Finally treated like humans...

Start your preparation for the first day bang 5 days before it start.

Objective: Sleep as much as you can and yet complete your homework for the event thoroughly.

Reason: 8 gruesome 24-hours of sleepless night to follow!

I am not referring to any extravagant expedition here. Nor am I indicating any political rally about to be started. Nor is the schedule given to our well payed cricketers for IPL by inhuman BCCI officials. This is CA Finals.

One of the most highly dramatic exams in India (and this is in comparison to other hyped for dont to what exams like CAT for MBA and our good old Matriculation exam), CA finals have always managed to shake their pupils down to the core every time they made their minds to face the 9 days thunderstorm. Probably surviving the 8 days is more difficult than studying for the exam itself. Is it that efficiency of being able to tackle the pressure is given more weightage than the matter you write in your papers? Who knows..

My biggest reason for regret of not making in the first attempt was exactly this. Face the never ending stretch of 192 hours. The time when you forget even your meal times even if you had won the eating competition in your locality. When sleeping for even 4 hours at night is like a heavy privilege. And after which you realise the importance of every single minutes that passes by for atleast a month or so (guess that is equivalent to hangovers after a heavy duty booze party).

Which is why I was as excited as one would be when he realises that he has cleared the deadly exam but before the Nov 2008 attempt. The website, after a long time, brought some great news for me. ICAI has decided to donate the underprivileged students with one day leave for each exam! Well, can somebody pinch me please.

I dont know what made them finally do it. But I am happy that they finally realised that we are after all humans. And secondly, the basic principle of life still prevails. You get back the worth of efforts you shell out, in some form or the other and in indefinite but justified proportion in aggregate.