!!! First Test !!!

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I always was and is a person who could get carried away easily by anything, be it somebody saying it or something I dream about. 

   

The next day went smooth and then came Sunday the day of Test. I was very calm about this test and just turned the pages through the test chapters. There was one more test of Geometry in which I was weak and I had to concentrate much on that. When I reached class and sat on a empty bench, people wanted to sit beside me, so they could copy from me. It was all together a different feeling. The Supervisor came and asked to close the books and keep the bags below white board and we did the same.
   

   I read the question paper and found that all the questions were the same which I had answered a day before and I was happy. I started scribbling on the answer sheet but somehow I was not able to recollect all the points of the answer. I wrote whatever I can and moved forward with second question. Strangely it happened again to me...couldn't recollect all the points. Then third, fourth and time was running, I looked around the class and saw everybody was busy writing. Seeing this and the amount of time left, I scribbled whatever I can and the supervisor took away the paper after the time was elapsed. One more human tendency where people start discussing the question paper and its answers instead of sharing their knowledge about the answers before the test. The same was happening there and everybody was happy because they did well in the paper and I was unhappy with myself. Soon the Geometry Test papers were distributed and we found the paper very tough. I had already made a mess with the previous paper which I was very confident of and could do no good to this tough paper as well. Whatever I had practiced went in vain as I was not able to solve even a single question. I killed the test time somehow and submitted the answer sheet. I met Rachit and Ashwin at the end of Test and found that the test was easy for them as well along with others who were saying the same thing.

That day I was walking towards home and was thinking about what had happen in the last few hours.

Clearly over confidence had hit me and with this came back the same sad feeling which had surrounded throughout my life. The whole day went away thinking about the test results. I took a lone walk on the flyover near by which was recently build. I liked to spend time on this flyover, whenever I felt lonely I would do the same thing.  Next day I was ready for the lectures along with all the homework done. I tried to concentrate on the lectures but could hardly understand anything and didn't had the courage to ask any doubt due to my introvert nature... Along with this I was tensed for the result of the test that was taken the other day.

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!!! Second Day !!!

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So it was my turn now, but the Captain interrupted and asked Prof if he could answer instead of me and Prof denied that. I felt pressure because of Captain's question but had to calm down and answer it. I started to answer and went with the flow looking straight into Prof's eyes, suddenly I had got confidence from somewhere. The Prof gave a smile and wrote 10 on the board which meant scores level. My Team cheered up hooting and the other Team went silent. 

         Prof announced there would a Tie Breaker round to decide the Winner. This time he told Captains to decide a person who would answer to the question without writing any question on board which meant it would be a blind question. Also provided us with some brush up time before that. 

The Captain wanted to be that person but Team convinced him to have faith in me and let me face it.
One more time the Captain had to give up for me and now I had all the responsibility on my shoulder. I was not nervous this time,but instead had all the confidence. So time came when we had to close the books and had to jump in the battlefield. This time I had to call for the toss and I lost to that geek. 

She asked me to go first. Prof asked a question to me and I gave answer with the same confidence. Full Marks!! Now it was her turn, if she would make any mistake this time then we would win. But she too answered it correctly and quiz was still on. Next question was shoot to me and again I got that right, also she got it right again. Damn...again I got a question and with a little nervousness I got it right again. Now it was pressure situation for her and it did the trick. She did made a minor mistake and we won. A very loud cheer with my name and Prof greeting me at the same time...It was the Best feeling of my life I would ever had. My neighbor on bench wished me and a guy who didn't even knew me before came and Congratulate me. I knew that guy only as other students would talk about him saying he talks a lot to girls and he is also like one. His name was Rachit. That guy asked me whether its Ok if he would sit next to me??? I was confused and naturally I said Yes. Captain and the entire team was happy and wished me. Another guy came to me and asked "How much time I spend studying in a day?" I said "...not much". Suddenly all felt like a lot positive about me and happiness was all over my face. More than that I could take a sigh of relief because the Captain who was also my schoolmate would have bullied me if I had lost the quiz.
         So this was break time and for the first time me, Rachit and Ashwin (my neighbor) went out for snacks. It was good to get along with them. Soon we returned for the next lecture and again I could not concentrate on it, but this time it was due to the feeling I was still enjoying in my mind. The lecture went off soon and we had a short break. There was another class in the next room which was named Merit Aimer's Batch and mine was Scholar's Batch divided by percentage in ninth grade. I always envied them. It was the same Prof's lecture there and the topper of my school who was in that batch came to me and said "Sir, teri badi taarif kar rahe the....sare answer diye tune..." he was trying to bully me along with his batchmate but it was Ok. I was happy because now there was direct competition with all the Merit Aimer's and they know it and who else then the Prof declaring it. There was an announcement for a Test on the subject for which we had quiz, for 25 marks on Sunday, a day after. The topper of the Test in all batches was displayed on Notice board. People started saying me that " Is bar toh tera hi naam aane wala hai" and I too got carried away with that.

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!!!Long Time Ago!!!

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      So I had a look at that guy whose name was written and he gave me this "Bechara" wala look.
Prof told us to get the things done properly by tomorrow or we would have to call our parents. 

I was thinking in my mind, its not so long since I have joined the class and have already got potential complaint. Something needs to be done about this. That day I concentrated well on all the classes and slept as soon as I reached home.

     The next day, first thing I did was to finish my Homework which took all the time I had. So, I did half of the chapter and went with the attitude "Jo hoga dekha jayega..." The Algebra lecture was scheduled first and then the SS lecture. But when I reached for the class, to add to my bad luck both the lectures were declared as SS because Algebra Prof was absent. My plan of doing the remaining chapter in break was shattered. The Prof started with normal lecture without mentioning anything about yesterday and I was badly praying that he should not remember anything about it at all. Somehow the first lecture came to an end. But then came the time when he mentioned about yesterday, but forgot my name in the list. Again the human tendency did the trick, all students started taking my name and Prof remembered it. To my surprise he asked me an simple question from today's lecture itself and I was able to answer that thoroughly. I took a sigh of relief after that.

After break the prof announced a unique quiz competition on Civics, the subject that I read early in the day. The class was divided in 2 groups with one on the left and right as per sitting arrangement and two Captains were selected who would decide who will answer which question but without discussing it with anyone. Prof wrote all the question he would ask on board. There were all types of questions from one liner to the long ones. Then he declared 15 minutes Revision time.

I did all of it what was left in morning. And the Quiz started. I was Ok with any type of question asked to me but the captain didn't had faith in me. The Prof would ask same question to both teams in a random way and captain had to decide who will answer it. Depending on the accuracy he would rate the points for that particular question and zero for no answer. Obviously everybody wants to win and so do we. The captain gave the easy question to his friends and girls in class and saved the tough ones for the rest. I got to answer a medium type question correctly and that was it. But the Finale question was of ten marks where our Team was one point behind the other team. The prof exclusively gave 2 minutes to revise that question to both the teams. I had done that chapter in the morning and I was confident about it and asked my captain to let me answer it. I convinced him saying that anyways we are losing as they had a ranker left to answer, so let me try it at-least.

He got convinced with that and let me answer that question. This time it was the opponents turn to go first and the geek was given the responsibility to finish it. But she made a mistake and lost one mark that means she got 9. So now we were 10 points behind and one question of 10 marks to go.


To be continued........