Nostalgia 4 : Exams

Exam sunte hi mere dimaag mai khayal aata hai.

College banane wale kya tere man mai samayi.. kahe ko exam banayi tune kahe ko exam banayi?

Haa, I mean pure semester mai kitni masti karte hai and because of exams ufff… kitni mahenat karni padti hai…

Have a look at some photographs here. (Taken during internal exams)

Dekho bachhe log kaise padhte rahte hai?

Block ka ek bhi cona baaki nahi raha hai (None of the corner of the Block is empty… Lawn mai bhi baith kar padh rahe hai…
Na koi corridor baaki hai… har koi padh raha hai…

Ye log bhi… dekho dustbin ke bagal mai baith kar padh rahe hai… bechare…

Ye bhaisa’b to dekho… koi disturbance nahi chahiye muje… window mai baith gaye hai…

Too good.

Here comes Mr Mody…. Exam jaaye bhaad mai.. mai to so raha hu… pillow!!! Who needs it??? Software engineering ki book hai na?

We used to be very cool during internal exams. 10 was the passing limit out of 25 marks. We used to target for 8 or 9. Baaki ke 1-2 marks to sir/ma’m de hi dete the… The best part of our group was that we used to study in group. Just read for about 3-4 marks. Rest you can listen from someone and nahi to exams mai copy to hoti hi hai.. Ask your friend to give the headings for that theory. Baaki kahani to likh hi sakte hai… It was great fun. Start reading on the very same day of the exam. Half an hour of reading was enough for us to creak 2 papers… (Though It was not enough but some how we managed to do that) Start the day with little bit of tension. Then in the end… Jo bhi hoga dekha jaayega… Forget it…

Now let me talk about university exams.
Our university used to give us a reading vacation of full month before uni exams (They knew us. Vacation nahi diya to Gujarat uni will be the worst in terms of result)
So we used to enjoy the full semester. In the first week of our reading vacation we used to call all the scholars and ask about books.

Yar plz tell me which is the text book for this subject?
What is the syllabus in this subject?
Can you plz give me some notes?

By the time we find out these, week 2 of reading vacation is over. Now just 2 more weeks to go…

Ask some body “Yar can you just give me overview of this chapter?”
Find out who was the paper setter for the subject? Get the internal exam papers from his college.
Collect all the extra Xerox (photocopies for some extra material / some important questions)
Find out previous university papers.
By the time week 3 is over.

Just one week to go for university exam.
5 subjects and 7 days… bahut na insaafi hai…
Then we used to find out which paper has maximum holidays before it? Forget about that subject and start preparing for rest of subjects. But by this time we used to be in very pathetic position. We all used to get together for making strategies and for knowledge transfer programs.

I still remember – in sem 1. The previous night of “C” paper. We were studying till 4 in the morning at Surti’s place. Then Naman dialed some random number and he was like “Hello doctor, the buffalo is not feeling well, she is not giving milk, can you do something, and the injection you have given is not working” We all were laughing the guy at the other end…. “What!! 4 in the morning!!! Buffalo!!! Milk!!! Doctor!!! You f****, @@@@, ####. Hahahahah.”

Coming back to reading vacation. Now just 3 more days to go… Every time we used to think. Bas bahut ho gaya.. next time I will start working from the beginning of semester … ye kya har baar reading vacation mai haalat kharab hoti hai… bahut ho gaya ye… but trust me once the exams is over… padhai… woh kya hota hai? Reading vacation hai na… will study then only…
“Aakhir kutte ki punch sidhi hoti hai kya?”

Now just one day before exam… yar haalat bahut kharab hai.. haalat ye hai ki feeling sleepy but have finished for just about 40-50 marks. Have to study for some time other wise tomorrow I am gonna flunk. So read for 2-3 hours with half open eyes. By morning any how we used to be ready for 60-70 marks… Then in the morning once again ask some one to tell something about the chapters you haven’t read… By noon we used to be ready for 80-85 marks… (Thanks to Gujarat University for keeping papers in the after noon only.) Once the paper is over enjoy… Forget about the next paper… 3 din baaad hai na… tab dekh lenge… aaj ka paper nikaal diya uski khushi mai movie ho jaaye… 2 out of those 3 days we used to enjoy… and then last day once again the same condition... but sudharne ka naam nahi….

Once the uni exam is over, we used to pray every day. Full rush in all the temples / mosques / church.

God : aa gayi yaad meri? Pure sem to meri yaad nahi aayi thi ab kyo?
Me : plz give me 66.67% (Thanks to Guj Uni once again. 66.66% was considered as distinction). Next time I won’t come to you. I will study hard in next sem. Just for this exam… plz plz plz… bhagwan paas kardena.. Distinction nahi doge to bhi chalega (in worst cases)…

Then comes the D-day. Result time guys… every year we used to get rumors before 2-3 days of result - The result is going to announce today… We used to go to university every time we hear that rumor. And finally results are out… Everybody is at University… Somebody is happy… (s)he has got unexpectedly high marks… somebody is unhappy… (s)he has got the list marks… somebody missed the uni rank just by one mark… somebody got the uni rank… sale ki to aisi ki taisi…

But our whole group used to suffer a lot because of internal marks. Thanks to viva portion in the final result… Pure sem sir se pange liye ho to kahase marks milte…
So result scenario in our group was something like this

A: Kya huaa be?
B: Are yaar paas ho gaya?
B: Tu…
A: Mai bhi…
B: Sahi..
A&B : Yooo yoooo….Party… Chalo ye sem to nikal gaya baaki bhi nikal jayenge…

Lagta hia kal hi ki to baat kar raha hu aap se…

Anyways I shouldn’t forget that my code is not working in the production environment… today (on holiday) I have come to office to fix it up and I have started all this… okay better now I start working for that code otherwise again I will have to go GOD and ask him to do something about that error. I don’t want to do that… I know why to call GOD for everything. But whom can I call other then you my dear GOD. So GOD plz fix this bug otherwise my manager will screw me…
He will kick me out of this project, he will kick on my ass… Muje ye job se haath dhone padenge… No no nahi nahi… meri biwi bachhe bhukhe mar jayenge… muje roti ke liye bhikh mangni padegi… job ke liye bhikh mangni padegi… That time also I will come to you only dear GOD. So fix it plz plz….