CBSE ‘Boreds’ 2009

Had to have a post on this. CBSE has once again proven how badly they suck and how they like to push the papers to THE limit where one can yank his/her hair off the scalp. Papers are utterly rubbish and the checking is a waste of time. Here’s how my scoresheet looks:

English: CBSE sucks (refer to previous para). I thought my paper was good and the lowest I could expect was around 85. How much do I get? A freaking 79. Couldn’t believe it.

German: As expected. Knew that I would get 96. DID get 96. COULD have got 99. Easily.

Math: 98. BAD. I messed up a diameter-radius question. 100 was sure shot!

Science: Wonder where I lost marks. Expected more than 95 but got stuck at that score. Meritnation.com tells me that I should have got full marks. Re-evaluate please.

Social science: 99?!?!? Unbelievable. Couldn’t believe this either. After a string of ’42s’/80 in both Preboards, This_was_unbelievable. But I STILL wonder where I lost that ONE mark…:P

Introductory IT: 100! I went to give the exam to get 100 because then I could get a certificate from CBSE. Happy.

Overall, not REALLY satisfied, especially after what I got in English. But yes, whatever may be the case, I don’t really think these marks matter….do they?

Anyone there?!?!?!

—Clears a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and what-not from the interface—

IS anyone there??? Are people still coming to this blog? Sorry folks, long time, no posts. Its just that I’ve been partying too much lately that I haven’t really put up stuff on my blog. So what have I been upto lately?
Partying (haha)
Photoshop (haha)
Piano (haha)
Facebooking (haha)
Haha-ing (:P)

Basically all that I wanted to do after my boards. That reminds me, I have to get a post thru specially for the boards. And yes, just caught up on some movies, music, a gig in school etc etc. And along with that came RESONANCE….:( LOTS of studying to do, considering the fact that with studies come tests, which I have successfully evaded till now.

Currently I’m doing a summer internship prog with St. Stephens college. Its basically a work and learn programme, so I will earn some money too…:P

Ok folks, time for some topic based posts. I’ve missed posts on the IPL, the French Open and will try to cover with the T20 World cup! GO INDIA!

Space Settlement 08-09!!

Oh my GOD! We’ve managed to scrape through and have qualified as an invited team to the semi finals of the Asian Region Space settlement design comp. For those who don’t know, we had to send a proposal for a company to design a human settlement in space. Initially we hadn’t qualified….But since the team from Malaysia had backed out due to the Chinese New year falling in the 3rd-4th week of Jan, we being the next best team were invited to a 4 day stayover, complete with workshops and a 2 day marathon settlement design competition…winning it will enable us to send our proposal again to NASA directly. This is what our team did in 07 and went to NASA.

Hope to do well here atleast…considering that I have AGAIN messed up the S.Sc preboard…just passed. The others were awesome. This gives me time to do this subject.

OK then…gotta scoot off.

Tips for German exams: Class 10

Here are some tips, which might help you in the german exams. They might be simple, yet effective.:.

1. For Perfekt and Plusquamperfekt, make sure whether ‘Sein’ or ‘Haben’ have to be used.

2. Check which ’sie’ is being used. It can be feminine, plural or the formal case. Conjugate the verb accordingly.

3. In akkusativ and nominativ cases, the adjektivendungen for plural without articles is ‘e’. Examples: viele, einige, solche etc.

4. Be careful in using the endungen tables and DO NOT confuse yourselves with the ohne artikel table.

5. All konjunktions, weil, wenn, dass, wie, ob, the verb is thrown to the end position. But in denn, the verb is at 2nd position since denn is at 0 place.

6. Weil and denn mean because, wenn means if and whenever, dass is for information to be forwarded(i know that…etc), ob is for doubt, wie means how and all other fragepronomen are used if there is a question.

7. Do not forget about the UDASO case of conjunctions.

8. There are pure akk, pure dativ, genetivs ( not in course) and wechsel praposition which change with ‘wo’(stationary) and ‘wohin’(action/movement) and also verbs with feste prapositionen and the article they take is as per their respective cases (N/A/D)

9. While dealing with Relativpronomen, make sure that the sentence is of which case (N/A/D), verb with zwei objekte or verbs with prepositions (bei dem, mit denen usw.)

10. Unseen passages: Dont make mistakes in verb positions, spellings of nouns and forgetting to write them in capital letters. For proper usage of grammar, check out the little tit-bits mentioned in between the lessons, before the exercises in the textbook.

11. Write atleast 30-35 lines in an essay question. For words which are similar, try and not repeat the words if you have an alternative. Make good use of the grammar you know i.e. use relativ etc to express yourself well.

12. Translations: German to English. Check out the translations for lessons 10-16 and read through lessons 1-9 incase you missed out some important words there. English to german. Think and read the sentence well keeping the german grammar in mind. Sometimes you may overlook the prateritum in the verbs, or maybe just missout on one or two words. Also, learn about the verbs used in special cases like “Wir machen eine Reise.” We MAKE a journey and not TRAVEL i.e. fahren/gehen.

13. Learn the meanings of the question words like the simplest of them being ‘wo, wohin’ going to ‘was für welch(en/er/es/e)…’ This helps to interpret questions in unseen passages.

Well, these were the simplest of stuff which could prove to be decisive, getting you that ectra one or two marks. Good luck for your exams!

I’m Bach

Ok…After a loooong time, I’m Back with the posts on my *frequently* updated blog. Over the past two months, I’ve had a LOT of stuff to go through: July tests, my birthday, other birthdays, band practices, a hoard of competitions and what not. Missing from classes in normal nowadays. With the kind of studying I now intend to do, I expect a pyrotechnics show in later October. Lately I have had a chance to catch up with a few movies. So I’ll post a review:

Movie 1: Harris’ Birthday : Singh is Kinng

Singh is Kinng was a great movie. Period. With Akshay Kumar’s excellent comedy timing and the story setting, the movie was a runaway success. In the film, Akshay is a rustic, but has a heart of gold. He goes all the way to Australia after a trip to Egypt through a mismatch of boarding passes, and finally convinces *The King* to come back to his *pind*. On the way, he surprises and charms everyone with his sense of humour and his simplicity and finally gets his way around Katrina Kaif and marries her. Well, as all movies, this movie also has a happy and emotional ending (that’s what I thought). This is a very short review of the movie and for the full review,, you might want to contact me personally.

 

Movie 2: Sonal’s Birthday: Bachchna Ae Haseeno

This was the *sickest movie* of 2008. I think, because Aditya and Uday Chopra have ruined the Yash Raj Company, Yash Chopra has completely lost it and has taken it into his hands to make disasters. I literally pulled my hair off my scalp and when I became tired, I yanked Gautam M’s hair and he pulled mine. We also played a game of basketball with popcorn. Coming to the topic, the movie, as I said, was a complete DISASTER. The movie was partly a prequel showing Ranbir Kapoor and his ex girlfriends and how he hooked and broke up with them. The last girlfriend he encounters is Deepika Padukone, but she was not interested in him. He understood his mistake, how he had ditched 2 of his girlfriends, and thus goes to apologize to India. He also gives 2 baby sardars an XBOX 360 along with some CDs and acts as Bipasha’s PA and a waiter in her party. Finally, to make it short, Deepika actually falls in love with Ranbir [How sick] and that’s it, that was the story. I failed to understand what the story was. Oh well, back to the photoshop board then…..