Bored exam

March is the hottest month of the year and i feel the rise in temperature is because of all those school kids sweating it out in the board exam.

         Board exams! That one exam whose marks which decide which college you are going to go to.

        Board exams! That time of the year where some families cut their TV connection so you don't get distracted (so if you fail they have another reason to be pissed with you.)

        Board exams! it's the year when they feed you that lie "Study hard for one year and you can enjoy all you want in college". We all believe this thought until we fail our first year college semester exams.

        Now when some of us are sitting in our rooms and studying. We have this strange feeling that the walls of the room are slowly closing in on you. Its like each day or each hour as you sit you can feel each of the 4 walls just come closer  to each other and its going to crush you one day! It doesnt make sense. ""Why am I feeling claustrophobic in my own room. I've slept here for years. Why do I feel that im going to suffocate within my own walls?"

     That my friends....is the pressure given to us by the society and our relatives. I have heard some people say that they feel thay were being strangled by someome in their sleep and they would wake up sweating thinking "What happened? Am i still alive? Cheh. So I still have to write the exam!"

Comparisms-

      This is the main problem. People like compare the number of hours they study so that they feel good about themselves.

Guy "I studied for 16 hours a day during my study holidays"

Me "So are you telling me that the remaining 8 hours of the day is when you slept, ate, went to the bathroom and had a life? I dont care if you have a life but please tell me you took a bath atleast!"

Everyone has their own way and time for studying. Some people will sit for hours and  would barely have learnt half a chapter but will brag to everyone about it. Some people sit for a few hours and they are able to learn a lot within that time. This is not a work shift to count the hours that you sit in. Its what you do during the hours you sit and study. (Its ironic because I'm typing this blog entry in a study hall)

Every mark counts

          The competition is just getting harder as the years go by. So even though I wrote by exams some 8 years back I'll be like "....back in my day..." Like some 70 year old grandpa.

    But seriously the times when I wrote my boards you could get into a decent medical college with some 85 percent marks. Now its messed up. Some colleges are demanding 99.99 marks. Some people don't get it because they miss it by 0.25 marks. 0.25 marks?! Its like that college going "How much you got? 98.25%? Meh! Too dumb!"
When we wrote exams we would just leave 5 marks because "Meh. I don't want to"......or maybe that's just me

Medical horror story:-

             Now as for the medical college admissions it has become waay more messed up than ever because we have this neet exam (specially prepared by the devil himself) after the board exam. So yes! You think one major life determining exam is hard? Well we have 2!
So dont be asking anyone from the biology group what plans do they have after exams?...in fact don't even talk to them about exams ever!
You :"Pah. My maths paper was hard!"
Medical students "You think your life is hard?! I have 17 subjects! Have to wake up at 6! I have no life! I hate myself!"

School disowning:-

          Schools start acting strange during your 12th. Throwing extra classes and even more extra tests on you. You may think "Aaaw. So sweet! My school is so concerned about my future!" Er....actually no. If you screw up the exam then you screw up the school's reputation. If you fail the exam theyll have to put a sign saying

             "CONGRATULATIONS 2K17 BSTCH

ALL STUDENTS GOT ABOVE 70 PERCENT!

..............except for this dude who failed. But we don't know him much and we suspect he is retarded"

So to prevent that the school had to either 

1. Erase your existence from school history and everyone's memory (oh trust me. They have tried with me) or 

2. Force you to study.

Tutoring-

What I found very interesting/trippy is the fact that school kids are going to coaching classes! Full day 8 hour coaching classes! Has the human brain developed at that age to listen to so much in a single day?  My head would have burst before lunchtime! 

     We used to have our 2 hour tuition classes when we were small. We would pay so much and go to a tuition centre.....where they would just tell us to study. Technically something we can do at home for free. Tuition classes were an excuse to hang out with your friends more and watch them get slapped for not doing their homework (which was very fun to watch)

Now I would finish this entry with a bit of advice. Oh? You think this is for the students writing! No this is for the parents! 

Parents must read:-

I understand what you feel. You are worried sick about your child's future and you want to do everything within your power to make sure that he does his exam well. 

     This is something he has to figure out for himself though. How to study. What's comfortable for him. How to plan. If you just throw all the pressure and tuitions on him. Either that child will go to depression or will rebel back. 

     Its normal human tendancy to push back if it's something you don't want to do. So if you go around telling everyone that "my child isnt studying. He isn't serious at all" after pressuring him so much then you'll look pretty ridiculous.

      There are times when you need to have confidence in your child and support him when he needs it. Some parents pride themselves on the fact that they keep on telling their children what to do. Parents should work on listening to their children than telling them "What is best"

    To make it simple. The board exam is like swimming through a river. With the right training you can swim through. But if you are forced into the river your only thought is to get out of the water and breathe or even worse....you might drown!

*All the best to everyone writing the Board exams this year!*