On my way to work, sometime back, I happened to c this gal riding pillion on a scooter holding up a book, cramming up for exams....n it brought back a whole lot of memories...
To start off...I was always the last min types....for most of the exams I have faced after college...school being the only exception...where in my sister used to closely monitor my grades and ranks...n so I used to be so well prepared...tat trust me...when I tell this..on the day before the exam....say if it was a Social Science paper prep...I used to be able to blurt out everything tat was in the text book with ease!
By the time I got into college...my sister had gotten married n had moved out..n now I was all to myself....this was when laziness was at its peak...thr used to be days when I used to just while away my time doing nothing...during the study hols....or actually picking up far more interest in reading up the newspaper or watching TV than during my vacations!
I will never forget my preparations for one paper....no matter what!..The paper was on "Engineering Graphics"...this was one subject which never made any sense to me...though I was also taking extra classes after college to try n understand this topic...it did me no good!!...the day b4 this exam...I was in tears....so full of tension tat I will definitely fail....I was so upset...that I still remember what my Amma told...."After all its an exam...if u flunk it...try the next time!"...I guess her support meant the world to me..especially since I was going over the guilt of not even attempting to understand the topic...On the day of the exam...this one was at 1pm...I remember Praveena teaching me an entire chapter..telling me tat it was very simple n I got easily get 20 sure marks out of it....after sensing tat I was genuinely ill prepared for this one.....I will get back to the word genuine used here :P
I used to keep wondering tat what I didnt learn in 6 months...I learnt it from Pravs in like an hour...n attempted this ? in the exam...n got my due too :P...ya ya ...I cleared it....as the paper was damn easy tat year!!
Genuinely ill prepared...hehehe.....well I used to be damn superstitious too when it came to exams....only old ...tried n tested clothes...which had given me good results in the past....were to be worn....n then thr was this other belief tat only if I told myself I was not prepared too well....n also to the ppl arnd me.....then I wud do well...heheheh.....Will never forget the time when Pravs n Shila were consoling me after my "Microprocessor- 8051" paper ...d tuffest paper set in years...tat no matter wat ....I wud pass it....they were in fact doing what my sister used to do ...totalling marks for the independent sections n telling me...so u attempted this ?...u will get atleast 2 marks here....finally I did manage a "55" which was not bad tat year...n I remember how those 2 wanted to beat me up!!
