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All right... so finally the days passed and we had the mid terms rolling.... My first paper was Funda"mental" Thermodynamics... One of the subjects that I call as 'a tangent to me'.. the concepts of the course didn't go inside my brain but just touched the outer side of it. Somehow,I managed to get a few concepts...I knew that its not going to go very good but I just wanted it to be okok...

September 18,2008

I woke up by 7.45 am. We had our papers from 8.30am. I got ready and then had breakfast. And then reached the room where I had to sit. A night before I had inquired from the seniors if there are students with a zero in the 1st mid terms... the reply was positive. so I was a bit relieved.I thought I wont be the only one to get a zero. Now that shows my confidence level. My friend Devavrata had prepared well enough.. I was quite sure that he wont score a zero at least. The answer sheets and the question papers were distributed.

My comment on the questions--- "It would not have made much of a difference if the question paper was in french or german language!!!!" I was not able to get any of the questions.. (forget about the solutions..).. but but but...... I can't just give away a blank paper.. I need to do something.. So I had to use the last weapon...and I was quite an expert when it comes to this.... yeah I guess you must have guessed it.... "CHEATING"..... infact I would say cheating is an essential part of exam. I mean that's the reason why we have invigilators..... they throw us a challenge... "can you cheat in my presence??" and I love challenges that's why I cheat. And don't think its easy.... you need to have ample amount of experience and talent. My past record in this field has been awesome. Exchanged papers in XIIth pre-boards...that was really impressive..and I miss that......

Anyways getting back to the examination hall...... I had 58 minutes in hand to cheat (the time duration for the test was 60 minutes... 2 minutes passed in reading the questions).. I made a strategy there and then (yeah everything requires proper planning). Now I can't exchange papers here.. so I need to copy as much as I can from wherever possible. Devavrata was sitting near by.. all right...so he'll help me out with question no.1.The girl right in the front didn't really care about covering the answer sheets ((so nice of her ;-) ))..so yeah question no. 2 from there...and i guess they'll give about 30% marks and that's all I want... I can't just cheat and get more than the average marks..that would not be fare. So I had 51 minutes remaining now.. I looked at the invigilator sitting.. searched for an angle so that I can hide with the help of the girl in front... and I finally got it...I had to put my head down on the desk..I looked at Devavrata and waved my hands slowly..he responded. I showed 1 with the help of my fingers (or I mean my one finger).. he showed me the solution and I was successful in looking at the marks fetching points and I played with those formulae for sometime thinking that I might just get out something from it. I did some stuffs for some time. I left a few pages so that i can go for question no. 2 as I saw the girl going for it. Now I had very less time I can't ask the girl to show it again and again so I had only one chance.."as the girl writes I will write" I decided... but I was quite agitated soon...I was not able to see the actual answer...
.. the question asked to define something..
I looked at her answer sheet... I began reading it ....
The (XXX) is defined as the...and then there was her pencil box kept right above it..... I waited for sometime,prayed to god.. "plz somehow displace her pencil box!!!" and well not instantaneously but after 1 min she did it... I grabbed the oppurtunity.. read her answer sheet as fast as I could have.....finally succeeded!!!!copied the key portions...... I glanced at the watch..still 29 minutes remaining..I didn't want to try much after that.. as I wanted to get marks by "cheating fairly"..so primary target was achieved therefore I used the last 29 minutes for my sleep..................
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