The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court has recently ruled in favour of a Class X student suffering from dyslexia, allowing him to choose two optional subjects in the CBSE examinations despite CBSE scrapping them in 2017. Pratham More (name changed on request) was a student of a school in Jalgaon which is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). Prathan, who has learning disabilities had opted for Information Technology and Information and Communication Technology for his class X examinations. The two subjects chosen by Pratham were the ones he had taken up in 2016 when he was in the ninth standard. However, the CBSE scrapped some of the existing subjects and added new alternatives in October 2017. The new guidelines required a student with a learning disability to pick from a pool of seven new subjects. Pratham's father approached the school regarding his son's difficulty to cope with a completely new set of subjects in the middle of the year. Subsequently, the school authorities wrote to the CBSE officials requesting them to allow Pratham to retain his chosen subjects for his board examinations. However, the board failed to address the issue leaving the student in distress. "Despite doing the rounds of the board's regional office in Chennai, there was no response. We then approached the court, as we were facing anxiety with the sudden subject change. The court finally ruled in our favour. However the CBSE should ensure that such things dont repeat as students who already have learning disabilities should not be subjected to such a torture," said the boy's father.