Story of every exam

What is exam? Exam is an annual test to test the ability of a student that how much they have learned in an academic year.
 Nah! This isn't exam. Let me tell you what exam really is.
It is a series of time when all the things in this world suddenly becomes interesting except for our books. No matter what it be, be it a  wall ,be it an insect or even sometimes a dust particle matters a lot. Wish I would concentrate on my books the way I concentrate on knowing the parts of that tiny housefly. I wish to be more interested on reading my physics book than to wonder one day before exam how these housefly flies? Why on killing some insects we get that green sticky substance?  Well the question's lists just goes on........

At the beginning of the year every student is motivated and wish to top this year. But as gradually time passes the target shifts from 90 to 80, 80 to 70, 70 to 60 and on one day before exam, situation is such that "bhagwan bas is baar pass karado aagli baar se paka mehenat karu gi." But guess what, that "aagli baar" never comes. You know that saying "Tomorrow never comes."

One night study is what most of us do, the syllabus that took almost one year to complete by our teachers, we finish it in one night. That is the talent of  students like us. Funny though..........

Planning before exam has its another story. Just say if you have six subjects and two months  left for exam then planning are such: ten days for each subject , if one month left  then five days for each subject, one week left then one day for each subject and going to write exam one prayer for each chapter.......

When reached to the examination center you see everyone revising, while here I am who don't even know what I have  learned last night. After meeting my friends when asked how much  they have studied, their reaction will be " kuch nahi aata yaar main toh is baar paka fail hu"  but deep inside you know that they are the one who are going to top this year as always. Bell rings and for the last time I open my text book just to discover a totally new and never heard  in my life - an alien topic. I ask my friend and thank God that she knew it, she teaches me vaguely about the topic and I try to understand until the teacher comes and scold us and tell us to enter the examination hall.

After entering the examination hall instead of revising what I have learned "hanuman chalisa" gets played in my mind...... This how freaking nervous I get during exams.

After taking my seat I look here and there, poke friends around me and just say a thing "sikha dena yaar"

Teacher starts to distribute the question paper, this is when I notice everyone's expressions  gradually changing. My heart pounds breaking the rib cage as the question paper lands on my desk. Before opening it there is a prayer and after opening it "tai -tai fisssssss."  The very first question is the one that I have just seen before entering the examination hall. Not knowing what to do I write the answer on the basis of my friend's explanation. I search for the questions I know and end up discovering I know nothing ...... I look here and there hoping for someone to look at me so that I  can ask them. But it seems like everyone is busy. So I also start writing whatever I know with an attitude 'you give me questions I don't know I will give you answers you don't know.' As the time passes  there are people who ask for a dozen of extra sheets and here I am whose filling of one paper is next to impossible. If by fluke I need any extra sheet that would be the most proud moment for me."Ma'am I need an extra sheet" In the examination hall more than the answers my mind is poped up  with the memes...... Just can't help.

In three hours' exam two hours already passes, just by thinking what to write. I poke my friend sitting in front of me. Everything was already decided before entering the examination hall, sharpener for true and eraser for false but here is my friend who shows me pencil.........

My brain only works the moment, when teacher says "only 15 minutes left." Suddenly the correct answer pops  in my brain. Suddenly I start to answer the questions which I have just heard today. Only God knows what am I going to do now. "Time over" teacher exclaims and started to snatch papers and suddenly out of nowhere I know the answer to the question I have been brooding all this time. Before I can write anything teacher snatches away my paper and I am only left with bunch of questions and a pen.

After coming out of the examination hall one can see different scenarios. Bunch of students gathering in different places in the ground. Some are discussing the answer while some are tearing up their cheat papers. One can see different students giving different expressions. One can see toppers crying because they were unable to answer an one mark question or wrote an answer wrong. In the other hand there are students giving high five to each other "Just pass toh ho jaugi" and there are some, totally expressionless just like me you can't even predict if they are happy or sad.


Some group of intelligent students gather and discuss the answers. I also add up there trying to know the correct answers. There was a debate going on. While one says right option is 'b' the other says the right option is 'c' and here I am who ticked option 'a' confidently doing 'ini-mini-mango'. Discussion continues unless they open the book and confirms that correct answer is option 'b'.  They move to other questions and I slowly discover that those questions I wrote confidently are wrong and unexpected ones are right. That is when I start to believe in "expect the unexpected" When someone says "hey did you got time to do question number 18" my eyes widens and jaw drops to the ground when  I discover we had question number 18 as well. This is the question I was looking for all these time in exam hall and look where am I discovering it.  I move away from there or else I am gonna realize I  failed so badly today.

"Hey" I hear a known voice calling me from behind. I looked at her like a 'dukhi-aatma' "how was your exam?"

"Puch mat yaar... pata nhi kya hua kya nhi." I reply and just head up to home. 

On the way to home there are people desperately waiting for me to come. I enter my own colony like a thief so that no one gets to know that I have entered.  I feel like a soldier entering enemy's place. I have to save myself from bullets of questions which are going to be fired on me. 

I was not surprised when Sonali aunty bumped in out of nowhere. "Areey....beta. Mene toh apko dekha hi nahi!"  She would exclaim with her Oscar winning performance. "Aaj toh apka exam tha na beta?" She would ask and I would just briefly nod my head. "Toh kesa gaya beta exam?" She would start firing me with bunch of questions.

I somehow manage to escape her and couple of other uncle and aunties.

 As soon as I step on the threshold of my house a voice comes "Exam kesa gaya beta?"  and my heart sings 'hamara hal na pucho ki me kuch kehe nhi sakti.' Doctors after operation and students after exam have same dialogue " kuch kehe nhi sakte bas upar wale se dua karna".....Memes beta memes.

Next day  the  same cycle continues.............

Eventually the exams will get over and the result will come which has its own story.....

Well.....But for now HAPPY EXAMS TO YOU ALL!

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