The 11 Musketeers

It was a 12th commerce batch which consisted 11 students, their tuition teacher Prasad sir told them that this was the most horrible batch he has seen in 18 years of teaching, Apurva teaching institute was one of the most recognized tuition classes of the city but this year those 11 students failed Prasad, sir.

None of them had an ability of a bright or ranker student or not even a failure but all of them were still under average. They were able to pass but couldn't score more than 60 Percent in any subject.

The year was going to end and so like every year an annual exam was held between all the institutes in the city and students who scored more than 85 percent were given cash prizes. Prasad's students would get prizes each year but this year he was afraid that not even one student could score more than 85.

Those 11 students didn't score much in tuition but scored above average in their respective schools because they all believe that they couldn't study but at least they were not too lazy and enough smart to cheat on the exam.

Before the annual exam, a pre-exam was conducted were many students of different classes gave exam , those 11 students thought this was the perfect opportunity to impress prasad sir as they consider themselves expert in cheating but luck didn't help them. When exam was conducted, there were 3 supervisors and cameras in the class and it was nearly impossible for anyone to cheat even in the class of 50 students. The attention would be even more in the annual exam

Only two weeks were remaining for the annual exam and there was no hope among the 11 students or prasad sir, teachers of other classes started taunting prasad of their poor situation, students of prasad sir couldn't take that humiliation and felt that now they need something to do, not for them but for prasad sir.

The annual exam was conducted, each and every student gave that exam but prasad had no expectations with them and was just looking forward to next year but after one week later when results were announced, Prasad sir came to know that not one, not two but all 11 students had score 90 Percent in their exam, neither prasad sir nor other teachers believe how this miracle happened but the reality was completely different.

The students had no hope to cheat in the exams due to strict supervision and only two weeks were remaining for the annual exam so it was impossible for them to study enough to score more than 85 but somewhere their hopes were not giving up. Luckily one copy of questions paper was distributed to Every institute specifically to their headteachers and so prasad had the question paper but it was impossible to access to the paper as it was with him, but that same night prasad sir called the part-time tutor of his class and handed him the question paper and he was given the job to make copies of the question paper in case the original had got lost.

The tutor had made the copies and handed the next day to prasad sir but the mystery is still unsolved that how the students were able to score 90 in the exam. Everyone thought they cheated but the sad reality is they did cheat. There was a student named Aman among those 11 students who's father owned a Xerox/print out the shop and he was able to do some mischief in his father's shop which may have got him access to the leftover copies of question paper and he may have secretly distributed it to his fellow classmates.