<p>Satyam Kumar, a Bihar farmer's son who is just 13-years old, has cleared the fiercely competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for which 150,000 candidates had appeared this year.<br /><br />Satyam, who passed his class 12 exam last year, secured an impressive all-India rank of 679.</p>.<p>"We are proud of him. He has done something special at this age," Satyam's father Sidhnath Singh, a farmer, told IANS.<br /><br />IIT-JEE (Advanced) results for admission into IITs were declared Friday.<br /><br />According to IIT-JEE website, Sahal Kaushik from Delhi was the youngest person to have cracked the exam in 2010 at the age of 14. But now this record is held by Satyam. <br /><br />"Now Satyam is the youngest to crack the IIT-JEE," an IIT official said.<br /><br />Satyam, who hails from Bakhorapur village in Bhojpur district, had last year qualified for admission into IIT at the age of 12-and-a-half years after he got a special permission from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). He had then secured an all-India rank of 8,137.<br /><br />Not satisfied with his low rank, he appeared for the IIT-JEE preliminary examination this year again and qualified. <br /><br />"Satyam has improved his rank by his hard work and determination," his father said.<br />He appeared for the entrance examination in Kota, Rajasthan, where he had been studying. He was one of the 150,000 candidates who appeared for the examination this year.<br /><br />Earlier, Satyam Kumar had said he wanted to establish a software company on the lines of social networking website Facebook.</p>
<p>Satyam Kumar, a Bihar farmer's son who is just 13-years old, has cleared the fiercely competitive Indian Institute of Technology-Joint Entrance Examination (IIT-JEE) for which 150,000 candidates had appeared this year.<br /><br />Satyam, who passed his class 12 exam last year, secured an impressive all-India rank of 679.</p>.<p>"We are proud of him. He has done something special at this age," Satyam's father Sidhnath Singh, a farmer, told IANS.<br /><br />IIT-JEE (Advanced) results for admission into IITs were declared Friday.<br /><br />According to IIT-JEE website, Sahal Kaushik from Delhi was the youngest person to have cracked the exam in 2010 at the age of 14. But now this record is held by Satyam. <br /><br />"Now Satyam is the youngest to crack the IIT-JEE," an IIT official said.<br /><br />Satyam, who hails from Bakhorapur village in Bhojpur district, had last year qualified for admission into IIT at the age of 12-and-a-half years after he got a special permission from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). He had then secured an all-India rank of 8,137.<br /><br />Not satisfied with his low rank, he appeared for the IIT-JEE preliminary examination this year again and qualified. <br /><br />"Satyam has improved his rank by his hard work and determination," his father said.<br />He appeared for the entrance examination in Kota, Rajasthan, where he had been studying. He was one of the 150,000 candidates who appeared for the examination this year.<br /><br />Earlier, Satyam Kumar had said he wanted to establish a software company on the lines of social networking website Facebook.</p>