EXAMINATION IN PANDEMIC Yesterday, on 9 th august, 2020 Uttar Pradesh government conducted its long awaited B.ED enrollment examination, for the students aspiring to be educators. Given the pandemic penetration in tier 2 and tier 3 towns, as evidenced by recent surge in SARS- COV 2 positive caseload, the atmosphere of the examination was far from normal with crowds of students wearing masks , frequently rubbing their hands with sanitizers and being taken temperature of by infrared forehead thermometer gun. This was a peculiar and funny sight, straight out of a medical thriller which also hit home the new normal of the post-pandemic reality. Given the sheer student density at each such centre of examinations –running into thousands, one would hope, all advisories and precautionary measures of the medical community would be heeded and adopted. I as a student at one such centre would like to give my first hand- ground reality experience of examination in this pandemic ridden world,