Saturday, March 13, 2010

Murphy's Laws on Examination




  • A good wrist watch will run slow by ten minutes on the day of examination.
  • Corollary: If you are in time the school's clock will run ten minutes faster.
  • The pen you have been using well will fail only in the examination hall.
  • Corollary: If you have an extra pen it will have no ink.
  • There will be no question on the whole lot you know about,but more questions will be on the whole lot you don't know about.
  • Those questions which everyone says important will usually be those which are totally unimportant for the examiner.
  • The answers which seemed to be correct while inside the hall will never be so outside the examination hall.
  • Every plan you decided to adopt is the one that you never executed in the examination hall.
  • The study schedule you draw after much consultation will be the one you never follow.
  • The supervisor will always be at the other end of the hall except when you tend to ask your neighbour something.
  • It's never a bore to sit 3 hours before TV to watch cricket match,but it is not so in the examination hall.
  • These mathematics teachers are not simply satisfied with the answers,the want the steps too.
  • The flying squad visits your hall invariably when you have a chit,but never when you don't have one.
  • The examiners find wrong answers to be more legible than the correct ones.
  • The examiner's eye-sight is the best to read errors and mistakes only.
  • If you feel that everything went well in the examination hall,you have obviously overlooked something.
  • Those who score 100% in a paper are usually those who least expect it.
  • Corollary: ... and work for it.
  • Intelligence and grade obtained never correlate with each other normally.
  • What appears to be a beautiful diagram drawn by you is never so to your teacher.
  • Whenever you sit to study for the examination,some one is sure to call you to do something urgent.
  • No problem in mathematics is as easy as it looks.
  • Every answer takes longer than you think.
  • Any thing in multiple choice that can go wrong,will go wrong.
  • If you choose an answer with great care in the multiple choice question,it is sure to be the wrong one.
  • Every thing obvious to every one else won't be to you.
  • The chances of doing badly in an examination are high when you have studied really hard.
  • Problems(in any paper) you can work out easily will not be in the paper.
  • If you know you are correct,then you aren't.
  • The more you prepare,the less you are sure as to what answer they want.
  • Examination paper is always easier when you are not taking it.
  • When working towards the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.
  • Sometimes it is easier to work towards the problem starting from the answer.
  • The probability of deriving a result correctly depends on where you do it - home or examination hall.
  • Whenever you have completed the paper in time,most probably you have gone wrong somewhere.
  • Others around you in the examination hall always write faster and better.
  • Whatever you know,you can't write.What you can write, you don't know.
  • The probability of getting caught copying is in direct proportion to the stupidity of one's look.
  • Where knowledge fails,copying prevails.
  • The amount of ill luck that can strike you and the time and place it will, can not be predicted simultaneously.
  • If you don't study,every question will appear to be easy and known, but you will not recall the exact phrasing of an answer.
  • Handwriting gets worse under pressure.
  • The time you spend on other activities is inversely proportional to that in the examination hall.


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