16 questions packed into 13 minutes

I am writing this post after a gap of 4 days. I was very busy. Busy seems to be too less.

I am writing this post in a very different way.

I am following the style of a korean movie. (If I am killing the essence of the original movie, please do not kill me nor shout at me in comments section)
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I, ME, MY CREATIVITY (2010)
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Overview :

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Directors: Ruffian

Writers: Ruffian

Release Date: 13 July 2010 (INDIA)

Genre: Drama | Thriller | Comedy |

Tagline: Sometimes Creativity Sucks

Plot: The story is about the following incidents

1. How to get cracked by accounting quiz

2. Interesting people and interesting quiz

3. How unlucky a person can be

4. Birthday Party

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and it starts here...
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FIRST HALF

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Ruffian gets up at 8.45. The confidence is glowing on his face because yesterday night he was able to balance the transactions on balance sheet with out any problem.
His confidence level is at peak. The only thing that is flashing in his mind " Will I get 9 or 10 in the accounting quiz. I may lose 1 mark due to over confidence". The confidence is growing up minute by minute and started oozing out. He reached the exam hall 3 minutes before the alloted time. Normally he enters the hall at last second. This time its confidence that led him to go early. He prefers to sit in the last row. But since he is prepared, he is searching for a vacant seat in the first row. But he could get a place only in the last row. With all discomfort on this world, he adjusted there. The accounting subject madam has come to the hall. She said "All the best". Ruffian thinks that he doesn't need those as he is well prepared. Madam was announcing about the test details, but ruffian is more interested in solving the problem and leave the hall as quickly as possible before the confidence level goes down. The first shocker came when madam announced that "the total time for the test is 13 mins". Ruffian thinks its enough as "he is well prepared". The questions papers are distributed. Ruffian with a grin starts looking at the paper. Slowly the grin on his face turned invisible. The first question was a fill in the blank. He did not read the theory part. Only thing he knows is balance sheet. He left the question thinking "half mark questions can be solved at last". The second question was also a fill in the blank question. Ruffian dint even read the question as the question was 3 lines and he realized that reading 3 lines and understanding the question takes more than 2 minutes.
He wisely moved to next section a kind of multiple choice question (three choices). He read the first question. He did not understand. He thought for a while and read the next question. This time he is clueless. He realized the fact that he did not prepare for such a standard paper. So he started applying mathematics principles here. He wanted to find the expected value of score on these multiple choice questions. He solves the problem this way.
The probability of each choice turning out to be a correct answer is 1/3.
The probability of getting zero correct answer : 16/81
The probability of getting one correct answer : 32/81
The probability of getting two correct answer : 24/81
The probability of getting three correct answer : 8/81
The probability of getting four correct answer : 1/81 (highly unlikely)
Finally he calculated the expected value and it turned out to be : 1.33

Multiplying the final result by 0.5 he gets 0.66 marks.

On seeing the expected marks, ruffian felt very happy. He now feels that he cannot get zero if he marks all the answers with only one choice.
(The people who are reading this blog might be thinking that even a kid knows "by marking all the answers with a single choice he gets at least one answer correct. Ruffian too knows that. But he doesn't want to sit idle in the examination hall.)

Then comes the theory questions. The questions were so tricky. Ruffian got struck in the first question itself. Since he is a ruffian he doesn't want to go to next question. He wants to solve it at any cost. On the flip side the seconds hand is moving like lucknow sathabdhi express(the super fast train in India). Ruffian managed to write some crap and filled the gap. Then an announcement "students you are left with one minute". Hearing that ruffian felt happy that he was able to complete it "in time". The twist is that there are questions on other side of the paper too. When he flipped the paper, ruffian found 6 more questions. Four of them are fill ups where
he cannot write anonymous answers and two are multiple choice questions. This time ruffian is not left with any time to calculate the probability nor expected score. By that time, madam started collecting the answer sheets. Normally people smile during the exam when they over perform or under perform. Ruffian could not stop smiling.

When he was coming out of the examination hall, he could hear the voices
"how many questions did you solve ?"
"whats the last answer?"
"this is a crap paper"
"I dint do well"
"will the next quiz be of same type ??"

Sai, Ruffian's friend, says "what the hell (a little modified), what are these people thinking. Are they still in school to discuss about the test once it is finished. Will discussing the questions fetch them any marks ??"

Ruffian hearing this felt so happy. Ruffian starts to his room in search of the "oozed" confidence.
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tomorrow THE STORY CONTINUES. Same time and same venue.
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Now the time is 5.41. I have class at 9.15. I need some sleep. Take a break. I will do the same.

thats it for the day.