"Bhai, Physics teacher ne half-yearly mein fail kar diya!" my friend Arjun shouted on call — almost crying with guilt, regret, and pure embarrassment.
"Wait… what!? Bhai tu toh 10th tak topper tha, tujhe kya ho gaya?" I replied in complete shock.
"Pata nahi bhai… 10th tak everything was going smooth. But 11th mein lag raha hai jaise poori duniya hi reverse ho gayi ho. Ab na teachers attention de rahe hain, na hi Priya…"
Honestly, toppers ko aise struggle karte dekhna is very rare.
I mean, yeh sab toh mostly backbenchers ke saath hota hai, right?
"Bhaiya, agar toppers ka yeh haal hai… then what will happen to me?"
And trust me, sirf uska hi nahi — mera bhi same situation tha.
I also somehow passed my half-yearly with just margin marks. And not just me, almost everyone in my class was facing the same problem.
The most confusing part was…
Hum padh toh bilkul waise hi rahe the jaise 10th mein padhte the, but still marks continuously gir rahe the.
We just couldn't understand what was going wrong.
Seriously.
Let me tell you the daily routine I was following back then.
Try finding the mistake in it yourself…