The big joke
13th January, 2009 1.05 pm With Medicine paper-1 answered somewhat satisfactorily, I was now faced with the task of preparing for the ever dreaded Medicine paper-2 scheduled for the next day. “Tomorrow’s exam is going to be one big joke” retorted my friend on my way back home. I wanted to start preaching about optimism, but found myself nodding my head in agreement with her instead. She had a point. There was less than 20 hours left for the exam and a mammoth portion of the syllabus to read. It wasn’t going to be easy. 2.00 pm Ready to face the challenge, I opened the textbook to the page of contents. I quickly decided upon a plan. I would read the unimportant small topics first and dwell on the big essay question topics later on. Finishing the small topics first would give me a lot of confidence and let me concentrate on the more important ones. I estimated it would take me roughly 3 hours to do so. Setting myself this time limit, I proceeded with the short topics. 5.00pm I wasn’t ...