Rebirth 08: A Happy Life Begins in Elementary School

Chapter 143 might be different for him.

Wu Weisong's Chinese language skills are inferior to Li Zhao's, which is understandable.

But how could a top math whiz, a promising contestant, and a future computer genius be slower than Li Zhao on such a monthly exam?

Li Zhao looked at the exam paper again and suddenly understood the reason.

On the one hand, the system's increased energy limit and improved thinking speed effectively enhanced his concentration, allowing Li Zhao to complete the entire exam paper with extremely high focus.

Don't let any random thoughts interrupt you; going all out in one go is always the fastest way.

On the other hand, this test paper is actually beyond the syllabus.

The lesson didn't cover multiplication and division of positive and negative numbers; it only covered addition and subtraction.

However, the exam already includes calculation problems involving absolute value exponentiation—it's normal for students who haven't prepared to suddenly feel insecure.

Wu Weisong is already working on the last big question, which at least shows that he has prepared beforehand, which is already quite good.

For elementary school students just entering junior high school, understanding some new mathematical concepts isn't too difficult, but applying them to word problems becomes complicated.

Negative numbers are rare in life, and absolute values ​​are also rare. The last two questions on the exam combined geometry and real-world applications, so they still had a bit of a hurdle to overcome in terms of understanding.

Of course, none of these were problems for Li Zhao.

He didn't even realize that the content was beyond the scope of the curriculum when he was writing it.

However, compared to the Chinese exam, the math exam results were relatively good. The large amount of calculation was not difficult for the students in Experimental Class 1 to solve; the difficulty lay in understanding, but ultimately it was just a matter of "whether they could figure it out or not."

So most people stopped writing a minute or two before the exam ended.

The feeling after collecting the papers wasn't as heavy as it was during the Chinese exam; instead, some people started complaining about the difficulty of the monthly exam.

Wu Weisong cast another shocked look at Li Zhao. He could accept that he couldn't beat others in Chinese, but how could he not even beat them in math?

The next subject is English.

That goes without saying, it's Li Zhao's home turf.

Of all the students, only Liang Zhaoxing had the confidence to challenge him. Even Su Wan, the English class representative, had to bow down in front of the two of them.

English was the exam subject that Li Zhao found least enjoyable.

He couldn't even judge how difficult the exam paper was or whether it was beyond the syllabus.

I've passed the national English competitions and just started junior high. The English teaching hasn't changed much; it's pretty much the same as in elementary school.

Can it compare to an English competition? If you have to say, the question types are closer to the college entrance examination format that Li Zhao is familiar with, such as cloze tests and reading comprehension, so he can do it more easily.

After finishing writing with focused attention, Wu Weisong couldn't help but glance at it as he put down his pen.

Damn, we arrived more than half an hour early.

The three main subjects in the morning only take an hour and ten minutes each!

Wu Weisong swallowed, trying to calm his wavering mind. His deskmate was already the top student in the grade, the most extravagantly admitted student through special admission; he needed to have the right attitude towards it.

After finishing the three main subjects, it's time for lunch and a break. The afternoon's political science, history, geography, and biology exams will have fewer questions, with one paper per class and only 40 minutes.

Normally there are only three classes in the afternoon, but the monthly exam will still cover all four subjects, which is considered extra classes.

This is quite commonplace for top schools in this era.

Let alone exams, it's perfectly normal for students to spend an extra half hour every afternoon doing practice papers after the midterms—after all, Li Zhao did this in his previous life at New Taipei Experimental High School, so there's no reason for the experimental classes at New Taipei First High School not to do it as well.

Moreover, instead of feeling that this half hour has encroached on their rest time, or feeling envious of the students from other classes passing by on their way home from school, people will feel a sense of pride.

Sitting here and writing papers is our privilege. The high-difficulty practice papers are only made for the hundred or so of us. You don't even have the right to write them.

The sense of inherent superiority is understandable.

During the lunch break, Wu Weisong didn't mention Li Zhao's fast writing speed much, and neither did the gossipy Liu Changgui, which surprised Li Zhao.

If this were at No. 6 Elementary School, a bunch of people would have surrounded us by now, asking all sorts of questions.

After all, they are the pride of their respective primary and secondary schools, and everyone wants to achieve amazing results in their first monthly exam.

During lunch break, boys and girls were separated, so every day when they went to eat, Li Zhao and He Shuyao would each follow their own small groups.

Su Wan had always tried to get the boys and girls to eat together, but both groups were basically made up of class committee members. Wen Yutong, the academic committee member, openly liked Li Zhao, and Zhang Siqi, the labor committee member, was a gossipy blabbermouth. It would be awkward if they were really put together, so she had never succeeded.

The lunch break was held on the first floor of the auditorium, with a large number of study tables in the middle and densely packed bunk beds in the surrounding rooms. All the students in the school gathered here for their lunch break.

Therefore, even with teachers managing discipline, the learning environment at noon is still quite noisy.

Those who are truly dedicated to reviewing will generally run back to the classroom, or study in the teaching building, or even in Sixian Garden or the playground.

Students must return to the nap room before the nap bell rings. The teacher will close the door when the nap begins and start taking attendance 15 minutes later. However, students in Experimental Class 1 receive special treatment. If they say in advance that they need to review in the classroom and show their student ID, the teacher will let them in.

The students in Experimental Class 1 are generally very energetic and don't have much of a problem not taking a lunch break, so most of them choose to stay in the classroom—especially during exams.

Staying in the study area of ​​the auditorium will attract a lot of questions from former elementary school classmates.

However, Li Zhao chose to stay in the study room today because he ran into Chen Nian while eating in the cafeteria. Chen Nian was very confident and kept talking about how hard he had worked to adapt to junior high school over the past month and how smoothly his exam went this morning.

So at noon, Li Zhao and He Shuyao found a corner to listen to Chen Nian's rambling.

Just as Chen Nian was getting into the conversation, Jiang Qi suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

"The three of you are together without even inviting me!"

Li Zhao and He Shuyao blinked, their expressions blank, because they hadn't seen Jiang Qi for a month. Chen Nian, however, immediately became uneasy, "I also met them suddenly, it wasn't like we arranged it beforehand—"

So it turned into a chat among four people.

Jiang Qi also felt she had performed very well in the monthly exam, and then asked the fatal question that sealed the deal: "Was this monthly exam particularly easy for you? Won't everyone in Experimental Class 1 get full marks?"

Li Zhao glanced at He Shuyao, who took a deep breath: "Our test papers might be a little different from yours."

Chen Nian was about to say something when Jiang Qi interrupted him, "Oh, I knew it would be different."

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So Chen Nian licked his lips and remained silent.

"The core of the monthly exam is to evaluate your own level," Li Zhao said. "There is no grade ranking; it's only for the class. If you can improve your class ranking in the monthly exam compared to the entrance exam, that's already very good. Don't worry too much about it."

Let's see who comes out on top in the midterm exam.

These words clearly made them feel much better.

Chen Nian finally spoke up after holding back, "Ah Zhao, do you think the exam was difficult?"

"It's quite difficult."

"Damn, that's going to be exciting—"

He Shuyao suddenly spoke up: "The test paper may be different for Li Zhao than it is for others."

Li Zhao was taken aback. He saw He Shuyao raising her head slightly, looking very proud.