So how does one go about topping the boards—exams that can determine where your life’s headed, your college, your first job…may be even your first crush? Fortunately, the secret isn’t to ‘study till you’re a sleep-deprived zombie’. Unfortunately, it also isn’t ‘mum fed me steroids/dad taught me to cheat’. The secret recipe? Connecting the dots. You don’t need to be a prodigy studying twenty-four hours a day to ace an exam—you just need to work smart. How I Topped the Boards and You Can Too! shares the methods that helped Gaurav top in his board exams, so that you too can best prepare for the most important exams of your life.
About the Author
Gaurav Sood graduated from The Doon School as the all-India ISC Board examination topper in 2008. He secured 99 per cent, the highest marks in India’s history, and was felicitated with various national awards. He then did his bachelor’s in economics from St Stephen’s College, where he secured the mostsought- after campus-recruitment offer—a role as one of the youngest management consultants at McKinsey & Company. Gaurav then took his GMAT and TOEFL exams, where he got a near-perfect 780 and a perfect 120, respectively, and is currently on a full scholarship at the University of Oxford. In his free time, Gaurav can either be found trying to (unsuccessfully) emulate Roger Federer on the tennis court or tormenting people in the vicinity with his music, under the name Rooftop Sundays. He’s also a terrible cook, who, by some miracle, once managed to explode five eggs. Understandably, he’s now banned from his mother’s kitchen.
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