Five Point Someone - What not to do at IIT! is the first (2004) novel written by Chetan Bhagat, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmedabad. It is one of the highest selling English novels published in India, and has remained on the bestseller list until 2007 since its release in 2004. It was adapted into a play by the theatre group Madras Players, and may be converted to a bollywood movie soon.

The novel is set in the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in the period 1991 to 1995. It is about the adventures of three mechanical engineering students (and friends), Hari Kumar (the narrator), Ryan Oberoi, and Alok Gupta, who fail to cope with the cruel grading system of the IITs and come to be known as five pointers due to their perennially low 5.something GPA's.

The book is narrated in the first person by Hari, with some small passages by his friends Ryan and Alok, as well as a letter by Hari's girlfriend Neha Cherian. It deals with the lives of the three friends whose elation on making it to one of the best engineering colleges in India is quickly deflated by the rigor and monotony of academic work. Most of the book deals with the numerous attempts by the trio to cope with and/or beat the system as well as Hari's fling with Neha who just happens to be the daughter of Prof. Cherian, the sadistic head of the Mechanical Engineering Department.

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Chapter 11 – The Gift
Chapter 12 – Neha Speaks
Chapter 13 – One More Year LaterChapter 14 – Vodka
Chapter 15 – Operation Pendulum
Chapter 16 – The Longest Day Of My Life 1
Chapter 17 - The Longest Day Of My Life 2
Chapter 18 - The Longest Day Of My Life 3
Chapter 19 - The Longest Day Of My Life 4
Chapter 20 - The Longest Day Of My Life 5
Chapter 21 - The Longest Day Of My Life 6
Chapter 22 – Ryan Speaks
Chapter 23 – Kaju – Burfi
Chapter 24 – Will We Make It?
Chapter 25 – A day Of Letters
Chapter 26 – Meeting Daddy
Chapter 27 – Five Point Someone

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