With the new session to start in the offing,the fuchhas may not even have set their wardrobe but DU is all ready with the datesheet. Why people like me are dreading to even have a look at it, roots back to 'the creeps' one feels while reading the word- Exams. More so when you have recently aced out one. How much ever far the exams may seem to be, seeing the datesheet never fails to give you the exam blues. Lets revisit the dreadful lanes of exam time and unitedly loathe over the datesheet.
Revisiting the dreadful lanes of exam time! Whether semester, Boards or competitive, the situation remains the same across all ethnic groups, class and creed.
He-“I will sleep now, would get up early and start with the day afresh”.
Dodges in the bed for a while, listens to the songs, clears the bed, rotates in every possible direction, slows the fan, and then finally bribes the God “Oh! Lord Let the sleep befalls and with the first rays of sun I will surely clear out the mess I have created on my table”. He fights the internal demons to get lucky but to no benefit! The nighmares don’t let this poor fella rest for a while. He is at fight. This desperate, helpless lad is no other than the student who is going through a tough time called ‘exams’ and insomnia being a symptom, which he can’t escape- even if he is a direct descendant of Einstein! Sleep is just for the week!
Till the time universities/colleges/schools have their exams, the students’ community is the one suffering the most while the head of pharmaceutical companies are busy buying the island in Dubai out of the profit made from sudden upsurge in sale of drugs like- Combiflame. For the Assamese farmers ‘acche din tu aa gye hai’ for the peak season they face- this sudden levitated demand in the market for tea and coffee. Alas! The only depressed souls in the world is this student and his mother who is seen lamenting over the fact ‘ki uska beta kuch kha nhi raha’ while the beta is busy in his ‘khoon pasine ki mehnat’. Where I can still half heartedly try to explain the wiring which goes on to make up mothers, I completely fail to reproduce the reason behind why plants can produce food while animals can’t over and over again. They have chlorophylls you fool; can’t you let this thing creep inside your fluffy little mind? Yeah! I know how difficult it is when it’s saturated with a brilliant vocabulary and your inherent ability to craft the same question in 100 different ways.
Q1. The species of Animalia kingdom don’t show photosynthesis. Why?
Q2. Plant uses solar energy to make food, then how did Obama capture this energy to kill Osama bin Laden in the Great War to rescue America from the beguiling clutches of the terrorists.
I have no issue from our knowledge being tested but the exams have become a way to test how well we are able to store information in the temporary lobe of our brain and how well we etch the facts into a 3 page long story when it could be sponged out of all ‘ifs and buts’ to give a crisp half-a-paragraph-equally-efficient-answer. But, to the very disappointment of the student who doesn’t possess such skills- how much ever be his IQ- he is far in the race, my dear friend!
Secondly, exams drain out all the creative forces from the body. There is time only to mug important facts up, revise them time and again so that you don’t forget that imperative 2nd point which says- ShahJahan, the grandson of Akbar constructed the prototype of beauty, the Taj Mahal in the year of 1628 out of the stupendous love for his loving wife Begum Mumtaaz. Learning about the history of Taj Mahal would have been so intriguing only if it wouldn’t have come up with the condition of being judged and that too on non-sensical aspects. How many mirrors adorned the 2nd room of the 4rd hall in the left most premise of the Taj Mahal.
Thirdly, exams don’t let you sleep! You are constantly paranoid about leaving something important, you thread the question paper being handed to you the next day and while scanning it, you aren’t able to recall a single word! You feel the anguish and thus can’t shut your eyes for a while; you prefer to remain within the books, even if not a word seeps in. Revision, you call it. And when you don’t score well, this comes up to your rescue. I have studied all day/night long; the checking has been real tough this time! Alas! Never knowing where the real blotch lies.
To rectify the system and make it more effective there needs to be introduction of measures beyond FYUP and sidelining of politics which UGC and DU has currently indulged in! But whatever said and done, exam blues are going to persist till the system of datesheet, invigator, marks persist on earth!
