Wow, one semester is on it's verge to end, and this is the first time I am staying back in Thapar for the weekend. Had heard that 40% of the college is clear on weekends, but won't be this time because the authorities declared Saturday working. Still, I can at least see why it happens. Nothing to do in college! This is the limit of boredom I am at.
The purpose of this post is to share the environment in the college with the End Semester exams approaching, or rather started. Few groups have had their Chemistry Lab Evaluations till now, and going by their experience, it is surely nothing to look forward to. Just a bunch of questions(the standard rote learning ones) are asked in the viva, and the practical is yet to be done. Lab manuals and your memory play a key role in your practical grades. The last thing anyone wants from practical assessment is memory based evaluation!
Had I not had my laptop here, God knows how difficult it would have been. Not a single student studies for knowledge, probably because the college condemns such studies. Every day there is at least one of This is not in your syllabus or We will not ask it in the exams, and the most shocking thing is that this is the most satisfactory reply a student can ever get. Can we, for just once, study to learn something new rather than improve our CGPA? Why does this have to seem to be the most difficult task on earth?
Right from the time classes started(1 August), I have always seen a grade based teaching approach. Wouldn't it be good if we could understand the course nicely enough to relax before the exams rather than panicking? This just does not seem to happen. It seems as if this is a bigger exam than JEE. Probably because we were clear with the concepts then, and we mug up now.
3 Idiots had just one Chatur who studied 18 hours a day, here I see most of the students doing the same. God knows what will happen when the exams come even closer.
At the same time, teachers are seen blackmailing their students for detaining them for low attendance, not realizing that the low quality teaching is the real culprit.
All I hope is this phase ends soon, as this can prove to be a disaster. All of a sudden, all future computer engineers are bothered about what happens when Calcium is dissolved in water containing some XYZ compound, the future Electronics engineers are suddenly so concerned about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chemical Engineers seem to be bothered by macros, and the Mechanical engineers about figures of speech and the color codes of resistance! Because this is in the syllabus. A computer science student studying data structures is mad, because that is out of syllabus. Wow!
Now, I can conclude. Our future is doomed in this manner. I hope the situation changes for better.
The purpose of this post is to share the environment in the college with the End Semester exams approaching, or rather started. Few groups have had their Chemistry Lab Evaluations till now, and going by their experience, it is surely nothing to look forward to. Just a bunch of questions(the standard rote learning ones) are asked in the viva, and the practical is yet to be done. Lab manuals and your memory play a key role in your practical grades. The last thing anyone wants from practical assessment is memory based evaluation!
Had I not had my laptop here, God knows how difficult it would have been. Not a single student studies for knowledge, probably because the college condemns such studies. Every day there is at least one of This is not in your syllabus or We will not ask it in the exams, and the most shocking thing is that this is the most satisfactory reply a student can ever get. Can we, for just once, study to learn something new rather than improve our CGPA? Why does this have to seem to be the most difficult task on earth?
Right from the time classes started(1 August), I have always seen a grade based teaching approach. Wouldn't it be good if we could understand the course nicely enough to relax before the exams rather than panicking? This just does not seem to happen. It seems as if this is a bigger exam than JEE. Probably because we were clear with the concepts then, and we mug up now.
3 Idiots had just one Chatur who studied 18 hours a day, here I see most of the students doing the same. God knows what will happen when the exams come even closer.
At the same time, teachers are seen blackmailing their students for detaining them for low attendance, not realizing that the low quality teaching is the real culprit.
All I hope is this phase ends soon, as this can prove to be a disaster. All of a sudden, all future computer engineers are bothered about what happens when Calcium is dissolved in water containing some XYZ compound, the future Electronics engineers are suddenly so concerned about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, Chemical Engineers seem to be bothered by macros, and the Mechanical engineers about figures of speech and the color codes of resistance! Because this is in the syllabus. A computer science student studying data structures is mad, because that is out of syllabus. Wow!
Now, I can conclude. Our future is doomed in this manner. I hope the situation changes for better.
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