The new academic year is soon approaching and many students will now be more clear with what career stream they are interested in. For those who have an inclination toward engineering. Then this is the right time to start your JEE or any other engineering entrance preparation
This is the time when students are actually looking for good JEE Coaching classes that have a strong track record of producing excellent results, have an expert pool of teachers and above all provide a learning atmosphere that helps students to excel.
In this article, we have compiled the various well-known coaching institutes in Pune and given a detailed comparison of the various aspect that an aspirant looks for.
1. Bakliwal Tutorials
Bakliwal Tutorials was established in April 2005. BT began with the aim to help students preparing for IIT-JEE, realize their dreams; and to make sure that the preparation process itself becomes a fun-filled and growth-involving experience. Bakliwal Tutorials offers Foundation Courses for 8th, 9th and 10th-grade students and has a 2-year Comprehensive course for 11th-grade students.
With its historic results, Bakliwal Tutorials has been the most sought after JEE Coaching. Let’s see how did they fare last year..
Teachers
If you see their website, you will see that most of their teachers are IITians. So the expertise factor is something that you can be assured of.
The reviews of the students also are in the favour of teachers. They also have a monitoring system wherein the students are asked about their feedback for the teachers and accordingly the teachers are given a rating.
Results
We all know that this year as well the Pune topper in JEE Advanced 2021 was from Bakliwal Tutorials.
Four students from Bakliwal Tutorials in Pune emerged as the top 4 Pune Rankers in JEE Advanced 2021. Here are their names and AIRs.
Soham Joshi- AIR 46
Naman Agrawal- AIR 81
Shlok Pande- AIR 94
Santosh Deshineni- AIR 99
They have 4 students in the top 100 AIR, 13 in the top 500 AIR, 25 in the top 1000 AIR.
That means 1 out of 40 students in the top 1000 is a BT student. A total of 251 students qualified in JEE Advanced from Bakliwal Tutorials.
Bakliwal Tutorials has more selections in the top 500/1000 etc. than all the other institutes of Pune put together by a significant margin.
JEE Mains 2021- It is a no brainer that the maximum selections in IITs from Pune were all students of Bakliwal Tutorials.
The top 3 Pune ranks in JEE Mains 2021 were secured by Bakliwal Tutorials’ students. Naman Agarwal was the Pune Rank 1 with an AIR of 44 and a percentile of 99.998. This was followed by Jainesh Mehta and Shubhranil Chatterjee with an AIR of 132 and 176 respectively.
BT had 10 students in the top 500 AIR, 20 students in the top 1000 AIR and 26 students who scored above the 99.9 percentile in JEE Mains 2021.
16 of the top 20 Rankers from Pune were BTians. The total number of students that cleated JEE Mains from BT was 255.
KVPY 2021- The Pune Rank 1 in SA Stream was secured by Pratik Sahoo with an AIR of 22 who was from Bakliwal Tutorials.
The Pune Rank 1 in KVPY SX Stream was also produced by Bakliwal Tutorials. Soham Joshi, who is also the Pune Topper in JEE Advanced 2021, secured AIR 39 in KVPY SX stream. This was followed by Naman Agarwal with an AIR of 46. T
The Pune Rank 4 and 5 in KVPY 2021 SX stream were students of Bakliwal Tutorials with AIR of 131 and 171 respectively.
Bakliwal Tutorials had 12 students in the top 500 AIR and 24 in the top 1000 AIR and total 35 selections
MHT CET 2021- The MHT CET topper in 2021 was Aditya Mehta. He got a perfect percentile of 100. 12 students from Bakliwal Tutorials secured a percentile of above 99.9, 63 secured percentile of above 99.5, 102 students secured above 99 percentile and 362 had secured percentile of more than 95.
Suyash Chavan from IITPK secured 99.97 percentile in MHT-CET.
Reviews
Majority of the reviews are all praises for the faculty and the teaching culture. We also browsed through the answers given by students of Bakliwal Tutorials about the coaching classes and here are a few of them.
Branches
Bakliwal Tutorials has 16 branches in Pune so you may easily find a center in your vicinity.
Website- https://www.bakliwaltutorialsiit.com/
Contact Number- 7304-400-400
2. M Prakash Institute
M. Prakash Institute was formerly run by M Prakash Sir but now he has retired and is currently being taken care of by the teachers. M Prakash Academy is known for its Mathematics. The teachers teach maths more as a research subject not concentrating on the ways to crack the problems fast and efficiently during the exams. More weightage is given to Maths based exams rather than JEE.
Teachers
They have 20 teachers in total out of which only 2 are IITians.
Results
JEE Advanced 2021- The best AIR at M Prakash was 102 secured by Ganesh Kini.80 of their students cleared JEE Advanced 2021.
They have 5 students in the top 500, 9 in the top 1000 and 15 students in the top 2000.
They do not have even a single student in the top 50 or 100.
JEE Mains 2021- The best AIR at M Prakash in JEE Mains 2021 was 214. They had 3 students who made it to the top 20 Pune city rankers list. They were- GeeteshKIni (AIR 214), Kartik Kulkarni (AIR 274), Anish Kulkarni (AIR 566).
Reviews
Most of the answers on Quora mention that too much attention is given to Advanced Maths at M. Prakash
They take the brightest’ 40 students into their elite club and special lectures for Maths are conducted for them.
Branches
Their Foundation program is conducted at Kothurd and Aundh. However, the IIT Training program is only at Kothurd.
Website- http://mprakashinstitute.com/
Phone- +912025464973
3. Allen Career Institute Pune
Allen is a quite well known brand in the JEE coaching industry. They first started their operations in Kota and then expanded to various regions.
Allen has various branches in Pune. They provide coaching for JEE and NEET as well.
Teachers
There is no data of teachers mentioned on their website. However from our research, we got to know that their Physics faculty is weak and various students have complained about it. We have posted the reviews as well below.
Results
Starting from JEE Mains , they have published the results of first 2 attempts of JEE Mains 2021 and according to that their best percentile starts from 99.92 secured by Kush Shah. So the approx. rank we can safely say would be around 800.
In JEE Advanced, Allen Pune had the best AIR of 495 secured by Shreyas Grampurohit. They had total 81 students who qualified JEE Advanced 2021; 4 in top 2000 and 15 in top 5000.
KVPY– Their best AIR was 76 secured by Raj Chandak in SA Stream and in SX Stream, the Pune Rank 3 was bagged by Allen student with an AIR of 67. Allen had total 25 selections in KVPY 2021
Reviews
Majority of the reviews put up by students give a picture that the Physics faculty at Allen Pune is below average. We also came across many reviews on Quora where the students have complained of being sent pre-recorded sessions and absence of live sessions.
Branches
The Pune Head Office is located at Shankar Sheth Road. Other than that they have 4 branches in Pune- Shivaji Nagar, Chinchwad, Viman Nagar and Baner.
Website- https://www.allen.ac.in/pune/
Phone- +91-20-6706-2000
4. Prime Academy
Prime Academy was founded by Mr. Lalit Kumar. They have a wide range of courses as mentioned below-
Summer (Bridge) course- 4week course for students entering 11t std.
JEE-2023- Two Year Course
CET-2023- Two Year course
JEE 2022-One Year Course
Repeaters (RP1/RP2)
Crash Course, JEE Mains and Adv
Foundation Course(7th, 8th& 9th appeared students)
Correspondence Course, IIT & NEET
Teachers
They have not published the full list of teachers on their website. The website only shows their best faculty.
Results
JEE Mains 2021- The topper at Prime Academy secured an AIR of 1475. Their total number of selections was 152.
JEE Advanced 2021- Their best AIR was 1005 and this was secured by Aditya Bangar. They do not have any student in the top 100, 500 or even 1000. They have claimed to have 66 selections out of which 17 students are not their full time classroom students and 13 are students who are from the reserved category.
Reviews
Here are some of their Quora reviews-
Branches
They have 5 branches in Pune in these areas- Deccan, Wanowrie, Hadapsar, Viman Nagar and Pimpri.
Website- https://www.primeacademypune.com/
Contact- 8928382838
5. IITPK
IITP is a Pune-based educational academy imparting training to JEE, NEET and CET aspirants for past 18 years. They provide coaching for JEE Mains, JEE Advanced and NEET. They also have foundation courses for Grade 8, 9 and 10.
For their JEE Courses, they focus only on the syllabus of JEE and no extra training is imparted for scholarship exams like KVPY or the Olympiads, which usually many JEE aspirants opt for during the course of their training.
Teachers
There is no data about the teachers on their website.
Results
JEE Mains 2021- The best percentile at IITPK in all four attempts was 99.9 which corresponds to a rank of around 1000
JEE Advanced 2021- The IITPK topper is Advait Rege with an AIR of 357 followed by Priyanka Date with an AIR of 778. IITPK has not published their percentiles.
Their website mentions that they have attained a success rate of 20 percent however nowhere we can see the list of students and their ranks.
IITian’s Prashikshan Kendra (IITPK) never mentions the ranks or the percentile of the students. The only way of displaying results that they follow is a document uploaded on their website that has the list of the names of the students and the stream that have been selected. Now the question here arises is, without the percentile or ranks, what is the degree of authenticity of these results shown to the students/parents?
Reviews
We also checked the reviews on Quora and many answers complained about the teaching quality and inexperienced teachers.
Branches
They have branches in these areas in Pune- JM Road, Kothrud, City Mall, Pimpri, Chinchwad, Camp, Nagar Road, Satara Road, Sinhagad Road, Wakad
Website- https://www.iitpk.com/
Phone- 7066256256
The above list is in the order of the results achieved by them in 2021. Those institutes who haven’t displayed their results or do not train students for MHT CET or KVPY do not have the details of the results of these exams.
We hope this article gives you a clear overview of the various aspects to look for in a coaching class and which one will stand up to your expectations.