I wish to share small incident that happened today. Today I had exams for toughest paper that I have ever encountered in my college. I prepared well for the exams as I needed 20/70 marks to pass that examination to save my pride among my friends.All my friends had an intuition that paper may come hard and we may not be able to get 10-20 marks.To avoid that situation, we rote many things to save our breath.I rote the least..he he..as I thought nothing could be done.Anyways I tried my best to my ability.
Oh, I forget to say the subject name.That was "Microwave engineering".Let me tell you about this subject.
In 3th semester, we had a subject titled "EMT :Electromagnetic Theory".Each page that we had to read for that subject was full of formula's like"
Del ^ 2 = 1/r^2 del/del r {(r^2 del/del r)} + 1/ r^r sin(theta) del /del (theta) {(sin theta * del/del theta)} + 1/r*r sin^theta del^2/ del (theta)^2
We not only had to remember formula's but 2-3 page of it's derivation also.Some of them had more pages.:)Somehow we passed that examination by mugging these stupid formula's and when the result came , our whole batch took a breathe of liveliness that "EMT" is gone.God thank again, hope so we will never encounter this type of subject again.Speaking truly, I never encountered any practical applications of that subject till date.
Good news for 7th semester was that We had to study a simple subject "Microwave Engineering" that was considered to be Grandfather Grandfather of "EMT".Ohh my god...One equation can definitely relate these subjects:
Microwave Engineering = [EMT] to the power 101.
100 makes sense but this 1 is for extra burden that comes your way when you just hear about this subject.
Let's get back to today,
We all were prepared to cross this difficult phase, however some of us lost hope last night feeling that "Padhne se kuch hone waala to hain nahin , Jo padhte hain woh to kabhi aata hi nahin hai, ab kaun sa bhala hoga" but some of them took an option for night out to give their best in this examination.So , finally after some stupid things last night, our examination started at 2 pm, Room no 219, BIT Mesra.
Bad news was I entered late as I was revising for formula's that I had forgotten.With one pray, "God! I just need 20 marks, please give me this wish", I entered the classroom.The first shock came, when everyone was looking at me surprisingly as If I have done a big mistake. I tried to be sanguine, and tried to focus on the examination.Finally, I took a campaigning step to see the question paper.The Question paper here consists of 7 questions each having 14 marks, the duration for examination is 2 hrs sharp.
A student is required to answer any 5 of these.I tried to read the question from back.The 7th one, Ohh my god, I know that.I didn't have the courage to see other questions as I thought let's write 1 question beautifully that could fetch me 10 marks at least and even if I would not know the other answers, I would write some story, poems, or I will finish writing about my diary entry for rest of the pages that would definitely fetch me another 10 marks.Just half an hour concentration , and I could pass the exam.I wrote in the same way as I planned.30 min over, and I finished the last question.I took another bold step to see the 6th one but the answer came "NO..you don't know this" that somehow agitated me for a while. I tried for the next one, 5th one was the thing that I read yesterday.I completed in another 30 min.wow, now no Demon can fail me, that's what I thought.So, by this time 1 hr was gone, but unexpectedly something happened.Some of my friends started to leave the classroom not with smile but with a depiction of fear in their face. NO..NO....I tried to scream but I couldn't. I got afraid with what happened to them.After few more min, some more left.
"This question must be hard to crack and they must be expecting to fetch cut off marks to pass toughest paper: Microwave Engineering".I took a deep breathe and thought everything will turn out ok.I read the questions and this time as I whole.I just needed 3 out of 4 remaining questions to crack it that I had never expected.With 50 minutes remaining in hand and with luck too, i got exactly the 3 required. I exaggerated everything I knew and somehow wrote the remaining 3 in time. So hard battle to crack but i don't know how I did it.But the truth was I did it in time and I was very happy that my friends weren't able to do it which I did...I thought I must have some special cells..he he..I left the examination room and came back to the hostel.
Then I thought to inquire from my friends "Why did they left the examination so early and I was sitting till the end
One reply came : "The question was damn easy and only stupids like you can afford to sit for 2 hrs straight.We finished it in 1 hr"
I became a matter of joke for them..Everyone laughed at me ...And please you, ya I am talking to you, please do not laugh at me...:)