Sum up briefly Helen's views about examination.
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Helen Keller felt that examinations were the chief bugbears of her college life. Even though she excelled in them after making a lot of efforts they came back again and again and challenged her courage.
In her opinion exam time was very dreadful. The days prior to the exams were spent in cramming the information. At such times she wished that the books and science were buried in the depths of the sea. After working hard and preparing for the exam a person is lucky if he can recollect the information while writing the exam because most of the time a person tends to forget what he has learned at the most crucial time.
Helen did not have very high opinion about the ‘academic examinations’. She did not like going through the perplexing and exasperating experiences of appearing for her exams repeatedly. She did not like cramming her mind with formula and dates which she forgot however hard she tried to retain in her mind.
And when the unavoidable hour of examination arrived, all the information Helen had crammed the previous night, appeared to have fled somewhere from where she could not recover it. Everything learnt and crammed before the examination appeared to be mixed up and muddled up in the mind.
Thus the most of the examination time was spent in finding the exact answer from the crammed and jumbled up information stored in the mind. Quite strangely, when the invigilator informed the time for the examination was up, all the answers were mysteriously ordered in the mind. Helen felt quite disgusted after the examination; she often harboured the desire to have the examinations abolished.