EXAMINATION FEVER

No one ever stopped doing this:

Maybe, we never started reading the same day for the same examination. But we mostly stopped reading at the same place and time (+/-5mins).

Once the examination is announced and time-table pasted we all clicked into what our educational system made us understand: YOU ARE IN SCHOOL TO PASS YOUR EXAMS.

So we would start planning ahead in earnest. Reading vigorously and submitting assignments. Reading copied assignments and asking questions. Night classes, library visiting and group discussions. Then some who believed in the 11th commandment who embark on planning on the best ways to bring in 'microchips' into the arena and NEVER GET CAUGHT; clothes starchly ironed to  improve the quality of writing below, possible formulae tattooed on various parts of the body, possible questions summarized in pieces of papers. Then bond formations around the best brains for effective distribution of answers and tips. We are all guilty here. 

We read till the final day. Then the final drama-reading  starts

" Please line up for the exam"

Then you would see Abimbola glancing hastily through the pages of her books as if the examination was just announced. 

Mike the maicooo, would be seen following John the bookwarm closely as if he was charged to never let him leave his sight.

Jimoh who had already lined up who rush out of his position and towards his books to check out something as if he just had a revelation. 

Adanna with her head slightly elevated would be mumbling some inaudible words she had crammed some minutes before joining the line.

Henry would still be confirming the code from Jumoke: " alkene is double bond while alkyne is triple bonds, right? Jumoke would nod and then Henry would repeat the statement continously until he checks into his desk in the examination hall and mix them up again.

Into the examination hall, some bonds would have been broken, some newly formed. Some left happy and some distraught. 

Then the lecturer walks in and announce a change in the examination time. It would be held in the afternoon by 2:00pm. Some students would be happy, some sad and some lukewarm. 

Check back by 2:00pm and you would still see the abovementioned students doing their pre-examination rituals over again. And the feeling of DEJA VU would engulf you.

Our educational system encourages cramming and so we would use nemonics and codes. Should the brain skip a code, all its genetic translation would automatically lead to mutation.