The Night before an Examination
Examinations are usually feared, because none of us is sure enough as
to what extent we are able to realize our dreams by working the way we do.
Thus, any examination is a cause of concern proportionate to how good results
we desire to make. Moreover, all the concern and anxiety and fear, to whatever
extent it may be, all us most the very night before the examination. It is a
nightmare indeed. As is generally the case, the night before an exam is crowded
with the necessary and unnecessary business of many by-goes yesterdays, and is
burdened with the fear of tomorrow morning. It is at the same time, occupied
and hollow: occupied with tensions, anxieties, fears and works; and hollow with
the meaningless nothingness of uncontrolled disappointment. However, the intensity of the above forces
varies from person to person. On the student who was not punctual in his/her
studies all through the year, rather, trifled away his/her valuable time in
idle gossips, laziness, or uncontrolled recreations, this right weighs
unbearably heavy. An ambivalence of lack of confidence and need for preparation
weakens him/her. One the one hand, he finds it difficult to cover the required
but neglected syllabus in one single night and yet tries too hurriedly to do
so; on the other, he can do really nothing in such unmanaged hurry. The result
is obvious: that student is anxious and afraid. He can hardly have a sound
sleep. What is more, his mental and physical tension leaves him temporarily
worm out. His real exam beings that very night, so to say.
