I had read for this paper. Weeks and months of reading took all my time just so I didn’t have to ever see that teacher again. I couldn’t stand a retake, at least not in this specific paper.

However, you can read all you want but if the head doesn’t have the capacity to store it all, you are as good as someone that didn’t read. And that is what happened to me. 

I got into the paper and I was excited when I was seated next to someone that had a better brain capacity than I do. Much as I had read hard, I also had to do some intensive eye training just to be able to grasp all side views necessary to copy to execute a great job. And it turns out that the eyes did a better job than my brain.

When the paper started, I read through the first number and I knew the answer, I read through the second and actually I had a clue. I wrote the answers down and did my eye thing to proof check.

I saw that the gentleman seated next to me had his answers far from true. It’s one thing to be wrong but it’s another thing to be totally off topic. It was like talking about fashion in an electromagnetics paper.

I started panicking because I realised this chap was no smarter than I was. What would I do for the questions I didn’t know the answers to? I decided to focus on what I knew. It wasn’t that much though.

I got out of the paper and because some people just can’t stop talking, I found out that my answers were wrong. I tried to argue with them but they pulled out their books and proved me wrong.

So, as we speak, you are reading about the first ever zero per cent recorded on campus…any campus!

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