A city prodigy, Nischal Narayana, 15, has become the youngest person ever to clear the tough-as-nails Integrated Professional Competence Course, a crucial hurdle in Chartered Accountancy. Blessed with a superpower memory and razor sharp mind, Nischal also holds a doubleGuinness World Record — for memorising random objects in 2006 and for memorising numbers in 2009.
Nischal, now a B.Com second year student at the
“As Nischal has completed IGCSE (Class X equivalent), AS level (Class XI equivalent) and A level (Class XII equivalent) in one year from the
“IPCC has seven subjects, of which some are practical and some theory,” says Nischal in a matter of fact tone. “I had to prepare a lot for practicals.”
Nischal also adds that he studied for 14 hours a day in the month before the exams and five to six hours a day in the months before. “I am very happy as it gave immense happiness to my parents,” adds the teenager, who likes to work hard instead of resting on the laurels of his records.
Interestingly, this time only 18 per cent of the candidates who appeared for IPCC cleared the exam. Nischal took coaching at the Digvijay Institute and he was felicitated there on Wednesday evening. But mentors hesitate to claim credit for his success, for obvious reasons.
“I only helped in planning and background work as I did not know the subject,” said his mother, accompanied by his beaming father, Mr N. Srinivasa Rao.
Nischal has also designed a Math Lab project which is being used in 50,000 schools across the globe and has been made part of the curriculum of government schools in
He has been acting as mentor of the Nischal Smart Learning Solutions since January 2010 which has been designingeducational products.
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