Mohammed Arif

Not everyone preparing for NEET gets to study full-time. I helped run my father's hardware shop during the day, which meant my study hours only started late at night, when the rest of the house was asleep.

I couldn't attend fixed coaching timings, so a self-paced option was the only thing that fit my life. My phone became my classroom — I would take mock tests sitting on the shop floor and review my mistakes on the bus.

With so few hours, I couldn't afford to waste any. The analysis told me exactly which topics would give me the most marks for the least time, so every tired late-night hour actually counted for something.

I scored 588 out of 720 and got admission into a government college in my state. It's not an all-India topper's rank, but for a boy studying between customers and past midnight, it changed my family's future.