Yashika Singhal | IIT Bombay

It was almost the beginning of the internship season for sophomores and I saw the pop-up for the Paathshala internship where I could teach students

I quickly signed up for it with no hope of getting selected as my CPI was pretty low and a lot of seniors signed up for it as well. I presumed that HR would prefer hiring seniors who are more experienced or maybe students with good CPI

Having no hope of getting selected, I did not even see the internship blog regularly. In my morning lecture at 8 AM, my friend asked me if I had prepared anything for the interview or not. I was shocked to hear this because I had no clue about this at all. I opened the internship blog and checked my name twice or thrice on the interview list. Thankfully I had a few hours left with me for the preparation of the interview

I went back to my room, opened up a chapter from 12th std. NCERT, revised it and went for the interview

I will directly jump to the internship period now. My biggest worry was the travel and was much relieved when the systems were set up in our rooms. I used to have my sports practice in the morning from 5:30 AM till 9:30 AM. I used to come back and set up targets for the day. Studying the question paper, preparing the answer and writing the key concept was the formula for it. In the beginning I used to take as much as 17 retakes but after 5-6 videos it reduced to 2 or 3. Revisiting JEE was really amazing, I never thought that I would be teaching these things to the JEE aspirants very next year of my preparation. I was thrilled to teach them the basic concepts and build over the question and tried to incorporate the techniques our professors used to apply on us

The result of those techniques was that I was sitting there teaching the same thing to next generation

Going back to the JEE concepts, I realized that they were no more that easier for me as they used to be. I struggled with a few questions not just to explain them but also to understand them myself. I could revise all the concepts that I left back on the day I completed writing JEE Advanced examination

I would recommend all the teaching enthusiasts to apply for this internship as the stipend they give is pretty fancy and you will definitely love the work. Our team lead used to take regular updates on our work which used to motivate me to complete work on time. Everyone right from the technical staff to our team lead were very cooperative and helping.
It was an amazing journey. I would like to thank Paathshala for giving me this opportunity to strengthen my basics and teach them to JEE aspirants