functions back home in uttarakhand wondered aloud why cant we study in our respective towns while living a peaceful and healthy life prateek who has come from anand in gujarat says he misses his friends and relatives as do others shubhankar like many others arrived in kota under pressure from parents and peer groups for coaching institutes in kota record a very high success rate in iitjee exams seventeenyearold prateek chaurasia told toi even after compromising with quality of food time for hobbies and living away from family the aspirants devote 1012 hours for studies neha was preparing for iitjee at a coaching institute the youngsters he said have to necessarily face physical and mental stress due to academics ashish too was preparing for a competitive examination kota at times i feel very lonely and the pressure of studies and doing well in examminations further add to the stress level says 17yearold amit kumar who has come all the way from allahabad and lives in a rented accommodation here