Results · Evidence · Context

Not a factory.
A philosophy.
These are the outcomes.

Every number here is the consequence of a twelve-year culture of thinking, questioning, and understanding — not of drilling or selection bias.

25
Students above JEE 99th percentile
2026 · single cohort of ~150
16 yrs
Every RMO qualifier from Mangaluru was a CFAL student
Consecutive years · Regional Mathematical Olympiad
Top 1%
NSE Nationally — Physics, Chemistry, Maths & Astronomy
2025 · National Standard Examination
45%
Of CFAL students qualify JEE or NEET
National average: 5–7%
Year by year

The record, without rounding.

Results published with context — not as a marketing claim but as verifiable evidence of what the approach produces.

JEE Main 2026
25
Students above the 99th percentile in a cohort of approximately 150 students. Top rank at 99.96 percentile.
National rate above 99th percentile: ~1% of all candidates. CFAL rate: 11.33% — eleven times the national average.
JEE Main 2026 — 99.5th
13
Students above the 99.5th percentile. An unusual concentration from a single institution outside the major coaching cities.
27% of CFAL students above 97th percentile. National average at this threshold: ~3%.
INAO 2026
2
Students shortlisted for the Indian National Astronomy Olympiad — one step from representing India internationally.
Both students cleared NSE and NSEA. Shortlisted from Mangaluru — a Tier-2 city competing with students from metro coaching hubs.
NSE 2025–26 · Mrinal D Bhat
Top 1%
Across three disciplines: National Top 1% in Astronomy · State Top 1% in Chemistry · State Top 1% in Physics.
Multi-domain scientific thinking, not narrow specialisation. The direct outcome of the CFAL Foundation Programme.
NSE 2025
Top 1%
Nationally across Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Astronomy — multiple students, all four disciplines.
For the first time CFAL achieved national top 1% simultaneously across all four science Olympiad disciplines in a single year.
INMO 2025
3
Students qualified for the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad from Karnataka. Rishon Fernandes emerged as the RMO top scorer from Karnataka with 57 marks.
IIMB UNDERGRADUATE TEST . LAUREN M. PATRAO
99.97
Percentile in the IIM Bangalore Undergraduate Admissions Test — across all disciplines, all institutions.
JEE / NEET 2025
45%
Of CFAL students qualified for JEE/NEET—9× the national average of 5–7%.
NEET 2024
36%
Of CFAL students secured government-quota MBBS seats across Karnataka. National average: 5–7%.
Government-quota seats require clearing NEET at a high threshold. 36% is not selectivity — it is preparation depth.
RMO 2024 — 14th year
100%
Every Regional Mathematical Olympiad qualifier from Mangaluru — for the 14th consecutive year — was a CFAL student. Without exception.
INMO 2024
10%
Of Karnataka's INMO qualifiers were from CFAL Mangaluru. Three of 41 — from a single Tier-2 city school.
JEE Advanced 2024
31
Students secured top All India Ranks in JEE Advanced, with the highest rank of AIR 273.
JEE MAIN 2023 . Ketan Suman
99.96
Percentile, with multiple students above 99th percentile.
INMO/INAO 2022 . MURALIDHAR RAO
2/2
Only student selected from Mangaluru for both INMO 2022 & INAO 2022. Attended IMOTC held at HBCSE in Mumbai.
NEET 2023
35%+
Government-quota MBBS seats across Karnataka. Consistently above 30% for four consecutive years.
NSE Rank 1 Karnataka
NSE Astronomy
In Karnataka, with national top performers in Physics and Chemistry from the same cohort.
The Olympiad legacy · 2009–today

Students who made history.

When CFAL was founded, not a single student from Mangaluru was in the national science Olympiad pipeline. Every name here is evidence that geography is not destiny.

2017
Aditya Prakash
Represented India at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), Brazil. First student from Karnataka to reach the IMO in 21 years. Mentored by Dr. Srikanth Pai.
IMO · India representative
2018
Prathyush Poduval
Silver Medal · International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) · 214 students from 40 countries. Karnataka state topper in KVPY. Ross Mathematics Programme, Ohio State University.
International · Silver medal
2019
Shreyas Pai
Topper at Biology Olympiad National Camp, HBCSE Mumbai. Demonstrated that the CFAL Olympiad culture extends beyond Mathematics and Physics into the life sciences.
2022–23
Muralidhar Rao
The only student from Mangaluru selected for both INMO and INAO in two consecutive years. INMO 2023: 34/102 (cutoff: 26). INAO 2023: 76/100 (cutoff: 57.5). Selected for the IMOTC training camp at HBCSE, Mumbai.
2025
Rishon Fernandes
INMO qualifier 2025. RMO top scorer from Karnataka — 57 marks. Part of a three-student CFAL cohort placing in INMO's top tier from Karnataka.
2025–26
Mrinal D Bhat
NSE 2025: National Top 1% Astronomy · State Top 1% Chemistry · State Top 1% Physics. Three disciplines simultaneously. INAO 2026 shortlisted. The clearest expression of what multi-year foundational depth produces.
Why these results mean what we say

The selection bias rebuttal.

The standard rebuttal: "You only accept students who would have done well anyway." Here is why it does not apply here.

Our admissions process evaluates curiosity and persistence — not current rank. The Pragati Programme accepts students from government schools with no prior coaching. The Olympiad pipeline produces results from Grade 7, before any coaching could have shaped the outcome.

Students who succeed at Olympiad level do not sacrifice JEE or NEET. They surpass their non-Olympiad peers. This is the opposite of what selection bias would predict.

These results come from Mangaluru — not from Kota, Hyderabad, or Delhi. They challenge the assumption that world-class scientific thinking is geographically determined.

11×
CFAL's rate of JEE 99th percentile vs national average (11.33% vs ~1%). From a known cohort of ~150 students, not a factory of 5,000.
27%
Of CFAL students above JEE 97th percentile. National average at this threshold: approximately 3%.
10%
Of Karnataka's INMO qualifiers from CFAL Mangaluru in 2024. Three students from one school in a Tier-2 city.
ETH Zurich
+ UC Berkeley
CFAL graduates studying at two of the world's leading research universities — the ultimate evidence of what the approach produces.

These results begin at Grade 1.

Golden bead material. Cosmic Education. Math Circles. Hands-on experiments. By Grade 11, students are not meeting the JEE syllabus for the first time. They have been living it since Grade 7.