Stat Check

Saturday 29 June 2013

6 Qualities that make a Perfect Batch

Hai guys. 12th is really, really hectic, so I've not been able to post anything for a very long time. I've made myself some time now, so here's one more of my logical-analysis rants. But before that, a quick recap of what happened over the previous 2 weeks:

Pandit ManikandaSamy got furious with us once again, a week ago (I think we didn't bring our FIITJEE NCERT notebooks or something, or more probably, our juniors got him angry). He followed the usual punishment- Finish the chapter lightspeed. Luckily for us, it was the 4th/5th time we were doing various-object-fields, and we could understand what he was teaching.

Delete the AC comment I made a couple of months ago, the vile contractor got everything fixed but the switch. And the equation is simple-- No switch, No AC. And every rain that came in the last month came only in the afternoon, after school was over. Even the rain gods ensured that we both burnt in class and never got a holiday.
On a lighter note, everyone in the class seems to have gained an affinity for smacking Saiduth on the head. Even the guy at the kiosk outside started picking on Saiduth (and me, to a little extent). Saiduth almost never had proper change, only 50 and 100 rupee notes. The kiosk dude would stuff a puff into Saiduth's hands, and charge 15 rupees. Ouch...
 Anyway, we later hatched a plan that made the kiosk guy the laughing stock of everyone in near vicinity. Sweet revenge.
We also nearly gave Chandrasekharan VenkataMadhavan a heart attack when we finished the solid state package a day before the due date. Looks like sincerity in our class quadrupled. Even Akshay spent his free time at school doing the chemistry package. Whoa.

The near-perfect class.

This makes me wonder- How would a perfect batch be? Let me begin on one more of my philosophical ventures:
  1. Sincere: No-brainer. An insincere batch would be paying far less attention to studies than it should-- making it more of hypocrisy and a wastage of the FIITJEE fees.
  2. Efficient: Of course. Sathiaraj Sir got this drilled into our minds an year ago. A perfect batch must be diligent in its work, and must complete all work in time. Handling a sloppy-but-sincere batch is like trying to teach a donkey math... which is useless.
  3. Well-behaved: No one would like to teach a bunch of jabbering monkeys. As teachers so beautifully put it, pin-drop-silence is a must for the perfect batch.
  4. Packed with Geniuses? This is a toughie for sure. Would a batch of brainy-powerhouses be better than a batch with slightly lower IQs? Does the quantity of the student-elites matter more than the quality of their studies? MVM produced most of the top ranks, but the selection ratio was higher for CV. The TF batch has all the strongies (Much like RCB) but our batch has a more uniform distribution (CSK, anyone?). So which is better? 
  5. Interactive: Again, this comes at a price. Our batch is very, very interactive, but we usually think outside the box. Way outside the box, actually. Sometimes, during class discussions on various topics (Eg. How to engineer a motor), we (especially Abhishek) come up with all kinds of answers and ideas which annoy our teachers... but the TF batch, on the other hand, is so silent I get headaches sitting in that class.
  6. Happy: This goes hand-in-hand with the previous point. Happiness is what separates someone from the poor kids at coaching centers like Narayana, Chaitanya etc. and turns him/her into an educated person rather than a problem-solving robot. Any happy batch (with happy teachers too, of course) is destined to be a great batch.
Actually, imagining a class with the above qualities is near-impossible, at least from a teacher's point of view. Remember, Physics  Pandit sir once told us that any student who never made fun of his teacher wasn't a student in the first place? That blatantly violates #3.
All said, in my view, the perfect batch is the imperfect batch.
Bye bye, everyone.

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