Tuesday, January 22, 2008

My Science Practical

I don't actually know why but I have a bad habit of delaying everything as much as I can. I don't even study till my mom has told me a not so few times. All my posts are written some time after I want to coz I don't sit when I can.

On Sunday, I had my science practicals. And I am going to write about it now. Two days later. They went pretty good. I didn't have much difficulty in any of them. First was my physics practical. Not all students have the same practicals. Half the batch has one and the other half one. It is not selected randomly but in roll numbers. So I got the experiment of plotting a temperature-time graph of water as it cools down and the boy with the next roll number got the experiment of finding the density of a material. Mine was pretty easy. Then next in biology, I had to make a stained slide of onion peel cells and identify the given slide. The slide was parenchymatous tissue. But the boy next to me got the cheek cell experiment and had to write, draw and identify the given specimen which was a fish. This time too I got the easy one. Then the last practical, chemistry I got the heating of lead nitrate, decomposition experiment whereas my friend got the double displacement experiment of mixing barium chloride and sodium sulphate. Again I got the easy one. I also got all the easy viva questions. I hope to do get full marks in the practicals.

One thing I forgot is the scene in the chemistry lab when I was writing down the experiment. All the boys near me, well almost three feet apart were asking for my help. Among them a few had different experiments. And I helped them. I don't cheat but if I don't help them I won't be able to write the next exam.

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