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170 students of Bihar’s Rahmani Program of Excellence have qualified the national Joint Entrance Examination (JEE Mains) 2020 breaking their own record of 2019 despite innumerable troubles due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rahmani Program of Excellence, a unit of Rahmani Foundation, has been a breakthrough educational initiative to address the Muslim community’s socio-economic lag caused due to low or no education. The program, a brainchild of Maulana Mohammad Wali Rahmani expressed his gratitude to the consistent guidance of Abhayanand (Ex. DGP Bihar), and to the continuous efforts of team leadership comprising the faculty, management and staff.
Other than the remarkable number of qualifications, Rehan Khan achieved the All India Rank of 311 and General EWS rank of 36, while Mohammad Jabir achieved the category rank of 86 and Zishan Khatib 344 respectively, and Junaid scored 100 percentile on Physics.
Speaking about the tough times during the pandemic, Maulana Rahmani explained that as schools and universities shut down owing to government guidelines, Rahmani Foundation was no different in suffering the massive aftereffects of COVID19. He said that the closing down of institutional premises instantly created a feeling of confusion, lack of interest, and hopelessness among all its students. With sincere efforts and quick planning, the Foundation moved its instructional sessions and teaching online since April.
However, due to the lack of smartphones and even lesser accessibility of the internet, it was difficult for students to access the e-learning environment, explains Maulana Rahmani. Consequently, the program faculty became proactive in ensuring that the majority of students had at least a borrowed phone on which they could attend lectures, and be provided with regular counseling sessions. Despite all of these efforts, the program facilitators report that there was a noticeable lag in the performance in a good number of students. Decent devices, stable internet connectivity, and electricity remained a challenge throughout the process.
JEE Mains, which is conducted twice every year by the National Testing Agency (NTA), usually records approximately ten lakh in each session but this year due to COVID-19, about eight lakh students participated in the delayed September session.
While more details are being analyzed about the Rahmani program students’ results, Maulana Rahmani maintains that this result could not have been realized had the students and their parents not partnered and cooperated with the institution, especially given its different model of education and training that seeks to transform students into learners.