The quiz

  

Till now I participated only in 3 Quizzes fortunately, I won in all of them :)>

The first one is when I was in class seven, it was a group of six people, so I didn’t have a chance to put much effort but, I gave one or two inputs to my group and finally our group won first place.

They gifted me a pen (cello butter flow) I kept that pen for so many days without using it because that is the first prize I ever won.

Third participation was in my post-graduation, I easily won in the first place.

Second participation was in my final year of graduation it was quite an interesting story.

We were in class, a notice came that says there is an inter-college quiz competition was conducted by Xyz College.

I was interested but there is also a physics 2 days workshop was there in our college just after the quiz day.

Also, my friends and I were doing some project in which we just have to put some effort and volunteer that workshop.

So I choose a physics workshop over a quiz.

This is the day before the physics workshop which is quiz day.

It was around 11:30 am in the morning, I was tired and sleepy because of project preparation.

I want to sleep; I can’t sleep in the lab or in the classroom.

So one of my friends said they were in the auditorium and program is not yet started, you can come here and sleep it's pleasant over here.

I just went there with my phone that’s it. I even put my backpack in the lab only.

I slept there in the auditorium for few minutes and after I woke up I came to know the quiz is going to conduct here.

I woke up and I want to go but my friend insists and wants to attend it.

So many people are participating I already knew I am not going to get it, but still, I gave it a try.

They (the persons who are conducting the quiz) said, they are going to ask us 30 questions and we have to write the answers in the papers and then they were gonna choose only 8 members for the next round.

They started asking, I searched all the questions in Google and we (me and my friend) wrote answers.

Me and my friend Monika, I knew her since my intermediate we both have good understanding we utilized our understanding in cheating and also Google, wrote almost 29 out of  30 correctly, we left that one or two wrong because we don’t want them to find us.

So after correction, our both names were announced by them.

Everyone in the auditorium thought we really know all the answers to their questions but only we both knew we were cheated.

 We both started feeling guilt for what we’ve done.

Now the real problem arrives that is, they are going to conduct the next round in front of everyone and we have to sit in the front row, there is no chance of cheating or talking.

They divided 8 members into 4 group’s i.e. 2 in one group

 Monika and I were in a different group

I got paired with one girl who doesn’t know Telugu and she is Monika’s classmate.

Monika said she was not so intelligent nor so friendly.

But it’s ok

Monika got paired up with the topper of their class.

the second round started, thoughts running over my mind, I made a wrong decision to come to the auditorium I feel regret for coping I feel like I am gonna end up losers in front of everyone.

They started asking questions me and my teammate just answered what we know that’s it.

And a miracle happened.

We won that quiz in first place

I am thrilled I didn’t remember what kind of feelings I have.

So after few minutes, we went principal room to take our presentation.

We took photographs, while taking photos our physics HOD updender sir came to the principal room, he saw me

He asked “what are you doing here deepthi” then I said

Sir, I won that quiz {, sir, already knew about the quiz but didn’t know I participated in it}

Immediately sir took me to the principal and said “she is our student, she is a physics student and she won this quiz”

Sir was so happy.

After all this, I came back to the hostel had my lunch and back to normal.

After few days I opened that present they gave me it was a a book called “roll of dice by Anand neelakantan”

After watching the book I feel like why they gave this book don’t they have any other nice presents.

At that time I don’t like reading books and I don’t want to habituate reading too.

And I put it in the locker. That’s it.

This quiz happened in February 2019

Nearly after one and half years in April 2020

I found that book again in my old bag.

I am leisure, I want to give a try so  started reading “roll of the dice”. it  is the first book I ever read. It was the story of Mahabharata from Duryodhana side and that book had part 2 I ordered that book also

And I read both the books.

Because of that book, I started reading books and it became part of the day.

On that day I feel regret of copying but

If I don’t copy on that day I would never get a book or I would never show interest in reading books and now I can’t imagine myself without least knowledge of authors and books.

So, I think doing mistakes is completely fine if that leads to good.