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80-year-old engineer appears for IIT entrance exam

80-year-old engineer appears for IIT entrance exam
Written by Lahari Basu
Jun 07, 2022, 05:24 pm 2 min read
80-year-old engineer appears for IIT entrance exam
Nandakumar K. Menon attended month-long classes to prepare for this exam. (Photo credit: The Hindu)

When 80-year-old Nandakumar K. Menon appeared for an entrance exam, he had to convince the guards at the exam center in Kochi that he was an examinee and not someone's guardian! The engineer passed a tough qualification process to appear for the entrance exam of the IIT Madras-offered online course in programming and data science. Doesn't this inspire you to chase your dreams?

Preparation
Menon followed a strict study schedule

To prepare for the exam, Menon would wake up at 5:30 am every morning and study till night. Along with his son Sethu Nandakumar, a lawyer based in the UAE, he attended month-long classes in four subjects--Data processing, Mathematics, Statistics, and English. However, his son, who is pursuing a doctorate in space laws, could not qualify for the entrance exam.

Exam experience
It was worth an experience: Menon

They appeared for weekly exams of all four subjects and one had to score a minimum of 50% marks in all of them to qualify for Sunday's entrance exam. Menon told The Hindu how over 90% of the candidates at the exam center were youth. "I rummaged through what I learned over 50 years ago and answered questions...It was worth an experience," he said.

Passion
Engineering was always a passion for Menon

Menon yearned to become an engineer since he was a little boy, gaining inspiration from India's first engineer M. Visvesvaraya. Growing up with financial difficulties, Menon graduated from the College of Engineering Trivandrum, and later completed post-graduation in Cryogenic Engineering from Syracuse University, US, under a NASA-sponsored scholarship. Giving up his Green Card, he returned to India and works as an engineer here.

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Having worked in the media industry for six years, Lahari currently writes Lifestyle stories for NewsBytes. Before this, she worked with Microsoft News and Dainik Bhaskar group. An avid traveller, home cook, crocheter, and movie buff, Lahari is always on the lookout for good food, colourful yarns, innovative and thoughtful cinema, and cats! With words as a weapon, nature as strength, optimism as fuel, and an undying thirst for discovery, she is out on a lifelong journey to seek and experience the unknown.
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