Deep in the Living

Chapter 46: Opening Examination

Chapter 46: Opening Examination
【Juxing No. 4 Middle School】

Spring semester,
After the routine morning run, the senior students stayed behind and the principal read out the teaching plan for the final semester.

“Students! We will enter the final sprint stage in the next semester. I believe most students are ready to make adjustments.

While the original curriculum remains unchanged, the school dismissal time for senior high school students has been changed from 17:40 to 21:40.

The school will provide you with free nutritious dinners and optional on-campus accommodation services. It is recommended that students whose commuting time exceeds 40 minutes choose to live on campus.

After dinner, evening classes will be held at 18:30.
First, we have a two-hour evening physical training.
After a ten-minute break, the last hour of classes will be decided based on the subject that the students are best at.

Today, we will conduct a baseline test for all senior high school students, using the same model as [Entrance Examination].

During the day, everyone will take written tests on cultural subjects and logical thinking courses in the classroom, and at night they will take physical education tests.

Eventually, evening courses will be arranged based on your specific grades.”

The principal's words were concise and to the point. Most of the students studying at No. 4 Middle School adjusted their status during the winter vacation and were ready to face this half-year that required a sprint.

In the morning, there are exams for cultural subjects, covering history, geography, humanities and arts, psychology and other fields. This is also the course that Luo Di is least confident in, and his grades are generally in the middle.

Although cultural courses account for a relatively small proportion, they only account for 20% of the academic advancement.

But if your academic performance can rank among the top 100 in the city, you can be admitted to a university to continue your studies.

The meeting is over.

Everyone returned to the classroom one after another, preparing to start the three-hour cultural subject examination.

Gao Yuxuan was sitting in his seat with his eyes closed, resting. This was the area he was best at. As long as he performed well, he would not only be the first in the class, but also be among the top three in the entire grade.

Because this exam is of great significance, the invigilator is not the teacher of this class.

A male teacher walked into the classroom carrying a test paper bag. His eyes were slightly sunken and his face was pale, but his clothes were decent and neat.

His steps were heavy, and it seemed that he was having a hard time just holding the test paper bag in his hands. It was rare to see such a thin person in this era.

The students whispered to each other while they were sorting out the test papers.
"Isn't this the cultural teacher of Class 1?"

"My surname seems to be Guo. I heard from people in their class that this teacher's teaching method is very strange, which causes their class's overall academic performance to be not very good, and it is often squeezed out by physical education classes."

Luo Di, who sat by the window, did not join in the discussion among his classmates, nor was he interested in the content of the discussion at all.
He just felt that this teacher was very special, a special kind that was hard to describe.

Just as Luo Di was observing Teacher Guo's extremely thin body, his peripheral vision accidentally caught a visual signal. He turned his head and saw that the class monitor sitting in the middle of the classroom was looking at him and making an exaggerated cheering gesture.

The exam begins,
There are five test papers covering cultural knowledge in various fields, and the three-hour time limit is very tight.

However, not long after the exam began, Rody's "habit" emerged involuntarily as he focused on doing the questions.

【despair】

The sound of the tongue snapping is particularly loud in a sealed and quiet environment like a classroom.
Even Rody himself was startled.

He suddenly remembered that because of his tongue-clicking habit, all kinds of exams in the previous semester were arranged to be held separately in the teacher's office, and he accidentally forgot about the baseline test for the new semester.

As some classmates looked over,

The invigilator also came to his seat.
Luo Di also explained the situation as quietly as possible, planning to take the test paper to the teacher's office to complete the test.

But just as Rody was about to stand up, a hand gently rested on his shoulder.
Teacher Guo spoke in sonorous and extremely standard Mandarin, "I saw you go to the office alone to take an exam last semester. Is this a habit you can't control?"

"Yes."

“No need to go to the office, just continue answering the questions.

After graduation, you will face various situations. Many times, there will not be a quiet examination environment like the current one. Instead, you will be required to quickly tap into the knowledge stored in your brain in noisy and urgent situations.

If you can't stand even this little noise, then don't take the exam.

The same goes for other students. There is no need to worry about your sitting posture or restrict yourself. If you want to cough, just cough. If you want to shout, that’s fine. As long as it’s not intentional disruption, it’s fine.

Of course, if you plagiarize, I will be the first to catch you.

Do well in the exam."

The students in Class 5 were also confused. It was the first time they heard such a "standard" during an exam.

But as everyone gradually accepted Teacher Guo's advice, the physical and mental tension was gradually eased, and it seemed as if we had returned to the carefree state of the winter vacation. The knowledge deeply buried in our brains was also slowly mobilized.

As for Rody's tongue clicking, they had actually gotten used to it in the last semester, and it had completely become a kind of ambient noise.

After the entire exam, no one felt as tired as before, and some people were even excited because of their exceptional performance.

Submit the test paper.

Luo Di looked at the back of Teacher Guo as he left, and for a moment he actually wanted to listen to his class.

"What are you looking at? Is Teacher Guo so pretty... Let's go~ Let's go eat."

The class monitor came over and bumped into Luo Di's shoulder, while Gao Yuxuan was already waiting outside the classroom door.

"Monitor, do you know this teacher?"

“I’m not familiar with him. I’ve dealt with him occasionally when I was helping out in the office. Teacher Guo is a strange person. His desk is piled with all kinds of non-subject books. He doesn’t seem to like using conventional lesson plans or making presentations. He likes to teach casually.

I heard that he graduated from an excellent university, but he is a loner... just like you."

“Oh.” After lunch, the logical analysis test in the afternoon was also a written test, but the design was very special.

A specially processed wooden box is distributed to each student. They need to find a way to open the wooden box to take out the test paper inside. If the wooden box is damaged, 50 points will be deducted directly.

The test paper itself only has one question.

Based on the multi-person scenarios presented in text and images and the rather limited information, write out as comprehensive a reasoning process as possible and profile the main characters in the incident.

Some students may be able to finish the test in an hour.
Some of them may not be able to finish writing until the end of the exam, or even fail to write the key points.
Rody's answer today was perfect, perhaps it was related to the events he had recently experienced.

Soon it was the most important night time.
In the past, they would have returned home at this time. This was the first time for everyone to stay in school at night. They were more or less not used to it. What was even more unaccustomed was the first night physical examination.

It is also the most important test, which is mainly divided into three major items.

[Speed], [Strength], [Comprehensive Confrontation]

Even though the temperature was still around 10℃, most students had changed into light sportswear.

Among them, the most eye-catching one is the black tights worn by the squad leader, especially the silver letter "I" printed on the upper part of the chest.

There are 17 classes in senior year, with a total of 721 students.

Although Luo Di, Wu Wen and Gao Yuxuan are ranked in the top three in Class 5 of Grade , their rankings will change significantly when they are placed in the same grade.

According to the final physical examination results of last semester,

Luo Di is ranked third in the grade.

Wu Wen ranks tenth in her grade.

Gao Yuxuan is in grade 31.

It is worth mentioning that Gao Yuxuan ranks first in his grade in academic subjects.

The first thing to be tested is [speed], and the test method is called "Thousand Hundred Run" by the students.

The method is very simple,
Students are required to complete the 100-meter and 1,000-meter races at the same time. They need to sprint at full speed in the first 100 meters from the start, and the teacher will record the 100-meter results.

Then continue to complete the 1,000-meter run without stopping.

The final result will be given based on the time of the two speed tests.

There is one more thing that must be specially mentioned.
Whether it is the current entrance examination or the ultimate [admission to higher education] that will affect everyone's future, appropriate auxiliary means are allowed to be used and there are very complete regulations.

It is allowed to take or inject drugs that comply with regulations and will not cause harm to the body (with limited dosage).

It is allowed to wear and equip auxiliary equipment and prostheses (only for primary auxiliary types, which will not affect the growth and development of minors).

After all, everyone will face various dangerous situations in the future, and these things can be used to assist in combat.

To ensure fairness, drug use and clothing worn will have a certain number of points deducted from the final score.

This physical examination will be conducted in order of class.
Luo Di and his two classmates, whose student numbers were not far apart, happened to be assigned to the same group for the [Speed] test.

When Rody stepped onto the marginal track assigned to him, he immediately felt a discordant atmosphere.

The squad leader in the second lane had already assumed the standard starting posture. His face no longer had the usual gentleness, but instead revealed an overwhelming aura.

Perhaps it was because he felt the gazes from the edge of the track,

The squad leader, who was originally looking straight at the front of the track, turned her head stiffly, and the seriousness on her face turned into a smile in an instant. She also raised one hand to greet people and pointed at the special clothes she was wearing.

Gao Yuxuan, who was sandwiched in the middle of the runway, had already fixed his sports glasses. When he felt the communication between the two, he deliberately shrank his body.

At this time, the teacher at the starting point slowly raised the starting gun.

Everyone immediately switched to a crouching starting position, tensing their calf muscles.

Bang!

Gunshots rang out,

Rody caught the command almost instantly, his muscles driving his whole body, and he started off perfectly.

The targeted night running for several hours every night showed its effect at this moment, and Rody naturally made a running posture exactly the same as in the textbook.

Even Rody himself could clearly feel that his start this time was almost perfect, and perhaps he could compete with the squad leader in speed.

however,
He thought that a perfect start would at least ensure that there would be no parallel opponents in his peripheral vision in the first thirty meters.

Indeed, my peripheral vision did not catch anyone walking parallel to it.

But... Rody saw a person in his left field of vision, a person with a strange running posture, who had completely surpassed him at the moment of starting.

"Class monitor!?"

The squad leader, who was wearing a black tights, was about three heads taller than him.

Moreover, her running posture does not meet the so-called "standard" at all. Her upper body is leaning forward to a great extent, and her body is supporting this forward lean by relying on an exaggerated step frequency and a span that almost tears her legs apart.

Otherwise, under normal circumstances, the body would have fallen down long ago.

Whoosh!
The squad leader was the first to run the 100-meter dash.
The speedometer screen showed an astonishing number: [9'55].

(End of this chapter)

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