He was a very mediocre student. If you read his autobiography, you will realise it. He's been very frank about how poor he was and how he lagged behind in studies and like everybody else, he had his favourite subjects and the subjects which he disliked so he neglected those subjects and failed very badly in those. The only thing unique about him right from his childhood was that he was always striving to better himself. He never allowed his weaknesses to hold him back. He identified those and then he decided to overcome those and he made an effort to overcome those. If you read the autobiography, you will read how in his student days he made himself better all the time and how he did not feel ashamed to admit his failures. Right from the episodes of stealing from his father to cheating and getting engaged in immoral activities. He admitted to all his mistakes and made a conscious effort to not repeat those mistakes and that is what makes the difference in him and in his academic career, he realised that he was mediocre and he made an attempt to better himself. He didn't cheat even when famously his teacher wanted him to cheat but he refused.

So here's this cheating story:

It was the period of English and the English inspector of school would come and he wanted to test the level of knowledge of the class so he gave them a spelling  test and the English teacher was walking around to ensure that his students perform the best and he saw that young Mohan spelled a word 'cattle' wrong so he pointed it out to him and said that your neighbour has got it right so look at it and correct yourself so Mohan refused to do that resulting in the fact that the inspector chided him and the teacher that this student doesn't know the spelling of cattle. The teacher also finally punished Mohan for not obeying his command to cheat but Mohan said that if I had cheated then it would have been insulting to you because I would have also hidden the fact that I hadn't learnt from you. That was the ethicality right from the beginning of his life that he continuously practiced and that is what made him a better person as time went by.

Tushar Gandhi
Motivational Speaker, Great- Grandson of Mahatma Gandhi