Friday, April 15, 2011

Cheat Code#1: How to trick examiners into thinking you're making sense.

English is not the mother-tongue of most teachers in the country. Play off that.
Not kidding.
:D

Cheat Code# 1 Know your examiner.
More often than not, (in India's high schools and graduate colleges, at least), you can get away with writing "a cow ate up my notebook" by writing "a bovine creature given God-like status in our magnificent multi-cultural country consumed my notebook in which I had taken copious notes".

Write these words in your examination. I guarantee you high scores.
(That's how I get my marks, anyway.)
:P
1. Non-essential
2. Acrimonious
3. Detrimental
4. Epitome
5. Fastidious
6. Harbinger
7. Misnomer
8. Mercenary
9. Perfunctory
10. Ostentatious
11.Oblivion
12. Propriety
13. Quintessential
14. Cohesive
15. Encumbered
16. Synergy
17. Dynamism
18. Strategic
19. Optimization
20. Endeavor

You may think I am joking, but you will fall at my feet worshiping me when your mark-sheet flashes a 3.8 GPA. 

7 comments:

Tangled up in blue... said...

Hahahaha it's all about the jargon, isnt it?

Doesnt really work with us tho..when we write sternutation and expectoration, the examiner always knows exactly what we're saying! :D

UjjwalRaaj said...

Hahaha absolutely true!!

Rohan said...

If only I had known it durin my eng exam!!

Nitisha said...

@TUIB: Hahaha, THANK GOD your professors know what such terrifying twelve-letter words mean. Or I would never go to a doctor again. :P

Unknown said...

:O
I will take two lives to know half as many words as you do.
KFH!
:O

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Nitisha said...

PP, hahahahahahah, you will NOT.
Probably, 'seven' lives, like the proverbial cat. :P