Imagine this.
Your biggest exam is 3 months away.
And suddenly… your lung collapses.
You can't sit up. Can't attend class. Can't even read properly — because your vision is already 70% gone.
That was Gunjan Kumar's October 2025.
JEE Advanced was January.
Gunja is a homemaker from Sitamarhi, Bihar.
B.Ed in hand. Years away from a classroom.
But her son was bedridden in Kota with pneumothorax — a collapsed left lung caused by lifting something too heavy.
So she did the only thing a mother could.
She became his classmate.
Physics. Chemistry. Math.
All re-taught by a mom rediscovering student life so her son wouldn't fall behind.
Gunjan wears spectacles of 9.5 power. Over 70% vision loss.
Most people wouldn't attempt JEE. He attempted the hardest version of it.
And the numbers?
👉 91.8 percentile in JEE Main
👉 PWD OBC Rank 50 in JEE Advanced
👉 Common PWD Rank 120
That's a score serious enough to unlock the holy grail of Indian engineering seats — Computer Science at IIT Delhi. The branch every Kota kid quietly dreams about.
He cracked it. From a bed. With borrowed eyes and borrowed lungs.
Back in 2023, Gunjan watched a video of Mridul Agrawal — ALLEN's student who topped both JEE Main and Advanced in 2021.
Something clicked.
He convinced his parents, packed his bags, and moved to the coaching capital of India.
His father is an engineer with the Border Roads Organisation.
His younger brother? Also in Kota right now. Also chasing JEE.
One family. One dream. Two shots at it.
In his own words after the result:
"Examinations test not only knowledge but also courage."
And his mother's line hits even harder:
"My son's dream is my dream."
We talk a lot about grit, hustle, 10x mindset.
But sometimes the real story isn't the topper on stage.
It's the woman in the next room, quietly rewinding a physics lecture for the fourth time — because her son can't see the screen.
That's not coaching. That's love doing the coaching.
That's all for now!
