First Bench Supremacy

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📷 Ivan Aleksic

2019!!
One of my crucial board exams, my examination is going to be held at a different college and guess what, that's a rival college of ours. Their students sit in our college and we are to go on thiers. As reputed colleges and rivals, we don't have any compromises, rather too strict to maintain every possible code of an ideal examination. Okay, so what's the main point of this? It's my seat plan in the exam hall. I was assigned on the second bench of the 3rd row which was aligned in such a way that beside me there is always a teacher. Literally he can continuously read everything I was writing so guess how close we were. In these circumstances, I usually get nervous, not because I depend on the other students, its because of getting so closely monitored but it's also true that we can't always write 100% on our own. Little help is always needed which is impossible from those positions. An uncomfort feeling is always there when you are so close to your teacher in exam halls. On top of that, their strict monitoring.

2021!!
Guess what, my luck brought me here to this rival college again for my another exam, this time I was promoted to first bench. I don't know what enmity I have with the seat planner. This time I am in the middle row which means I will be sitting exactly face to face with the teachers. I can even hear their whispers too, ops it would be in vice-versa. That time, the most uncomfortable was when teachers used to read my writing. Come on, this is too uncomfortable, it increases the nervousness of what he might be thinking reading my answers.

2023!!
Here we go again, same place, same shitty luck, me in the first bench. WHAT A COINCIDENCE!! Man, I was speechless when I walked to my seat, I was like, "Why me? Why always me?" The first time, my friends laughed, the second time they were somehow amazed and were showing sympathy and this time, it's completely unexpected and speechless. I really have a desire to meet the seat planner just to ask which enmity I do have with him and how long this will be continued.


Trust me, you can't imagine how it feels to sit on the front seats if you haven’t faced these kinds of situations already, especially when these are crucial exams of your life, you have to bear the marks for your lifetime. Actually, there is something more than just the seat plans that is making this whole thing so frustrating for me. As mentioned before, this one is a rival college of ours, so they don't show any kind of cooperation, they turned it like a personal rivalry, same from the other end too. Teachers are having the highest possible degree in the country so their self-esteem is also at the peak so no chance of any compromises, and that's where we the examiners get in the blackfoot. I repeat again, it's not any excessive help I am expecting for, it's just their rival mentality that makes us feel nervous and frustrated during exams, especially me from the first bench.

Maybe I will be sitting on these front row seats again in another phase, FIRST BENCH SUPREMACY!!