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If you know me well, you know that I think psychiatrists are dumb. But anyways, I am doing this course in this semester named “ORGANIZATIONAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PSYCHOLOGY”. In one class of this course, the professor told us that with anxiety performance increases. It reaches a peek and then with further increase in anxiety performance decreases. I think that makes sense to some extent. (if you attended his class, you will agree on this point.) Anyways. So, I told a friend of mine that when there is no exam I am 100% normal (otherwise I may not). And this is a part of her reply “100% normal? I don’t believe it for a second. What are exams like at your school?” So, this gave me the idea of locating IITians in that graph. According to me the graph pretty much looks like this :

In the graph, No 1 means IITians after entering IIT. No 2 means IITians when they were preparing for IIT Joint Entrance Exam (IIT-JEE). Note that students in 1 and 2 are same. No 2 is not talking about students preparing/giving JEE. Its for students who were preparing for JEE and finally cleared JEE.

Red Line means the anxiety on a normal day. Blue lines numbered 1 are making a range in which an IITian’s anxiety falls during exam time or when there is a big assignment deadline. Blue lines marked as 2 are making a range in which an “to-be-iitian”‘s anxiety falls during exam times. Note No 2s had mainly one major exam i.e. JEE and a some internal high-school exams.

Note, red lines are not forming any range that doesn’t mean that everyone’s anxiety is same. It means that anxiety of different students are closer.

Another point : This model is supposed to be for 80% of the IITians. Exceptions are always there, and just to make analysis simpler and less controversial, I am taken 20% students as exceptions. By the way, these 20% students are those who are exceptionally good at getting grades. ( getting good grades !=> good in acads). And it also contains students who are very poor in acads. ( very poor in acads => very bad grades). This also contains people who are intelligent but are really cool, so they do not give extra efforts for exams ( Do I belong to this category? )

Disclaimer : The author is not drunk when he is writing this post. This is just my perception (supported by 2 of my wing-mates). I mean the model is my perception, not the point that I am not drunk. You have full right to disbelieve this model or the fact that I am not drunk. If you are one of those exceptional 20% students, don’t dare to reply. You guys suck big time. … ah, wait, I am ( atleast want to be) in the cool and intelligent guys category. . So, if you are in that cool + intelligent category, you can reply.

Wow, I am good at writing nonsense.

So what does the model say : it says that IITs and its deadlines/exams have changed us. We work when we have deadlines. Just to give ya a glimpse, there is this guy in my school who studied in some univ in Singapore for 1 semester. The prof gave them an assignment on some date (say D) which was supposed to be submitted before or in the class on “D +1 month”. This guy, he submitted the assignment on the “d+1 month” day. He entered the class late because he was working on the assignment till the class started. And after the class he got to know that everyone had submitted the assignment before “D+15 days”. Thats a general thing here. We work on last days, and at that time we work like dogs. We wouldn’t sleep for days and will be working all the time.

Anyways, so it seems that our performance on a normal day is very poor as compared to the time when we were not in IIT. Secondly, note that our average performance during exam times remained same. Also note that JEE used to make more anxiety in us, which actually decreased our performance a lot of time. (hint : see the range for No 2, it cross the best anxiety level)

Also, since no of deadlines increases drastically when we come to IIT (this high anxiety is on 10 days a month normally), overall performance of an IITian is better when he reaches IIT.

But it also leads to 2 points :

1. Is JEE right way of examining students? (For your information 180,000 students from all over the India sit for JEE and only 4000 are selected.)
2. Is IIT system good? Isn’t this varying anxiety bad for students. So much ups and downs. Rather, lots of students become fatigue because of that. (Don’t forget the suicide cases)

If you laughed after reading this post (either because the post is funny, or because I am a stupid/typical geek), BIG THANKS. The post is supposed to be funny and nonsense. But it seems this topic always makes me serious. I will elaborate the last 2 points some day. I shouldn’t do that today, I am already very serious.