Journal on 11th October 2012
In one of my earlier posts, I
wrote ‘I am a busy man because I have many exams to write and I have pregnant
wife at home who may deliver anytime anywhere.’ Well, Bhutan on 8th
October 2012, I attended written examination for the post of Natural Resources
Development Corporation for the post of Assistant Manager in one of the Stone
Crushing plants somewhere in eastern. That examination was hardest non-math
examination I have ever written in my life. In my life, I have always managed
to bluff my way through examinations but I was struck there. Combined with lack
of preparation, the paper seemed to be asking many technical questions which weren’t
part of my expertise. There were 40 objective questions and 20 marks for
subjective questions where we had to attempt 1 out of three questions. The full
mark was 100.
I was confident I answered 10 objective questions very
well out of 40 questions. I wished to get 10 marks out of 20 in subjective
question because as I am peripheral neuropathic recovering patient, my hand
writing was too bad for other to decipher. I also couldn’t reason quite well as
I was too preoccupied thinking whether I could write during RCSC examinations.
So I calculated my marks at 30 out of 100 in the said exam. As examination rule
was such that for every 1 wrong answer, one negative mark would be awarded.
Assuming I gave 30 wrong answers, I calculated 30 minus 15 would be my actual
marks. But when result came out, I was surprised to see I scored at least 50
out 100. In other words, 12.5 from 25% weightage. When I was shortlisted I was in
the second position because class ten, twelve and degree marks are taken into
considerations. I scored 33 out of 50 marks weight age from academic.
However, number one rank has gone down after written
exam. That was a little solace. However, third position has jumped to first as
he had scored 64 marks out of 100 in written examination. As of now, I am still
at second place. The final exam which is viva-voce is on 16th
October 2012 will be all-out fight for two vacancies. I don’t expect to nail
the job and I don’t need that job but I am at least going to give my best. My
viva-voce will go into long way measuring my strength and weakness and testing
my ability to speak in front of panel.
Till then, I have to wait for one more result for written
examination, the result for post of executive secretary in DHI. I also have to
write biggest exam of my life, the RCSC that defines what we are made of and
which will compare my ability against best of the best in the country.
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