Chapter 515 - Chapter 515: 206 The insurmountable college entrance examination (first update)_1
Chapter 515: 206 The insurmountable college entrance examination (first update)_1
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The first exam was Chinese language.
The test paper began with a piece on technology, its sentences interspersed with numerous professional terms.
Bai Lian glanced over the test and estimated its difficulty,
feeling a bit worried for Weng Qi.
As she pondered, she began writing down answers on her test paper.
The proctor made a round and paused for a few seconds next to Bai Lian.
Since the Guange style lacked uniqueness and was not accepted into the Calligraphy Association,
fewer people studied it. Guange style emphasizes brushwork and endurance, as well as layout.
Bai Lian’s Guange calligraphy, infused with the techniques of the Liang style, was considered excellent wherever it was placed.
They had never seen such neat and pretty test papers.
Proctors during the national examination are not allowed to stand beside a student for too long,
to avoid pressuring the examinees, or else the proctor would have liked to take another look at that test paper.
Time slowly passed.
Having completed the previous questions, Bai Lian finally turned to the essay.
The proctor at the lectern had been keeping an eye on this girl whose writing was very pretty.
Seeing her flipping through the test paper for a long time without writing, he couldn’t help but be surprised.
Was the national exam hard by default, but he had seen that student writing smoothly all along, so why was she stuck on the essay?
Was this year’s essay particularly difficult?
He wondered.
At 11:30, the bell rang, and the proctor instructed all students to put down their pens and stop working on the test.
Two teachers began collecting answer sheets, starting from both ends of the classroom.
When they reached Bai Lian…
The proctor saw the girl pressing down on the test paper with her left hand,
tapping her fingertips on the desk intermittently,
while supporting her chin with her right hand,
her long eyelashes casting shadows, seemingly looking at the test paper, yet possibly lost in thought.
“Student, it’s time to hand in your answer sheet,” the proctor reminded.
Bai Lian finally snapped back to reality, pulling out her answer sheet from under the test paper and handing it to the teacher.
After finishing the exam, Ji Shaojun and Shen Qing went home early to cook, leaving only Jiang Fulai waiting for her at the gate.
Jiang Fulai was still standing under that tree, looking at his phone with his black fringe slightly drooping.
The temperature difference between morning and noon was big, so he had taken off his jacket, wearing only a loose white T-shirt.
The midday heat was intense, and the other parents waiting around seemed restless and anxious,
yet he was casually laid-back with a natural cool aura.
When he saw Bai Lian approach, he turned off his phone, looked up,
and walked her way, asking, “Was it difficult?”
Jiang Fulai handed her the water he was holding.
She hadn’t turned in her paper early, so it was inevitable that he was curious about the difficulty of the questions.
Bai Lian came back to her senses and followed Jiang Fulai to the parking area.
Remembering Jiang Fulai’s question, she belatedly answered, “Not difficult.”
By noon, after the morning exam, Weibo hot search was already synchronizing with the news—
[National Exam Essay Question]
A post from the news network, followed closely by an “explosive” indicator.
Below it, comments flooded in from onlookers and college students.
There weren’t many high school seniors commenting because they were preparing for the afternoon math exam.
Xinjie, who was in the entertainment industry, knew that today was Bai Lian’s college entrance exam and had been following the hot search.
Seeing that the Chinese composition topic had exploded, she discussed with Yan Lu, “Netizens are saying this year’s essay question was too simple,
but the reading comprehension and classical Chinese sections were simply brutal. I wonder how Miss Bai did.”
“Miss Bai has a profound foundation in literature,” Yan Lu closed the script book, seriously commenting.
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The afternoon exam was mathematics.
Math has always been the most feared subject by students in both the arts and sciences, and this year’s last three questions were progressively more difficult.
Bai Lian worked her way from the front to the back, not using much of the draft paper on the desk for multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank questions,
only starting to use it for the major problems.
This year’s third major problem was to prove an inequality where xyz=1, to demonstrate that a certain quartic equation in three variables was greater than 1.
Almost all students in the examination hall wrote “solution” when they encountered this problem.
Until it was time to collect the answer sheets and test papers, not a single student spoke.
Journalists had been crouching early at the entrance to Xiangcheng First High School.
Seeing the first student come out, a reporter hurriedly approached with a microphone, asking, “Student, was the math test difficult this year?”
Every year, the national exam papers are criticized.
The student looked up, and after seeing the camera, he even adjusted his hair, “Don’t know.”
“Don’t know?” The reporter found this interesting, “Do you feel that it’s difficult to evaluate?”
Student: “No, it’s that I didn’t understand a single question.”
Reporter: “…”
Math was indeed difficult, and the expressions on the students’ faces as they left the examination room were wilted.
After finishing the exam, Lu Lingxi immediately sent a message in the group—
[Everyone forget about this exam as soon as you’re done and rest well. Be at peace to welcome the final two exams tomorrow.]
Most students were quite devastated as they exited the examination hall.