The Great Grandson of the Tang Dynasty: The beginning of the slaughter of General Tiance's mans

Chapter 199 Reviewing Imperial Examination Papers
The exam lasts for three days. These three days can be described as torture for many candidates.

There are two answer sheets, A and B. Although most candidates really want to answer the B paper given by Li Chengdao, but the B paper is too difficult, so they have to choose the A paper.

However, there are still people who claim to be smart and stubborn. After answering paper A, they did not rush to hand in the paper. Instead, they turned their attention to paper B and wanted to try the challenge.

There are not a few such scholars.

So three days later, many scholars had dark circles under their eyes when they handed in their papers, their eyes were straight, and they were muttering words such as "nine twenty-three dollars" and "the murderer is so-and-so".

After Le Xu and Wang Xuelin handed in their papers, they also left the dragon gate one after another.

As soon as the two of them looked at each other and saw the dark circles on each other's faces, they were both stunned, and then they laughed together.

"I knew that with your personality you would definitely have to challenge yourself. Have you done both Volumes A and B?"

Wang Xuelin said while holding back his laughter.

Lexu shrugged his shoulders and said, "I've done it, aren't you the same?"

"Okay, okay, let's check the answers."

Wang Xuelin said with a smile, and took Le Xu to the teahouse to find a seat to answer the question.

In fact, it was not just them, in fact other candidates also gathered together to discuss at this time.

Because there is nothing to discuss in Paper A, it is just some old questions that have been changed without changing the substance. However, Paper B drafted by Your Majesty today is incredible. I don’t know how many people who claim to be knowledgeable and intelligent have taken the exam. I couldn't think of anything. In the end, for the sake of career, I had no choice but to change the answer to Paper A against my will.

However, the fact that they gave up and chose Paper A to answer the questions in the examination room did not affect the enthusiasm of these scholars to discuss Paper B outside the venue at all.

However, what was abominable was that the Ministry of Rites, which had the answer, refused to disclose the answer before the results came out, saying that it was His Majesty's will. So in the end, even the people and officials in Chang'an became strongly curious about this B volume.

Some officials even got together to discuss it.

During this period, many ridiculous things also happened.

For example, after the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment saw the title of "The Wandering Monk" on Volume B, he exclaimed: This county magistrate is a talented person who can replace me!

When the Minister of the Ministry of Finance saw a big business topic about arithmetic, he was dumbfounded and said with a wry smile that he was one of the fools. He was obviously the Minister of the Ministry of Finance, but he never considered maximizing profits, even in such a market place. I can't answer the questions that all merchants know.

Examples like this abound.

In this regard, the people of Chang'an were quite interested in it, looked at it with a lively mentality, and used it as a topic of conversation after dinner.

Of course, even the well-educated scholars and court officials could not answer Volume B, so the common people naturally could not understand it, but this did not prevent them from watching the fun.

We common people can't answer it, but you students and even court officials can't answer it either?What does this mean?This shows that our current Saint is the smartest person. , the questions stumped countless officials and scholars!

However, Chang'an was happy about this, but those who took the examination did not think so.

They originally thought that they were unable to come up with the answer because of their lack of intelligence. Unexpectedly, in the brainstorming session with their peers after the exam, they still could not come up with a consistent answer. This can only mean one thing. This meeting The difficulty of Paper B was on the high side, and it was not generally high!

If this is the case, wouldn’t they all fail?

As a result, those candidates who insisted on answering Paper B united to the Ministry of Rites to protest, leaving Wei Zheng, the minister in charge of the six departments, dumbfounded, and had no choice but to ask Du Ruhui to come forward in person to give an explanation.

Because in previous years' examinations, the scoring criteria were roughly divided into two categories: pass and fail. The so-called scores actually accounted for a large proportion of the subjectivity of the marking officer.

For example, in an article written by a scholar, if the font or word choice of the scholar displeases the marking officer, the latter can always find some loopholes in the article and give you a low score.

Because of this, some smart or cunning candidates came up with a good idea, which is to praise the country, the emperor, and the court. To put it bluntly, they just keep flattering in the article.

When encountering this kind of article, the marking officer will not be able to deduct points at will - he praises the country and the emperor, and is obviously a loyal and filial person. If you give him a low score, do you still want to get away with it?
However, this leads to the fact that nine out of ten articles in the examination hall are unsatisfactory flattery articles. In the long run, this is not conducive to the country's selection of real talents.

But having said that, not all candidates are keen on flattery. This time, there are many candidates from poor families, and the gold content is still relatively high.

But in the final analysis, the subjectivity of the marking officer when marking papers is a big factor.

However, Li Chengdao's Paper B has clearly formulated the scoring standards. It cannot be said that the subjectivity of the marking officer has been eliminated. At least this factor has been reduced to a minimum. It can be said that it is relatively fair and the scoring standards are clear at a glance. .

That is, there is one ranking for Paper A and another for Paper B. There is no correlation between the performance differences between them.

After Du Ruhui came forward to give a formal explanation on behalf of the Ministry of Rites, the protesting students returned to their residences with satisfaction.

What they are most worried about is that the scores of students in Paper A will affect those students in Paper B. After all, in this year’s examination, Paper A is obviously easy and Paper B is more difficult. If the scores are mixed together, then they who choose to answer Paper B will It is very unfair for a student who is not sure how many streets to be left behind by a student who is ranked first.

But now that the Ministry of Rites has announced this, they went back with satisfaction and quietly waited for the day when the results would be announced.

What no one knew was that the results of the A and B rankings had been submitted to the imperial study room first, and were reviewed by Li Chengdao first.

The palace, the imperial study.

"This……"

Li Chengdao looked at the list on the A list, then looked at the list on the B list, and was stunned for a moment.

(End of this chapter)