I haven’t written in over a month and I sincerely apologize
for that. To make up for this often committed mistake of not writing in SSS , I
am going to confess to some of the (small) crimes I have committed in the past.
< Disclaimer: Personal Post coming up >
I know I should be writing about the increasing terrorist
activity or the omnipresent rape fear, but I choose to overlook these topics (mostly
because better writers have written awesome articles about them already) and am
going to choose GEOGRAPHY TESTS instead.
Very Random Right? Well, expecting a sane topic from an
insane person is well … insane.
Everyone has an Achilles heel , a special subject that they
hate so much that they would rather burn in hell than study it for the test
next day. Most people hate math , I also hate(d) math . But coming to think of
it, I hated GEOGRAPHY the most. History was awesome;, math dumbfounding ;
Biology insanely difficult ; BUT nothing was so irrationally hateable like
innocuous looking geography.
I mean who wants to study about the rocks, climate , pressure,
river delta estuaries or even longitude latitudes? I learnt so much, but hated
every bit. I used to read the most amount of story books during geography. The
teachers were actually pretty good but boy! I hated that subject.
(Don’t) worry. I am (not) going to ramble about my hatred
and be done with it. Nahi saar, I am going to give two awe some/ful anecdotes
about 2 amazing geography exams I wrote in school time.
THIS IS THE STORY OF WHY I DON’T CARRY WATER TO EXAMINATION
HALLS ANYMORE.
1. 1 Water on the desk
Sounds innocent enough. But nothing is ever innocent in semiland, my children J . I was in 8th
standard I think, the class representative – apostIneverdeservedbutdidnoworkanywayssochill-
and had this geography test. Our teacher was Nirmala miss, an old but smart
teacher who would sit at the back of the class so that copying was out of the
picture entirely.
The fundamental duty of the class rep is to develop class
rapport and I found that working towards an underlying common cause would
incite us towards that direction. Henceforth, I decided to help my classmates
copy. Out of 34 people , at least 30 hadn’t studied , I had studied enough to
fill the pages but many were planning unsafe methods to copy.
Our class 8A , we were a pack. We made teachers cry in packs
, we chewed gum in packs and we decided to commit this crime as a pack.
Cheating in tests is a crime which I have later come to despise but as a 13
year old class student who hated geography , I had no qualms about what I was
just about to do.
So how can the entire class copy without getting caught? We
can’t all whisper – 30 whispers cause a scream , we can’t all keep the notebook
underneath , even if we had a plan – we can’t all ever agree in unison .
I tried dividing the class into 4 zones – the quiet zone ,
nerd zone and the last 2 were the mad cheater’s zone. Whatever elaborate plan I
made up , it all boiled down to the problem that the teacher sat in the back
bench and could see the papers we kept below in the desk. Creating bits was
logistically impossible and if everyone wasn’t satisfied , somebody would rat
us out.
So , I poured water on the backbench and added a dirty paper
and banana peel to it.
That was the most popular thing I did as a class rep and it
had to go undocumented L
:P
- 2.
Water on the paper
This was when I was around the same age: 12-13 . Although ,
I showed criminal tendencies as mentioned above , I was pretty dumb. To prove
the case in point , I am going to bring back to memory this painful incident
which ruined my entire exams - almost.
We have established my particular dislike for geography already
, so it isn’t entirely unsurprising that I didn’t have much knowledge of it on
the exam day. However , I forgot to mention this – I am a nerd. On the exam days
at the least :P
I hate leaving blank spaces in my answer, probably because I
know I’ll never come back to fill it , as I never have the time for it. The
exact same thing happened . For the first question on the first page of the
first fricking examination! Even though, I answered other answers properly , it
irked me that the first page was half blank and first impression matters.
So , I poured water on my first page.
I still haven’t figured out why I DID THAT. A blonde moment
, you could call it -_- My thought process was this : If I pour a small amount
of water on the page , it would be a legit reason to have omitted that space.
I forgot that
- 1)
I was a MESSY KLUTZ ,
- 2)
That water has absorbing qualities
- 3)
My bottle had a very big mouth
- 4)
I used gel pen.
So the water leaked on to all the
pages I wrote afterwards and my mainsheet was a wet nightmare. I had to rewrite
the entire paper in 20 minutes and the invigilator wasn’t ready to give me even
2 extra minutes.
So ladies and gentlemen, please
don’t pour water on your paper . Maybe it was the karma of pouring water on my
desk which led me into that disaster of a decision.
And that is why I don’t carry
water to an examination.
yours thirstily ,
Semi
