May be this shows that posts should come naturally and cannot be made up. No proposing theories here.
But after a long break without a proper topic to write about, I am back with a topic related to the title of my blog.
The first thing that comes to the mind when you see the words "questions" and "answers" together is "Examination" and having written enough of them all through my life so far, I propose to write about them. Every examination was special; some along the path to the most awaited holidays, some, the most important career-deciding ones, each having a list of questions to be answered.
Well, this was tough; you never know what questions you may have to answer. But with all my experience, I can say they were not that hard if you apply your mind properly, at least in the kind of exams that I have written. And applying the mind properly here doesn't mean you have to toil hard and all that, it just means “apply properly”.
The examiners were good people who did not give you much work.
All you have to do is find clues in the question paper and use them to write your answers. This part was the most interesting one for me. There was always a clue, obvious or not, in the paper itself and this was no DaVinci Code, I assure you.
Like in the Chemistry paper, "Give three examples of Exo-thermic chemical reactions" and all you had to do is find an earlier question, in which were given three equations to be balanced, and use the same ones to answer this question. Well, if you are lucky, you could get all the three correct and in the worst case, half the marks were guaranteed.
Physics - no, it did not require the Newtons and the Einsteins to answer questions. There was always a number like "49" written all over it that its square root is part of the answer. All you had to do was make "7" part of the answer and half the marks are yours.
Mathematics, the easiest one of all. “Prove
Social Studies, the verbose of examinations. Now this had a strategy associated with it. Extracted from the Indian History chapters of the subject, the strategy is called "Divide and Rule (Write)". For a question like "Describe the 1857 revolt or the Sepoy Mutiny", if your answer explained each of the words 1857, revolt, sepoy, mutiny individually and add more words like 1947,1947-1857=90 and add stories from the recent movies you have seen, you may be a social studies topper.
Nonetheless, there were always questions which included the alien language like the "adiabatic expansion of ...", "The Heisenberg's uncertainty principle .." , "..the special theory of relativity" etc., which I guess was part of the DaVinci code meant for the future-Einsteins.
