Thejomaya, a center for Excellence that was promoted recently by Uma Yogesh, organised a mathematics Tournament in which students of Class 9 and 10 Participated. The Competition had different rounds where students had to prove their skills in matematics.It had the same format as that of an individual sports tournament, where players competed one on one to reach the finals.

     The Competition started with a qualifying round, where 16 out of 24 students were selected based on the scores obtained in the test. These students were pitted against each other to advance into the quarter finals, semi finals and the final round. The players had to answer 20 questions in 15 minutes in the first two rounds and later in the finals, they had to answer 35 questions in 30 minutes. The questions became tougher with each round. According to Uma, “This tournament attracted students from more than nine schools and their enthusiasm increased with every round.  In fact

 we felt it was important for the students to answer all the papers, leaving the losers in the different rounds, to answer the objective questions”.

      Mr.Raghunathan, academic counsellor, and well known mathematics teacher, said that he was surprised by the speed at which the students could answer the tough questions. According to him the gap analysis of various performances was made as students were able to perform better in tougher rounds than in qualifying ones.

      Uma Yogesh felt that the entire tournament was organised meticulously thanks to Mr.Ravi Venkatesh and their team including Vasu and Rameshbabu.They are well known state Table Tennis Players, who had organised several Tournaments.According to Ravi, the same format enabled them to identify the seedings for  players to play the subsequent rounds.

  According to Ravi, the same format enabled them to identify the seedings for players to play the subsequent rounds. After gruelling rounds, Siddharth of Vidya Mandir(a 10th standard student) the top seed was the winner and the runner up was Bhargavi of Chettinad Vidyashram. Incidentally Bhargavi is also a student of Thejomaya. Siddharth received Rs.1000 as cash prize, while Bhargavi got Rs.750 and the semi finalists, Arvind and Sai got Rs.500 each.

      “The Success of this tournament has now inspired us to organise the second level in a bigway in the first week of July”,Uma Yogesh added.

      Thejomaya's Center for Excellence coaches students for AIEEE, Target IIT and Board exams. You can contact Uma Yogesh at 93813 29450 or their center at 9 Karpagam Avenue, 1st street, R.A.Puram.