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Chapter 29 A divine essay
There is nothing much to say about the examination process.

Qiao Yu just quietly did the questions, and after finishing them, he quietly lay there to catch up on his sleep. Handing in the paper early, trying to show off? Not possible.

It's rainy again today. After handing in the paper, I can't stay in the examination room and I have nowhere to go, so I might as well stay in the classroom and sleep.

Besides, Qiao Yu doesn’t like to be in the spotlight, so why would classmates hurt each other?
Besides, if having good grades is considered cool, his classmates probably wouldn't have ended up hanging out in Class 13.

All in all, the first day of the exam was just an ordinary one for Qiao Yu.

But for teachers, it is another story.

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The full-scale mock exam was strictly in accordance with the standards for the high school entrance exam, including the exam time, which also officially started at 120 a.m., and the Chinese and math exams lasted minutes each. At five minutes past p.m., Yuan Yuan received the class's test papers.

The head teacher immediately picked out Qiao Yu's paper from a pile of papers and threw the other papers aside.

The marking requirements for the school-level mock exams were not that strict. Although they were also marked collectively, it was harmless to pick out the papers and take a look at them first. Soon, Yuan Yuan was also immersed in Qiao Yu's answers.

Very good, all the answers to the questions on accumulation and application were correct, but this is normal.

These are just some multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions. If you want to get a high score, you must answer all these questions correctly. The highlight of the Chinese language test is always reading comprehension and writing.

Not to mention the 16 points for the essay, the expression of the essay alone accounts for a full 18 points, and the total score of the most basic accumulation questions is only 46 points. Similarly, reading comprehension also accounts for points.

Even before seeing the big essay, Yuan Yuan was surprised by Qiao Yu's completeness in reading comprehension. The accuracy rate was almost 100%, which was even more valuable considering that many articles were selected from extracurricular reading materials.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that Qiao Yu’s answer is exactly the same as the reference answer. In fact, the reading comprehension of this formal exam not only provides reference answers, but also special scoring principles.

For example, if you answer a certain number of questions, you will be given a certain number of points. If all the key points in the scoring principles are not mentioned, then naturally you will get zero points.

But generally speaking, it is very difficult to get full marks in reading comprehension. After all, it is impossible for students to fully understand the intention expressed in the article, and it is easy to make mistakes. But it is also difficult to get no marks at all unless you don't write anything.

This is also the reason why it is almost impossible to get full marks in Chinese, and it is actually quite difficult to fail.

Not to mention the extremely subjective weapon of composition.

Okay, composition...

Yuan Yuan suppressed her excitement and looked at Qiao Yu's composition. The short composition was quite standard.

The essay topic in this mock exam is in the form of two choices. The first question is "That Different Kind of True Feeling", and the second question is to read a material and write an essay according to the requirements.

Obviously, the former has a higher degree of freedom and requires slightly higher writing skills from students.

Qiao Yu chose the former, and the essay begins like this:
"It was Qingming Festival last month, and it was drizzling in Xingcheng, so it was not suitable to go out. But at my strong request, my mother agreed to take me to XX Cemetery to pay tribute to my father.

There are a lot of people on the mountain. Fortunately, civilized memorial services have been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Compared with previous years, there are fewer firecrackers and the smell of sandalwood filling the cemetery. More people choose to express their grief with a simple bouquet of flowers.

This is a good trend, but I don’t like it. In fact, I have always preferred to use the traditional way of memorializing. When the light and shadow of the burning paper money cast a light and dark shadow in front of the grave, I always feel that the paper money carrying blessings and memories can really transcend yin and yang and pass on to the world of the deceased..."

What follows are various descriptions of the cemetery, as well as some people and things encountered during the sacrifice process. The author connects these emotional stories to the nostalgia for his father, and vividly expresses the yearning for fatherly love and the deep affection for his father of a young boy who lacks his father's company.

The Chinese teacher could not help thinking of Qiao Yu, a child from a single-parent family, and her eyes were already filled with mist. Moreover, this composition also fits the requirements of the topic very well. Junior high school students write about true love, maternal love, paternal love, or friendship between classmates. In fact, it is all OK. Of course, since it is the high school entrance examination, it is best not to touch on love.

Not to mention that the essay was written fluently and was heartfelt. As long as she ignored the unpleasant handwriting, Yuan Yuan felt that getting a high score would be no problem.

But the most amazing thing is not the article itself, but the last paragraph of the composition, which is a stroke of genius!
"Oh, I suddenly remembered that my mother once told me that my father ran away before I was born and went abroad with my family. Since then, there has been no news. So in fact, I don't have a father. I never have one. But no one can deny that this is a different kind of true love, right?"

God, this is also a different kind of true love...

You made her cry enough, and then suddenly made a 180-degree turn at the end? You don't know where your father is, so you went to a cemetery to pay tribute to him during the Qingming Festival?! No wonder you used XX to represent the name of the cemetery in your composition...

Really, the last sentence was so elevated that she didn't know how to evaluate this essay. It had a bit of a filial piety flavor.

From the perspective of traditional Chinese cultural sentiment, the article is obviously unorthodox.

But if I really ask her to give a score, full marks, it must be full marks!
Even though the handwriting was a little sloppy and ugly, based on the writing style and the degree of sticking to the topic, Yuan Yuan felt that she would not be able to get over it if she didn't give it full marks!
After reading the composition, Yuan Yuan picked up the paper and walked out of the office, went upstairs directly to the office of another Chinese language group in the third grade of junior high school, knocked on the door and went in.

"Teacher Xing, are you busy? If not, come and take a look at this essay?"

The teacher Xing that Yuan Yuan mentioned is called Xing Yuandi. He is a senior teacher with nearly 30 years of teaching experience and the head of the Chinese teaching and research group for the third grade of junior high school. Currently, he only teaches Chinese to classes one and two of the graduating class in the school.

It's hard work, but the pay is excellent.

There is no way. In recent years, excellent teachers in ordinary middle schools have been targeted by many wealthy private middle schools. Poor treatment does lead to talent loss.

"The Qiao Yu in your class?" Xing Yuandi asked.

It can be seen from this that Qiao Yu's name is indeed very popular in Tieyi Middle School these days, and even the teachers who teach the fast-track classes have heard of it.

"Yes." Yuan Yuan nodded.

Xing Yuandi put down what he was doing, took the paper handed to him by Yuan Yuan, and put the composition page on the top.

"You need to practice your handwriting well, otherwise you will suffer a lot." Old Xing took a look at the composition and immediately muttered.

Yuan Yuan smiled embarrassedly.

There were actually two people in her class who wrote characters well, but unfortunately Qiao Yu was not one of them.

Xing Yuandi didn't say anything more. He knew the situation of Class 13 better than anyone else, but he soon ignored these details.

Considering that a student from Class 13 could write such an essay, it was really amazing, until I saw the last paragraph...

Xing Yuandi looked up at Yuan Yuan blankly.

"true story?"

"Well, a single-parent family with no father, that's definitely true. But whether he went abroad or not, I don't know. I just feel like this is too relevant, right?"

(End of this chapter)