Role of chance in Examinations
(The following speech is perfect for 1 min. to 1.05 min)
Why arc examinations such a terror? Perhaps because chance plays such a great part in them. The examination paper is like a lottery uncertain, undependable. The element of uncertainty and surprise is bound to shake the most confident examinee. Sometimes our nervousness is so great that we seem to forget our best-prepared lessons. Before the examination, we feel sure of doing well, but once the question paper is before us, our mind becomes perfectly blank. We fail to recall our most memorised lessons. Some candidates even faint in the examination hall. The question paper springs a complete surprise. None of the sure hints over which we have spent days and nights appears in the examination. On the contrary, just those very topics, which we left out as unimportant and unexpected, stare us in the face. In Geography, we prepared the ‘map of Europe but we are required to draw a freehand map Asia and the question is compulsory. Surely the fates and their friend, the paper setter have played a cruel joke upon us.
Q. How do you think can we overcome the fear of examination?
A. Being attentive and proper planning can play a vital role to cope up with the exam. The student should start preparation of exams as soon as date sheet is declared. When we don’t go with proper planning we are more likely to be depressed.