Okay. This topic is for people to share with all of us stories they've been told at any point of time in their life. Stories, when first heard hold our undivided attention and leave you spellbound, almost to the point weather it has any factual credibility to it or not becomes the pale point of view. Imagination overcomes all. Here's mine(some might have heard of it):

A graduate level/final year University course in philosophy.

Final exam is a one essay question worth 100% of your final mark.

A class of 500 students.

The question is simply: Why?

Students deslove into writing pages and pages of answers hoping to breakdown the entire semesters learning material in response to the question.

A few weeks later, results are out. All students, but one, fail.

While many students read over their pages of response hoping to realize where they went wrong when the only student who passed with full marks had only but one page.

This puzzled the minds of many students.

What could possibly be written in one page in response to the most philosophically complex question of all time?

Why? Answer...
















"Why not."

heh. urban legend?

well, heres one from "my campus" - ahem, I'll no it's a lie if others have heard it before.

supposedly on one of my many campuses..a math or physics prof arrived on the day of the final exam and told the students that he had a horrible weekend before he wrote the exam. he warned the students that he was extremely pissed when he prepared the exam paper, and he took out all his anger onto the paper he apparently made his exam really difficult.

anyway, he offered the students a chance to take a 'C' in the class if they leave now else they would have to risk getting an 'F', so half of the class leaves.

he reminds the rest of his weekend, and offers a final chance to take a 'B' another half (quarter) leave.

the people that were left behind all got A's. heh myth has it that he was too lazy to make up an exam to begin with, and he figured the students knew what their chances in the class were anyhoo

This is not a story, but the kind of exam, I took when tried to get adminission into National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla near Pune. After clearing the written test (conducted by UPSC), I appeared for the interview (conducted by Services Selection Board, part of Ministry of Defence). The funny thing about this interview is, it goes on for 3.5 days and includes some weired written tests, physical test along with Interview.

In one of the written tests, candidates are shown a picture (using slide projector) and we have to write a story based on that picture within 10 minutes. 10 such pictures are shown one after another and we have to write 10 different stories based on each picture. (Picture --> Story --> another picture --> another story....). Generally the 10th & last slide will be the blank slide, so we only see white screen and we have to write the story based on it.
FYI, the average age of the candidate is 16/17/18 years at that time.

Not only our technical knowledge helps, but also the presence of mind
and the right answer at right time.
Even if u don't know the answer for a question just confuse the
questioner

Question and the Answer given by Candidates oh sorry they are IAS
Officers now.

Q.How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking
it?
A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)

Q.If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it
take four men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)

Q.If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four
apples andthree oranges in the other hand, what would you have?

A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank Opted for IPS)

Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find! anelephant with
one hand. (UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)

Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Probs , He sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)

Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)

Q. What looks like half apple ?
A : The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )

Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A : Dinner.

Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A : It caused a revolution.

Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A : Liquid (UPSC 33Rank )

Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one
really difficult question.

Think well before you make up your mind!" The boy thought for a while
and said, "my choice is one really difficult question."

"Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me
this. "What comes first, Day or Night?"

The boy was jolted in! to reality as his admission depends on the
correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's
the DAY sir!"

"How" the interviewer asked,

"Sorry sir, you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND
difficult question!"

He was selected for IIM!



"Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is
the master of presence of mind"