Having experienced the difficulties in the journey of an IIT Aspirant myself, I made up my mind to be JEE Mentor during my Class 12 IIT JEE preparation. I was keen to help my juniors and share my learning experience.

I started part time teaching during second year of my Bachelors in Civil Engineering from IIT Roorkee, one of the finest colleges in Asia in Civil Engineering. During my stay at IIT Roorkee, I interviewed numerous Batch mates and Juniors to understand the common traits of all IIT Aspirants. Since then I have tried to impart those little but very effective habits in my students which have helped them to crack one of the toughest examinations at higher secondary level. I was placed in Oracle India Pvt. Ltd. Hyderabad during college placements. After a short span of six months, I joined Patil Rail Infrastructure Pvt. Ltd. and had a chance to work at leading Metro Projects in the country. Side by side, I was giving part time coaching to students for IIT JEE. Initially, it was difficult to convince my family to leave the lucrative corporate career and join full time coaching. But finally with everyone’s support I quit my job and started teaching full time for IIT JEE Mathematics.

Teaching on different mediums.

Since I had already been teaching part time, it was a very smooth official entry in coaching industry. Working at various institutes gave me an insight to IIT JEE coaching industry from teaching as well as managerial point of view. Most of the coaching institutes have single minded approach to grow business and care only the top batch students. I, on the other hand, had great affection towards average students. I saw myself in them and decided to get out of the typical culture of coaching industry. I opened up my own coaching institute in my hometown where all the students were welcomed. We had a very different teaching pedagogy where all the students were helped to achieve the desired ranks.

It had initial hiccups, as every start up has, but our team had phenomenal results in the next fours years and we were the top institute for IIT JEE in the region. But still I felt, I was not able to help as many students as I should. I had already been uploading some educational videos on my Youtube Channel “Maths Wallah” as a hobby. I had also started a website www.vineetloomba.com to help students with study material. It was time to use the technology therefore I used these two platforms to reach more students online.

Becoming the top educator at digital platform, Unacademy.

I started uploading more videos and content regularly on both the platforms. In November 2017, I was contacted by Unacademy team to make videos on their platform. It was quite easy to make videos in the Unacademy app. So I started recording videos chapter by chapter. Soon students started giving 5 star reviews. Likes and appreciations were giving me a lot of motivation to make more and more videos regularly. Within few months, I was one of the Top Educators in the IIT JEE Category. I particularly cherish the period in 2019 when I was on No. 1 position in IIT JEE for many months. Today all the content for IIT JEE Mathematics has been recorded and available free on my Unacademy Profile.

Thousands of students learn daily from these videos. Also, I teach live on Unacademy and I am very much satisfied with helping numerous students throughout the country. I intend to make the journey of every IIT aspirant, be it an average student or a topper, easy and enjoyable. I always teach from the basics and gradually build up the concepts taking them to JEE Advanced level which helps the students to achieve desired ranks without any extra stress. Unacademy has always appreciated my hard work since beginning. Two particular appreciations are close to my heart, the trophy for crossing million views and Educator of the month awards. Technology has really helped me to make a difference in the lives of thousands of IIT aspirants and I wish to continue the same in future. Teaching as a career is an excellent option. All you need to do is follow it passionately with all the positivity in your heart, love and care for your students and an ever learning attitude.