Essay on scene in the examination hall
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Examination are held every year to test the ability of students. These days, examinations are a game of chance, a mere gamble, held in the hot season when the examinees feel the worst and the weakest. The young blooming buds of this human garden can often be seen with wearied looks tense and worried expression and pale faces, with a heap of books by their side, preparing for the examination. Truly speaking, an examination for three hours cannot be a sure test of one’s knowledge gained within a year. They are the test of cramming not of one’s ability. But so long as the present system of education exists, these examinations are inevitable and unavoidable.
Examinations are a horror for the young students. They are the ghosts that take away human happiness, mental peace and calmness and keep an examinee in the grip of tension, worry, agony and disappointed. They sap the energy, take away the joy and peace of mind. Most of the students start feeling feverish on hearing the name of the examination hall.
An examination hall is that terrifying big hall where seating arrangement for he examinees is made. Students come at least half an hour early and, as instructed by the invigilators, enter the hall. They get the answer sheets. Sitting silently in their seats, they remember God and pray to help. In the meantime, the students recollect their ideas as the invigilators collect the question paper from the superintendent. The superintendent does the essential preparation for the commencement of the examination.
At the exact time, the invigilators distribute the question and start taking rounds in between the rows. Most of the students bow their heads to pray for God’s blessings and start reading the question paper. The intelligent students who know the answers become happy and have a relieved expression. The dull students who do not get the crammed questions feel bad, tense and worried. They look about here and there to see what others are doing or feeling. The intelligent examinees start are seen busy with their own work. For them, time seems to pass within minutes. They ask for more and more continuation sheets to finish their work quickly.
A dull student with no creative ideas in his mind remains tense and thinks of using some unfair means to get through the examinations. He curses his own fate, the examiners; the invigilators and everyone linked with the examination. He looks forward and behind and whenever he gets and opportunity, asks for some help. When caught red-handed, he is punished by the invigilators and a case of using unfair means is framed against him.
The invigilators and the superintendent have a very tough time because they have to keep a vigilant eye on the examinees and fulfill their demands. The invigilators are on their toes all the time distributing continuation sheets on demand. The waterman serves water to the examinees. The attendants have also a tough time putting stamps, getting the signatures of the students and giving the necessary equipment to the examinees.
Fifteen minutes before the scheduled time of three hours is over, the invigilators ask the students to stitch up their answer-books properly. The examinees become quite active, revise their answer-sheets hurriedly and pack up their things. At the stroke of the bell, they hand over their answer-books and leave the hall.
After leaving the hall, they discuss the questions amongst their friends, tally their answers with the books an create a lot of noise. They are now free birds. They have little to bother about till the result is declared