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THE NIGHT BEFORE EXAMINATION
The night before examination is an unusual night. It comes in different ways to different students. But to all students it comes with a great deal of tension.
The night before examination is full of intense suspense. The thought about what questions may come in the examination haunts the minds of the examinees. At one moment one feels hopeful and confident. At the next moment the mind seems to be blank. Things slip out of the memory; the examinees seem to forget what they have learnt. A good student has studied regularly throughout the whole year. To him every day is a day of preparation. So, before the examination his mind does not appear blank. He can take the examination at ease. On the night before the examination he goes through the well-marked passages in the textbook. He does not ransack all kinds of ‘Notes’ and Guide-books. He does not tax his brain too much. He enjoys a sound sleep for the most part of the night. In the morning he feels fresh and goes to the examination hall with a sound mind in a sound body.
A student who wastes his time throughout the year finds himself quite at sea on the night before the examination. He skims over all kinds of ‘Notes’ and ‘Guide books’ that land him nowhere. He may be moved by the rumours of questions being leaked out. In that case he may run from person to person for answers to those questions. But in fact, he can keep nothing in his memory. Even he forgets those answers which he learns carefully. Anxiety and nervousness fill his mind. His mind becomes ill at ease. He passes a sleepless night. He becomes sick in the morning. He goes to the examination hall with a ruffled mind and jaded nerves.
Every student should have a restful sleep on the night before examination. He must keep his mind free from undue worries and anxieties. But such a composed state of mind depends on the degree of preparation that the examinee has made. The time for preparation is not the night before the examination but the span of the whole year.
THE NIGHT BEFORE THE EXAMINATION .
The word 'examination' always arouses some fear and creates nervousness among most of the students. It is said that student life would have been happiest part of a man's life if there were no examination. Whatever, may be the preparation, the night before the examination is usually full of tension to the students.
The students with good preparation simply turn over the pages of books or notes and ponder over the probable questions and their answers. But the students who neglected their studies at the beginning of the year, become totally upset. They cannot decide what to read and do. They start reading one topic and then pass on to another.
I am an inattentive student. I did not work hard from the beginning of the year. But now I realise what mistake I have done. It was 6 p.m. I started memorizing an answer. But I could not concentrate. There arose suspicions in me that the question might not come. Then I left it and started reading another answer. Until I I p.m. I revised only onefourth of the syllabus.
I closed my eyes and wanted to remember the answers. But alas! I couldn't remember. Everything rushed before my memory in piecemeal. I began to pull my hair. Then I tried to write some answers. The clock struck two. I lay down on the bed and closed my eyes. In a short time I began to dream. I was in the Examination Hall. The question was not so hard. I began to write. Hardly had I written answers to two questions when the final bell rang. The invigilator took away my answer script. I was requesting him to allow some more time. Just then I felt a push on my head and found my younger sister trying to wake me. I sat on my bed and looked at the watch. It was 5:30 a.m. I washed my hands and face and sat to read again. Thus the night before the examination came to an end.
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