Question

With dry lips, parched throat, and ink-stained fingers, and exhaustion on one
side and exaltation on the other, Swaminathan strode out of the examination
hall on the last day.
Standing in the veranda, he turned back and looked into the hall and felt
slightly uneasy. He would have felt more comfortable if all the boys had given
their papers as he had done, twenty minutes before time. With his left
shoulder resting against the wall, Sankar was lost to the world. Rajam, sitting
under the second ventilator, between two third-form boys, had become a
writing-machine. Mani was still gazing at the rafters, scratching his chin with
the pen. The Pea was leaning back in his seat, revising his answers. One
supervisor was drowsing in his chair; another was pacing up and down with
an abstracted look in his eyes. The scratchy noise of active nibs, the rustle of
papers, and the clearing of the throats, came through the brooding silence of
the hall.
Swaminathan suddenly wished that he had not come out so soon. But how
could he have stayed in the hall longer? The Tamil paper was set to go on till
five o’clock. He had found himself writing the last line of the last question at
four-thirty. Out of the six questions set, he had answered the first question
to his satisfaction, the second was doubtful, the third was satisfactory, the
fourth he knew was clearly wrong (but then, he did not know the correct
answer).
The sixth answer was the best of the lot. It took only a minute to answer it.
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He had read the question at two minutes to four-thirty, started to answer a
minute later, and finished it at four-thirty.
He had found it hard to kill time. Why wasn’t the paper set for two and a half
hours instead of three? He had looked wistfully at the veranda outside. If
only he could pluck up enough courage to hand in the paper and go out – he
would have no more examinationsfor a long time to come – he could do what
he pleased – roam about the town in the evenings and afternoons and
mornings – throw away the books – command Granny to tell endless tales.
He had seen a supervisor observing him, and had at once pretended to be
busy with the answer paper. He thought that while he was about it, he might
as well do a little revision. He read a few lines of the first question and was
bored. He had to pretend that he was revising. He set his pen to work. He
went on improving the little dash under the last line indicating the end, till it
became an elaborate complicated pattern.
He had looked at the clock again, thinking that it must be nearly five now. It
was ten minutes past four-thirty. He saw two or three boys giving up their
papers and going out, and felt happy. He briskly folded the paper and wrote
his name.
The bell rang. In twos or threes the boys came out of the hall. It was a
thorough contrast to the preceding three hours. There was din of excited
chatter


In not more than 50 words, describe what Swami’s classmates and
supervisors were doing in the examination hall.

Answer 1

Answer:

the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize nutrients from carbon dioxide and water. Photosynthesis in plants generally involves the green pigment chlorophyll and generates oxygen as a by-product.

Answer 2

Answer:

support of the education of the education of the education