An Animal ?
Going over the last few notes I’ve made, I’m inclined to think, there’s a lot more to C.A.R than just the dreaded ‘law’ thing…which past and present students and teachers alike will tell, needs to be ‘memorized’. Every exam you write requires certain if not large amounts of memorizing. However, if you just care to stop, look and understand the C.A.R and read every series and every part through real life examples, this animal (as it may seem), isn’t all that bad you know!
In our time, going back to the days we had classes with Mr. Nair, we were lucky that Mr. Nair had a vast amount of experience to draw on every time we had difficulty in understanding something. So, he’d bring to fore his experiences and that of his colleagues and go to great lengths to explain things to us. Not every AME school can boast of instructors not just vastly experienced, but also WILLING to go to great lengths to actually explain the the C.A.R!
That said, it was not until YOU asked the questions..!- If all you do is sit and watch and wonder, ANY teacher would find it hard to know exactly what it is that is going on in your mind! And so we found that happen all too often in our class too. The first few days is always like, “Oh! If I ask this question, will it be appropriate? What would the guys sitting in front/behind/beside me think? let it be, just sit tight! And hope and pray he doesn’t ask you a question!” In all candor, I have nothing but regret in admitting to this form of thought. And we realized it soon enough. A friend Ashwin Kolhatkar and I used to sit together in those CAR lessons. While we were still sitting in utter bewilderment about ‘A’ particular topic, Mr. Nair had already moved on to the next Series/Part. Not his fault! Nobody had any questions!! In a matter of days we were rushing through the dreaded CAR at breakneck speed and it all seemed to be going over! Anyhow, we soon started tugging at his pace…with ‘doubts’…sometimes funny and irrelevant, but that’s how we realized, no matter how stupid your question is, if you don’t ask, you shall never find out….oh yes you might find out, but the circumstances will most certainly not be to your choice, and in most cases not to your liking either!
So, the bottomline is, if you’ve got a question today, ASK!
And that is the whole point of the CAR, it’s about reading it, understanding it, learning some things, and then questioning or testing yourself. Mr. Nair was huge help here too. He had an endless list of questions that he’d collected over the years from students who sat the exam. Here again there’s a problem. Now, I haven’t written a lot many exams dealing with ‘the Babus’, but atleast the DGCA takes back the question papers after the exam. So, it’s all upto memory for students to sit down straight after the exam and write out as many questions that came to mind. But, believe me, those question banks, they really prepare you well. Having said that, breaking the sequence of things and going through questions without having read and understood the CAR, is in one word, madness! I know, I’ve tried it!
Going over the last few notes I’ve made, I’m inclined to think, there’s a lot more to C.A.R than just the dreaded ‘law’ thing…which past and present students and teachers alike will tell, needs to be ‘memorized’. Every exam you write requires certain if not large amounts of memorizing. However, if you just care to stop, look and understand the C.A.R and read every series and every part through real life examples, this animal (as it may seem), isn’t all that bad you know!
In our time, going back to the days we had classes with Mr. Nair, we were lucky that Mr. Nair had a vast amount of experience to draw on every time we had difficulty in understanding something. So, he’d bring to fore his experiences and that of his colleagues and go to great lengths to explain things to us. Not every AME school can boast of instructors not just vastly experienced, but also WILLING to go to great lengths to actually explain the the C.A.R!
That said, it was not until YOU asked the questions..!- If all you do is sit and watch and wonder, ANY teacher would find it hard to know exactly what it is that is going on in your mind! And so we found that happen all too often in our class too. The first few days is always like, “Oh! If I ask this question, will it be appropriate? What would the guys sitting in front/behind/beside me think? let it be, just sit tight! And hope and pray he doesn’t ask you a question!” In all candor, I have nothing but regret in admitting to this form of thought. And we realized it soon enough. A friend Ashwin Kolhatkar and I used to sit together in those CAR lessons. While we were still sitting in utter bewilderment about ‘A’ particular topic, Mr. Nair had already moved on to the next Series/Part. Not his fault! Nobody had any questions!! In a matter of days we were rushing through the dreaded CAR at breakneck speed and it all seemed to be going over! Anyhow, we soon started tugging at his pace…with ‘doubts’…sometimes funny and irrelevant, but that’s how we realized, no matter how stupid your question is, if you don’t ask, you shall never find out….oh yes you might find out, but the circumstances will most certainly not be to your choice, and in most cases not to your liking either!
So, the bottomline is, if you’ve got a question today, ASK!
And that is the whole point of the CAR, it’s about reading it, understanding it, learning some things, and then questioning or testing yourself. Mr. Nair was huge help here too. He had an endless list of questions that he’d collected over the years from students who sat the exam. Here again there’s a problem. Now, I haven’t written a lot many exams dealing with ‘the Babus’, but atleast the DGCA takes back the question papers after the exam. So, it’s all upto memory for students to sit down straight after the exam and write out as many questions that came to mind. But, believe me, those question banks, they really prepare you well. Having said that, breaking the sequence of things and going through questions without having read and understood the CAR, is in one word, madness! I know, I’ve tried it!
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