Wrote this a looong time ago, after a long stint of exams. Reproduced from a document with amendments.
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· A day is an infinitesimally, shamefully small unit of time.
· Never discuss your progress in revision with anyone but your study partner (if you have one). Else, you will have people dishing out advice from all directions, beginning something like, “Tu abhi bhi Paper II hi kar raha hai?”
· Mnemonics. Make good ones, but let them be easy to remember. You shouldn’t have to invent another mnemonic to remember one. Yesterday I heard one beginning ‘Teri…’ Naah, I won’t forget that one.
· Poetry and undergraduate Pharmacology are highly incompatible. You could even say they’re mutually destructive.
· Inside the examination hall, when you want the guy in front of you to shake the bench a little less, feel free to tell him so. But make sure the proctor hears what exactly you’re telling him.
· In a viva voce examination, take the examiner to some territory you’re familiar with. If there’s nothing there, practise a nice pitiable face. Also wear an immaculate uniform including a pressed apron and polished shoes. Just in case.
· Study a lot. Learn a lot of small details. But don’t forget – in Heaven’s name – what a rabbit looks like and how it’s different from a Guinea Pig (No, it wasn’t me).
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