He has failed NEET three times, no JEE rank; built a new career and got a job as a Data Scientist
Three failed attempts at NEET. No JEE Rank. Years of uncertainty. For Sanjay B, the path to a career was nothing like he had imagined. Today, he works as a data scientist in Pune, but before he got there, he spent years battling disappointment, job rejections and self-doubt. Sharing his journey on LinkedIn, Sanjay said that the period after Class 12 almost broke him. Between March 2020 and November 2021, he stayed away from social media and his mobile phone, focusing only on his studies. “The festivals happened, the weather didn’t matter. I studied everything, alone, exhausted and scared,” he wrote. His first two NEET attempts in 2021 and 2022 shattered his confidence. He said he struggled to tell his parents how he felt because they hoped he would get a government medical post. When his friends went to college, he felt left out. “I felt left behind and like a burden. But I didn’t give up,” she wrote.With six or seven months to go before another attempt, Sanjay started looking for work. He said he faced several rejections, including for a packaging job at BigBasket. After attending five interviews, she finally landed a sales job at SBI Cards, where she continued to work while preparing for the exam.
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Sanjay said balancing work and studies was not easy. He would bring books to the office, study during work breaks, take unpaid leave before the exam and change his preparation strategy. His efforts helped him score more than 450 marks in his third attempt at NEET.Despite the improved score, personal financial constraints prevented him from making another attempt. Instead, he enrolled in the IIT Madras BS in Data Science program and passed the qualification in October 2022. Today, he works as a data scientist in Pune.Explaining why he decided to talk about his journey, Sanjay said that many students had asked him about his NEET experience and the IIT Madras programme. He believes students should know there are other options if things don’t go as planned.He also urged NEET and JEE aspirants not to judge themselves based on an entrance exam. “Your worth is not defined by an exam,” he wrote. She encouraged students to talk to someone if they are struggling and reminded them that “your story is not over.”
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