GRADUATE RECORD EXAMINATIONS — GRE

The Mad Marker Hunt

When a dry-erase marker occupies your thoughts

The laminated sheet with a whiteboard marker, and some of the vocabulary words my daughter missed. The handwriting is mine. The GRE is an exam of English and Math, with some verbal reasoning questions.

My daughter is giving the GRE — Graduate Record Examination — later this week. She’s writing the exam at home, online, supervised by an online proctor, who’ll be watching her. She will have her camera on.

The exam demands she have a laminated white sheet on which she writes her answers with a dry erase/whiteboard marker in black ink.

Apart from her whiteboard marker and the laminated white sheet, she may have nary a pencil, a pen, or scrap of paper.

We got a couple of A4 size sheets laminated by a fella close to our home, but the markers!

Stationery shop. Author’s photo.

For the life of us, we couldn’t find the whiteboard markers in Jamshedpur.

Finally, with the exam just 10 days away — last week — my daughter got onto JustDial and asked them to share her number to stationery shops that had or could order the product from Kolkata within the time limit.