Exams....and frustration!
By Ria Roy
@ria1606roy (2797)
Kolkata, India
October 5, 2015 9:28am CST
Imagine you have to give two semester exams only a month and a half apart.
How is this even justified? That too, with a college fest in the middle?
The second exam is a complete waste of time, because these marks won't be added for the final result and they aren't even going to publish these results.
What kind of system is this? Totally frustrated and drained of energy 
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13 responses
@anushreem (333)
• Mumbai, India
6 Oct 15
That is very frustrating! Sometimes I don't understand the education system our colleges follow. They conduct exams for the sake.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
yes very true. They take it because it is in their curriculum. 
@shivuspeaks (111)
• Delhi, India
6 Oct 15
I am an aspiring doctor. But the more i learn about the system, the more i feel like dropping the idea.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
yes for your own sake, drop it. It's getting tougher with each year, and they are even proposing to give the degree only after serving as an intern in the rural area for a year. God forbid, it doesn't become true. As if 5 and a half years are not enough!
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
@shivuspeaks well, you are doing everything for yourself. It's a crucial time. Make one mistake, and you may be stuck with it forever. So think it through! I know you will take the right decision. 
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@shivuspeaks (111)
• Delhi, India
6 Oct 15
@ria1606roy i've already dropped an year, started my coaching, and now i'm getting second thoughts. Thanks for your guidance by the way. I am gonna apply for Ayurveda in mid October. Although my decision is going to upset my father temporarily. 
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@fufurinha (11930)
• Portugal
7 Oct 15
This semester won't be easy for me as well. I have a lot of works to hand in and a lot of tests and exams.
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@fufurinha (11930)
• Portugal
7 Oct 15
@ria1606roy Thank you. Good luck for you as well.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Oct 15
Semesters are equal everywhere I guess 
Good luck and work hard
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
5 Oct 15
Even more than frustrated, its the depleted energy Im more worried about. Thankfully it will all end three days later. That's the silver lining!
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@humanity_revisited (92)
• Mumbai, India
6 Oct 15
If marks of second exam will not be taken for consideration then why are you worrying for that exam. Just go and sleep in exam hall. I am a btech student and I know myself how exams sucks
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
@humanity_revisited lucky you. For us our results and impression are kind of majorly based on practicals. Luckily today during the ophthalmology viva, I answered 80% of the questions by last minute revision, and the teacher was satisfied. Sometimes they have a real acidic tone when we don't answer correctly. 
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
Hehe...honestly I studied as much as I could take and didn't put any effort to do much good. But thankfully the exams are a bit easier, and now the practicals and viva has started, where I cannot sleep! So the whole day of staying there and waiting for my turn at the viva table just takes all my energy!
@humanity_revisited (92)
• Mumbai, India
6 Oct 15
@ria1606roy In my college practicals are a very easy affair. Teachers will somehow pass us in practicals even if we had do nothing on the day of exam
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
6 Oct 15
Oops i wonder why that exam if it counts for nothing,like you say it is a total waste of time.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Oct 15
yeah....it is. And I will be going to college in one hour now, to give the stupid exam.
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@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
7 Oct 15
@ria1606roy Well atleast now you are over it and you can have time to study for the ones that will count. I hope it was not tough
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@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
6 Oct 15
I can understand that it could be stressful to appear in two semester exams within a gap of one and a half month
. I think you could take the second exam lightly, as its marks are not going to be added in the final result.
Festivals are also important part of college life, therefore, once you have finished your first exam, prepare yourself for the festival and be a part of the festival.
. I think you could take the second exam lightly, as its marks are not going to be added in the final result.
Festivals are also important part of college life, therefore, once you have finished your first exam, prepare yourself for the festival and be a part of the festival. 1 person likes this
@dpk262006 (58676)
• Delhi, India
7 Oct 15
@ria1606roy - My pleasure.
You could write the exams on the basis of whatever preparations you have made or you would be able to do till the commencement of exams.
Wish you all the best for your exams.
You could write the exams on the basis of whatever preparations you have made or you would be able to do till the commencement of exams.
Wish you all the best for your exams. @ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
Thanks for the kind words of encouragement! I'm not taking the exams that seriously, though I'm doing just fine, thank God. I'm preparing myself to enjoy this month totally. Only two more days to go!
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
Because it's in the curriculum. I guess kind of keeping us up on our toes with the studies. So that we don't slack. But it is a complete waste of time and energy.
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@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
9 Oct 15
@ria1606roy It really doesn't make any sense but you do what you have to do.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
9 Oct 15
@simone10 yes true. thankfully it's over now! 
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@kevinakash (2084)
• Sri Lanka
7 Oct 15
I'm feeling the same.The stress I had for the last days when the exam was going on cannot be explained.. How much I worked for it really but when I remember A LOT of wrong questions answered I feel frightened.Most of the questions have no idea whether I have answered correctly or not.
Anyway this 's the type of exams we should bear that .
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Oct 15
yeah.....exams are tough, not because of their syllabus, but for the mishaps they create with our stress levels.
@Ceerios (4698)
• Goodfellow, Texas
13 Oct 15
Ria Roy ( @ria1606roy ) I remember those exams. In my final semester the grade I got on the mid-term math exam was a lowly "58%." For the rest of that semester, all I did was to study math. Got "100%" on the final (a miracle) and was given an "A" for the course. I still shudder and shake to think what would have happened to me had I not passed the math course. (I was in the military then and they were paying for my schooling...) 
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
13 Oct 15
wow it would have been frightening. It's a good thing the maths exam didn't pose any trouble with the scholarship from the military. You know I never could do maths properly back in school. That's why I studied it the most and surprisingly secured good marks, everyone thought I was good at maths or something, but the truth is I just practised hard for passing, I never had the brains.
@intal_carl (299)
• Quezon City, Philippines
7 Oct 15
That's a real burden I hope someday that system will change.
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@SHARINGPARTHA (172)
• New Delhi, India
6 Oct 15
How is it possible? Two semestar examinations within one and a half month? Is there any major problem at CMC in the current jungle-raj of the GREAT LADY!
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@SHARINGPARTHA (172)
• New Delhi, India
7 Oct 15
@ria1606roy So, it is CMC administration.
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
6 Oct 15
Haha....actually the sems are supposed to be taken much further apart. They are not date-fixed by the university, the college administration fixes the date. Our departments want to finish it by the second week of October, because of all the holidays after that, that's why it's happening now. And the previous sem was conducted late in the college because they had to complete the course.
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@piyushk15 (86)
• Bhopal, India
6 Oct 15
Ria - Just focus on the college fest ;) and make sure you prepare only for the main exams which will affect your final result --- All the best :)
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@ria1606roy (2797)
• Kolkata, India
7 Oct 15
Yes that is true. The final exams are the important ones. The fest kind of happened already, the exams are ongoing now. The good part is, it will end tomorrow.
