National College Soliloques - I PUC Exams

I still remember my I PUC exams at National College. I hadn't studied anything, I couldn't decipher the formulae nor could I make any sense of the scientific equations and experiments. That was when I seriously regretted taking Science. The exams finally started, the first two exams were English and Sanskrit and I did quite well in both these subjects. The next one was Biology, I managed to answer most of the questions in this subject too, however the worst was yet to come. I had an accident a day before the physics exam, it was a minor head injury still I couldn't study for the paper. Not surprisingly I didn't do well in any of the most important subjects (Physics, Chem and Maths). I was still confident as every body had told me that no matter how badly the students do in the exams, every body get through the exams. So that was one hope I was holding on to.

I took off to Madikeri for 2 weeks to cool my heels and totally forgot about the exam experience. I came back to Bangalore and called my friend B, she mentioned to me that the results were announced. She had passed with a first class and I had got second class. I was happy to note that I didn't fail. My friends M, B and A were discussing about II PUC tuitions, some of them had already finalized the tuitions for PCM with prominent professors like RKJ, GV for Physics and Desikachar for Chem. I started to worry as I hadn't done anything of that sort. My friend Anand mentioned to me that there were still few seats left in one of the tutorials run by Professors NAR and KR. I went to meet with them and they gladly accepted my application and I was enrolled for Physics and Chem classes.

I still hadn't enrolled myself for Mathematics tutorials. My friend Viji recommended Prof. A.K.Manjunath. I found out that he was located very close to my home and was a well known lecturer. I met him and asked if he had any seats left, he said he was completely full and had no seats left. I was disappointed and worried so much so that I was close to tears. I told him "Sir, everywhere else the seats are booked, I am not very good in Maths and need all the help I can get, please accomodate me", he said he didn't like the word "booked" as it seemed like it was a business that was being run for profits. Finally he relented and agreed to take me in. I was in a batch of 6 girls and we met twice a week on evenings. Some of the names of the girls who were in my batch were, Pavani, Sandhya, H.N.S, D.V and Roshni Rajkumar (the one who had appendicitis surgery, I am sure orchid will remember when she reads this :)). I must say, of all the tuitions, I liked Maths the best, because A.K.M was a very good professor and his methodology of teaching was excellent. He was also very strict and quite short tempered. Thankfully we didn't get into trouble with him.

The over all tuition fees came up to Rs. 5000 (!).