Exams…exams….exams
Now, this wonderful topic called the C.A.R (wonderful only in hindsight mind you!), happens to be the topic of the very first examination that the D.G.C.A puts you through in your quest to becoming an AME. Though a student does not appear in this examination before the best part of a year (a year and half in our times!) after the beginning of the training curriculum at an AME institute, It is not a happy first… that is a surety.
Today, after long prolonging the al-so-mighty DGCA has removed the Subjective style or the Essay type questions….and I still hear some students sitting this exam, whining!
Oh! you should have seen those essay type questions!! As I found out through three failed attempts to pass this exam, you think you’ve figured out exactly what a question has asked …in English ofcourse! And so you write…and write…and feel real good, “Ah, I know my stuff!”…Bam in the middle of it all you happen to glance at the question again, and then you start to wonder, all and sundry, in slow motion, “Is this… Really… the… answer to this question! “Oh.My.God!” and then it went something like this “Quick, get another supplement!…quick, what’s the time!...run…run…run…oh for everything’s sake what did Series D part II deal with??!”...and then you have second thoughts…until, frozen with panic, all you end up doing is stare at your wrist and watch the clock tick away! “I’m a gonner!” You get used to that…by that I mean, sitting in the middle of a hot, dingy, hangar, on a rickety wooden chair with an even more shaky table with everyone around you huffing and puffing in no different a condition!
And then there are the times when you write exams and you feel, “oh yeah, this time I think I’ll get through”…until Bam come the results!
In the days of before October 1998, the DGCA even refrained from letting you know your score. So all it read was a ‘Pass’ or a dreaded ‘fail’. Well, after seeing the latter all too often you kind of get used to it! Failure is just another part of the whole CAR conundrum.
And honestly coming to terms with that, helps… that, and learning not to take the DGCA’s exam language proficiency too seriously!
Now, this wonderful topic called the C.A.R (wonderful only in hindsight mind you!), happens to be the topic of the very first examination that the D.G.C.A puts you through in your quest to becoming an AME. Though a student does not appear in this examination before the best part of a year (a year and half in our times!) after the beginning of the training curriculum at an AME institute, It is not a happy first… that is a surety.
Today, after long prolonging the al-so-mighty DGCA has removed the Subjective style or the Essay type questions….and I still hear some students sitting this exam, whining!
Oh! you should have seen those essay type questions!! As I found out through three failed attempts to pass this exam, you think you’ve figured out exactly what a question has asked …in English ofcourse! And so you write…and write…and feel real good, “Ah, I know my stuff!”…Bam in the middle of it all you happen to glance at the question again, and then you start to wonder, all and sundry, in slow motion, “Is this… Really… the… answer to this question! “Oh.My.God!” and then it went something like this “Quick, get another supplement!…quick, what’s the time!...run…run…run…oh for everything’s sake what did Series D part II deal with??!”...and then you have second thoughts…until, frozen with panic, all you end up doing is stare at your wrist and watch the clock tick away! “I’m a gonner!” You get used to that…by that I mean, sitting in the middle of a hot, dingy, hangar, on a rickety wooden chair with an even more shaky table with everyone around you huffing and puffing in no different a condition!
And then there are the times when you write exams and you feel, “oh yeah, this time I think I’ll get through”…until Bam come the results!
In the days of before October 1998, the DGCA even refrained from letting you know your score. So all it read was a ‘Pass’ or a dreaded ‘fail’. Well, after seeing the latter all too often you kind of get used to it! Failure is just another part of the whole CAR conundrum.
And honestly coming to terms with that, helps… that, and learning not to take the DGCA’s exam language proficiency too seriously!
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