My Maths CAIE went horribly bad and it's not even my fault

Todays paper went pretty bad; not because I messed up or anything, but because some absolute overgrown fetus somehow managed to mess up the paper for everyone. Here is the graph for my stress today:

I woke up today feeling pretty confident. The practice papers I had done had gone pretty well so far - never met a question I couldn't solve. When I was about to step out of my house, I quickly checked of my mental checklist. I had my Statement of Entry, my calculator, my blue pen and my 5 black pens. I sat into my rickshaw, (I would've taken a bike, but the road was pretty dangerous). It took a solid 3 minutes for the man to turn on the engine. Surely this won't be a problem (it was). After around every 5 minutes the engine would shut down and had to be turned on again. Massive time loss. Never the less, I barely made it in time and met up with my friends.

You are meant to report in the hall at around 13 00. I went in at around 13 15, so that's cool. The man outside the door checked my face against the image on my NIC (very intensely, might I add), and in I went. The paper was set to start at 14 00, so I patiently sat down. I sat down and was given a formula sheet. After a grueling 45 minutes, I was given the paper and we were instructed to start.

Question 1 was easy. Question 2 was easy. Question 3 was easy. Question 4 was kind of difficult, so i left it for last. Boy, was this paper was easy! I happily looked up at the time and- 1 hour remaining. Out of 2 hours. I wasn't even half way through. This had never happened to me before whenever I practiced the paper- I was usually done within an hour! I panicked (never a good idea), and went on scribbling. An invigilator came to me and asked whether I had asked for water (I hadn't), which was pretty aggravating since I was completely locked in my thought process. I was unable to add and subtract numbers from each other, and the time wasted away, until I painfully put the pen down at the end. I had confirmed lost 3 marks AT LEAST. I was shivering like hell, but after a while, I calmed down and just hoped that others also had managed to mess up just like me (It would bring the threshold down).

After I went out and discussed the paper, I realized that people had, in fact, messed up just as bad as me, if not worse. I was pretty happy, and so I went home.

The second I entered my abode, I saw a question on one of my WhatsApp groups. It was a question I solved in the exam! My friend asked me whether I saw the question in the paper, I replied that of course I had. But it was strange; the papers shouldn't have been seeing the questions; it usually takes a day or two. 

The question had been posted online in another group at 03 00. 3 in the morning. 12 hours before the exam. 

This was bad. The last time this happened (last year), all the students had to give a retake. There was absolutely no way I was going to give this absolute torture of a paper again. I hoped that the news was fake. It wasn't (I wouldn't be posting this if nothing weird happened). Picture of paper leaks, and even people SELLING papers on discord (it cost $150; around 42000 PKR, if you're wondering) and many of the big teachers confirmed that the leak was real.

As of the time I am typing this, no announcement has been made of what will happen. It's really frustrating, that so many students might have to suffer just because a few decided to leak the paper. On the other side, CAIE themselves should also be held responsible- why are their paper getting leaked? We pay such hefty fees for a better education; you should at least make sure that the paper doesn't leak at the very least. They make us drive so far away to the examination halls, they make us pay for more expensive tutoring, and the paper just gets leaked? The CAIE examinations are more credible primarily because their paper isn't leaked- it's the only reason people give CAIEs as compared to the national boards.

What would realistically happen if you stopped time and then resumed it

Time stopping is a pretty common theme in a lot of media. However, as I was watching Dio stop time and absolutely demolish Jotaro in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, I wondered, what would actually happened if someone stopped time and resumed it?

Let's assume that you gained the ability to stop time. How you got the ability, no one cares. As for how long you can stop time, I'll be generous and let you stop time for as long as you want.

THIS IS ALL SPECULATION I AM NOT A PHYSICIST I AM NOT EVEN A HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE DO NO TAKE ANYTHING SERIOUSLY THERE WILL BE ERRORS IN THIS ANALOGY

You're sitting in an exam, and you can't answer one of the 7 mark questions. You should know this - you revised just revised this moments before the paper! You decide that you'll take just a little peak -  nothing much, just open chapter 4 and take a little read.

(Also, we will assume that you can see normally while time is stopped. Otherwise, you couldn't be able to navigate through the room - since no light is travelling no light is reflected back into your eyes, and the only thing you would be able to see is the image that was burned into your retina immediately time stopped.)

You stop time, and exit the room. Or at least try to. The moment you turn the handle, the handle breaks. This is because you moved so fast that the handle's molecules' bonds broke. It's like if you threw a bullet with your hands at a cow, nothing much will happen, but if you shot it through a gun, the bullet will penetrate through the flesh because it is faster than before.

You're pretty bummed, and decide to leave the handle on the floor. People will wonder what happened, but surely no one will suspect that someone stopped time. As you put the handle on the ground you notice some marks on your hand.

When you moved, you forced atoms to collide into each other. This causes energy spikes as well as releases radiation. Not only that, but the friction from rubbing against so many molecules causes you to burn all over your body. Not only that, but you bleed too. Rubbing against molecules will cause your body to cut as well.

You decide to check the other candidate's response. Surely one of them will be right. Coincidentally, your friend is on the same question on you, so you check his answer. Unfortunately, his hand is covering the answer. You slightly move his hand a teeeeeny bit. Turns out you had to use the SUVAT equations! How silly of you! You sit down at you table, and resume time.

The class hears a deafening loud roar. Turns out when you walked, you left a vacuum behind you. The sound of air rushing in the blank spots creates loud booms.

Your friend yells in pain. Turns out when you moved his hand, his ligaments tore and his bone broke. Yikes. If you thought that was wild, the heat from you transferred to him while you were checking his answer. This caused some of their cells to get heated up. When time resumed, the neurons that were heated fired, and any brain cell unfortunate enough to undergo ion channel changes, and your friend might undergo seizures due to electrical instability. This is the best case scenario. The worst case (and the most probable), is that your friend will die.

The radiation not only affects the organisms, but also any and all electronics. A girl who snuck in her phone during the paper will smell the circuit board of her mobile burn.

Unfortunate and all, but hey, at least you know the answer, right? Just as you think of that, you throw up. The radiation and the change in body heat is enough to make you sick.

In conclusion, chaos ensues. Of course, icl idk fr fr if this is what would truly happen, just my speculation. If you really want too know, just ask ChatGPT or something.

The World Ends With You Is An Absolute Masterpiece

The World Ends With You [DS]

Beautiful Art, Brilliant Story - what more is there to say?

The World Ends With You (TWEWY) was released on 27th July, 2007 (JP)for the Nintendo DS. This game is known to be one of the best games released on the DS. It also features a unique battle style, utilizing the DS('s?) touch screen to use 'pins', each of which have different combat abilities.

In this game, you play as Neku Sakuraba, a player in the Reaper's Game. You have to complete a daily game and fight noise alongside your partners - all without being erased for a week as you traverse through a rather 'hip' remix of Shibuya.

WHAT I LIKED:

    The concept of fighting and participating in games to get another chance at life is not a new one (like Alice in Borderland), but in TWEWY it is enhanced tenfold by adding lore about the Reaper's Game itself. Furthermore the main character suffering from amnesia, which allows for another layer of mystery, which in turn is further enhanced by the revelations made about his death throughout the story.

[Sho Minamimoto]

    The characters are all so vibrant and enchanting in their own unique way - especially Neku himself. He starts off as a introverted person who despises humans - but he eventually-- well, I won't spoil it for you. The other characters all have their little gimmicks: Shiki with her upbeat and positive support, Beat with his brash and bold personality, Joshua with his annoying and enigmatic aura, and my personal favorite, Sho Minimimoto - a math and arts fanatic.

 [Neku]

    The art style is fantastic, the graffiti-street-art-style characters with urban fashion make for memorable characters. Fashion itself plays an important role in this game, as the clothes you wear can provide you an advantage depending on the trending brands. No two characters have the same fit(except the Reapers, I guess - but some of the Reapers which are important to story have some devious drip too), which is primarily the reason I never mixed up any character (I manage to do that a lot somehow).

    As for the gameplay itself, the game manages to keep a fantastic balance between story-telling and combat, making a proper game that focus on both lore and combat. Concept of using unique pins to attack enemies in various ways like with projectiles, slashes, earthquakes (!?), and black holes (!?!?). You also control your partner while you fight using the physical buttons, which is a bit of a chore but can net you some pretty sweet extra damage, alongside charging up a fusion attack which you can perform with your partners for extra damage if certain conditions are met.

WHAT COULD BE BETTER:

    The primary way to get certain Quest Items is to get Quest Pins, which are extremely hard to get, and often requiring a lot of grind. Some pins can only be got at specific days by specific noise, meaning that you might completely miss over certain Quest Items, like getting additional pins slots to take more pins into battle.

[The Black Saturn Pin]

    For the completionists out there, you can get majority of the pins and items - but a few of the pins are an absolute chore to get. For example - the rarest pin in the game - "Black Saturn" can only be obtained by either obtaining it in WildKat Cafe (the pin has a 16.67% chance to show up) OR by grinding. If you are unfortunate enough not get it to show up on the shop - you have to grind. The pin drops from one of the hardest bosses in the game - Sho Minamimoto (!!!) on the hardest difficulty, and has an ~0.1% chance of dropping. ~0.1%. That is 1000 battles against the mathaholic.

    The duo-combat system also gets on my nerves sometimes. I've played some battles without taking a single hit of damage from Neku only to lose the battle because my partner got touched by a jellyfish. Sure, you could control your partner, but multitasking makes the entire battle longer and more hectic, especially when there are more enemies around, though it could also be the fact that I just suck at the game.

Other than that - the game is pretty outstanding, and you should definitely give it a go.