CHENNAI : Valli Amaresan has not had anything but water for the past 24 hours. The 17-year-old is awaiting her Class 12 results on Tuesday and believes that fasting will bring her good luck.“I know it does not make much sense, since the papers have already been marked. My mother fasted before my Class 10 results, and I scored above 80 per cent. I’m hoping if I fast as well, the result will be even better,” says Valli. She is not alone – several city students expecting their results are doing the same. Many become especially religious a week before D-day, more so a day before.Several students have been making calls to prayer cells, others have been fasting and praying. Some have decided not to watch television or play on the computer or go on Facebook. “I can’t reach many of my friends because they have switched off their phones,” says Keren Moses, who is also waiting on her results. She has no such beliefs. “I am not tense about my marks, and I don’t do any of these things. Anyway they are not going to affect what I wrote during the exam,” she says with a laugh.With the results to be announced at around 11 am, scheduled power cuts will be a hindrance those wishing to check their results online. Keren says, “We have an inverter so checking online will not be a problem. I’ll probably be online from morning just to get the process over with as quickly as possible.”Jacob Kurien, a resident of CIT Colony where the power cut is between 10 am and 12 noon, says, “I’m not very anxious to know my marksimmediately but, of course, my parents are – dad says he will check it on his smartphone, but I tell him there is no hurry.”In Purasaiwalkam, where a 9 am to 5 pm power cut has been announced, students are charging their laptops and getting their data cards ready. Others plan to spend the day in areas where there is power.The Government Department of Exams has announced a long list of websites, both official and private, where the results can be accessed. However, past experience has shown that the high traffic leads to blocked websites. Karen Evangeline, another student, says,“It is best to go to websites that are not so popular. Some mobile operators are even offering results through SMS.”The last resort is to go to the schools, but Karen says no one likes to do this. “The marks are posted on the notice board for all to see, which can turn out to be embarrassing if they are not good. Some of my friends have sworn not to go to school because they don’t want anyone asking them how they did.”The inevitable SMS forwards have surfaced for the desperate ones, urging them to forward the message to 10 friends “and you will surely get above 85%”, and warning of what might happen if they don’t.
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