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Estellar Academy
Estellar Academy provides coaching and exam preparatory services to students aspiring to become doctors and engineers by training them for nationallevel competitive exams. In addition to this, they also offer foundation training classes for students of classes 8 to 10. It has coaching centres at Margao, Porvorim and Vasco. At their centre in Porvorim, they also offer an Integrated Higher Secondary School program affiliated to Goa board. In the integrated program, board preparations as well as competitive exam preparations, both take place during the school hours itself.
Founders’ Profile Estellar Academy was founded by three dynamic individuals- Mr. Yogendra Singh Sikarwar, Dr. S. T. Puttaraju and Mr. Shreyas Puttaraju.
Mr. Yogendra Singh Sikarwar, who is the brain behind Estellar Academy holds a degree in Computer engineering from NIT, Jaipur. He has over 15 years of experience in training thousands of students for national-level competitive exams like NEET and JEE. He has worked with the topmost brands in the coaching industry in India. His students have secured many ranks in the top 100 in various competitive examinations like IIT-JEE, NEET, AIIMS, AIPMT, KVPY, NTSE & Olympiad exams.
Dr. S. T. Puttaraju, a gold medallist and a Ph.D in
environmental subject, is an alumni of CEPT University, Ahmedabad. He is also the former Chief Town Planner, Government of Goa with 37 years of experience in administration. Currently, he serves as the Chief Consultant of Estellar Academy.
Mr. Shreyas Puttaraju holds a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MS degree in Technology Management from New York University, USA. He Has worked as a design engineer at Dassault Falcon Jet, USA.
Their Mission Estellar Academy is envisioned to help Goan students achieve their dreams by training and equipping them with skills and knowledge to excel in the toughest of competitive exams. Though change and uncertainty may be ever-present, the academy remains firmly committed to helping students by providing quality academic services to enable them to meet their career goals and objectives.
Estellar Academy provides Estellar School Integrated Program (ESIP) for students of classes 11 and 12 to prepare them for entrance exams for Engineering and Medicine, along with their board preparations. ESIP prepares students for JEE (Main and Advanced), NEET, Olympiads, NTSE, BITSAT etc within the school schedule, ensuring top success in competitive exams as well as school or board exams.
With ESIP, students do not have to compromise on sports and extracurricular activities.
Estellar Edutech also provides Repeaters Medical batch for NEET for those who were unable to crack the exam in their first attempt and want to re-appear. They also provide Foundation courses for students of classes 8,9 and 10.
Estellar Academy aims to reach out to every aspiring student who wants to be successful in competitive examinations and make him/her ready to face any challenge in the competitive exam scenario. They cater to students who are aspiring to become doctors or engineers and are aiming for admission at top-ranked colleges.
“In Goa, even though students have the potential to crack entrance exams, they don’t have the exposure to various competitive exams'', says Mr. Yogendra. “That is the reason students have been finding it challenging to face competitive exams. They are sometimes not able to differentiate between coaching and tuition centres.”, he says. He adds that Estellar Academy has taken it as a challenge to create awareness about different competitive exams, particularly in the Science stream to Goan students and to provide them with the best pathway to create history in competitive exams as well as board exams.
In the last 4 years time, Estellar Academy has been giving promising results in NEET, JEE as well as Goa Board exams. A very large number of their students have secured admission in various Medical colleges and Engineering colleges in the country.
They have also produced state toppers for NEET, CBSE Board exams, Goa Board exams and NTSE exams. They have made their presence felt at the state level as well as at the national level by getting selections in state-level colleges as well as national-level colleges like IIT, NIT, AFMC, AIIMS etc.
Since 2019, they have been known for producing impressive results like 30 students getting seats in MBBS at Goa Medical College, GDC out of a single batch of 60 students in NEET 2019
Goa State HSSC Topper 2019 Mast. Sumukh S Phalgaokar (who was a student of Estellar Academy) got a seat at BITS-PILANI, Rajastha
In NEET 2020, four students of Estellar Academy scored about 600
For JEE 2022, they have given more than 100 selections in engineering colleges.
Future Plans
As for the future, the academy aims to ensure that quality education and the legacy of producing the best result is maintained. They are aiming to break their own records of previous year’s selections. “The aspiring students of the Science stream in Goa are better equipped to face the challenge of the competitive world through Estellar Academy’s training and guidance”, says Mr. Yogendra. “Parents must ensure that their children’s choice of career is supported and nourished by reliable and caring institutions”, he adds.
