Examination - A Student's Lamentation

Sleepless nights I have spent
Reading
Revising
Cramm ing
And memorizing.
I have also noted with dismay
So many times
That I have lost count
All that effort go down the drain
As questions fail to come
From what I have struggled to cram.
But isn’t what I have crammed
Part of what am taught �"
what I’m supposed to have learnt?
If I fail,
Can it be said,
And would it be fair
To assume I haven’t learnt?
Not forgetting I gave views
On areas that skipped my notice
During the cramming race
Even though they were different
From those I was expected to regurgitate.
But come on!
Am I not to have an opinion?
Secretly, sometimes I believe
Mine make more sense
Than those I’m to regurgitate!
How I wish I could lay my hands
On the fellow who invented exams.

Author's Note

Exams! Never come across someone who loved them. I won't be shocked if i saw one.