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After being mocked to contempt by his fellow classmate with regards to his slack in mathematics, Abel swore to suprise everybody. Hence, he met his maths teacher who organised a maths competition between him and his mocking classmate. Abel went home that day and spent the whole night reading every Maths textbook ever known, to the extent that he actually now solved maths questions as if he was eating pieces of candy. On the D-day , the 2 competitors were given 1,000 questions each to solve. The 5hrs question paper contained 2,000 instructions but Abel who felt reluctant to read them said thus;
"If I read all these instructions now, I will not have much time to tackle these questions."
And before a minute clocked by, Abel had already solved every calculation 100% correctly and submitted his paper. His classmate submitted his paper 5 hours later. Finally, their teacher announced the scores;
"Abel, you scored 0 % while your classmate scored 100 %".
Feeling astonished, Abel rebuked his teacher at once saying;
"But I solved everything correctly. Why me?".
His teacher softly replied;
"You didn't read the instructions but your classmate did and passed".
It happened that out of the 2,000 instructions contained in the question paper, the very last one read thus;
"Do not answer any question. Just write your name and pass your book."
... And that was how Abel failed the competition despite his sincere preparations.
LESSON: There are always specific ways of doing things. Always follow directions and instructions inorder not to get lost or end up doing the wrong thing.
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