Quizzzzzed...

At IIMA, quizzes are an integral part of life... Every subject has quizzes... Well, you may think-" blah!!..what's the big deal ? " ... I personally feel the same way about it..
So, this is what happens.. Quizzes are never announced before hand. There are surprise quizzes..Right outside the mess, there is a notice board...
At precisely, 13.30, some kind soul will come to the notice board and put up the following
"All PGP1 - Please note -there shall be a Maths/MANAC/any subject quiz scheduled today at 2.30 pm in the respective classrooms. Students are requested to be seated in their seats by 2.25 pm" ...

So, you will often find all fachas enter the mess with a feeling of anticipation, dread and hope...
The Tuchas, on the other hand, also enter with similar feelings - except the dread part..
They WANT the fachas to have quizzes... Of course, we fachas, can do quite well without them..

What follows in the mess , is quite an interesting sight.. once the quiz is declared ... the Tuchas do a little jig...and start screaming "Muggo Facho !! Muggo !!" ...
The fachas started banging their steel glasses and plates to drown out the chants...
This is the place where one can see synchronised cacophony in motion...

The quizzes suffer from a CAT hungover...lots of questions, very little time to solve and negative marking and relative grading.. what a perfect recipe for disaster..!!
Last year, there were a few quizzes, where not attempting a single question would have gotten one a C grade...!!! Thanks to the negative marking and relative grading..many students ended with a negative mark... thus, the guy who didnt know anything was better off !!!... That's life ...

Eventually.. the quizzes start ruling our lives... I am ending this part with two quotes ..
" It is not the quiz which kills you.... It is the FEAR of the quiz that gets you... " -OralB (2008)
"Eventually, it is not a question of IF you will give up or not... but a question of WHEN you will give up ... " -Jhappi (2008)