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Preyesh Dalmia, 3rd Year, ECE; Akanksha Bindal, 3rd Year, COE
ghastly lull engulfs the campus, with just a few people lurking
around the vast empty grounds of DTU. The previously
bustling canteen has not a single soul in sight and
anyone could tell - the exam season has commenced.
There is an efficacious lot out there, the coterie of the
mighty men, the revered saints of the east - ‘the men
(women, mostly) with NOTES’. This bunch has a
fair idea about what is to be studied but - by and
large - are still stereotyped as the edgiest chunk of
the lot. Even people who spent most of their semester
in frivolity make a final dash to save their cause,
if only just. The photocopy wale bhaiyya has a subtle,
perpetual smile plastered on his face, seeing the lucrative
business unfolding before him. Living by the adage
‘Desperate times call for desperate measures’, students try to
get their hands on whatever studying aid they can rummage. After
having successfully scrounged for all available study material, scooped
out from the tiniest floating rumors around campus, a no holds barred
approach for discerning the syllabus is adopted. You leave no stone unturned-
from holding long conference calls with your equally clueless
friends, to fraternizing with the Ghissus, and even calling up teachers
already frustrated by your short attendance. You are comforted by the
illusion that discovering the syllabus will by some means defer the task
of actually studying it. And after all that effort when you finally confront
the battle at hand - the actual preparation - you receive the dreaded
phone call, “Yaar, syllabus fir change hogaya.”
Giving up on the syllabus, you then earnestly try to extract ‘The Back-
Up Plan’ from the recesses of your overtaxed mind to save your grades.
But hey, you didn’t have the time to formulate any plan B because you
were busy slacking off in your preparatory leave! This is when you have
an epiphany. Maybe, just maybe, the syllabus IS too vast to be covered in
entirety; not just by you, but by everyone. After a few moments of selfpity,
another idea clicks, and you begin asking around for ‘topics most
likely to come’. Your brain goes into overdrive, where understanding and
logic give way to absorbing large amounts of information as quickly as
possible; all in hope of salvaging a score respectable enough to put you
on that socially approved path to success.
Semesters come and go without ever disturbing the dusty upper echelons
of their brain cells. What reduces the sharpest minds in the country
Name: Shikhar Sachdeva | Theme: Nature
College: DTU | Year: 1st
Caption: Green is the prime color of the world,
and that from which it's loveliness arises.
Name : Anish Tuli | Theme : Travel
College :SRM University,NCR | Year : 1st
Caption : The beauty of travel lies inside
the heart of the traveller.
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3rd (JOINT)
“BHAI
SYLLABUS
MARK
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College: MBS School of Planning and Architecture
Year: 2nd
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Name : Arush Kakkar | Theme - Nature
College - DTU
Year - 3rd
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EXAMS AND BEYOND
to these slothful creatures with complete indifference towards
learning? What shunned the need for in-depth understanding
and originality among students, turning each
exam session into a sprint for maximum marks?
Are these seeds planted by our education system?
Or is this a recent phenomena brought about by
increasing expectations and societal pressure?
The Indian Undergraduate Education System
serves to effectively curb independent thinking,
academic confidence and the very motivation to
learn with excellence. This system often confuses
academic excellence with performance in examinations
that assess the memorization skills of a student,
while the true measures of academic excellence such as
understanding and intellect are systematically discouraged.
Exams teach us a lot, but deviate from the very reason for their
existence.
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