Attended K–12 (Primary → Senior Secondary i.e. Elementary → High School).

• K-7: D.A.V. Board
• 8-10: CBSE Board
• 11-12: CBSE Non-Medical Science + Computer Science (AISSCE exams)

• Head Boy–Student Council (1 of 2 presidents)
• Best Delegate, D.A.V. M.U.N. '22 (UNGA)
• High Commendation, D.A.V. M.U.N. '21 (UNGA)
• Inspire-MANAK (Regional) – Robotics
• Intl Rank 40—SilverZone iIO
• State Rank 1— SilverZone iRAO & iOM
• Zonal Medal—SOF NSO & IEO

Lame school in a lamer backward city.

The focus is on rote-memory academics only. Unless you actively go out of your way to build your own extracurriculars, you won’t develop real skills, just stuff that gets u into lame colleges → lame jobs → and leads to no real contribution to society.

In fact, even the highest-scoring students rarely know the real fundamentals or derivatory logic. Asking the teachers to explain the actual logic behind a concept always resulted in "but you don't need to know this for JEE (indian engineering college entrance exams) nor the board exams (AISSCE / CBSE's standardized graduation exams)". Hence the rote-memory remark.

Some teachers were good, but others had massive ego issues. Power-tripping and physically hitting kids over academics (not even for actual 'discipline' issues) was common lol

With some rare exceptions, the staff was completely unsupportive of international university admissions. They wouldn't even submit my transcripts to CommonApp on time, even when I sat right next to them, literally teaching them how to use the portal.

Instead, they'd constantly diss me for not joining an Indian college and for not adhering to their system—especially when I used my student council position to get them in trouble for hitting kids in other classes, or when I tried to study for my AP courses during school hours. Even though I answered every single question correctly in class, participated in every activity, and kept my grades up, the mere fact that I was "looking elsewhere" (using AP and SAT books because their useless assignments wasted my time until 11 PM, giving me no time) got me in trouble.

I was a highly polarizing student—heavily liked by most teachers but deeply disliked by a few who couldn't handle their authority being questioned. In Indian culture, there’s an intense structural expectation to unconditionally "respect your elders" and play the submissive kid who blindly listens to adults, even when they're dead wrong. I completely refused to tolerate that B.S. and called it out whenever I could. A prime example of this cultural hypocrisy was how they treated my future: they’d constantly diss me for applying abroad, framing it as "brain drain," only to shamelessly turn around and try to take full credit the second I actually got accepted.

But LMAO, once I actually got into college, they suddenly wanted to take all the credit and flex to the other students that they were the reason I succeeded.

10/10 would NOT recommend

– Vijit; Their Ex Student Council President