Tag: Quizzing

The prelims of the CBSE Heritage India Quiz 2006 were held at Modern School, Vasant Vihar today. The turnout definitely seemed to be lesser than last year. Maybe that’s because if the ongoing term exams in most schools. Nice way to start off the day though, since I got into trouble for bringing my cellphone along. After much teeth-gritting, kept it with my friend Ishaan who’d to leave his bag outside too. Gotta complain about partiality though – there were others in the centre who’d carried such things in. Came across my old school’s (er, nightmare’s?) team at the centre too, although I didn’t get much time to interact (did I want to really?) since I was trying to figure out a safe haven for my 3220.

The paper this year was tougher than last year’s. Last year’s paper was pretty kiddish, and we’d sailed through then. This year, they’d certainly raised the bar quite a few inches higher. Enough to (horror of horrors!) me, an old salt to be bothered about the team’s performance. In the end, figured out a lot, and did it.

On having discussions with the team members, Varun and Srishti, later on, I was delighted to know that our new members did exceedingly well for new-comers by any standards. Hell, they did well by standards set by old-timers too. We seem to have got a fair number of questions correct. The DPS RKP team too has put in a good performance. Remains to be seen whether we are among the top six who get through, but I’m pretty confident that we should, given the fact that this was a strong team. Fingers crossed still, and can’t definitely say that we’d get through. Ah well, waiting till the results then…]

Good thing though that my math exam got postponed to 3rd October, although I’m not sure what I’ll do even then because I haven’t quite a few classes on the topics which are coming. Really gutsy though that one of the members didn’t take the postponement – never heard that happen in the quizzing community. Oh, they’ll learn to grab such opportunities more eagerly later I’m sure, when they start getting deeper into quizzing (and missing more classes / fooling off at home). 😉

Well, frankly, I was so engrossed in trying to get a team for the Heritage India Quiz 2006 that I didn’t sit down to study for this exam before 9.30 p.m. the day before. On top of it, hadn’t really attended the classes for quite a few chapters. I was practically looking at some chapters for the first time that night.

No problem at all though. It was a really easy paper, and not at all lengthy (our teacher kept on, unsuccessfully for me at least, tried to keep scaring us into the fact that it’d be ‘very lengthy’). I finished about 45 minutes early, that too napping a bit in between and discussing ‘more things’ with teachers about the Heri Quiz. Questions were really very simple indeed. And after finishing early, went off to the I-lab for some ‘official QC work’.

Oh, and what exactly was I doing about the Heri Quiz? Well, I spent the whole of Wednesday evening calling up members and making lists of those who were interested. Much of Thursday morning went into trying to convince one of new members to come on-board – he didn’t. Almost going crazy trying to decide whom to take in, I quickly made an online test and gave the members a diktat to try it. It worked. The test just told me exactly what I wanted and who all were suitable. It’s always nice to have tests, and the answers they give really help me determine the psychology of the member.

The final decision was that Yours Truly, and two other brand-new just-took-off-the-packaging-and-playing-with-the-bubble-wrap-right-now members will be coming along. I’ve got NO IDEA what’ll happen. I know that some of my pals from other schools are turning up.

Fingers crossed…

Oh, by the way, I’m not giving the math term exam on Monday, since Heri Quiz is on Sunday. Instead, I’ll be giving my math exam on 3rd October. There goes a perfectly nice holiday down the drain studying…but I wanted to postpone ‘death’ as much as possible.