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Exams and superstitions!

Finally exams are over! How relaxed I am feeling now! Amazing feeling. These exams were the most different of all the exams I have given. There are so many reasons for that, first thing was I took lesser tension for these exams and I was under lesser stress than ever, and I fair pretty well, though it is the result which will decide that how I faired but for my inner being I think I have made a major change to my thinking and I am happy that I finally came over of the so called examphobia! One interesting thing I would like to share with you all that I noticed during these exams is exams and superstitions. It is surprising that exams make most people superstitious. And I am no exception, being an engineering student it may look disgusting that I believe in such superstitions, but I really can't help myself being a little superstitious. There are so many little myths that I follow during exams, biggest of them is I don't shave during exam, if my first paper goes well I believe that I shouldn't change anything in my look, and so I wore same pair of jeans in all exams! And also the same sweater. In one exam I put on jacket instead of sweater and my paper went poor, this thus boosted my believe in myths! Sounding crazy? But when wearing the same clothes making your exams better, then why not? Ha! Ha Ha! I can't help myself doing that. Here is a list of myths I followed during these exams and are very interesting,
  1. Wore same pairs of clothes during all my exams ( though I changed my pants I swear! ;) Once I changed my sweater and my paper went real bad.
  2. Used same pen in all exams, Once I used some one else's pen and my paper didn't go well enough. Even my friend whose pen it was, had a bad paper with that particular pen. (some mysterious unlucky pen ;) )
  3. While going on bike for exam, for first exam I sat on pillion and our exam went well, so we didn't took risk of me riding the bike so my room partner rided bike in all exams, as we had an understanding that my riding the bike may bring us bad luck.
  4. Entering the college from the same entrance, entering from any other entrance may bring us bad luck, we believed.
  5. And there is one interesting one, when I fill enteries in my note book, for name, rollno, etc. I believe that if I make a mistake, my paper will go well, so I try my best to be careless enough to make mistakes and sometimes I have to make mistakes intensionally , anything for a good paper.
  6. Another one is that we always had bath in a particular order, we didn't take risk to change that order.
  7. I didn't have a shave for the sake of good luck.

This list is endless, there are so many small things that become so important during exams, knowing very well that these are worthless I follow them unintensionally. Don't know why? It is not just my case, almost everybody has some myths related to exams, some of them are really funny. These myths are baseless, but still they give us a strange power, and thanks to them I overcome these exams!

It will be interesting to know what myths you have when it comes to exams, put a comment here and let's make a list of interesting exams superstitions! Go ahead and reveal your secrets to success!
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