Theory of antagonism:

Inspiration: Conversation with Sanika on the day before MOC prac.

This theory gives insightful reasoning why we don’t, rather can’t study for practical exam when we really want to 'study'.

And it goes:
Being part of the current education system, reading everything a day before exam is not a novelty. Considering its a prac, which has just one credit (and that too most of the times depends on how well professor knows you), you start studying pretty late.

When you start to read, you realize the journal you had written ((class strength-1) people should read this as “copied”) is master piece that has defied every grammatical rule and it unveils new horizons of baseless substantiation.

So, finally you decide to open the book and search for the topic. It then strikes you, that you haven’t understood a thing! You start turning pages, hoping to find some references. It takes some time and effort to find out that in order to understand the concepts properly, you have start from the start of the book!

Finally you start reading the introduction of the subject. After few minutes, you really get the hang of it, and you arrive at a meticulous derivation/concept. It teases you. An urge to understand the obscure takes over and you spend hour/s to decipher what author wants to say. Then you take a look at the watch to see you are far behind the schedule you had preapared(or in my case, the exam is few hours away and I need to make a move!)....
And you skim the pages of the journal saying to yourself “What will come, will come and I will face it when it does!”