Archive: From the era of the 'Board Exams'

My sister is class X and she has her first paper of her second pre-board exams tomorrow - Social Studies. She was asking me about my class X marks. I told her I got a (respectable) 86.6 pc.

That reminded me of a very (now) funny event that happened to me. After the results came out, I realised I did fairly well in most subjects - I scored above 90 in all subjects except Social Studies. I got 71 in ess ess tee. Hence, my cumulative percentage plummeted to 86.6. The fact that I got 71 led to an almost unstoppable giggle from my sis!

Those were the days when we had the option of 're-evaluation'. We had to make a DD of Rs. 100 per subject and send it along with a form to CBSE. After discussions with a few students and teachers, I realised it was an effort in vain. Add to that the fact that dad will be poorer by Rs. 100. But the embarassment of having scored in the seventies was too much to take and I backed my instinct and opted for re-evaluation of my Social Science answer-sheet. In the process, I bought some time and arguments to explain why I made a blunder.

Weeks passed by. The issue was forgotten. One day, out of the blue, my school office hands me a letter from CBSE. It was about the re-evaluation. I opened it in anticipation of a regret letter stating that the marks remain the same.

BUT, to my pleasant surprise it read something like "the marks in the following subject(s) have been change: Social Studies" ... and to my utter disbelief it said:

Old marks: 71
New Marks: 70

We regret that there was a mistake, kindly find enclosed a Draft for Rs. 100.. blah blah..

CC to: Principal

Holy cow!! If I was allowed to publicly swear then, I would have. But as luck would have, my school did not follow-up and I still retain the mark-sheet which says 71 in Social Studies! ;)

Apart, I pinged a few friends who were online at that time to check their marks:

Ugri - Ninety-holymother-Five percentage with Math - 99, Sci - 98, Sanskrit - 99, English - 82

I was just thinking, if he had got about 90-95 in English, he would have been on national TV. Tough luck mate. [Ofcourse, what happened later in IIT is more interesting, but I skip that for now :-) ]

Normal - 85 in ICSE. He wants me to believe that in terms of difficulty levels:

State Board < CBSE < ICSE

Normal, ofcourse is known to justify everything in this world. So I need second opinion on that.

Ankita - 90.6!

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My sis, she claims herself, got 94 pc in 9th standard. Now that sounds a little funny to me coz' she shares the same genes as I do and I could never attach such high percentages to myself. So, assuming it is true, I wish she breaks Ugri's record of 95 and makes it to national television.

There'll be a proud brother applauding her.

Anyone else, who wishes to share their class X marks are more than welcome. I definitely will not be last, Normal's there to cushion me!