Sunday, December 7, 2008

By request-our entrance exams!!!

Some of my new friends have asked me to elaborate more on the various entrance exams we guys gave ( as mentioned in the earlier post).....



Our first common exam was the IEEE, ambitious young men headed to South Mumbai to give the exam. I still don't know what made us give this exam, probably Bhat's convincing power, and our parent excess money (translated as 'dreams for their children). As we caught the local train and chatted about 'How neither of us had studied'; we all sighed a sense of relief knowing that either all of us will do we in life or all of us will end up in the dumps, but all together.

We reached our destination-Late; this I must say is not our fault, how can someone/entity go on to name the different schools with different numbers but same name . Who the hell recognizes a school with numbers. Apparently it was (School Name) no.1 , (School Name) no.2. and so on. And not that the schools were next to each other, each of them was at least a mile or two away, which simply meant, We had to run a mile or two; and which our Ankit being the crouching Bengal tiger, things just got a little slower.

So basically we were late, searched our classrooms and entered and gave our exam. This exam was freaking long, they had an hour break in between, and we all regrouped in the Men's room (Read- stinking toilet). As we all delivered to nature's call, Bhat made a startling discovery, he made us all turn towards him and then towards a broken window- It was the Sea.

We were watching out in to the sea, whilst we pee. We were all happy, it had made the whole exam worth it!!! This was our commitment and enthusiasm of giving entrance exams.

When the results were out-Bhat, Ankit and me were the first to know; and Bhat happily conveyed to Shetty's dad rather than Shetty himself. And Uncle Shetty conveyed it to Master Shetty in true filmi style- Shetty returns home, drenched and soiled from his soccer session with the dripping shoes in his hand. Uncle Shetty looks at his son,and says "You came first in the IEEE exam"; Master Shetty is awestruck at his achievement, drops his shoes and runs around the house in happiness, then Uncle Shetty completes the sentence, "You came first in the IEEE exam...amongst your friends...and 20,000th among all exam takers.

Come to think of it, without studying the four of us were in the top 25000 ranks among 100,000+ exam takers; what if we had studied and given the exam............

2 comments:

Bhat said...

Well written Deshpande... I remember all of us were wondering if there was negative marking at all for the AIEEE exam but couldn't muster up courage to ask anyone cos it would show that we haven't prepared at all. When the results were out, I saw my marksheet. It said Math - 0.
I was ecstatic just to realise there wasn't any negative marking.

I called up Ankit and shrieked in excitement "Abe Ankit.. there wasn't any negative marking!!!!! I got a zero in Math!!"
Long pause - Ankit "Negative marking hai!"
"How come?"
"I got negative 3......"

Chirag said...

I remember that man, Shetty stood first among us by scoring probably +1