The Viva Principle

Basic principle:No matter how much you study for a viva, the viva sucks.

Corollaries and supporting principles:

1. You are asked questions on the chapters you skipped.

2. If you didn't skip any chapter,you will be asked questions on the trivial parts you skipped in the 100-paged chapters.

3. If you read each word in each sentence of each paragraph on each page of the whole book, the external might wanna ask you questions that you didn't know existed. ex. "Is this room a product layout or process layout?"

4. The externals don't really want to hear your answer. If they get slightest idea that you know the answer,they'll either change the question or ask you details after details about each word that came out of your mouth.

5. The external has a poker face. The suspicious absence of any emotion on their face makes you wonder if your answer was right or did you just land up in deeper shit than you were already in.

6. The external will take the first opportunity to send you out of the room. The reasons could be various, bring the book, check a machine in the workshop and the worst, a re-viva.
They seem to think this is a game which is being played for their entertainment as they laugh through slaughtering our scores.
A rumour is, you need to exhibit certain sadist tendencies to be appointed as an external for a viva.

7. Whenever external asks questions on the parts the internal hasn't taught properly,which most of the times is pretty much the whole damn syllabus,the internal by law,has to say something like "Yeh to sikhaya tha maine!!" or "Class me dhyan dena chahiye tha" or the worst and most insulting "Itna bhi nahi aata??"
Besides,apart from a few exceptions, The internal forgets that his/her purpose of existence is to award you as many marks as he/she can and kicks your butt even more than external did.


8. If at all an internal is helpful, another professor from your college complains about him to HOD.

9. No matter how you think it went,the viva sucked.

Lesson to be learnt:

In the days before viva, use your time efficintly doing all the important things like hanging out with friends, watching movies, playing games or online chatting.
Keep yourself away even from thoughts of reading the textbook, the viva is going to suck anyway...