Rebirth 07: Start adding points from elementary school students

Chapter 164 This exam is boring

Although everyone did take it more seriously, Li Yan, who entered the examination room, did not feel that the atmosphere around her was any different from that of the midterm exam.

The proportion of top students in New Taipei City No. 1 High School is indeed too high. When it comes to exams, you can hardly find any students who are confused, giving up, taking naps, or being lazy.

Everyone had a gleam in their eyes, but Li Yan was the most relaxed one in comparison.

His logic kept telling him that based on his experience of solving problems last night, he would have no pressure in today's exam unless the entire paper was composed of competition questions.

This is not arrogance, but an objective and rational recognition of one's own strength.

Li Yan was stunned when he thought of this. Who should he explain to?
What's wrong with clicking a lot? You've already set the goal of getting full marks in all subjects, so why are you being polite to yourself?

After the test papers were distributed, the examination room was so quiet that the only sounds could be heard: the sound of pages turning and pens scratching on paper.

These are all sonatas produced by the brain spinning at high speed.

The first subject is Chinese, which used to be Li Yan’s best subject, but now all the subjects are equal.

If the goal is to get full marks in all subjects, the most stable subject, Chinese, will become a stumbling block.

It is really not easy to get full marks for writing an essay.

Li Yan finished the first part quickly, and while reading, he thought about the scoring points. After making sure that no one could say that he had missed anything, he concentrated on studying the composition.

Unexpectedly, there were no additional questions in this exam.

However, the difficulty of the test paper itself has indeed increased a lot. For ordinary students, the speed of thinking when answering questions will become the key to life and death.

Therefore, the sound of Li Yan turning pages seemed particularly harsh in the examination room.

Fortunately, in this exam, the students in the same examination room have not yet experienced the fear of being dominated by the sound of pens being thrown down.

Because Li Yan finished writing the composition on the draft, revised it word by word, and copied it on the test paper like calligraphy.

In the end, I could only finish the test with a lead of ten minutes.

At this time, naturally, I don’t have the mood to slam the pen on the table, and I don’t have that kind of refreshing feeling.

When the teacher collected the papers, he just raised his eyebrows. He knew the legend about Li Yan, but there were also genius children in New Taipei First Middle School who wrote once on a draft paper and then copied it.

The quality of the composition still matters.

Li Yan smiled confidently when she handed in the paper. This was a more thoughtful work than the "Fireworks of the Cold City" submitted to "Linjiang Literature and Art Weekly".

Although writing an essay does not necessarily mean it can be done well just by putting in effort, based on his current level, if his essay is scored 48 or 49 (out of 50), then the score line will probably have to be moved downward when grading it.

The next subject was politics. Li Yan finished answering the questions at lightning speed, but did not slam the pen on the table as quickly as he had expected.

Because he wasn't very excited.

He didn't seem to feel the difficulty of the questions. When you can clearly recognize the knowledge points tested in all the questions and write down the knowledge points accurately, all the questions become the same as 1+1=2.

Li Yan's feeling when answering questions was "natural". She would recite the answers to the multiple-choice questions before even looking at the options, then take a quick glance and choose the same one.

For the big questions, after reading the question materials, go through all the possible questions involved in your mind - including the answers, then take a quick look and choose the same question.

This guy is answering the questions completely according to the state of the teacher who set the questions.

He didn't get stuck from beginning to end and finished writing it without any fuss, even though he was a little confused.

There is no room to even doubt whether I am overthinking, being careless, or actually making a mistake.

Well... just sit down and list out the knowledge points that are not mentioned in the test paper on a piece of draft paper, and just treat it as a review.

Although this review was of no use to him.

During the lunch break at noon, my roommates didn’t discuss the questions too much. They just mentioned that the overall difficulty had indeed increased, and then went back to their beds early to sleep.

It seems that everyone is indeed very nervous.

After the English test in the afternoon, Li Yan returned to the dormitory and heard "What is everyone's most memorable final exam?" His first reaction was:
"The order of exam subjects arranged by New Taipei First High School is really random."

It diverted everyone's thinking.

Before going to bed, Liang Tiancheng couldn't help but ask the topic of the night conversation, "Do you think this exam is difficult?", and received enthusiastic feedback from his roommates.

Everyone reached a unanimous opinion: the questions were not as outrageous as the additional questions in the monthly exam, but the overall difficulty had increased a lot, and the pressure of answering the questions was even greater.

Zhu Qinglun quickly realized something terrible, and Li Yan didn't say anything.

If he didn't express his opinion, he would feel like the sky was falling. So Zhu Qinglun decided to take the risk and directly asked, "Boss Yan, what do you think?"

Li Yan: "Uh... is it difficult?"

He expressed his stance, and the sky fell.

"I really can't ignore your pretense, Lao Yan," Lin Heng said emotionally, "Other people are just pretending, but you can do it, do you really think it's not difficult?"

"Uh……"

"Okay, stop talking." Lin Heng stopped Li Yan in time, allowing everyone to have a good sleep.

The next day, the highlight came - mathematics, the subject that is most likely to make ordinary exams unusual and unusual exams nervous.

As soon as Li Yan got the test paper, he turned to the last question without even looking at the previous ones. Wow, it was actually a conic section, analytic geometry...

Don't pretend anymore, just come clean, right? Teachers of the mathematics department of New Taipei First Middle School, is this question for first-year junior high school students?
For most students, the full score of this paper is not 120, but 100, and the 20-point final question can be treated as an additional question.

Li Yan took a closer look and found that, as expected, the difficulty was extremely high. Even in his current state, he couldn't have a clear idea just by looking at it.

The previous questions were pretty standard, but the difficulty did increase and the amount of calculations also increased greatly. Given this difficulty, many students may have to hand in their papers before they even see what the last question is.

Li Yan was actually a little nervous as he only had forty minutes to solve the last question.

Before considering whether “only forty minutes” is human language, first look at whether the questions given by the teachers are human-made.

It is a completely high school competition-level question. The calculation amount has been simplified, but the idea is original.

Li Yan reasonably suspected that this question was given to Chen Fan, Liang Tiancheng and himself.

It even qualifies as a pre-contest selection...

He could almost see the triumphant smiles on the math teachers' faces through the test papers.

The radius of the incircle of a triangle... The first definition of an ellipse... Set point P using a parametric equation... Set the line inverse... Simultaneous...

After fifteen minutes of trial and error, Li Yan finally found a ray of hope and quickly calculated on the draft paper. At this time, there was not even another person in the examination room who started thinking about the last question.

"Then this question is equivalent to finding the maximum value of this function on (0, π)!"

Li Yan almost shouted out in his heart. He confirmed again that his idea was correct. The only thing left was to use knowledge that was completely beyond the syllabus to solve the function.

The math paper was filled with neat and clean handwriting, and there were still thirteen minutes left before the end of the exam.

So Li Yan asked the teacher for an extra page of draft paper, and used the binary inequality to solve the problem by setting the coordinates of point P.

The idea was feasible, but the amount of calculation was a bit too much, and he didn't have enough time to write down and verify the answers, so he simply handed in the test paper and left it alone.

The remaining three subjects are history, geography and biology.

It's all the same experience as politics, even more so.

Especially after finishing the difficult math problems, these three subjects were just casual games for Li Yan.

After finishing the history test in the morning, Li Yan continued to write the second solution to the last math question on the draft paper. He got the same answer, which made him excited for a while.

After the last biology paper of the afternoon was handed in, sighs and wails could be heard throughout the examination room—even throughout the entire teaching building.

Everyone was like a deflated ball, but was soon inflated again by the news of “holiday”.

What appears is that all the students walk out of the teaching building with their heads down, but become cheering when they arrive at the school gate.

The 403 brothers also returned to the dormitory with different expressions.

Everyone remembers that at the cafeteria table at noon, everyone was clearly complaining about the last question being too abnormal, but how did it become a discussion between Li Yan and Chen Fan about which of the two solutions was better?
Liang Tiancheng's helpless smile seemed to have grown up overnight.

"Old Yan, I'm still asking you something," Lin Heng asked, holding onto the railing of Li Yan's bed. "If you use one word to describe this final exam, what would it be?"

"Want to hear the truth?"

The roommates all pricked up their ears, and even Chen Fan quietly took off his headphones.

"Of course it's the truth. I'm not that sensitive. You can pretend." Lin Heng patted his chest.

"Except for the math which is a little interesting, everything else is... boring."

The 403rd Brotherhood fell to the ground with a loud bang.

(End of this chapter)