“B.R. Ambedkar and K.R. Narayanan are the sole individuals from India who have successfully passed the world’s toughest exam known as Doctor of Science”
What FACTLY found
While it is true that B.R. Ambedkar received the Doctor of Science for his thesis presented to the University of London in 1923, and K.R. Narayanan received an honorary Doctor of Science in 1987 from the University of Toledo, numerous Indian scientists, academicians, and others have also received this distinction. It is important to note that there is no definitive authority that ranks the difficulty of exams, and in the case of the Doctor of Science, such rankings are not applicable as there...
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
This claim spread on social media around 26 June 2023. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 28 June 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “MISLEADING”.
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