Practical or otherwise?
I hate my college! I hate studying for exams! I’m all-but disgusted by the way the Indian system of education runs. And now after almost three years of studying production engineering, the nausea has only turned bitterer – into a feeling of anguish.
For the life of me, I just cannot understand why somebody’s sex and appearance are considered for examinations – practical exams especially. Are they really factors that influence the practicality of an individual? Or are they just means of getting things done with a minimum of fuss and effort? Or are the examiners just plain fucked up psychos who don’t have a proper outlet for their personal problems and hence find such a situation a hugely juicy proposition to be that influential person that they can’t be in real life?
Whatever be the reason, these minor decisions (as they may seem) actually have the potential to change careers of people! How, you ask? Well, for someone like me, who isn’t the best at mugging up stuff, the major areas to score marks are practicals. But thanks to people who give extra marks for good looking girls (and even the not-so-good looking ones) and nerdy guys, the others are left trailing right at the start! Now these low percentages in practical exams eventually pull your overall percentage down and that’s how post-graduation and job opportunities grow feebler.
So how do you score well in practical exams? Be a female/be a nerd, be a sycophant, “look” intelligent and if you don’t know the answer to any of the questions they ask, just pretend you know something and tell them whatever you know. Now, I don’t know if it’s fair but that’s the way it works! My opinion – it’s an arrant injustice to ‘practicality’! Whatever be the reasons for such methods of evaluation, I can only think of them as acts of poor judgement.
Play fair!
