Bring It On

Ah! The bloody examinations are coming again! The practical will be held tomorrow. I am ready for them this time (at least I hope). I think I have studied enough to pass with RGB or CMYK colors if not flying colors. It will definitely not be black and white like last time.

I have rarely switched on the computer for fun stuff these days as you would have seen by my blogging frequency.

Now, all that I have to say is Bring it On. I am ready for the exams.

Is baar to phodh dalenge

Yes! You guessed it that as I will try to study I wont be blogginh much. Sorry guys!

One more time!

Ah! I have my last exam tommorow. Science you know, it is getting to me. Soon I will be suffering with a brain freeze. I feel like I am forgetting everything that I had done previously, so I feel that I need to revise everything again and again. Well! I am. Yup! Doing everything one more time and then more time and one more time till I sleep. I hope it is all worth it. I mean the last exam I need to do all that I can because after this is atleast 3 days of unadulterated fun, blogging, web designing, hanging out with my friends, gaming, and listening to funk music. So wish me luck for the exam man and go study for yours.

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The question

Today was my mathematics examination. It went of ok, I wasn't able to do some question. But there was this one question which I had done correctly and most of the people of my class had done wrong. The question was

A student taking a test consisting of 10 questions in that each question after the first is worth 2 marks more than the preceding quesiotn. If the third question of the test is of 5 marks, what is the maximum score that the student can obtain by attempting only 8 questions?

Now this is the way that most of the people had solved it -

d=2 (Difference of marks)
a₃=5 (Weightage of the third question)
a₂=a₃-d=5-2=3
Thus,
a₁=a₂-d=3-2=1
Now, that a₁=1 and d=2
The maximum marks that one can obtain will be S₈. So they solved
S₈=(n/2)(2a+(n-1)d)
S₈=(8/2)(2+(8-1)2))
S₈=4(2+(7*2))
S₈=4*16
S₈=64
Answer: 64 Marks

But the thing is that the question never said that the student attempted the first 8 questions. He attemtep any 8 questions. Now, we can say that who are we to determine which question he would have done. The fisrt 8 seems to be the obvious choice. But then again, the question has clearly asked what are the maximum marks one can get by attempting 8 questions. So the correct way to solve it would be -

d=2 (Difference of marks)
a₃=5 (Weightage of the third question)
a₂=a₃-d=5-2=3
Thus,
a₁=a₂-d=3-2=1
We will assume that he did the last 8 questions as it would fetch him the maximum marks. Thus thhe maximum marks would be-
S₁₀-(a₂+a₁)
Which is-
(n/2)(2a+(n-1)d)-(a₂+a₁)
=(10/2)(2+18)-(3+1)
=(5)(20)-4
=100-4
=96
Answer: 96

Get it?

Today's exam...

As you know I had my SSt. exam today. It went of pretty well. There was only one question that I did not know at all. It was -

"A very notable contribution of the Turks was in the field of historical literature." Name any two books in Persian alongwith their authors.

I have know idea whatsoever what the answer of this question is so I have written the name of the only two books that I knew that is-

1. Ain-i-Akbar-


2. Fatwa-i-Jahangir

I hope I get atleas one mark out of this question. It was of 2 marks only so it is not much of a problem if it was incorrect either.

Studyin till late night...

I has been after a very long time that I am studying till so late in night i.e. 1:05 in the night. I used to be awake till very late till an year back but in my class 10^th summer vacations I got used to sleeping early and then waking up at like 4:00 AM to study. But, now that the exams are here I will have to sleep late and wake up early. Probably I will sleep in the afternoon so that I dont miss out on my precious sleep. I am doing "Indian Awakening" right now and after that I plan to do "Agriculture" and "Forest and Water Resources" and then if I am able to keep my self awake I will do some Civics as well.

Best of Luck

The mid-terms of Apeejay, NOIDA are starting on 11th September and so I would like to wish all the readers of the blog who are in my school, "All the Best!". I am pretty sure you will need all the luck possible because you bieng the fool that you are, are not studying for tommorow's exam but are reading my blog. But now that you are here -

BEST OF LUCK TO YOU AND TO ME TOO!!!

How to achieve rote learning?

During this pre exam period I talked to a lot of people who get really good(or bad) marks in class, how they learn up everything before the exams write it down everything correctly in the exams and then completely forgetting about it. Here are the view of the experts on rote learning-

I. Ajaypath Jain

When I first asked him how he was learning all the stuff up like a machine his respond was that he pays a lot of attention in class and he is able to retain a lot of it this he does not need to learn up a lot of stuff. Then I provided him with a hypothetical situation in which he had missed the History class due to a computer symposium(ya right!), what would he do then to learn up the stuff. He said -

Abbey ek baar paragraph ko padh phir apne mun mein uski ek summary see bunaley aur phir sey uss paragraph ko padh....baass

In english this translates to, "Man! Read the paragraph once then make a summary of that paragraph in your mind and then read the paragraph again. Thats it!". I tried this was but found it to be completely useless as I forgot everything that I had done in the starting till I finished the chapter. But then again the capacity of my brain is less than that of sparrow.

II. Pooja Saxena

Yeah ! You guessed it this is my sister and unfortunately for me she too got really good marks in all her exams. So,I though that I would ask her what her trick was. Her prompt reply was -

Padho phir lihko phir padho phir lihko phir padho phir lihko phir padho phir lihko phir padho phir lihko phir padho phir

Its english translation would be, "Read then write then read then write then read then write". Great going sis! This method is really great if you start studying a long time before the exams. I mean it is for the people who actually believe in regular studies. But for those of us who start like a week before the exams it can be really time consuming.

III. Sanya Kapur

While trying to prepare for the SSt. exams I called her up for some advice on learning up stuff. Even though she is still in class ninth she got a staggering 98% in class eighth. Here is what she had to say when I asked her what she does to learn up history-

Waise I really like history, coz are history teacher is really nice....but when i need to learn up stuff I just read it 3-4 times.....sachchi....mumma sey puchna hai tujhko???

English, "Well! I really like History cause our teacher is really great. But when I do have to learn up stuff I just read the content 3-4 times....Really .... you wanna ask my mom??". Good idea! But again I dont remembmer what I had learned through this method even an hour ago. Sorry!

IV. Prateek Saxena

Okay so I dont get good marks in class now but I did get really good marks like 87's in class eighth so here is how I learn up stuff right before the exams. Close the room, dont put any music, read a single line carefully, close the book repeat the line in your brain. Then go to the next line and then to the next. Once completed the whole paragraph revise it in your brain. That is it! You can remember stuff that you learn from this technique for 3-4 days which is more that enough before the exams.

I hope this has been useful to you! If you have some other way of remembering stuff do tell me.

Apeejay NOIDA saves Rs.18/-

Today my school Apeejay NOIDA has successfully been able to save Rs.18. We had to got to Mother's Internation School today for there computer symposium "Minet". Like always we left a little late and we were sure that we would reach there in half an hour by taking the DND flyover. But no, our school wanted to save the 18 rupees that they would have spent on DND. So we do not take the DND flyover and go throught the mornal route. It took 2 hours to reach there. We missed the most important event that was Senior Quiz but it was all worth it as the school was able to save 18 bucks. And the thing that pissed me off the most was that when coming back from Minet the driver took us from DND and we reached in 25 minutes. Isn't that just great

Computer Test

Today we had our Half Yearly Computer Science Class Test. It was pretty good , I knew the answer to every single question except one question. The question was, "HTML is the subset of which language?". I had no idea what the answer was. Nobody in our class knew. I mean I do know HTML, CSS and JS more than anyone in the class and for some strange reason I am expected to know the answer but I did not. Well I asked the teacher and the answer was SGML. Have you even heard of something like that. I told ma'am that you had never told us anything about SGML even the guys in our class who dont do anything apart from study did not know the answer. So from the it is quite clear that she did not tell us. Well! I will be fighting for this for a pretty long time. And if possible I will either convinve ma'am not to add up marks for this question or give every single sutdent full marks for that question.

Date Sheet

My datesheet is out. It is pretty good. Atleast one holiday before every exam and two holidays before the Mathematics Exam. Here is how it looks -

• 11-09-2006 : Social Studies
• 13-09-2006 : English
• 15-09-2006 : Sanskrit
• 18-09-2006 : Mathematics
• 20-09-2006 : Science Practical MCQ
• 22-09-2006 : Science

So, it is pretty good. I would have wanted one more prep-holiday before the Science exam...but it is not so bad this was as well.