The 720/720 Hallucination

The Vanishing Distinction

When sixty-seven aspirants score full marks in an exam comprising 180 questions across Physics, Chemistry, and Biology, the examination has failed mathematically. In previous years, two or three students achieved this feat.

When 720 becomes common, a single misplaced bubble on an OMR sheet drops a candidate from AIIMS Delhi to a peripheral state college four hundred ranks below. The margin of error is zero. The margin of luck is everything.