Rishav completed NCEA Level 3 with Excellence in Physics and Chemistry in 2017 and had already finished Level 3 Calculus and Statistics the previous year—both with Excellence. While in Year 12 he earned Scholarship results in Calculus and Statistics and completed A2 Cambridge Maths with an A+ (2016). In 2018 he completed Health Sciences First Year at the University of Otago with a perfect 9.0 GPA and was accepted into medical school.