“I can’t do this,” he muttered, pushing the bulky NCERT book away. Every time he tried to calculate the vapor pressure of a binary solution , his eyelids got heavier.
“It’s impossible,” Aryan groaned. “The derivations are too long, and I keep mixing up normality with molality .”
The next morning, Aryan walked into the exam hall not with fear, but with a quiet confidence. When he saw the 5-mark question— “Explain the role of the van’t Hoff factor in determining the molar mass from freezing point depression” —he actually smiled.
On it, he read:
Aryan hesitated. “Isn't that cheating?”
“It’s smart work,” Meera corrected. “You’ve already read the chapter twice. Now you need revision . You need a PDF that fits on your phone screen so you can read it while brushing your teeth tomorrow morning.”
Aryan stared at the mountain of textbooks on his desk. The clock ticked past 11:00 PM. His Class 12 Chemistry board exam was in less than ten hours, and the chapter on Solutions —Raoult’s Law, van’t Hoff factor, Henry’s Law, azeotropes—was still a giant, confusing fog in his mind.
