CBSE 12th Results 2022: Pune boy battles cancer, secures 81% in board exams | Education News,The Indian Express
17-year-old Omkar Dhankar, who is a chess and Rubik’s cube enthusiast, spoke of “moral support” from his mother, help from teachers
Two months before Term 1 CBSE examinations in November last year, 17-year-old Ojas Dhankar was rushed to the hospital for what his parents thought was jaundice. It turned out to be leukeamia. Six months since, he has scored 81 per cent in the class 12 results declared on Friday.
Dhankar, who is a chess and rubik’s cube enthusiast, had to let go of his long-held IIT-JEE dream this year because he has “two more years of chemotherapy,” which he “cannot do alone in another city or away from home”.
He has now taken admission in an integrated BTech programme at the Symbiosis Skills University with mechatronics as his special subject.
“It is not something you plan for. It is a situation you’re thrown into and I did whatever I could. My teachers helped me a lot. Sometimes they extended the deadline of submissions for me, sent me question papers for mock exams, and gave me their personal notes,” Dhankar told The Indian Express.
Speaking of the support he got from his mother Anjali through the period, Dhankar said: “My friends would get on video calls with me. But most of all my family, and my mother, helped. I had extreme mood swings at times…I do not know how she dealt with it. I did not want to write the term one exams…the chemotherapy had just started and it was heavy. I wanted to take a break, but she asked me to just write the exams and that it did not matter how much I scored.”
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