Archive · 16 Aug 2026
IIT student's journey from fearing science to Physics perfect score
There was a boy named Aryan who grew up in the city of Surat.
When he was 16, he was scared of science and looked for a career that would not need it.
With help from his mother and some wise people, he decided to give science a real try.
His teacher told him to love learning the science itself and not just study for exams.
Aryan worked hard, and soon the subjects became genuinely fun for him.
He scored full marks in Physics in the big JEE Main exam, which is very hard to do.
That helped him get into a famous engineering college called IIT Guwahati.
At college, he joined drama clubs, performed on big cultural stages, and helped his college win its best-ever prize in an all-IIT contest.
His story shows that being scared of a subject at first does not mean you cannot fall in love with it and succeed.
Aryan Sandeep Gupta, a 21-year-old final-year Data Science and AI student at IIT Guwahati, recounts how he feared science at 16 before scoring a 100 percentile in JEE Main Physics.
In his first JEE Main attempt he scored 99.78 percentile overall, and he secured AIR 1001 in JEE Advanced.
During JoSAA counselling he was allotted DSAI at IIT Guwahati only in the sixth and final round, after initially receiving MnC at IIT Hyderabad and then at IIT Kanpur.
As assistant contingent leader at Inter-IIT Cultural Meet 8.0 in December 2025, he managed a contingent of more than 250 students as IIT Guwahati finished fourth overall — the institute's best-ever placing across inter-IIT cultural meets.
His campus life centred on Xpressions, the institute's dramatics society, and he says the Telugu he learned from friends at IIT Guwahati proved useful during his Microsoft internship in Hyderabad this summer.
- Who
- Aryan Sandeep Gupta, a 21-year-old final-year student in the Mehta Family School of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence at IIT Guwahati.
- What
- A first-person account of overcoming a fear of science, scoring a 100 percentile in JEE Main Physics and AIR 1001 in JEE Advanced, and his four years of academic and cultural life at IIT Guwahati.
- When
- His account spans from his school days and JEE preparation through his final year; he arrived at IIT Guwahati in August 2023, the Inter-IIT Cultural Meet 8.0 was held in December 2025, and his Microsoft internship took place this summer.
- Where
- Surat, where he grew up; the IIT Guwahati campus in Assam; IIT Kharagpur, IIT Patna and IIT Kanpur, hosts of inter-IIT cultural meets; and Hyderabad, where he interned at Microsoft.
- Why
- He wanted to share how fear of science can be overcome through good teachers, loving the learning process, and engaging fully in campus life.
- Name
- Aryan Sandeep Gupta
- Age
- 21
- Hometown
- Surat
- Institute
- Mehta Family School of Data Science and AI, IIT Guwahati
- JEE Main (first attempt)
- 99.78 percentile; 100 percentile in Physics
- JEE Advanced
- AIR 1001
- Inter-IIT Cultural Meet 8.0 (Dec 2025)
- IIT Guwahati placed 4th overall - its highest ever
- Internship
- Microsoft, Hyderabad, this summer