The Day(s) that was (were) not meant to be!
The Ending note of the last post was “Exams have a cunning way of out-witting me, they hit on the areas where I have less or no expertise”. This was indeed true for the last three days. The papers which I thought would be easier, turned out to be messy and the difficult ones? Even messier!
From my experience, I’d say, the days when you have the most works, would be the days of most distractions. As like any other time, I had too many things in my mind and failed to put my 100% for the exams. However I had a little confidence in me, that I could handle the exams and that I knew at least what was necessary to get me a decent score.
But fate willed otherwise and the three days was yet another rollercoaster!
Day 1: The day that began with Security and Coding.
“Security? That’s just plain old math dude. Do you still need
to study how to find prime numbers?”
That’s what I told my pals when they were busy with their books.
( I was even successful in persuading them away from their books, Kudos, a pat on my back!) I touched on a few aspects of the subject and left the details on the way. I Never really bothered to go into the details. But the moment I got the questionnaire in my hand, I noticed, how cruel the fate is. 50% of what was on it was termed by me as “Unnecessary and Not really an area to test students on”.
Out of the rest 25% was what I had studied well, although I struggled a bit on that area too to get some of them correct.
And the last 25%? Those were the areas termed as “practically important” and I could not even make the question correct, let alone find the suitable concept and solve it.
The Next one, the Intimidating coding Techniques, or is it, Information coding Techniques?
That was another pain in the neck. I Hardly knew 90% of the question paper. I turned the questionnaire once in every five minutes and it took the first 40 minutes of the exam time for me to write my first alphabet on the answer sheet. Exasperated, I burst myself out of the exam hall, as soon as the final bell completed it’s last chord. Thus ended day 1. Phew., only two more to go!
Day 2: The day after the beginning of Late night phone calls.
Just the night before the exams, I received a phone call. My Old pal. Such a good friend, and an even more good and friendly chatterbox. She called me by the night, the only time when I sit with my books, and we ended up ranting till 1 in the night. Thus was the end of my next day-exam preparation.
The next day, I hadn’t much opportunity to study anything. It was management paper and an Intelligence paper. The former was a dry paper with some concepts and the later was purely a conceptual paper which required 100% preparation and 100% thinking (Yeah, that makes 200%!)
Surprisingly, I did well in both! (In my terms, it means, I had something to write in both of them!) And the rest of the test takers, found the former an easy piece and the latter, the toughest one to crack. But I was happy just to have had written something at least.
By the day end, One of my friends got into trouble and I ended up solving his problems. It was totally off the guard, but I couldn’t do anything else other than helping him. Thus ended day 2, with the call from my friend by midnight!
Day 3: The much anticipated Areas-of-Interest.
Hurray, the last two was what I liked the most and I really did them well!
So... All I have to do now is to take some time off and wait for the results!
Cya Then,
Love,
Jk
posted by Jyothikarthik @ 5:59:00 AM
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