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This post is dedicated to her efforts~

Sometimes rather than a bunch of people I would prefer just one person who would be supporting me through every adversity.

I was never the academic overachiever like many in this sub, so I am not writing about how to improve marks; honestly speaking there are numerous overqualified people for those advices.

This is to let you guys know, how probably that one support or cheer can also make you do something that you never expected🥹

Now the story begins-

She was my good friend, we met in fifth grade and I hated her at that point because she was always the academic overachiever of our school; now the point is that I was never the one...

Lets move ahead to ninth grade where she was again in our section, and then we both became really good friends, and from then I actually started to study. Then moving ahead to tenth grade, I was pretty under confident moving to this grade as the last one I scored good but it wasn't that satisfactory.

Now we were good friends, but as she was diligent and hardworking student she always used to be busy with her studies, and I was the more of non academic guy, always playing, out roaming and taking photographs.

Now she used to always scored some 90% ish marks in all of her school exams and I was the one who scored 60% and I remember the time just two weeks before boards, I scored 67% in preboards and I wasn't even ready with any subjects to be fair.

Whereas by then she was ready with almost everything to perfection, now as being really scared I genuinely didn't find a path or the route to continue the journey, nobody in my family was expecting me to score 90%+ and barely anyone expected 85%+...

Now when I told her, she genuinely was concerned about me, and out of nowhere she called me and made a time table for remaining two weeks, and atleast there being a fear factor, I listened to her carefully. And where every apparent "topper" of our school wouldn't even share their thoughts, she directly send me everything she used to get and everything.

Now before exams she used to call me and rather than doing her works, we used to call and if not possible then atleast she used to send vc's to explain the doubts I had, also she used to share all of her question papers. When I had no one to give me emotional support during inner turmoil or distress she was the first one to call me.

When I had doubts, whether I will score even 90% in boards she was the only one who kept faith in me. Even before exams she was the one who always gave me the last minute pep talks.

And I credit this marks to her more than to me or anyone else, and also she got some 97% too. I am genuinely happy for her and also like I have no words to express, how I am grateful will I be for her.

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u/Sweet_Remote_625 — 2 days ago
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Okay yes so before you tell me anything, yes I am not quite a topper but yes was always good in my studies.

So yes, in my preboards, I don't know but my overall percentage used to be always around mid of 70s but then suddenly after October it turned down to be 65s. In my last preboard which was just two weeks before boards started I got 67%😭(others all got above 82s)

Now beginning my tale from here after these results I was genuinely scared, my science aggregate was in mid 50s out of 100. Even in the easiest subject computer I got 69 out of 100 which was the lowest in my class.

Honestly people didn't expect anything out of me except for few people who knew how I studied in past.

Yes, I did study but not effectively but after getting these marks like everything was in mid 75s and only one subject history was in my mid 90s💔(I'll be getting to that later).

Now in these two weeks, I deactivated all my socials(reason: no notifications), cut myself from any distractions like bright red social media(yt, ig and so on)😆

Now I finished all last 5 years of every subject. Practiced and practiced in these last few weeks had to do it and everything😭(never did study like it in past 10 years) read everything from books and collected information about everything through different papers.

Now came the first day of board exams, language paper, honestly it went absolute shit man I didn't even expect to cross 90. I was crying like legit, ki ab sab khatam hogaya, why didn't I practice earlier🙂(it came above 90)

Next literature gave me the surge of confidence I needed during exams and actually it was the one which made me realise, I can score good. And one of the papers which I barely made any mistakes.

Now all of the papers like second language and maths went too fine, like the papers were decent and so I was happy honestly checking was strict or my way of writing was confusing idk😁(still very above 90s)

Now came physics, made me crush and crumble to back seat, I was like again it's over but it was actually over💔 didn't even expect to cross 75s(came close to 80 although😭)

Then came chemistry and biology, for chem I was distressed and honestly couldn't read my notes or the book or anything, but still cooked both of em(and actually both of them above 95)🐐

Yes now HCG week, my history exam went like absolute cinema and my geography went substandard. But yes expected both of them above 90s🙂.

But why am I sad? The geography which was supposed to go abysmal came really astounding with 97😝 but my history which was "absolute cinema" came 84😭(which I never got below 90s in school) trauma lag gaya bhai...

Then lastly finished with computer cooked it and was chilling after exams😄 expecting nothing but a percentage from 93 to 94.

Now the day came of circular, my parents didn't even expect I'd get above 90 in any subject. Now, now here comes the plot twist the result day I was waiting before my screen from 4.5 hours for results honestly even the day before I was too scared just like my inner thoughts were like, "hey prabhu sirf pass karwa do"😭 and that like "har ek ladki ko behen ki najar se dekhunga"😝

Now came the exact moment 11 a.m. I turned my head back towards my mom, and was like, mummy apko kya lag raha hai mujhe kitna milega🙂 she was like kuch bhi paale accha hi ayega🙏...

Now when I opened my results my eyes were as closed as that of a newborn(metaphor hai bhai), then I was shocked too like out of 10 subjects, 8 mein(exception: phy and his) very well above 90 and few even above 95s like 4 or so😭. My mom was shocked, but I was shocked even harder by seeing my history result which came to 84💔

Now yes all of my subjects aggregates of 6 subjects group came all above 90 and well above it. Now I calculated and it came to this😁 I was very happy & ecstatic with sad at the same time.

Comeback was done for like my friends who always scored 15 to 20% more than me every preboards all got the same marks or slightly higher. But at the end it was me to me whose marks mattered😁 everyone was happy in my locality, because they never quite expected me to score this high. And yes will be getting academic prize and a memorabilia from school for this😭(honestly never got one earlier ever)

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Juniors don't follow my strategy, sabse nehi hota hai bhai😭

Picture is related in a way.

u/Sweet_Remote_625 — 18 days ago