Patna : Satyam Kumar, a Bihar farmers son who is just 13 years old, has cleared the fiercely competitive Indian Institute of Technology Joint Entrance Examination IIT-JEE for which 150,000 candidates had appeared this year.

Satyam, who passed his class 12 exam last year, secured an impressive all-India rank of 679.”We are proud of him. He has done something special at this age,” Satyams father Sidhnath Singh, a farmer  told  to the sources.

“Now Satyam is the youngest to crack the IIT-JEE,” an IIT official said. Satyam, who hails from Bakhorapur village in Bhojpur district, had last year qualified for admission into IIT at the age of 12 and a half years after he got a special permission from the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). He had then secured an all-India rank of 8,137.

Not satisfied with his low rank, he appeared for the IIT-JEE preliminary examination this year again and qualified. Earlier, Satyam Kumar had said he wanted to establish a software company on the lines of social networking website Facebook.