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187 to 286 after joining the night of session one

BITSAT 286 2nd attempt (1st: 187)
So yeah almost 100 mark jump.
Sahaj, verbatim from the interview above

01 · The journey Strong boards confidence, then 11th pressure

Sahaj entered class 11 confident after strong class 10 boards, then watched that confidence drop as the material got harder. Teachers and friends helped him through the ups and downs; when weekend mocks piled on pressure, a teacher told him to stay consistent and trust that marks would follow.

02 · The turning point A thin first attempt, then a same-night signup

After JEE Main session two he skipped dedicated BITS prep, planning to cover deleted syllabus and sit a couple of free online mocks. Session one came in poorly. That evening he walked his father through the platform's offering, they subscribed the same night, and he started the next day.

03 · What worked Nearly a hundred marks between attempts

With the subscription behind his second attempt he moved from 187 to 286. What he names is the breadth of features — he did not feel other options offered as much that would actually help — and the same consistency he had been practising since the difficult stretch of class 11.

Full feature set

More useful surface area than the alternatives he compared it against.

Consistency

The same stay-put advice from class 11 carried into the second BITSAT attempt.

Summary written by Phodu Club from Sahaj's video interview. It restates only what they say on video — the quoted words above are theirs verbatim. The full interview transcript is below.

Full interview transcript

Auto-generated captions, lightly cleaned. Speaker turns are split for reading — not labelled as student or interviewer.

Hello everyone, I'm Aryam from BITS Pilani Palani campus. Today we have one of our club mates who cracked Bits using Phodu Club. So hi, could you please introduce yourself?

Uh tell us where you are from and what how much is scored in bits. Hey, hi everyone. Um my name is Sahaj.

Um I am from Hyderabad and I've scored 286 marks in bits using Phodu Club. All right. H uh like how was the journey in your 11th and 12th?

Um my 11th grade started off very well because I had a really great uh really great what can I say in 10th boards I scored very well. So my confidence when I stepped into 11th grade was very good but uh as many people say as you go through 11th grade all the confidence kind of drops down once you see all the complicated stuff coming in. So yeah, but I did have the uh teachers I needed on the way and they helped me and of course my friends too.

They've helped me through the way and yeah 11th and 12th was it had its ups and downs but uh it was a great journey. Okay. So as you mentioned you did great at 10 in 10th and then in 11th and 12th you face some challenges which every student faces.

So could you tell uh like what all happened and how did you encounter those challenges? So uh like everyone says right after 10th it's a turning point in your life and all. So yeah I was a bit tensed but uh with the confidence I had I was like okay fine we can manage somehow uh I'll get through this.

But then once it started once the actual classes started and all the um and I started writing a few tests at um like the mock tests the weekend tests and all uh I started to feel a bit of pressure because of the marks I was scoring. So after that uh I talked with my teacher. He was like this is common.

Don't worry. Um you will improve gradually. Just stay put where you are and give your uh like stay consistent in what you're doing.

Don't give up and your marks won't go anywhere. They'll they'll come today or tomorrow. It won't it won't go anywhere.

Nice. So you kept like your consistency and moved on moved ahead, right? Yeah.

All right. So where did you hear about Phodu Club and what made you join us? So yeah uh my friends were talking about it at college and like we were discussing because after mains most of the students they'll have bits as their backup right so uh we were discussing and Phodu Club that's where I heard about it.

Okay. And what made you join Phodu Club and uh what all experiences you had with us? So what what happened was after my second mains I uh I didn't take any um anything like Phodu Club or math on go all all these stuff I was like there was very less time right so I said I was like there's some deleted syllabus that isn't there in mains we have less time so I'll cover a bit of that and I'll write like one or two mock tests which are there online and I'll go to write the test the bits first attempt I did that and I ended up not scoring that well and that day I had a chat with my dad and he was like uh what can we do to get better in advac because there's still one attempt left and it could be a turning point in your whole life.

So that's when I told him about Phodu Club and uh like I explained them what what exactly Phodu Club is offering and all that. I opened the website, I read it out to him. He's like, "Yeah, this is great.

So, yeah, let's go with it." And that day itself, right after the bits first attempt, uh that night itself, we had taken a sub subscription and I started using it from the next day. Okay. So, you took it after bits one and uh for bits 2 studied with Phodu Club.

So, uh how much did you score in Bits 1 and did you actually gain something? Yes, definitely. I would say it helped me a lot.

Uh I scored 187 marks in my first attempt and 286 in the second one. So yeah almost 100 mark jump. So obviously Phodu Club did help me.

Dude that's a massive jump. Congratulations on that. So uh the most important question uh if someone is sitting just on the fence of joining Phodu Club or not they are not able to decide.

So what would you suggest them? So what I I would say from my experience is if you have gotten more than like 98.5 98.5 or above in mains then I would say go for advanced try for advanced or else I would say stick with bits and for Phodu Club what what I can say is uh when I explored all the all the features that it gives uh I didn't feel like any anyone else was giving those many features that would help me that would help me and yeah I thought I would be I would become much better with Phodu Club. Okay thank you so much Sahaj for talking with us.

We wish you that you have a great college life ahead and make sure that you meet us you meet me whenever you come to Pilani. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you so much.

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