In the cruelest of ironies, this is exactly what happened to me yesterday.
This is me pouring out my mind. Heartbreak doesn't necessarily mean having a relationship disappointment. Having intense stress due to the loss of something or somebody is the right definition.
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I had a test for one of my courses yesterday. The test went well, the questions were not difficult, neither were they simple. I started writing the answers to the test with a high spirit, because I had read on the topics a night before.
Things were going well not until the exam supervisor caught three people practicing examination malpractice.
The Three of them were sitting in the hall in a triangular way, not too far from each other. One at the front, one at the left-back, and the last one at the right-back. Two of them brought in cellphones into the examination hall while the last one wrote the answers to some questions down in a paper.
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"Stand up!!! You, you, and you" he said. The students caught cheating stood up as ordered by the supervisor. When I looked at how the students caught for misconduct, about 10 of us were stuck in their middle. (I mean we were sitting within the space the three victims of exam malpractice)
"That is none of my concern" I said, not until the supervisor thought out of the bracket and said "ohh, you all planned this together right? Nice one, that was why you arranged yourself in a triangular way so that the answers will circulate well".
Truly if you were to judge the situation immediately, you would also say the same. It was as if they planned it to implicate us all in the triangle. Surprisingly the three of them never knew each other.
The supervisor brought out the three students first, tore their answer scripts, wrote their names and matric numbers down and said, they will face SDC.
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And in my school, if you should face SDC in the case of malpractice, it may lead to expulsion. First you will be asked to re-wrote the test/exam right in front of the SDC. If peradventure you didn't pass the test/exam, You will be expelled from the university without any further appeal.
He sent them out of the hall, they pleaded, but all was for nothing. Then the male supervisor came back at us that we're caught within the triangle and said, "I know you all planned this thing together, as you can see, they are scapegoats. I need more of you, in fact, I will deduct ten (10) marks from your marks, all of you"
"Ahhhh, we all shouted. Twenty marks out of forty (40). What will one have left if you deduct 20 marks"
At first, we thought it was a joke, then the man wrote something down in his book like he always does. What he wrote in the book was nothing else than a report that our marks should be deducted because some set of people cheated.
What the hell! The man wrote it down for real. The second supervisor who is a female pleaded on our behalf and told him not all of us were cheating. But it seems he's more superior than her in the supervision. He didn't listen, but the woman assured us that he would change his mind.
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Whether he changed his mind or not, nobody knows. I believe it is unfair and unjust because I was writing everything that I have read only for me and some others to implicated by some cheaters. Aside those three, no one else was caught cheating, so why punish us for the mistake of three students.
I could take my mind off it, which is why I brought out my pain into writing. Till now I'm still sad about it, but the lady supervisor who assured us he wouldn't deduct or marks gave me a little hope. 💔💔💔💔💔
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