10 things I hate about exams

this is apart from the usual giving up of life, liberty and freedom...
1. That we are not allowed to carry the statute books and have to instead memorise the long list of definitions.
2. That the neighbour is not only a cheater but an irritating one at that. He keeps calling the person in front of me for help...Rajiv Rajiv Rajiv Rajiv.. for heavens sake, shut up.
3.That supervisors wear duppattas with shells.
4. That the choice of last answer depends not on what i know best but on what i can answer fastest given the limited time i have left.
5. That the neighbour adjusts his/her pen in a squeaky manner or tries to kill the answer sheet with pen and sheet groans in response.
6. That the supervisors decide to spend the boring three hours by talking to each other in not so hush voices.
7. That some person(s) near me would have taken 3 extra sheets while i am still on the original sheet.
8. That all the nice movies come on TV day before when i am busy studying and nothing on TV the day i give the paper and have free time.
9. That I have to travel in the hot summer sun at 1 pm and struggle to find a parking.
10. That I get bored in the middle of the exam. (but to counter this, i start singing in my head or recalling news that i saw or book i had read while still writing the answers.. correct answers.)

Exams

Its amazing how you can have an exam coming up and still have enough time to watch tv, be on internet, even contemplate watching a movie. and i did see movie in my previous semester exam!!

While it can be argued that since exams are nothing but a check of what u have learnt in the year so it should be easy... but we all know that aint the reason.. Especially considering i dont remember what was taught in the semester, and i blame the teachers we had.. There is just something about this course that people find easy to study for. Could be the dukki we have... a thin guide like book to be read for the whole paper.. and predictable question papers that are churned out.. so u can analyse and predict what will come and what wont. i pride myself on that analysis, though i end up studying enough to answer 7 of the 8 questions instead of just 5 (the required amount). So this time they decided to complicate matters by getting a compulsory question in. 4 out of 5 short 5 mark questions from anywhere... to get ppl to study more, that is if they cared about those marks. and make a common paper for 3 centres so pattern of question varies a little.

As a education evaluator, i think its a good idea to make sure ppl study more.. as a student i think its shamful the way they are complicating things. As me, i dont care. i realised it wont make a difference to how i study or how much i study.

But in the mean time, i really do enjoy this free time exams..