The Most Frustrating Pattern in Education A father once brought his 15-year-old son to me. He understood physics.

He could solve hard problems in front of his tutor. But every time he wrote an exam, his marks were 30 to 40 percent below what his coaching mock tests predicted.

The father was angry. Both were tired of fighting about it.

I asked the boy one question. "When you sit in the exam hall and read a question you have practised many times, what happens in the first 10 seconds?" He thought for a moment.

Then he said quietly, "My mind goes blank. I just cannot find it." That sentence describes weak Mercury better than any textbook can.

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