Who is experiencing Trauma of Examinations?

Examinations are a really traumatic. It is a common misconception that the entire trauma of examination is experienced by the student i.e, examinee. This is not the whole truth. While banishing the Xth board examinations Kapil Sibal made a golden observation that parents also undergo trauma. I can not agree more. However, students and parents are not the only section of society undergoing the trauma of examination process. Behind the scenes there are several people undergoing the trauma as a mistake on their side might lead to some serious trouble for themselves. Just to mention a few, take the people who set the examination paper, person who is responsible for composing and printing the paper, people responsible for dispatching the right set of papers to the examination center and in fact the entire machinery involved in the process is under stress.

I am more concerned about invigilators. In my opinion they suffer maximum in some parts of the country as their job becomes most frightful. Few students come well prepared to tackle the examination not by studying well but by coming prepared with instruments of intimidation like daggers, pistols to name a few. Poor invigilator’s life during the examination period is worse than that of a condemned prisoner facing execution. Latter is certain about the date and time at which his life gets snuffed out by the executioner but the poor invigilator is never so certain; it may be at any moment and it may not happen at all. I have not heard of any murders in examination hall. If there is one, Agatha Christie, being a compulsive writer, would have surely written one more book; she wouldn’t let such a golden opportunity go. But it is the uncertainty which Kills - note the capital K; in fact one dies once every few micro-seconds, if not more frequently, during those three tense hours which actually feels like three hundred plus years in such a situation. Dying once is not bad at all; I have not heard of any dead complaining about death. But the continuous death is surely traumatic.