switching transition between a supply of a talking battery via the second switch, to a telephone line, to a supply of a ringing battery line via the first switch to the telephone line, the third FET is operated to increase impedance between the talking battery supply and the second FET, to permit AC voltage from the ringing battery supply to bias the second FET OFF.

It's Great to be on TIME!

Recognizing People

Sonia Gandhi, Laxmi Mittal and Indra Nooyi are in the 2007 Time 100 list of influential people. Assembled by Time magazine, the list features 100 men and women whose power, talent and moral example is transforming the world.


Time is a weekly American news magazine. Created in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, Time has more than 173 million readers all across the world. Henry Luce's idea for Time was to explain the news through the people who make it. The Time 100 list was first published in the year 1999, when Time magazine named the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. At the core of the Time 100 is the idea that individuals - by virtue of their character, their drives and their dreams change the worlds and make history. The list has been developed as a result of a debate among several academics. The list is totally based on the popularity of the installment.
In the year 2007, Time 100 list, Managing Editor Richard Stengel explained that the Time 100 is not a list of the hottest, most popular or most powerful people, but rather the most influential people. The time 100 is now a much anticipated annual issue, in its fifth year. We divide our choices into five categories : Leaders & Revolutionaries, Builders & Titans, Artist & Entertainers, Scientist & Thinkers and Heroes & Pioneers.

Sonia Gandhi's rapid rise in the political arena highlights an interesting aspect of Indian politics - In a country, where Hindus account for a majority of the population; Indian voters have not hesitated to embrace a foreigner.
When the National Congress party won the election in 2004, the party offered the prime minister's position to her but she refused that powerful post, she said that after listening to the prompting of her "Inner voice" she was turning the position down, she had no desire to occupy the Prime Minister's position. It was a gesture that was, well Gandhian. And it solidify her hold on power.
Even when the US couldn't be thought to be run by an Indian Hindu woman without a college degree as the US has never elected any one who is not Christian and male -even as vice president but India which is even bigger democracy is run in all but name by an Italian catholic widow with a high school education. In the 16 years since the assassination of her husband Rajiv, Sonia Gandhi has become the face of country's most famous family. For ordinary Indians, her act of renunciation held tremendous mythic resonance.
Sonia successfully adopted her mother-in-law's mannerism and style in warming her way to large crowds which had turned up at her election rallies.
Mrs. Gandhi also has an interest in literature and writing. She has published two books about her late husband, and edited two volumes of letters exchanged between Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
Sonia's most lasting legacy may lie in her children, Rahul and Priyanka, one of whom may well become India's Prime minister someday, ascending to the office that their mother has - thus far - spurned.

With a spirit of hard work and dedication, Laxmi N. Mittal has became the Chairman and CEO of Arcelor Mittal Steel Company, the world's largest steel producing company and has been responsible for the strategic direction and development of its businesses.
Mittal recollects his tough times when his $31 billion bid to buy Arcelor had created an international furore. It was a measure of his determination and dedication of how he dealt with the situation and came out successfully. After the merger between Mittal Steel and Arcelor, his company is now the largest steel maker in the world. Laxmi Mittal currently controls 10% of the total steel production and the combined entity that has come into force post-merger is three times the size of its nearest competitors. Mittal's wealth and power came from achieving his dream of consolidating the global steel industry.
Laxmi Mittal is also known for his opulence. For last three consecutive years, he has been the richest person in the United Kingdom. Operating in 60 countries with 320,000 employees, the Indian born, British based steel magnate is reported as the 5th wealthiest person in the world by Forbes Magazine in March 2007. His house is said to be the world's most expensive home, it uses marble taken from the same quarry that supplied the Taj Mahal. Mittal is famously generous and charitable, although he has given millions of dollars without fanfare to tsunami relief and other causes.
Mittal's story is far from finished. His company is in the early stages of penetrating the world's largest market, China and is not yet involved in Russia or Japan or a number of emerging market nations - enough reasons to turn any one green with envy.




It didn't come as a surprise to many when Indra Nooyi was appointed CEO of PepsiCo, a quintessentially American company making quintessentially American products, whose 40% of $35.1 billion sales of beverages, food and snacks account from beyond the US and most of the company's growth is overseas. As Pepsi's strategist Nooyi helped position PepsiCo for growth in China, the middle East and her native India." I am a global thinker in everything I do," she says.
Her vision is performance with a purpose.
Born in October 28, 1955 in Chennai, Nooyi, grew up in India. She took a B.S. in 1974 and PGDBA from IIM-Calcutta, 1976 and the Masters of Public and Private Management at the Yale School of Management in US. Before joining PepsiCo she worked for many Corporate giants including Asia Brown Boveri, Motorola and New York's Lincoln.
She has been behind the $3.3 billion-dollar-deal for the purchase of the Tropicana orange-juice brand. She was named as Chief Financial Officer in 2001. While at PepsiCo, Indra Nooyi has played a vital role in starting Tricon, which is currently now known as Yum! Brands Inc.
Indra Nooyi ranked No.1 on Forbes magazine's annual survey of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
We can learn two most important lessons of life from her success. First, you can be a working mother and climb the corporate ladder while raising kids (Indra has two). Second, you can get ahead in the American corporate environment without sacrificing who you are culturally. She attributes much of her success to her upbringing in India. Being a woman, being foreign-born, you've got to be smarter than anyone else.
Indra Nooyi recounted a learning experience when she was a graduate student at Yale University. She purchased a
$50 business suit from the local budget store and attended a job interview looking like “the ultimate country bumpkin” in her ill-fitting clothes. And as expected she didn't qualify the interview. When she consulted her Career Development Counselor about her sartorial snafu, he advised her to wear a sari for her next interview. He assured, if they can't accept you in a sari, it's their loss, not yours. She recalled that she not only wore a sari for her next interview with a very prestigious management consulting firm and clinched the job, but continued to wear them to work all summer and did just fine. She insists, “Never hide what makes you.”
According to Nooyi, success is not money, prestige or power because net worth can never define self worth. True success is being happy with yourself, & being fulfilled. And that comes from devoting your time, your life, to doing what you love the most. Success Mantra:
Be yourself
Aim high and put your heart into it
Never stop learning
Keep an open mind
Maintain effective communication
Clarity and conciseness

Sky is the Limit

‘No Arms, No Legs, No Worries!’

“I know that there is no such thing as luck, chance or coincidence for ‘bad’ things
which happen in our life. I had complete peace knowing that God won’t let anything happen to us in our life unless He has a good purpose for it at all”.
- Nick Vujic

These highly inspiring lines are given by a motivational speaker Nick Vujic. At the first look nothing is special in these lines but what is most interesting is the reality behind, that Nick vujic was born without limbs. As you can imagine, he faced many challenges and obstacles for survival.
On the morning of the 4th of December 1982 Nick’s parent were shocked! Their firstborn son had been born without limbs! Nick’s parents had strong concern and evident fears of what kind of life he would be able to lead.
There were a few people who assumed that because of Nick’s physical disability it meant that he would also be mentally disabled. The law in Australia didn’t allow Nick to be integrated into a main-stream school. God did miracles and gave his mother the strength to fight for the law to be changed. Nick Vujicic was one of the first disabled students to be integrated into a main-stream school.
Nick liked going to school, and just tried to live life like everyone else. But it was in his early years of school where he encountered uncomfortable times of feeling rejected and was bullied because of his physical difference. According to Nick ‘One of the most difficult things to do is to be happy with what God gives you, be it your body, your money, or the people around you’.
Due to his emotional struggles a passion of sharing his story and experiences has implanted in him to help others cope with whatever challenge they have in their life. Nick truly believed that God would heal him so he could be a great testimony of His Awesome Power. Later on he was given the wisdom to understand that if we pray for something, if it’s God’s will, it’ll happen in His time. If it’s not God’s will then He has something better.
Nick says I am 26 years old now and have completed a Bachelor of Commerce majoring in Financial planning and Accounting. I am also a motivational speaker and love to go out and share my story and testimony wherever opportunities become available. I have developed talks to relate to and encourage students through topics that challenge today’s teenagers. I am also a speaker in the corporate sector. I have many dreams and goals that I have set to achieve in my life. In recent years, Nick has learnt to become independent and can now take care of all his personal needs.
Remember, Nick’s story is all about being optimistic towards your life. God has blessed you with so many qualities it’s only you who can make use of your capabilities.

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Reso Flight To Stanford

Ms. Amrita Mittal Reso Roll No. 112 (F1) Session 2001-03 IIT-JEE Rank - 1757 B.Tech.- IIT-Kanpur, 2007 Currently doing MS from Stanford university California (USA)

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I hope you remember me. I was first in A and then F1 batch at Resonance from 2001-03. Ashna and I used to stay right opposite to Resonance's first building. How are you? Hope you are very good. I have been trying to contact you and inform you about myself but couldn't get your email id earlier. I have graduted from IIT K in Aerospace engg. this year and am now pursuing M.S. at Stanford university, California. I wish to thank you for providing me with the base of the platform that I today stand on. My family fondly remembers you and whenever I feel low, my mother often reminds me of you and your song, "ruk jaana nahi". Thank you sir.

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email sent by Ms. Amrita Mittal to Our Managing Director
RKV Sir at contact@resonance.ac.in on 03.01.08.

Sanchay

Who invented the biometric system ?
The use of biometric technology, which utilizes body characteristics to identify a person, goes back to the ancient civilizations of Egypt and china. However, modern-day biometrics has evolved thanks to the contribution of several minds, Joao De Barros, a European explorer is credited with recording the first known system of fingerprinting in the 14th century. Alphonse Beritillon, a policeman from Paris, studied body smechanics in an effort to identify criminals. In recent years, John Daugman, a physicist, has done pioneering work in developing the biometric iris accuracy. Biometric systems are being used to help nab terrorists. Pakistan recently installed biometric systems at its border to keep a check on cross-border militancy from Afganistan.

What is photometry ?
Photometry is a Physics terms related to the visibility of an object through the eyes. It is the study of factors responsible for the sensation of brightness sensed by the eye. An object is visible when light coming from the object enters the eyes and creates the sensation responsible for vision. The brightness sensed by the eye depends on different factors. Photometry is the study of these factors and used to make a photometer which is usually used to compare intensities of two point sources.

Why is the heart, not any other organ, the focus of all love stories?
Faster or stronger (or even irregular) hear beats are the most evident physical sign of any emotion we experience, not of love alone. Looking into the brain requires sophisticated instrumentation. Hence the millennia - old belief of lay persons that the heart is the seat of all emotions.

What is the fifth state of matter ?
The fifth state of matters is the Bose-Einstein condensate. In 1920, Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose had done some calculations for the fifth state of matter. Albert Einstein predicted a new state of matter - the Bose - Einstein condensate (BEC). In 2001, Eric A Carnell, Wolfgang Ketterle and Carl E Williams of the US received the Nobel Prize in Physics for achieving the Bose- Einstein condensation which is formed by cooling a gas of extremely low density to super low temperatures.

When was the system of visas introduced ?
A visa (short for the Latin carta visa, meaning 'the document having been seen') is issued by a country giving an individual permission to formally request entrance to the country during a given period of time and for certain purposes. It is mostly stamped or glued inside a passport, or sometimes issued as separate pieces of paper. An early reference is found in the biblical book of Nehemiah, circa 450 B.C. Nehemiah, an official serving King Artaxerxes of ancient Persia, asked permission to travel to Judah. The king agreed and gave Nehemiaha letter 'to the governors beyond the river'. As per the current format of passports, blank pages are given for foreign countries to affix visas, or stamp the passport on entrance or exit.

Who is the youngest Nobel prize recipient ?
The youngest person to receive a Nobel prize was Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Physics, 1915). Bragg and his father, Sir William Henry Bragg, won the award jointly for their work with X-ray spectra, X-ray diffraction and crystal structure.

Who has won more than one Nobel prize ?
Marie Curie won the Nobel prize in 1903 for Physics and 1911 in Chemistry; Linus Pauling in 1954 (for Chemistry) and 1962 (for Peace); John Bardeen in 1956 (for Physics) and 1972; frederick Sanger in Chemistry in 1958 and 1980. Apart from these individual prizes, the Peace prize has been awarded to the International Red Cross Committee thrice (1917, 1944 and 19630 and the United nations High Commission for refugees won it twice in 1954 and 1981.

"Hello! I am Vivek" --- You Hold The Key

Vivek Jhunjhunwala
IIT-JEE 2007 AIR (14)
Reso Roll No. 516241
IIT-Bombay - Com. Sc. & Engg.

The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are an elite group of seven autonomous engineering and technology oriented institutes of higher education. They are established and declared as Institutes of National Importance by the Government of India.
In order of establishment, the seven IITs are located at Kharagpur, Mumbai (Bombay), Chennai (Madras), Kanpur, Delhi, Guwahati, and Roorkee.
IITs conduct a Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) every year for the admission to its
B.Tech. and other courses offered at various IITs, IT-BHU Varanasi and ISM Dhanbad. Preparing for the IIT-JEE requires determination, devotion, perseverance and above all guidance.
We talked to Vivek Jhunjhunwala, a student of 2007 batch of Resonance, to delve his success secrets in IIT-JEE 2007.
Q. What is required to get into IIT?
Ans. Strong will power, dedication, determination to win, focusing on the goal and lots of hard work is required to get into IIT .

Q. How much time did you devote on an average for your preparation?
Ans. Usually I used to devote 8-9 hours including classes.

Q. What are the important topics for special attention?
Ans. All topics of all the three subjects are equally important; a vague idea can be gained by looking at the old JEE papers.

Q. How does one cope up with the school syllabus and preparation for the IIT-JEE? Did you take extra efforts to prepare for board examination?
Ans. If one has covered the syllabus of
IIT-JEE, it will be quite easy to cover up the remaining portion, but of course one has to take extra efforts to cover up that portion which is not included in the IIT-JEE syllabus. It can be easily done during the exams itself.

Q. How many questions one should attempt to get into IIT? How tough would be the paper?
Ans. One cannot decide before examination that how many questions he/she is going to attempt. It is totally depends on the toughness of the paper and the strategy that one applies during that crucial time of examination. As we have seen that in the year 2007 the toughness level of IIT-JEE was greatly reduced so one can expect relatively easier paper than what used to come earlier.

Q. How important is emotional quotient in preparation for IIT-JEE. Please explain?
Ans. One has to be emotionally strong during preparations as well as at the time of examination because it is highly essential that the person should be able to answer everything that he had learnt. Anxiety or nervousness in such critical time will surely affect the results and to overcome such situations one had to build up enough confidence.

Q. Give some tips for increasing one's productivity while studying?
Ans. Always sleep well, eats well and be cool and composed. Do not overburden yourself with unwanted tension, and when you are not studying try to remain calm.

Q. How did you refresh yourself from the hectic schedule?
Ans. At the beginning I used to watch movies and listen songs, but later on I avoided this habit because whenever I used to study thereafter, I could not properly concentrate on my studies. So the best option would be playing some games. It will surely refresh you.

Q. To whom you want to give the credit of your achievement? To what extent do you think your family had contributed in your success?
Ans. I want to give the credit to my parents, my siblings Hemant and Sonia, my friends, Resonance and also to myself. My family had a great contribution in my success. Whenever I lost focus, I always found my family to support me, they were my backbone, without them I could have no way to achieve my goal.

Q. What is your Success mantra?
Ans. Always keep yourself up-to-date with what teachers have been taught in the classes. Revise all the three subjects and DPPs at the same day, and never lose focus.

Q. Give some advice to your successors at Resonance who are preparing for
IIT-JEE?
Ans. One piece of advice I will certainly give is that keep faith in the institute, don't try to point out what is not taught here. The best will be you learn sincerely what is taught and the best results will await you.