Examination Week: End Sems

The end semester examinations for the second semester were from April 24 to April 28. There were 5 subjects and 5 corresponding exams on these 5 days. These five subjects were MEBC (material and energy balance calculations), physics, organic and analytical chemistry and mathematics.

My official preparations for the exams started on the 22^nd. I revised some topics which I don’t recall now. That night (wee hours of the next day), I saw Dragon Ball Z: Fukkatsu no F and slept. The next day, I had a lunch with my mom at Sizzle House in Dadar. The fish sizzler was good.

MEBC is a subject which, I feel, mainly requires logic and calculation skills. So, this is a subject for which I put a lot of pressure on myself to do good in. In the pre-end semester exams and tests, I had already scored full (50/50). The end semester examination was for the other half of the marks, i.e. 50 marks. That night, I saw Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, which was a bad movie. (I really wish to use ‘fuc*all’ instead of the word ‘bad’). I started studying in the night and I think it might’ve been almost 3:30 am when I slept. It was the first exam in the schedule. I pressurised myself too much.

When I woke up (fortunately) early enough, I had breakfast and a quick revision. Honestly, I don’t think I studied with that much pressure even at the time of JEE and all. Eventually, in the exam hall at 11 am, I sat, nauseated. Pressure and stress does that. It’s not that the paper was too hard or anything, but you can never be too sure in this subject. That night, I watched Dragon Ball Z: Battle of the Gods, which was a good movie.

I was quite depressed after the paper. So, that affected my studies for the next paper – physics. The physics paper was uneventful.

That night, I started watching ERASED. It was just too good. I had to stop after two episodes to wake up for the exam next day. I did not study at all for the organic chemistry paper, which I should have done, looking back. The paper was not difficult, but sure was lengthy, or so I thought. I finished the more descriptive section I in two hours, and rushed to finish the second in the remaining hour. I did, but with a horrendous handwriting and presentation. When the last minute of the examination time was left, I started counting how many marks I was losing, just to find that each section totalled more than the allotted 25 marks…there were options.

Next was analytical chemistry. The paper was boring and straightforward, not very challenging. The only thing challenging regarding the exam is going to be reading my handwriting. When I’m bored, my handwriting pretty much ‘collapses’. I finished ERASED this night.

The last paper was maths. As you may have expected, I had a hard time studying for this. The paper was uneventful, but I can’t say how good it was.

Also, note that, barring the first day, I woke up at 10:45 am for the 11 am examinations. Not that it’s good, but remarkable. The only thing clear from these exams is that my pointer is going to suffer heavily. I am not awaiting the results.