GASICS Part 5

The next few months were rough, but there were visible improvements in my test scores. The increased time spent watching pre recorded lectures led to me getting prescribed eye drops for dryness.

I remember running up my homes staircase, to tell my mom that I had solved my first ever math question from Ex3 of our study module; I had never been able to do go past Ex2 without help before.

Me and a similarly dedicated friend regularly kept our teachers occupied for hours after class, sending doubts over telegram at all times of day.

I soaked in knowledge like a sponge, and even started to enjoy the things I was learning, even if it was under the gun of needing to finish them as fast as possible.

6 months in, I had come across the concept of solid angle while reading ahead. When we didn't touch it in class, I went to my physics teacher and asked about when we were going to do it. He said that he wasnt going to do it here, as it was too advanced for the rest of class to follow.

If he wasnt teaching all the concepts to us that he taught in a higher batch, how many other things had I missed already? How much had staying in this batch already cost me, without even knowing it?

My blood boiled for a minute as I processed this. He might have seen me going red, so he shot me an offer that would change my life.

This whole time, he had been watching my friend and I from the sidelines.
We were very active participants in his class, and were going above and beyond the homework he gave, even touching advanced books no one else in our batch had heard of, when we had the time.

When the front benches were occupied(I could never make the 7am classes on time) I used to pick up chairs from the floor below to make a new front seat, to not miss out because of the noise of the back benches.

The offer was to shift us to a higher batch- Wizards- which he taught. Completely out of the blue. Thinking of switching was scary. All these new people, who had to be so much smarter, more capable, more knowledgeable. The same people I had decided to beat in my head for all these months.

My friend said he was going to wait until the end of the year to make the switch. If I was going to go ahead right now, I was going to have to do it alone.