Eleven months.
Eight to ten hours a day.
Zero Instagram. Zero AI shortcuts.
And weekends?
Football. 🏈
Meet Moksh Rathod — a national-level footballer from Ahmedabad who just cracked All India Rank 5 in the CA Intermediate exam with 508/600.
And the way he did it… is the real story.
ICAI dropped the May 2026 results on June 24.
The numbers are savage:
📉 Group I pass rate: 10.25%
📉 Group II pass rate: 16.11%
🧮 Out of 91,237 Group I aspirants, only 9,350 made it through
This was one of the toughest CA Inter cycles since 2024.
And Moksh finished in the top 5 of the country.
In 2026, when every student is asking ChatGPT to summarise their syllabus…
Moksh did the opposite.
👉 "You cannot use AI to summarise content for these exams. ICAI is very thorough in what it asks."
No AI crutches.
No Instagram doomscrolls.
Screen time capped at 3-4 hours — only YouTube and WhatsApp survived the cut.
Just mock tests. Revision. And more revision.
Ahmedabad had a moment this week:
🥇 Moksh Rathod — AIR 5, 508/600
🥈 Stuti Goenka — AIR 10, 484/600 (10-12 hours daily, app timers, isolation mode)
🥉 Kanhaiya Sharma — AIR 40, 445/600
All three flagged the same villain: Audit and Law.
Kanhaiya put it best: "In CA, we consider audit a nightmare."
Moksh said the eleven months felt like years.
Exhausting. Frustrating. A test of patience more than intellect.
Stuti admitted she questioned herself constantly — "Can I really do this?"
Kanhaiya thought about quitting.
But here's the line every aspirant should tattoo on their brain — Moksh's advice to those who didn't clear:
"CA is tough. You have to be mentally prepared for failure. But that should not stop you from trying again."
In an era obsessed with AI hacks, 10x productivity, and 6-month miracle plans…
Three kids from Ahmedabad just proved the old formula still wins:
Consistency. Revision. Family. Discipline.
And maybe — a little bit of football on the side.
That's all for now!
