Kabus Ribut

“Gosh…I didn’t teach you that!!”

That was kind a bad closing statement when you were in the exam…after you’ve been struggling to find for the answers…then you started to think whether your ward work or your cirrhotic brain can help you to reason out your answers…not mentioning about the over sympathetic drive that make you feel so disgusting…very dry mouth and lips, palpitations with impending arrhythmias, hyper hydrosis prominently seen at the frontal area with a few drops started to wet your face…huh!!

"Not me!!"

End of posting examination…does that really important? What does it shows? What does it indicates? Different candidates will have a different views about it…looking at different perspective and of course try to make the very best out of it…Hardworking and bookworms’ students whose been spending most of their time in the ward and ‘sleep’ in the library with the books will have more exposure and experience compared to those who are inevitably lazy, leisure-seeker students whose always disappear even before 5. They’re doing games and watching television during on calls…at home!!

Then few days before the exam…they behave, walk and talk like a zombie…reading so many books and notes like there is no tomorrow….this last minute study is a very popular style and have been applied by all students across the nations!! When the day come, all of them will struggle to vomit and retching out all the facts they’ve read, all the things they’ve seen and all the knowledge that they’ve know. The results then been released and those who were successfully vomited out the sufficient things will have a good grades and few will fail at least one of the exam components.

The question is…does the result reflect their true ability, their true understanding or their actual skills in mastering the knowledge? What they’ve already vomited out make their ‘stomach’ became empty? Ward works, seminars, lectures, on calls, so on and so forth…can they retained all those facts for a long time? Why when they’ve been asked again after a period of time…they seem to know nothing about that, like they’re never seen or heard it before? Where does all the hard works go?

I am one of those people…after 2 months having all sort of so-called hardship…learnt a lot of the things that we must know and understand earlier...and realizing more weakness and defects that we have and yet there was very few that can be improved. But same things happened…again and again!! Our beloved dean said we must study for the exam and yes we do followed his advice with a little misunderstanding…we thought it was for the end of posting examination but what he meant was for the final professional exam 3!! The most difficult…and most unfair exam…on earth!!

What should I do? What should we do? What should they do? ...to make sure these things won’t happen again…it was really a heartbroken moment when we realize that all the hard works went into the drain after the exam…provided they’ve really work hard to get as high as they can…huh!! What a shame!!

I’m hopeless!! Help me!!