Rebirth 08: A Happy Life Begins in Elementary School

Chapter 142 The Extremely Difficult Monthly Exam

Song Bowen was clearly convinced.

While there may be no absolute first place in literature, there are certainly different levels of knowledge.

Since he highly regarded the Four-Knife Swords, he naturally knew where the Four-Knife Swords were formidable. Song Bowen was well aware of the level of reading accumulation and breadth of knowledge that Li Zhao demonstrated in his performance.

"Okay, I—I'll look back and see where I can buy it?" Song Bowen said.

"They're available at Xinhua Bookstore."

"it is good."

After saying that, he turned around and tried to walk back to his seat.

Suddenly, Zhao Dabao spoke up: "Did you remember Bowen? The book title."

Song Bowen was taken aback, licked his lips, and gave Zhao Dabao a resentful look.

Li Zhao took out a notepad, quickly wrote his name on it, and handed it over.

"Thank you—thank you."

Song Bowen nodded and started to walk back, but then suddenly turned back: "Today was the monthly Chinese exam. When the test papers are handed back, can we exchange our essays?"

"Of course," Li Zhao said.

Song Bowen didn't say anything more and quickly walked back to his seat.

"That's more like it," Liu Changgui laughed. "A humble blog post is a good blog post."

"That's not necessarily true," Zhao Dabao retorted. "Those who are good at writing need to have enough pride. They might lose all their inspiration after such a blow."

"Da Bao, are you implying that the class monitor ruined Bowen's life?"

"I didn't mean that at all. Whoever says it is responsible."

Then the two of them started arguing back and forth.

"Alright, don't think about it too much." Li Zhao waved his hand. "The exam is coming up, so focus on it."

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He Shuyao whispered to Li Zhao, "They say great talent is often met with misfortune; maybe he's finally figured it out."

Li Zhao smiled.

Soon, the school bell rang. Today's topic was the exam, and all the teachers entered the classroom carrying a stack of test papers.

The exams at New Taipei First Senior High School are quite interesting; the difficulty level decreases as you progress from monthly exams to midterms and finals.

The monthly exams do not rank students by grade level, and while they are quite difficult, they are actually a key indicator for selecting students for the experimental class.

The final exam is closest to the difficulty of the high school entrance exam, and it needs to be officially ranked to provide an accurate feedback on the overall level of students in the school.

Since monthly exams are not included in grade rankings, the experimental class's exam paper will still be the plus version, while Experimental Class 1's will be the proma version.

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The first Chinese exam made Li Zhao realize the ill intentions of the examiner.

The earlier questions are all easy to answer. The basic questions won't be filled with obscure knowledge. There's not much to say about filling in the blanks with classical poems and prose. Just memorize them and you'll be fine with whatever comes up.

However, all the questions only have the second half of the sentence and not the first half, which is a bit of a problem.

Anyone who has ever taken a Chinese language exam knows that the difficulty of memorizing the first and second halves of a sentence is vastly different. If you only have the second half, a moment of distraction might make it impossible to find it again.

Not to mention that the question bypassed all the famous quotes and required filling in content hidden in the corners of the sky.

But if we stop here, it's still just a little trick or trick.

The classical Chinese text dealt Li Zhao a direct blow.

Analyzing the meaning of individual words, translating entire paragraphs, manually punctuating sentences, and treating it like a reading comprehension exercise —

In addition, it takes up half a page; is this a junior high school question?

Why is it that in Li Zhao's memory, the classical Chinese questions in the college entrance examination were pretty much the same?

The system provides sentence breaks and options, and also eliminates two key errors that are obviously wrong. Sometimes, you can solve the problem just by using the process of elimination.

Is this a specific requirement for learning classical Chinese in junior high school?

Fortunately, Li Zhao had gone through high school and the college entrance examination. Although he might forget the specific knowledge, he wouldn't lose the feeling.

In particular, there is a magical thing called "language sense" in Chinese language learning.

Li Zhao is not weaker than she was in junior high school; on the contrary, her language sense has become even stronger due to the accumulation of reading and writing experience.

But for most students, even those in Experimental Class 1, this test paper was certainly not a friendly challenge.

The composition is a typical argumentative essay, rather than the narrative essay commonly found in junior high school.

After finishing the test, there were only fifteen minutes left, which was not a short time, and could even be said to be more than enough. However, considering that Li Zhao's essays were no longer written in draft form and then copied, the pressure was much greater than that of elementary school exams.

Li Zhao put down his pen and glanced at the students within his sight.

Wu Weisong found it very difficult to write; he would start tapping his pen on the draft paper halfway through his essay.

This is the most difficult situation. It usually happens when you realize that you've gone off-topic while writing, and deleting or revising is not practical, so you can only try to adjust it.

Most of the students hadn't finished writing yet and were still writing furiously.

Looks like we're still in the lead.

He glanced at Song Bowen, just as the class representative for Chinese language put down his pen and turned to look at Li Zhao.

Then their eyes met.

Li Zhaochao gave Song Bowen a friendly smile, and Song Bowen immediately turned to check the exam paper.

They're quite capable; they were the second in the class to finish.

Surprisingly, Li Zhao thought everyone would finish at the last minute, but when the bell rang, most people were still writing furiously.

Wang Wenzhao did not immediately demand that everyone stop writing. Instead, he joked, "Is the test paper too difficult?" Then he asked the group leaders to get up and collect the papers. Everyone dawdled for another minute or two before someone finally got up.

The order to stop writing was finally officially issued.

Everyone was very obedient; once they were told to stop writing, not one of them continued to linger for more time.

These kids are incredibly competitive. They give their all to get high scores within the rules, but don't care about their so-called self-esteem outside the rules.

The exam papers were collected, and everyone's body language suggested they weren't very enthusiastic.

Wu Weisong patted his head, then frowned and looked at Li Zhao, "Are you finished writing?"

"Um."

"right."

"Wow—you're amazing."

"Writing fast doesn't prove anything," Li Zhao said. "This is just the first monthly exam, and there are many more subjects to come. I don't have much confidence in politics and history."

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"?" Wu Weisong was taken aback. "So that means you're very confident in all the other subjects?"

Li Zhao sighed helplessly, "It's not that—"

Su Wan suddenly stood up and asked He Shuyao if she wanted to go to the restroom together, but He Shuyao just silently shook her head.

It seems this exam paper really hit everyone hard; Liu Changgui didn't say much afterward.

Everyone seemed to realize that this monthly exam was not easy.

If Chinese is this difficult, what about the other subjects? What about history, geography, politics, and biology, which were tested for the first time?

As expected, the math paper for the second exam was still much more difficult than anticipated.

However, since the content learned in the first month of junior high school math is not much different from that in elementary school, it is nothing more than positive and negative numbers, the definition and classification of rational numbers, the absolute value of opposite numbers on the number line, etc. Therefore, it is not difficult for Li Zhao to understand.

The difficulty mainly lies in the amount of computation; there are many details, and you can easily get stuck if you're not careful.

This is not good news for Li Zhao; he has no advantage and cannot widen the gap.

However, after he finished writing the test paper in one go and checked it, he was surprised to find that Wu Weisong next door was still frowning.

Ok?

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