Going for 39 now and that's not looking too good either. And all this so he can marry a 30 year old? http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/od_nm/india_failure_dc_1;_ylt=AudnKHZOHvLNkSHh6PfgGVwE1vAI JAIPUR, India (Reuters) - A 73-year-old Indian farmer who vowed not to marry before passing his high school exams has failed to get through for the 38th time. Shiv Charan Yadav has been taking the exams -- normally given to schoolchildren at the age of 15 -- every year since 1969, without success. He was in his 30s when he first decided to better himself through education. This year, he failed everything except Sanskrit, scoring only 103 out of a possible 600 points. He said he found mathematics especially hard, blaming the subject for dragging down his score. "Once I pass I want to get married to a girl who's under 30," Yadav, who lives alone in Kohari village in the western desert state of Rajasthan, told Reuters. He is now revising for his 39th attempt next year.
That's weird. All of my South Asian friends are "rocket scientists," this guy must be quite the anomaly. And especially in MATH?!
Didn't Wayne Dolcefino have a report recently on how some local HISD teachers failed the entrance exam to become a teacher like 25 to 30 times? Kinda sad. EDIT: Here is the story: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=investigative&id=5290451
Let's see you speak some sanskrit... Seriously, though, I wonder if this guy was just uneducated going into all this. Lots of those poor farmers don't have enough money to get an education and it's not easy to cram 15 years of learning into your head after you've hit 30.
What's Your major? Sanskrit Sanskrit. You're majoring in a 5000 year old dead language? Yeah [handing him a thesis]Latin, best I can do.
