By Ismail Amanatullah
I remembered drinking pure water that day. The real big boys drink, a period where most students have limited cash on them, it shows who the real big boys are because we’d be the only ones to afford it by then. The rest could rush to the ever ‘steady rushing’ tap water and if they can’t, there’s always the reservoir which the cleaners purify every hour with their cleaning buckets, it would be the best for drinking, very clean; well treated and hygienic, even better than the bottled waters which are reserved for the ‘Odogwus’.
It’s a beautiful new year anyway. Thanks to the almighty harmattan that whitens my skin to resemble that of Lee Min Ho, my favorite Kdrama star. As I ran to class: I hope I don’t fail my test because if I do, It will restrict me from flaunting my freshly acquired white skin and puffy eyes with those gleaming dark bags to both who wants to see them– and those who don’t; those I want to oppress and those damsels, that I will love to impress.
At a particular time, I thought I should probably submit an application for a gothic film since I look like one. Although, I’m still contemplating whether I went to class for my test or to do morroco in that dark class of sinful lovers. Slowly, my eyes blurred, my sight blind temporarily as I knocked my head on the table— it was sleep that embarked me on a journey. Waking up, I realized my property has been carted away and mosquitoes have dealt with me terribly.
Anyways. What’s the best time to a give test?
Now, I definitely understand why some of the lecturers choose to give tests a week before the examination or having lectures some hours before the examination in some other citadel of learning.
At times, I wonder why they didn’t wait until examinations to give the tests and then jam-pack everything together! That will actually lessen their tedious tasks and save the students also from needless readings: they would just have to read for once and for all, and that’s all.
Obviously, in that way, they would know what they scored and be able to rectify their mistakes; they would know how to prepare for the exams and know questions to be expected; it would be glaring– where to improve, they don’t need to know all these as that will dampen spirits, cause depression and make it harder for them to read. Isn’t it?
Here, we love how we’re reading for our departmental course and ignoring our GST exams which have started already. It wouldn’t make us fail, it’s just helping us to prepare properly.
I look at students disdainfully whenever they lament about how the fixed tests are affecting them. I soliloquised– ‘ com’on you ought to be grateful.’ These fixed tests without previously being informed make us abandon the other fourteen-handouts which we may sit for its tests, subsequent days.
All these sleepless nights, headache and red-eyes just to finish more than four-handout within 24hrs is for the future challenges: atleast, we will have a beautiful argument to canvas some colleagues in other institutions who brag of serene atmosphere and conducive environments.