Film and Television Overview: Starting from the Same Window

Well, Emma must have taken it.

I checked my phone, replied to a few messages, and quickly left to go back to school to prepare for today's English exam.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

University students generally need to take the CET-4 and CET-6 exams. The pass rate of each school's CET-4 and CET-6 exams is an indicator of the school's reputation or evaluation.

The school divides freshmen into grades, just like high school divides students into fast and slow classes. High school is for the purpose of key university admission rate and undergraduate admission rate, so the college English graded system is for the purpose of the pass rate of CET-4 and CET-6.

The graded tests are mainly designed for the convenience of teaching.

At the beginning of the school year, new students are given an exam and then divided into several classes based on their scores. The specific practices vary from school to school...

The English exam at the Communication University of China will determine whether students are assigned to the beginner, intermediate, or advanced class based on their scores.

Based on exam scores, the top 10% go to the advanced class, the next 80% go to the intermediate class, and the bottom 10% go to the basic class.

Apart from the difference in the difficulty of the lessons, there were no major differences between the three classes.

Upon entering the examination room, Zhou Shengchen glanced around and discovered that the English exam at the School of Media and Communication was incredibly perfunctory.

The students from the photography class and the editing class were mixed up and arranged in one classroom, with an empty seat in between, as a way to prevent cheating.

Suddenly, Zhou Shengchen felt a strong sense of malice coming from him. He looked up and found that the person was Pan Zhen.

Zhou Shengchen glared at him fiercely, and Pan Zhen immediately lowered his head in fright.

"A cowardly rat." A hint of disdain flashed in Zhou Shengchen's eyes before he sat down in front of Pan Zhen.

Sitting in front of him was Lin Luoxue.

At this moment, Lin Luoxue was having a lively conversation with a tall, thin man to her left and a fat man sitting in front of her.

The tall, thin man suddenly looked at Lin Luoxue and asked, "Luoxue, is your English good?"

Lin Luoxue smiled ladylike smile: "Why do you ask that?"

“My English is very, very good,” the tall, thin man said with great enthusiasm.

"I got 145 on my college entrance exam in English," the chubby guy in front of Lin Luoxue said, not wanting to be outdone.

No man wants to appear inferior to other men in front of a woman he likes.

"go with!"

Seeing the fat man interrupt his efforts to gain favor with the goddess, the tall, thin man glared at him, feeling extremely annoyed and wishing he could beat him up right then and there.

"What should I do? My English isn't very good?" A hint of amusement flashed in Lin Luoxue's eyes as she feigned sadness.

"It's alright!" The tall, thin man raised an eyebrow and said in a fawning tone, "After I finish writing, I'll put the answer sheet over here for you. Luo Xue, feel free to copy whatever you want. Don't be shy with me."

"I can also put the answer sheet aside so you can copy it while you're taking a dump, and Luo Xue, you can look at mine too," the fat man said defiantly, his face also bearing a fawning smile.

Just then, a bespectacled man to Luo Xue's right suddenly scoffed, looking at the two with disdain and saying, "Two losers."

"Gao Zhenkai, who are you talking about?" the tall, thin man said, displeased.

"What right do you, a shut-in, have to talk about others?" the fat man retorted, equally dissatisfied.

　Upon hearing this, the bespectacled man wore an arrogant expression: "Our otaku world is on a completely different level from your two loser worlds. We have higher spiritual pursuits. And you..."

At this point, he extended his right little finger and gently hooked it, his expression becoming increasingly disdainful, and he sneered, "And you, you only know how to wag your tails at women."

Faced with the bespectacled man's mockery, the tall, thin man and the fat man were furious and wanted to beat him up right then and there, but considering that this was an exam hall and they needed to maintain their gentlemanly manners in front of the goddess, they had no choice but to give up.

Lin Luoxue, who was standing to the side, became interested at this moment.

It was rare to encounter a boy who wasn't interested in her, and Lin Luoxue's competitive spirit was piqued.

Suddenly, a bright and cheerful smile bloomed on her face and quickly spread across her cheeks.

"Aren't you the boy who played music during military training?" Lin Luoxue turned to look at the bespectacled man, her eyes like a clear pool of water, her voice soft and sweet, her gaze captivating.

The bespectacled man smoothed his hair, glanced at her sideways, and said arrogantly, "Don't try to chat me up. I prefer the 'fresh and innocent' type. The kind where you watch the stars and the moon with me."

Zhou Shengchen's lips twitched slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at the bespectacled man a couple more times.

He felt that the bespectacled man's way of thinking was no different from the previous two; they were all loser types.

The only possible difference is that they like different types of girls.

Chapter 53: Electing Class Officers

The exam started quickly during the chat.

After handing out the exam papers, the proctor sat on the podium, took out a magazine, and stared at it for half an hour without looking up.

What a perfunctory job!

After just a quick glance at the paper, Zhou Shengchen immediately came up with the answers in his mind. He picked up his pen and wrote quickly, finishing all the questions, including the essay, in no more than ten minutes.

"Zhou Shengchen, Zhou Shengchen."

After an unknown amount of time, while Zhou Shengchen was lost in thought, he suddenly heard the voice of the money-grubbing Gu Yixin.

Following the direction from which the sound came, Zhou Shengchen turned his head to look to his left rear, where Gu Yixin was located.

"Is there something you need?" Zhou Shengchen asked.

"My English grades aren't very good. Could you let me see your English test paper?" Gu Yixin pleaded in a low voice.

"Row!"

Zhou Shengchen smiled, pushed the test paper to the left, and then Gu Yixin craned her neck to look at it.

Ten minutes later, Zhou Shengchen collected the test papers.

.........

"Zizzizi~"

As the bell rang, the English placement test finally came to an end.

When Zhou Shengchen walked out of the examination room, he saw Xiao Haiyang and Yu Hao standing side by side in the corridor, one hand holding the railing, looking up at the sky, their eyes vacant and blank, as if they had been hit by a thousand blows.

Zhou Shengchen looked at the two of them and smiled slightly: "Judging from your lifeless looks, I know you must not have done well on the exam. But I remember telling you yesterday that today's exam paper was the same as the previous two years, right? You shouldn't have done poorly, right?"

Meeting Zhou Shengchen's puzzled gaze, Xiao Haiyang sighed deeply: "Although I know the exam papers are the same, they are all collected after the exam every year, and we can't get the answers, so what's the use?"

"It was all for nothing that I repeated a year."

Yu Hao looked at Xiao Haiyang with a hint of resentment and said.

"Don't be disappointed, I didn't do well on the test either~" Lu Qiaochuan, who was late in coming out, comforted her.

Yu Hao snorted softly, "I hate people like you the most. You clearly did very well on the test, but you insist on saying you didn't do well."

"I hate it too."

Xiao Haiyang said, enunciating each word clearly.

“You didn’t do well on the test.” Zhou Shengchen glanced at Lu Qiaochuan and suddenly said, “But isn’t that the fat guy to your right who claims to have scored 145 on his English test?”

"You saw me copying his work?" Lu Qiaochuan scratched his head, looking somewhat embarrassed.

Zhou Shengchen nodded, then deliberately curled a playful smile at the corner of his mouth: "Qiaochuan, do you really think he scored 145 points on the college entrance exam in English?"

"Should, right?"

After Zhou Shengchen asked him that question, Lu Qiaochuan also became somewhat insecure.

He had never seen the fat guy's college entrance exam score, so how could he possibly know the other guy's grades?

What if the other person was just bragging to gain favor with Lin Luoxue? What if he hadn't studied for three months and had forgotten all his grades? What if… Lu Qiaochuan didn't dare to imagine.

…………

Back to the classroom.

The classroom has three rows of desks, with five desks in each row, and two people sit at each desk.

Because there weren't enough people, the seats weren't full.

Zhou Shengchen glanced around and sat down at the third table in the middle row.

His deskmate was Lin Luoxue, and Li Shuci and Zhong Bai were sitting in front of him. To his right was the aisle, and Gu Yixin was sitting at the table on the other side of the aisle.

Ye Jiping stood on the podium facing the crowd and asked directly about everyone's scores: "How did you all do in the English placement test?"

His question immediately excited many people.

Of course, the excitement wasn't because I did well on the test, but because I did poorly.

Some students even said they didn't write anything except their names.

Ye Jiping already knew the answer in his heart regarding everyone's reactions.

Because the film and television class has never had very good results, and what's more, their class was the one with the lowest scores.

For students taking art exams, most of their scores don't come from academic subjects, but rather from their dedication to art classes.

As a result, everyone's grades in regular subjects were not very good.

"It's alright!" Ye Jiping waved his hand and comforted him, "The difficulty level of the classes may differ, but the credits are the same. Just make sure you don't fail any courses."

"The questions were too hard," Yu Hao said with a long face and a pitiful expression. "They were so difficult."

"It's not that it's difficult," Ye Jiping corrected. "It's because the students in our photography class aren't good at studying, so you'll find any exam difficult."

As soon as he finished speaking, an uproar erupted below.

The crowd's anger also surged.

Although their grades weren't good, it wasn't something the homeroom teacher could use to ridicule them.

"Teacher, we didn't study during our high school graduation holiday, why is the test so difficult?" Yu Hao pouted, feeling wronged.

Xiao Haiyang said with a sigh, "There are even people who graduated two years ago!"

"You didn't do well on the exam either?"

When Ye Jiping asked Xiao Haiyang this question, his eyes were filled with disbelief.

Xiao Haiyang sighed, "I know you mean the English exam papers are the same every year, right?"

Ye Jiping nodded subconsciously.