How a Delhi Teen Kept Studying Through Chemotherapy and Scored 96.6% In 10th Boards

He was meant to be thinking about revision timetables, last-minute doubts, and the familiar pressure of board examinations. Instead, Aarav Vats learnt to measure time in hospital appointments, in the silent wait between chemotherapy cycles, and in the fragile moments when strength returned just enough to open a textbook. Somewhere in that strange overlap of adolescence and illness, a Class 10 student from Delhi kept studying. When the CBSE results were declared, his score of 96.6 percent did not arrive as a surprise to those who had watched him closely. It arrived more like a pause in a lon...