Whoops and Sniffles

I know this post is late, but there are some reasons, which I’ll explain later. First, I need to rewind a week or so. I’m mildly nervous. Some butterflies around, when someone mentions something like ‘board’, ‘CBSE’, ‘result’. Completely natural, as my Xth Board result was due out on Friday, 29th May. I could say the same for some but not all of my friends. I had reason to be nervous, as most of my prep was indeed half-assed in every way, and the papers did not go *quite* as planned.

So I was early at 5 on the 29th. Went for a jog, came back, then went to Sirifort for a spot of cricket. Came back around 8:45. The result was due to come out at 10, but the people at NIC decided to release it an hour early. I guess I was one of the first to access it, because none of the friends who I called after checking my result knew theirs, and consequently I can be held responsible for the sudden increase in heartrate induced in all of them. Anyway, with certain apprehensions, I headed to cbseresults.nic.in, navigated to the page for class X results, and entered my roll number : 6168782.

• English – 88 – expected, mainly because this is the most unpredictable subject in the CBSE boards. There really is no way a student can get to know where his/her paper was checked. Anyway, the problem, more often than not, is that the language used can get a bit complicated. Long winding sentences. Strange (at least for the examiner) words. In short, the paper’s too good for a 90+. I tried my best to control myself as I wrote my paper. Tried to use simple words, and tried to keep my sentences short. I guess even that didn’t work. But I’m not really complaining. What when really smart people were in the 70s. So I was thankful that I atleast got 85+.
• Science and Maths – 93 - disappointed. I knew I made a mistake in Maths, that would cost me 3 marks, but what I didn’t know that there were other mistakes as well. And it all seemed to have gone so well… Science was a bit iffy, because the last exam I gave, the MCQ, wasn’t a piece of cake, not by a long shot…
• Social Studies - 99 – shocking…I mean, I know I studied for SSt, but not well enough. Still, I read in the papers that the marking scheme and checking was better this time, so I guess I just got lucky.
• French – 97 – just wow…I just have one thing to say, in my pre-board, I got 64.5…and now this! Still haven’t fully accepted it…

Anyway, shortly after the result came, and I had satisfied all the relatives I knew and those I didn’t with a satisfying answer of 94%, I went out to play cricket and so forth, with my friends. Next day, I’m down with a fever, cold and cough. Went for a VMC class in that condition, and I still regret it… Have just sort of recovered cause my temperatures stable at normal for a few hours. Ciao…

P.S. Whoops and sniffles is not a stupid way of saying celebrating and crying at the same time like some demented insecure teenager. I just mean I’ve got a cold…