The whole entrance exam experience…

PRESSURE. Any normal teenager studying in 2nd PU will be under pressure. Either from april or from feb or for some nutters/geniuses a day before the exams. I started feeling the heat in jan. I was preparing for 3 entrance exams primarily, apart from the PU boards. IITJEE, AIEEE, CET. My main focus was AIEEE and JEE.

First was the 2nd PU board exams. The boredom surrounding the preparation for this much hyped up exam is something i really cant explain.The secret lies in gutting . You either memorise and hope it stays in your mind for 3hrs or you pray to lord and hope that your hanebaraha(luck) is good enough for a decent performance. Basically its stuffing the whole textbook in every nook and cranny of the temporary memory of your brain and trying to replicate the exact sentences(or so called “key words”:P) in your answer paper in 3hrs and walk out of the exam hall in one piece. You do all this with a neat handwriting you are sure to land up in the 90s. The 3 week duration of the exams was the most tiring (mentally) part of my whole 2yrs in college. I was totally relieved after my last exam. My head literally felt like it had lost a few pounds

Then was the JEE. Probably the toughest entrance exam ever to any institution. 2 years of hard(extremely hard!) work being tested in a 6 hour paper consisting of the most challenging questions youll ever face. Im still getting over the disappointment of not doing well in it. Ill say its definitely not for the faint hearted and leave it at that.

AIEEE was relatively easier for me. And i still havent come to terms on how i performed so pathetically in that. Basically meant for the CBSE nerds.

Finally it was KCET. Idiots, who havent heard of IIT and AIEEE, consider this as one of the toughest tests ever(LMAO!!). I was totally uninterested to prepare for this one. I was very sure of my good preformance in the 3e. So I just glanced through my PU and other humongous CET books (dont judge a book by its size ) and tried to recall the stuff i had rutted a month back for the boards. CET is the real test for all those nerds who by-heart their way into getting 100% in PCM. One requires quick thinking and a tiny, iotic bit of common sense and intelligence to solve these questions which is the one major thing the “gutters” lack. And so, people with fantastic scores in boards end up getting some uber lame ranks in CET. People attend PU coaching for 2 yrs and set apart just a month for preparation of CET. Well i did the complete opposite. Actually, i hadnt prepared for CET at all. Unlike other exams, this one consists of separate papers for physics, math and chem. And its conducted for 2days. All three papers were easy , but this time around the difficulty level was slightly higher compared to prev years.

Yup…finally freedom…after 2 short(hehe..) years of prep and 3 long exams it was time to paaarrrrttttyyyy!!!!!

As my jee and 3e results showed me, i had performed disastrously. My hanebaraha had taken a beating:(

PS: I managed to get a rank of 276 in CET and get my ass into the EML in JEE….

Worth reading

The Impossible Dream (from Don Quixote – Man of LaMancha, a musical)

To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go.

To right the unrightable wrong
To be better far than you are
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest, to follow that star,
No matter how hopeless, no matter how far
To be willing to give when there’s no more to give
To be willing to die so that honor and justice may live

And I know if I’ll only be true to this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm when I’m laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star.

Dilemma

People say choices make lives better. But in my case choices always make my life miserable. Thats how im built, I cant help being fickle minded when i hav choices.

I had decided not to take up metallurgy at nitk suratkal. Computer science is really my thing. I called up the institute to ask for the refund of my admission fees.

ME: hello, naan bengaluru inda maatadtha irodu (im calling from blore), ive called to enquire about 2 things…firstly, 5th round counselling idya??

PERSON ON PHONE (P O P): haan untu….yeah…

ME: oh ok, and the other thing is i dint get the branch i wanted and so i was wondering when ill get my money back when i cancel my admission…

P O P: which branch did u get??

ME: metallurgy

P O P: are u nuts to cancel ur admission???….leave today only…what the hell are u doing in blore??…its a golden branch…

ME: but ive got comp science in RVCE..

P O P: why the hell do u compare NITK to RV….just come….

ME: hmmm ok…

I kept the phone and started contemplating. Should i go??. I talked to my parents regarding this. My mom was totally against the idea of me taking up metallurgy. Also i had no interest at all in the branch. So i decided to stick to the branch rather than the institute. Spending four years in NITK studying something i have no interest in dint sound to me like the life i wanted or imagined. So i decided to stay in blore and join RVCE and pursue the course i like, in the best college in bangalore.

SHM week

The whole of past week has been a sinusoidal wave, oscillating between fun and extreme boredom.

The fun part has been that i watched HP6, which was amazing by the way, and hanging out with your close friends and going bowling and on long drives and other stuff. I spent quality time with my family, specially my mom.

The boredom part is where i get up every morning/afternoon having no idea of what i must do that day and end up watching boring reality tv and shows such as friends over and over again. And not to forget the part where I start typing my blog, like this one for instance, boredom is the fuel to the new born writer (typer to be appropriate) in me.

I started watching prison break from season 1 and ive got hooked on to it. And also am currently almost done wid the second book of twilight.

Until next post ciao

The story so far…

I did my schooling in vidyaniketan. Studied there for 7 years. After 10 years of cbse, I decided to change gears by choosing pu state syallbus and chose kumarans over mes, national and jain college. I enrolled myself into BASE, the best institute in blore for IIT JEE coaching. And these places were where i had all the fun .
Why i chose kumarans?….even im not sure about that. Well, after 2 years of: inconsistent slogging, unplanned preparation for the entrance exams, finishing lab records, maintaining a decent attendance, boring PU lectures, leaving home at 8am and returning at 10pm, visiting CCDs, McDs, chat shops for lunch and breakfast, i managed to come out of all the 5 (yeah 5!!) entrance exams alive .
IIT-JEE, AIEEE, CET, BITSAT and COMED-K.
I tanked at JEE and got a mediocre rank in AIEEE and BITSAT. But thankfully there was CET for my rescue where i managed adecent rank of 276. After getting “felicitated” for getting myself into the extended merit list in jee, im thinking of giving jee another shot next year.
So, I had 3 options: bits pilani goa, electrical electronics; nitk surathkal metallurgy or civil; rvce telecomm or computer science. Im not interested in eee and ive always bin allergic to chem as a subject so ive decided to stay in rvce bangalore and see how the next four years unfold. Right now im enjoying my long holiday. College starts in september and i gotta keep myself busy. With some of my friends publishing thier inaugral blogs, i thought of resuming mine as well. So welcome to Ashish’s blog