Arcane Linguist

Chapter 247 The First Monthly Exam

In the mage tower, in the academy office.

Roland snapped his fingers, and the book in front of him opened with a splash, turning the pages quickly.

A large volume of obscure magic runes appeared in front of him.

This is a magic rune composed of magic power. It has the feeling of a talisman, with the pen moving like a dragon or a snake.

It does not have a three-dimensional structure, but it shows a dynamic effect of glyph transformation, like a ball of flame floating on the paper, burning quietly.

The heaven and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun, the moon and the stars, and the constellations...

These are Siris runes, by far the highest arcane achievements that Roland has mastered.

"All kinds of runes are almost ready, and a new round of construction of "Dream Technique" has been completed. It's time to prepare to advance to the sixth level.

At that point, I will reach the pinnacle of intermediate magical creatures. "

Since the promotion ceremony required some other preparations, he didn't try it right away.

However, under the premise that various hardware and software conditions have been met, these are just a matter of time.

He was in no hurry.

"Mr. Roland, the test questions for the monthly exam are ready."

At this time, Princess Rosa's voice came.

Roland returned to his senses, took the sample draft she handed over, and began to review it.

Now that Seris Academy is a fledgling school, no one has much experience in all aspects of work, so even ordinary monthly exams still need to be reviewed by Roland himself.

However, he soon discovered that the mages who served in the academy were indeed worthy of high IQ talents.

They've done a great job.

"Well done. These questions are of moderate difficulty and can also test the mastery of all aspects." Roland affirmed.

"The main reason is that the syllabus and framework of the teacher are well done." Princess Rosa said sincerely, "Everyone also praised her very much."

"I accept this compliment without mercy." Roland responded with a smile.

The flattery of a beautiful girl is always comforting.

What's more, in the previous life of Blue Star, after decades of popularizing education, so many people spent countless efforts and funds, and what they experimented on so many students, even if they are copied mechanically, are more scientific and reasonable than many standards.

Roland accepted it on their behalf.

But at this time, Rosa also carefully raised a question: "But some people still think it's too difficult."

Roland smiled and asked, "What do you think?"

Rosa thought for a while and said: "For non-native language learners, Siris' various grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and writing methods are indeed difficult.

What's more important is that some people have very poor foundation and have to use magic in just one month. It is not easy to learn.

Among them, those who had already obtained Level [-] and Level [-] certificates before were at ease. "

The people she talks about are like those in developed areas. They are already proficient in English in elementary and junior high school, so the college entrance examination is naturally much easier.

Roland has a deep understanding of this problem: “The level of local economic development is uneven, and the situation of each family is also different. Questions of the same difficulty will have different feelings for everyone.

Perhaps the educational equity we imagined did not exist from the beginning, and everyone’s opportunities are different. "

Princess Rosa asked: "Is it really possible to select talents like this?"

Roland said: "Why not? In your eyes, what is the standard of talent? Does it refer to the potential for future development, or does it refer to the abilities already possessed at this stage?"

"Uh... this... I'm not sure. Maybe both should be considered comprehensively." Princess Rosa was a little confused.

Roland said: "This question has been a difficult problem since ancient times, and there is no definite answer.

Maybe some people will pay too much attention to the survival of the fittest in the law of the jungle, and think that the ability mastered at the current stage should be the standard. The so-called 'dead genius is not a genius', 'the weak eat the strong, and the fittest survive', etc., are all such considerations, Black Tower The Gu-style competition of the system is also due to this.

Others, on the other hand, overemphasize potential and the ideal environment for full learning and growth, and believe that everyone's possibility of learning and growth should be fairly and fully considered.

But in fact, due to the realistic foundation of social class and economic development, it is simply impossible to do so.

For example, if someone can afford tutors and private consultants, and with the help of teachers and seniors, they can also repeat experiments many times when writing a paper, and achieve results through trial and error.

Some people had difficulty even eating. They found hundreds or even thousands of gold coins to sponsor them, but in the end they didn't even have the chance to operate the equipment.

How do these projects need to be compared to be considered fair? "

Princess Rosa was shocked when she heard this. She thought about the problem and had never thought about it so deeply.

From Roland's thinking, she felt a profound and profound feeling unique to scholars, and she saw a world that she had never seen before.

"It turns out that there are such complicated considerations behind the simple one-month exam difficulty?"

"Of course, this is not only a question of learning, but also a question of social development and class." Roland said.

Princess Rosa was even more confused.

From the perspective of the ruler, she herself is also a vested interest, and of course she should admit it.

But from the perspective of national destiny and social development, we hope to cultivate some real geniuses...

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but ask: "Then, Mr. Roland, what do you think of this?"

Roland said: "To cover everything is to fail to cover everything.

Don't worry about some problems that are difficult to solve in reality.

Don't think about issues like 'some people can study full-time and spend a few years studying, but some people have difficulty even surviving'. Destiny is never fair!

You should adhere to objective standards, use a more arcane and reasonable way to determine the content of the exam, and then select employees strictly based on their scores.

In other words, just do your best.

The key to the problem is that those with vested interests tend to attach great importance to everything that is beneficial to themselves, and take the future and destiny of the country very lightly. When their advantages and interests are damaged, they will not hesitate to try to change the rules and undermine the Fair and reasonable mechanism. "

Princess Rosa's head buzzed.

In an instant, she thought of the crux of the problem.

In ancient times, the test subjects of primitive humans were muscle, endurance, and hunting experience.

In the tribal period, it was smelting technology, bows and arrows and bronze ware.

In the city-state period, it was the ability of social organization and production.

The age of magic is magic, magic bloodline...

So, when did Reiner quietly change these rules? He has always been shackled to the feudal powerful, and has always included some subjects that are lagging behind other countries and civilizations as examination content?

If the content of the test is objective and reasonable, fairness will naturally follow it.

So fairness or unfairness is not a problem at all.The subject setting is unreasonable and the distribution is unreasonable!
Then Mr. Rowland's point is obvious.

What he cared about was never the identity of a noble or a commoner.

But whether those people are true magic geniuses and have enough ability and wisdom to master the arcane arts!

……

"Judging from the current situation, the monthly exam must be extremely difficult, but what we have studied in the past are basically traditional magic subjects based on Atrein and Elvish. The advantage is very small!"

"Yes, the high school academy has started to teach the Seris language a few years ago. The children of the common people have no weaker foundation in this area than us. We are afraid that we will not be able to pass the exam!"

"The teachers in charge of the lectures have already promised to give us full marks in daily assessments and performance. Only the monthly exams are purely based on paper scores, and there is no other room for it..."

"Damn it, it would be great if we were tested for piano or other qualities. Those vulgar commoners can't possibly pass us!"

"No matter what, we must not sit still and wait for death. We must find a way to get the elite apprenticeship spot..."

While Roland and Princess Rosa were talking about these things, a group of noble children gathered in the apprentice dormitory in the mage tower and started a conspiracy.

The aristocratic class is far more "precocious" than ordinary civilians. They are already familiar with many social rules under the influence of their ears and eyes.

If these were taken as examination subjects, it would be impossible for most normal people to compare with them, except for some unique geniuses from common people.

So they saw the crux of the problem right away.

"Bona, please tell me whether you want to do that..."

Everyone couldn't help but turn their attention to one person, who was one of the leaders among the apprentices and a powerful son who was the son of a duke.

Bona gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, let's make a fortune, and I'll give it a try!"

That night Boehner slipped into a lecturer's room.

After coming out, his expression became obviously much more relaxed.

Many people with him also became less anxious.

In the next few days, these people studied hard, and it seemed that they worked hard, and their scores in the in-class assessments also improved day by day.

Even the teaching assistant responsible for arranging the courses couldn't help but praise these people.

"Even Bona and others who come from a wealthy background work so hard, so what qualifications do you have to be lazy?"

When everyone saw it, they couldn't help but sigh: "Sure enough, people become nobles for no reason!"

The so-called nobles are either born with noble blood and have some magical power, or their ancestors are adventurous and have led the people to forge ahead, or they have made great contributions to the country.

These have become the credentials of noble people, enjoying high honor and social status.

These little incidents happened in the school. As the heads of the departments, Roland, Lei and others had no idea about it and would not interfere in such trivial matters.

Even Roland, who usually pays attention to Diego, gradually has no time to take care of him.

He felt like a farmer and gardener who planted the seedlings. Apart from irrigating and catching insects from time to time, which could be regarded as caring, he could not say that he was watching them grow 24 hours a day.

That's simply not realistic.

Time gradually came to the end of September, and the first monthly examination time of Seris Academy finally arrived.

The college suspended classes for one day and dedicated time to organize exams.

Then comes the collection and review.

The result is gratifying.

"What an unexpected surprise. The quality of this group of apprentices is much higher than expected. Among the more than 300 people, about thirty have reached the standard of elite apprentices!

You know, we look at elite apprentices according to Atrein's standards. They are qualified trainee mages! "

In the departmental office, after correcting the papers, the person in charge sent the carefully selected papers to Roland for his personal inspection.

Although the subject of language is closely related to literature, more often it is a combination of arts and sciences.

Arcane itself has many objective questions.

Whether the knowledge points are mastered can still be analyzed from the paper.

Judging from the performance on this test paper alone, these people are worthy of their status as elite apprentices.

However, when Roland turned his attention to the "additional questions" that did not account for a large portion of the score, he suddenly smiled.

These additional questions were carefully designed by him.

Each test uses arcane questions and magical construction plans that exceed the current apprentice level to test the creativity of these apprentices.

It can be said that these are official arcanists, and few of them can answer well.

Many people who performed well on basic questions immediately showed their weaknesses.

"You can use all kinds of methods and magical powers. There is no standard answer. That is the real killer weapon!"

Everyone is here as students, so Roland might not know what kind of tricks they are using?

He had already guessed that there might be some people who would not want to lag behind and try to use tricks outside the game.

As a new discipline, its foundation is not stable, and a scandal of cheating in exams suddenly broke out. It is difficult to explain both internally and externally.

It is very likely that this matter will be suppressed and left alone.

But those people calculated everything, but they failed to calculate, and Roland left a hole in the question.

Apparently it was said that the additional questions only accounted for about 30% of the score, but in fact, in his mind, it was 100%!

In his opinion, he has already reached the apprenticeship stage of the Mage Tower, and has already mastered the basics that need to be mastered.

If they were tested solely on basic level knowledge points, they would be able to achieve full marks even by rote memorization!
Even if you can't do it this month, you can do it next month, or else, next month...

There is always a time when you have learned all the basic knowledge. If you really can’t do it, just flip through the books and answer the questions. Don’t you still know how to do it?

But luckily, the field of arcane exploration is vast, and many questions do not even have correct answers today. Even if you open a book, ask your classmates, ask your teachers, or ask the gods, you may not be able to answer them!
The thinking ability, skills in applying knowledge, etc. shown in the process of answering questions are what he needs for the real test!

To be precise, he deceived everyone, including Lei, Blaise and others who were responsible for setting the questions.

Everyone thought this was a standard closed-book exam for exam-oriented education.

But in fact, it is an open-book exam, so you can memorize it, copy it, and evaluate it as you like!

He now feels like a senior programmer, seeing clearly the codes copied and pasted by the rookies in various ways.

Who came up with their own brains, who copied it from other open source places, whose code style is uniform and logical, and who put it together in a mess.

It's easy to see.

　It's the end of the month, so I'm looking for some tickets.This month I basically maintained 4k/day updates, and another book was updated at 2k+, with an average of 6k words per day.It's a pity that not all of them are assigned to this book, but in a few months, I should be able to finish the old book, and then I will devote all my time and energy to this one.By then, the Reiner chapter should also be over, the protagonist will enter a broader world, and the Siris School will also develop to a new stage.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)