Shit happens; RIP EML

I regret not having written in a long while. Frankly, things weren’t going well and blogging about defeat only leaves a bad taste in the mouth.

In spite of my best efforts and ample preparation, JEE just didn’t go my way. It was a paper fraught with too many tedious calculations and too little time to do them the proper way. The use of log and antilog tables simply accentuated this fact. One didn’t need to know the theory well enough as long as one knew the direct formulae. At the end of the day, it’s the IITs who decide which meritorious students they will teach.

The irregularities in the paper have been discussed to death and all the righteous rage over it has boiled over and disappeared. The corrections simply scorned educated public opinion and were only directed towards wasting enough time to prevent a re-exam. The Hindi aspirants, however, are a happier lot. In spite of a completely messed up paper and apathetic remedies, their selection trebled from 175 odd last year to over 500 now. I wonder how that happened to be.

On a separate note, JEE abolished the EML altogether this year granting a measure of relief to the thousands who got selected for the main list. The cutoff, as per my expectations, shot up and probably crossed 195 for an 8500 rank in the CML. We’ll know the exact figure in a week.

My rank, 4222, was in the range I had expected it to be. It could have got me something in BHU till last year but now that it is an IIT, it will be prefered over the newer institutes.

So much for a guy who was ranked 9 in the last Bansal test.

I will just fill in my counseling choices and wait for the AIEEE results.