Centre for advanced learning (CFAL) is a community of students, teachers and parents that was established in 2009 to educate students, parents and the larger community about engineering entrance examinations and scholarship examinations. Prior to the establishment of CFAL, the success rate of students from Mangalore getting into IITs, and other premier institutions like IISc or NITs, was abysmally low. Although there were a lot of educational institutions in the region, the general perception was that getting into premier institutions was extremely difficult, if not impossible. CFAL sought to change this mindset head-on. Since that start in 2009, CFAL has seen tremendous success. At CFAL, our philosophy is ‘ Think, Learn, Persist.’ Dedication to our vision and quality education is our main focus at CFAL – constant monitoring and mentoring, uncompromising academic quality and individual attention to students has contributed to this phenomenal success