I did my schooling in Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, K.K.Nagar,
Chennai affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE),
and I took up Biotechnology as my elective in the 11th and 12th
grades; I secured 90.2% in my 12th grade.
You may visit their
official website here,
but I warn you, it's a terrible page, loaded with flash and other
junk.
I cleared the IIT-JEE with a reasonable rank (781) but joined CMI
to do my BSc (Hns) in mathematics.
The academic life at CMI has been fantastic, the course structure is great and so are the instructors. Here is the list of courses I'd taken during my BSc.
- Semester 1:
- Algebra 1 : Nagarajan
- Calculus 1 : D.S.Nagaraj
- Introduction to Programming 1 : Madhavan Mukund
- Classical Mechanics 1 : P.P.Divakaran
- Creative English : Shree Kumar Verma
- Semester 2:
- Algebra 2 : Ramanan
- Calculus 2 : Axelle, Sylvian, Rudulph, Xavier (ENS)
- Discrete Mathematics : Bharath Adsul
- Introduction to Programming 2 : S.P.Suresh
- Economics : Lakshmi Kumar
- Semester 3:
- Algebra 3 : Nagarajan
- Analysis 1 : Amrithanshu Prasad
- Calculus 3 : Suresh Nayak
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms : K.V.Subrahmanyam
- (FF) Theory of Computation : Rani Siromani and Narayan Kumar
- (Opt) Distributed Computing : S.P.Suresh
- Semester 4:
- Statistical Mechanics 1 : K.P.N.Murthy
- Topology : V.Balaji
- Analysis 2 : Suresh Nayak
- Computer Organisation : S.P.Suresh
- (Opt) Computational Complexity 1 : V.Arvind
- (Opt) Game Theory : T.Parthasarathy
- (Opt) Advanced Topics in Circuit Complexity : Sameer Dutta
- (FF) Programming Language Concepts : Madhavan Mukund
- Semester 5:
- Algebra 4 : Shreedharan and Nagarajan
- Ordinary Differential Equations : Vasanth a.k.a Srinivasan
- (Opt)Computational Complexity 2 : V.Arvind
- Semester 6:
- Probability: Vanchinathan
- (Opt)Optimization Techniques: T. Parthasarathy
- (Opt)Algebra and Computation: V. Arvind
OPT: optional course
FF: fast forward course,
course taken earlier than originally scheduled.
The topics (to be) covered are available here
but usually we have some extra topic covered in the course.
The question papers can be found here.