Its been a long time that I lost sleep over my exam.. and now.. its here to haunt me again.. ;-) On 1st July, after 6 years, I will be sitting in the examination hall. Trying to put done,on paper, what I have been revising for past few weeks.
It has been a different experience of sorts, for me, preparing to the exam. Once a person completes his bachelors degree, he would be more content with finding a job that would pay him well enough. The thought of taking a competitive exam would be, like wanting to swim in the winter season. :-)
I decided to take the plunge after deliberating, for over 2 years. The very question, was it really required and the amount of commitment necessary for the exam, kept me from deciding sooner.
After making the choice, I started to prepare myself for exam. To begin with, applying for the leave, which I did in the month of march. I knew that it would be unethical of me to ask my company for leave in excess of 2 weeks. Though it would have been unethical of the company, not to grant me leave when 3 months prior notice was given. It was close. As always the project was in a bad shape. I will keep that for another post.. ;-)
Being a major guru in maths in my school days, I perceived the exam to be a cake walk. But there is the other section.. which I dread and hate the most.. ENGLISH...!!! Languages, be it English , Hindi or Kannada, has always been my worst enemy.. I still remember my school days, when teacher would summon me to the faculty room while correct my language paper. Most often than not I would have used English words in Hindi and Kannada exam, when i could not fish the words in the respective language.
I charted out my plan and decided to stick with it. First few days of the preparation went according to the plan. I was solving relatively easy problems and though it would not be a major challenge. I realised that its actually difficult to get the mind to focus on the studies, like we did during our college days or our school days. The whole concept of conjunction, preposition, adverb.. what not started to mess up my brain functionality. When I started to take the mock test, my horror was actually reveled. English was as usual, in red and maths was consuming lot of time.
Now, only 4 more days to go for my test, I'm actually planning, the date, to retake of my test.
