"I kept refreshing the page to see if it was an error but it wasn’t. I had failed both Mathematics and Physics. At that point in time, I felt as though my world was coming to an end."
21 years later, Manish says that he is very proud of what he did that day. “I felt very proud of it actually, and to this day, I feel proud—for both, my near-failing grade and my owning up the failure as an 18-year-old.”
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) in acknowledging that math is a "difficult" subject that instils a "sense of fear" in many students. It is proposing to bring about two levels of mathematics for the academic session ending March 2020.