Monday, September 29, 2008

Exam time- Worst days of my life :)

I think its with every 1 except few genius students who like to write exams score more than their class mates :) . I am not among them. I among the crowd who doesn't like to prepare for and write exams. During my engineering days these were worst days of my life. I will just share few incidents.

I studied in BEC college Bagalkot and was staying in hostel. Each room had 3 students. Most of the students in hostel study only during exam time. Sitting on terrace, having bunch of cigarette packets and smoking whole night to be awake was regular scene during exams. Few were doing group study and few preferred individual studies. Few were comfortable with books and few used to refer notes. Few made sound while reading and few read in mind. Few guys used to sleep when all awake and get up when all sleep. So we have seen all types of studies. One typical type of study was to disturb other's study and study.

Here is one incident.
During our first year of engineering, when exams were a week ahead, one guy spent 70 rs and bought a fashion magazine ( most popular one) and made it make a round in hostel. Most of us were very new to such books and started running and making reservations for it.. After u give it to me ok.. after me he has booked etc etc.. So we wasted lot of time in this and the guy who got the book studied coolly and scored well too. Its just an example :)

My study timing was from evening 5:30 till 2 or 3 o'clock midnight. In between, the time I enjoyed most was walk after dinner. Our campus was spread across many acres and there was huge place for walking after dinner.. There was a tar road for few kms and most of us used to take a walk for a km after dinner.. It was most refreshing time as we tried to forget about books, exams and just enjoy the time with friends making full noise, talking cracking jokes etc. Strict rule was not to discuss about studies or about preparation. Everything else was allowed except remembering exams. It used to last for 15 min each day but the real pain was when getting back to hostel. It was a killing experience. Remembering the books, exam and finishing the syllabus before the exam start bell rings, my body used to get a cold shivering. The same kind of experience I still face when I remember those days.

Some how I managed to finish BE without single failure, the fear for exam was life time experience. :)

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