Friday, December 12, 2008

Exam......

It was one of those terrible days , when you try to run away from yourself,and the world seems a very bad place, it was the exam hall and i was hammering my calculator, it is always a problem where i end up with a problem, the answer seeming large, a dose rate of 20 rontgens per hour, streaming radiation from a pipe, too high,I just couldn't figure out what went wrong, the engineering conversion were correct, i tried to fudge the reading, and then i changed my mind, i scribbled the large value on the face of the answer book , a scribble that could cost me dear, but at the end of the exam, i couldn't figure out where my confidence had disappeared, the anwer was corect and so was the fudged scribble. The countdown started and the invigilator threw a thread on my table and as e announced 'last 15 minutes', as he said that i kept checking my calculations while banging my calculator very hard with a lot of foul words streaming form my mouth, a felt like breaking the window, the calculator, the table and last of all my head. I was flusterd and dejected, i went through the rest of the paper and yet again my confidence faltered when i saw another set of calculated values that seemed astray from the regular values, it was agian a big formula, i remembered the empherical values but couldn't recollect the sign, was a + or a -, ??? Oh to hell with it , it should be minus, it gave me more realistic values. Damn! Damn! damn! and that what i told my self, i handed over the answer booklet to the invigilator and cursed under my breath while leaving the hall. WHY does it always happen with me, why damn it why??? As I strode of to the lunch room, i felt a shiver down my spine thinking about the consequences of such a 'screwed up' paper.
I had my lunch and then i went to my hostel room, were a heard the ansewer that every one obtained, to my shock and awe , the astray answers were correct. What ever happened to my confidence, i just hope it never happens again..!!!