I am here with a hectic vacation , actually we don't say vacation , its actually the so-called turning point of life .April and May is the month of entrance examinations in India , particularly April . VITEEE ,KEAM , AEEE , CUSAT , BITSAT ,JEE (I am here to say about that ) and many more ,it takes out all the possible abbreviations ABC to XYZ .
This is just the expirience part only ,the opinion part will be out later
I too took up the JEE examinations today on online mode at a hectic place around 40 km from Perumbavoor , my hometown . It was little hard to be reached and some candidates from other districts were also there , I am not specifying centre name , but I will say about the infrastructure of the place .Actually it was a self financing engineering college , say a budding engineering college , because this is the first engineering college I am seeing with just one single building. Frankly speaking , the school which I've studied for 14 years (KG & 1 - 12 classes) has got much better infrastructure. Only few self financing engineering colleges in Kerala are upto the mark and this was a finest example.
At the reception ,a board said somewhat like "... vision : to create globally proficient and competent professionals .... " ,I thought for a second myself , where this is the place where such professionals are going to be cast out. " OK .. Jish.. , stop thinking ..you got enough time for that after all of these are over " , that was the second thing that came to my mind.
Coming back to the test , the online candidates are supposed to be reporting 1.5 hours before the commencement of examination .So ,I had to reach the centre by 7.30 AM, and I reached too , much earlier and the biggest fun was that candidates who came after 7.30 till 8 AM , were also let inside the hall . Then, what are the rules for ? Ok ,let them be , it's a matter concerning future of students, let them be in .
There were only 110 computer systems available at the centre and 100 of them were put ready for jee paper 1 online test. Before registration , we stood in two long queues for completing the registration procedures and it resembled to the queues at beverages corporation outlets at kerala ,later one more guy came at the counter and the queue got split into two .I had to stand there in queue for around 30 minutes and of course others two . The centre lacked much invigilators . If there were two more people at the counter ,the long queues of students who were supposed to be attempting a three hour examination after that should have reduced .
After my registration ,I was placed at a system and after the hall was filled with candidates , a person came and specified the procedures to be followed and made clarifications .
Then the exam started and 9 AM and we had to sign in . I signed in ,and made an overall gothrough . There was an option for overall watching of all the questions at one time . ( there were big rumours whether it's possible or not. ) .The air conditioner was ON when I got in to the hall ,but after ten minutes and since then to the end of examination for the next three hours ,I found that the AC was off ,may be they were saving power for KSEB and all of kerala .
Then came the outstanding part of my examination .After 10 minutes my computer got off ,the power cable was having loose contact problem . I immediately called out an invigilator at the hall ,she came and saw my system off and asked me " Why did you turn it off ? " . She looked at me as if I had done a cardinal sin . Actually I felt to ask her ,whether she lacked common sense .I was having only mouse enabled with me and keyboard was locked . I said calmly ," it automatically went off ". She called out another guy . He came and made a watch and he too called out for another guy. I thought for how many times ,this is gonna repeat . Atlast , a person came and made me sit in another system .I logged in with my roll number . The timer was running . I don't actually remember whether the timer was running or not during the time lapse happened inbetween .
Then the examination went on .
I gave CBSE a feed back about the issue even though it is stinking to type in a virtual keyboard and signed out .
So ,what I want to ask is how irresponsible the people there were ? They should've made sure all things were fine .Many others also had system replacement due to various issues .
I am not specifying the number of questions I attended ,whether I guessed or not etc. ,You can guess !
But soon after the exam ,I had conversation with many candidates and most of them mixed PCM with probability ,guessing out was common .The exam was not easy too.
Good luck for the candidates who are going to take up JEE in the upcoming days as well as the CBSE boards results .(The last one may pain a lot .)
Thanks for your time ,
Your blogger ,
Jishnu
