Five Point Someone is a story about three friends in IIT who are unable
to cope.The book starts with a disclaimer, “This is not a book to teach
you how to get into IIT or even how to live in college. In fact, it
describes how screwed up things can get if you don’t think straight.”
Three hostelmates – Alok, Hari and Ryan get off to a bad start in IIT –
they screw up the first class quiz. And while they try to make amends,
things only get worse. It takes them a while to realize: If you try and
screw with the IIT system, it comes back to double screw you. Before
they know it, they are at the lowest echelons of IIT society. They have a
five-point-something GPA out of ten, ranking near the end of their
class. This GPA is a tattoo that will remain with them, and come in the
way of anything else that matters – their friendship, their future,
their love life. While the world expects IITians to conquer the world,
these guys are struggling to survive.
Will they make it? Do underperformers have a right to live? Can they
show that they are not just a five-point-somebody but a
five-point-someone?