55% Made it to IIT without any coaching Mumbai: Each student who makes it to the hallowed Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) serves as a golden ticket for countless IIT-JEE coaching classes who advertise their success to catch more students. But digest this: information from tech colleges reveals that 55% of those who cleared the JEE in 2008 prepared for the exam on their own steam.

The IITs ask every student who takes JEE whether he prepared for the test ‘‘on his own or via other methods’’. This includes classroom series, distance learning, referring to tutorial notes or appearing for mock tests.

From - Times Of India