Before exam drama : satirical take on exams

Before exam drama

Everyone is well aware about the pre exams drama. And how the level starts rising as the starts come closer. The D day when you have to test your mental ability and the efforts which you put out in this few days. Even though we had plenty of days with us but these last few days are such, which really matters. These are the days when you get your study mode on. This is the time when you regret not having studied before. This is the day when you become an over intelligent person all of a sudden. The journey starts with making a timetable which has no start and no end.

The main timetable for the exams are declared ample days before examination. This is not the timetable I meant here. The study timetable which we make is when the drama starts- a dreamy picture of our sought out goal. Being over ambitious and scheduling subjects as if were going to finish it in a day . A mere ''dejavu''.

An illusion we go through every exam of our life. Then following things as per the timetable, which doesn’t exist in reality for people like us(hoping that I’m not alone, n I know I’m not) :p. So following the schedule is a real thing for a day and the next coming days you see yourself making a new timetable.
 

We make timetable ''every single day'' as the day is coming closer and the more easier it becomes to make the timetable. A subject a day becomes the motto which is so over ambitious but this get real on the night before the exam. A real fact that the intellectual ability increases by 100%. The thought of self realization comes in our mind. We start asking ourselves question whether this is the same person which was yesterday. The night before the exam is when the real learning happensWondering about why cant I study like this before now that id got a good sleep now, haunts us.. But still nothing can fight sleep.
 

Deprivation of sleep has lead to many crisis situation in past. And this becomes apparent before exam while studying. The want of sleep becomes so intense that the so called method to study well “is to sleep on it” is taken very seriously by fellow buddies. If the studies doesn’t seem to be sufficient then the belief over superstition starts forming up. We start believing everything which we never even thought of. The existence of energy, trying out different stuff to memorize what is learnt,fasts, bribing god, special worships etc etc.
 

This drama is then added up with things such as “importance”[couple of questions referred by teachers as likely to come for exams] which is just like reading the whole book. Like seriously, the need for ''importance'' and getting the whole book as ''importance'' adds to the  disappointment  level leading to give up study and sleep.

 Getting importance means having good contacts with “exam friends”. Exam friends are those friends with whom we don’t talk in the entire year but during exams they become the best of friends. These are the people who attend each and every lecture. Present for every important lessons. Knows wHats going to comes and you can say just like another teacher in student form. Aka the first benchers. Getting the importance doesn’t help n any way. Studying is the only thing you have to do unless and until you are one of those risk taker which go on any levels to get good marks in exam. The secret spy agents knows every tips and tricks to get through the exam smartly and smoothly. They know that they may get martyr but someone has to do it, not everyone is as good as them for risking their life like this. Every group has such secret spies in their group from which one should not get influenced by.
 

Then comes group study here the word ''study'' shouldn’t have existed. Here everything happens other than study. It should be called as ''hangout with books'' that’s all. You start being serious in the start meticulously do couple of lessons and then the rest never happens. Studying is replaced by talking, watching movies and videos , doing every kind of stuff which has no relevancy with studying. When the group study comes to and end the feeling of regret becomes so apparent that one decides to never group study again in life. But peer pressure can make do whatever it wants.
 

Perhaps doing all this thing the main motive to complete the syllabus without understanding a stuff for the future shows the funnier side of exam. The essence of test is not somewhere but wholly lost. A day’s study doesn’t retains in your mind when it is needed. A persistent effort is needed for the study to be fruitful in upcoming days after the completion of schooling year. Making a base so strong that no one can hamper it even time, is done by regular ''revisions''.

 The time when we start doing our study should be allotted for revision. Reading it once, you try to understand the context but revising it is reinforcing in our nervous system that “you read this and its fixed in your brain now!”. Nevertheless, learning from mistakes is what we should practice and lets try to avoid such drama and be prepared in advance.

This is written  right when I was experiencing this drama. Hoping that I’ll improve for my next exam. This is a piece from my life and if you are down here which means that you have read the whole article and I appreciate your efforts and time. And I also hope that you will like the article and if you don’t , suggestions and feedbacks are graciously welcomed. Thank you.