Strategic Help during Exams

Its been a long time since I wrote (on my blog) and this is the first time on this one. I was wondering what to write, had different kind of thoughts in my mind; about food, cooking, eating, life in US, NYC lifestyle, etc. Then last night we all (my roommates) were taking about our college things, what we did and all that stuff. Then came a point about copying in exams. So I put a reminder in my phone that says, “write something about last nights discussion”. Ok so lets get started….

We all joined SBST on July 1st, 2003, almost six years. Went through all the required procedure like interaction, talent, etc. and then came the first internal test. People still didn’t knew each other so were seating randomly without any strategy to copy (so forth will be called help). SL-1 exam, question was “difference between some two kind of scales (I don’t remember exactly)”. Priyanka was seating behind me and said, “Hardik, Hardik….ye le…” came the small chit that had the differences (which I already wrote) and YY saw something in my hand….damn…So within a minute, I ate that piece of paper and that toxic ink is still flowing through my blood streams. This was the first incident of helping. Then we all started to know each other, their traits, pros and cons, whatever you want to say. Then started the use of backing paper, which was very well mastered by chintak. How and where to write on backing so that you will cover the area during the exam. This was very well implemented for all the internal tests of Hydraulics.

Then there were incidence like Mehul checking and tearing all the backing before exams, giving us a good lecture and telling us to find new ways. I really wanna mention the incident when the whole class was helping each other…yes you guessed it right…1st internal, Material Science. The most awesome way to help yourself is to start writing directly from the book. And then the great lecture by Sattu about criminals and laloo Prasad and killing the parents and all that crap, which was so hilarious, especially when bhavin was seating next to me and making some real good comments.

These all were small helping incidences that didn’t required any strategy. Then came the 4th year and everything got changed. Council was formed with quite a good support from the whole class. People involved never had time to read so those who read were supposed to help them and the remaining people during the exam.
The most hilarious incident was during the Infra-2 exam. Rushang, Yashesh, Amit, Kush, Saumil, Bhavin, Chintak and me were seating near by, with Yashesh seating next to me and rushang seating next to yashesh. We started with the numerical and I got the answer 150. Yashesh got the answer 120.
Hardik: Ketlo aavyo?
Yashesh: 120
Hardik: huh, maro to 150 aave chhe!!!
Yashesh: na be phari gan.
(We both recalculate the thing)
Yashesh: 120 chhe be.
Hardik: na dofa 150 aave chhe.
Hardik: step by step ganaye.
(so we discussed all the step and values and arrived to the conclusion that there were 2 sets of paper with same sum but different values)
Hardik: ae dofa banne ma value alag chhe. Rushang tare ketlo chhe?
Rushang: 150
Saumil: mare 120 chhe.
Sapre: saumil, please.
Saumil: Sir banne paper ma alag alag values chhe….
Sapre: Ha, bas bolvanu nai.
Hardik, Yashesh: Ae public paper alag alag chhe dyan thi copy karjo….

Then Sapre sir changed my place….hahaha
Yashesh: Sir tame source ne kya ubho karo chho….
So those were some real good times had I recollected couple of days back.

Lets list some funny incidents when people were caught…
1. Kush getting caught by KP in SL exam…..
Kush: Sir aa to nagaai chhe, me to kai karyuj nathi….
2. Chintak getting caught by Nandish in BS-2 exam….he was trying to slide the paper inside the drawer and the paper was not getting inside and we were all laughing…
3. Mehul checking all the calci before exam and people erasing everything from their calci….
4. Amit and Sunny getting caught by reshma in Valuation-2 exam…the last exam….

These all were some of the incidents that I recollected. If you have something more or additions or corrections please send your comments…..