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Inside a DharmaCode report: a walk-through of Aarav's sample

By Gaurav Channagiri · · 7 min read

Before you read: Aarav is not a real child. He is a fictional Class 10 student we created so that every parent can see a complete DharmaCode report before paying anything. His answers were written by us, and the report was produced by the same process that writes every paid report. You can open Aarav's full sample report here and read it alongside this article.

We would rather show you the real thing than describe it with adjectives. So here is what is inside, section by section, and why each part is there.

Who Aarav is

Aarav is in Class 10 at a CBSE school in Bengaluru. In the questionnaire his parent described a boy who opens old remotes and table fans with the family screwdriver set, taught himself Arduino and Python from YouTube, and built a prize-winning water-level alarm for a science fair. He writes two lines of an essay and stops. When his marks dip, he goes quiet for a day, then makes a new timetable and sticks it on the wall.

His parent also wrote down the worry that sits in many Indian homes: the family expects IIT through JEE, his maths is in the 70s, and coaching pressure might kill his love of making things.

That worry matters. The report is built to answer it.

Section 1: the summary page

The report opens with a single page headed "If you read one page, read this one". For Aarav it names his main pattern, the Builder (Vishwakarma), and his second strong pattern, the Strategist (Chanakya).

It then gives three directions to explore (robotics and mechatronics, embedded systems and IoT hardware, and industrial automation), three things to avoid, and one thing to remember. In Aarav's case, that one thing is direct: the parent's concern about theory-only coaching is well founded, and the family should look for a project-friendly route through PCM rather than abandon engineering.

Notice what the report does not do. It does not tell the family to drop their plan. It shows them how their son can lead it.

Section 2: the main pattern, in the parent's own words

Next comes a full portrait of the Builder, followed by "How it shows up in Aarav". This part quotes the parent's own answers back: the small motorised car built after teaching himself Arduino from YouTube, the neighbours' Wi-Fi router he fixed, the timetable on the wall.

This is deliberate. Every quote in a DharmaCode report comes from what the parent typed. We never invent quotes about your child. If you write in your own words, the report uses your words.

The section also lists strengths, "things to watch" (tendencies to manage, not flaws to fix), well-known Indians who show the pattern, and the most common mistake parents make with a Builder: promoting them into managing people before they have had the chance to build.

Section 3: the world of work in 2035

Every parent is asking what artificial intelligence will do to their child's future career. The report answers that question for this child. For Aarav it explains why work that combines programming with physical hardware is harder to automate than purely digital desk work, and why a Builder who directs AI tools becomes more productive rather than replaceable.

Section 4: ten careers, ranked by fit

This is the section most parents scroll to first. Aarav's report lists ten careers, ranked by how well they fit what the parent described, not by prestige. Each one comes with a plain-words fit label ("strong fit", "good fit", "worth exploring"), a note on how exposed it is to AI, a suggested degree, and an example Indian college.

The colleges are deliberately mixed. Aarav's list includes institutions in his own state, such as RV College of Engineering and PES University in Bengaluru, alongside national names such as IIT Madras and IIST Thiruvananthapuram. A good plan has options at every level of entrance-exam result, not only the top one.

There is also a short list of "paths likely to frustrate". These are not bad careers. They are careers where the daily work would wear this particular child down.

Section 5: the next three months

Advice is only useful if you can act on it this week. Aarav's plan runs month by month:

  • Month 1, Discovery: set up an organised workbench at home and start a design notebook for past projects such as the water-level alarm.
  • Month 2, Build a small project: pick a real problem at home, such as automated plant watering, and build a working sensor prototype.
  • Month 3, Connect to community: visit a local makerspace, show the prototype to the school science club and enter a regional STEM competition.

The plan is calibrated to Class 10. A Class 12 report would focus on entrance exams and college choices instead.

Section 6: subjects and stream

For Aarav the report recommends Class 11 Science (PCM) with Computer Science or Electronics, in a school with good practical labs, and gives an honest alternative. It also says which subjects deserve extra energy (Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science) and which simply need to be kept steady.

This matters more than ever. NEP 2020 (para 4.9) calls for "no hard separation" between arts, humanities and sciences, and greater choice of subjects in secondary school. More choice means more decisions, and those decisions go better when they follow the child's nature.

Section 7: the parenting playbook

We tell every parent to read this section twice. It covers how to talk to your child, what helps and what shuts them down, how to handle disagreements, and how to manage marks and exam pressure.

It opens with a short, sourced summary of what research says about pushing children down a path, including a 2024 meta-analysis of 238 studies covering 126,423 participants, accepted in American Psychologist, which found that parental support for a child's own choices was linked with better wellbeing across regions and cultures. It closes that summary with the Bhagavad Gita: better to follow your own path imperfectly than someone else's perfectly (3.35).

Parent view and child view

Aarav's sample also shows the optional second view. His parent rated him on 20 short personality statements from the Mini-IPIP, a public-domain Big Five questionnaire, and on 24 work activities from the public-domain IPIP Oregon Vocational Interest Scales. Aarav answered the same personality statements about himself, plus the 30 work activities of the O*NET® Interest Profiler. The two interest questionnaires are different, so the report shows them side by side instead of averaging them. The "Parent & child" tab puts the two views side by side, marks where they agree and where they differ, and gives the family a few questions to talk through. Both of them picked the Builder pattern. They saw his sociability and his worrying differently, and the report treats that as something to discuss, not a mistake to correct. Where either of them wrote an answer in their own words, the two answers sit next to each other. In a real report, the child's own words appear only in the parent's private view, never in a shared link or the PDF.

These scores are not yet normed on Indian students, so the report shows plain scale scores with low, average and high bands, never percentiles. A one-page counsellor summary at the end lists the same scores for a school counsellor.

Section 8: resources and "how this report was made"

The report ends with books, channels, communities and tools chosen for the child, and then a plain explanation of how it was made. That explanation is short enough to read in a minute: each everyday answer points to one of seven patterns, a single pick gives two points, two picks give one point each, and the patterns with the most points lead. The personality and interest scores come from two published questionnaires, scored by fixed rules. Your typed words are not scored. They go straight to the writer. There is no birth chart and no hidden formula.

Is a report like this right for your family?

If your child is in Class 9 to 12 and a stream, subject or college decision is coming, a report like Aarav's gives you a structured starting point for the conversation. Start with the free 5-minute quiz to see your child's main pattern. If it rings true, the Full Report is ₹999 (including GST in India), takes 20 to 30 minutes depending on how much you write, and the report is ready in minutes.

Frequently asked questions

Is Aarav a real student?
No. Aarav is fictional. We created him so that parents can read a complete report before paying. Your report is written from your own answers about your own child.

What does a DharmaCode career report include?
A summary page, your child's main and secondary pattern, an AI-era outlook, ten careers ranked by fit with example Indian colleges, a 3-month action plan, subject and stream advice for their class, a parenting playbook, resources, and an explanation of how the report was made.

Does the report only recommend IITs?
No. Every report is instructed to include in-state and non-elite options alongside national institutions, so the plan works across a range of entrance-exam results.

Is it useful for Class 12 students?
Yes. The advice is calibrated to the child's class. For Class 11 and 12 it leans towards entrance exams, college choice and course selection rather than stream choice.

Can I get a refund if I do not agree with the report?
Delivered reports are not refundable, which is why the full sample is free to read first. If something is clearly wrong, such as the wrong class, we correct or regenerate it free. See the refund policy.

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