Another exam(power system analysis), another 3 hours of life wasted away in pleasing some old, fat, oily-haired, tobacco chewing, good for nothing teacher somewhere in the remote areas of UP, with the answers written on my answer sheet, hoping against hope that he will find it in his heart to give me atleast 30 measly marks out of a 100. It was an easy paper only if I had remembered all the stuff I had read and thought that it was committed to memory. It turns out that I assume too much.
At one point of time, having nothing to write, I was tempted to write about the amazing light-saber duel between Darth Vader and his son Luke Skywalker, or about how Frodo was burdened with the responsibility of carrying The One Ring. It just might have worked because we've been told that an examiner checks about 50 papers in an hour maybe. Thats like just a minute per paper! So he looks at the handwriting, the way the answer has been written, how long it is and if there are any figures accompanying the answers. The more of these criterions an answer fulfills, the more marks it gets. So writing about those epic movies would certainly have helped the length of my answers. But I don't think the examiner would have appreciated a figure of Darth Vaders helmet or lightsaber instead of the impedance diagran representing a single line-to-ground fault in a three phase ac system. So I decided to make do with whatever was left in my depleted memory.
I just hope it was enough.
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