Read the passage given below carefully and answer the questions that follow:
1. I was a below average student. Both in schools and colleges, rarely my teachers
knew me by name. I don’t think I was a dunce; just that I didn’t have an academic bent
of mind. Since failures were more a habit than an exception, a below par performance
never disturbed me. Neither were my teachers proud of me nor did I make my parents
feel proud of me.
2. Of course, my parents being noble-hearted, never gave up on me. They never put me
down in the presence of others. In fact, to shield me, they always projected a positive
image of me to the world.
3. In 1984, while pursuing my graduation in Mathematics, I had failed in one of the
subjects in my fourth semester. I already had three arrears. For the first time, hearing
about my failure, I saw tears in my father’s eyes. This was my first experience of seeing
my father cry. I couldn’t handle his crying. To withdraw myself I escaped to the terrace
of my apartment. I suffered a fear like I have never known before. I was trembling. I
never wanted my parents to ever cry again because of my failures. But, I was scared.
”Was it too late to begin in life,” I doubted. I was already over 18, just about 50% marks
in my four semesters, 4 arrears to clear and 3 regular paper to face in my fifth semester,
no talent, no special abilities, never won a prize in my life, not a single certificate I truly
wanted to make it very big in life, if not for my sake, just to make up for all that I had put
my parents through. My thoughts were haunting me, “Rajan, you don’t have a
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not have time bro soory for this
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