Rebirth 08: A Happy Life Begins in Elementary School

Chapter 145 Even if you're wrong, you have to be wrong with class.

Li Zhao didn't have much confidence for the afternoon exam.

He wasn't actually very familiar with these courses. He wasn't afraid of normal exams, nor was he afraid of super difficult ones like the Spiral Explosion.

In a normal exam, if you've memorized what you need to, it's simply a matter of being careful; even with extremely difficult questions, he can answer them thanks to his advanced understanding.

However, this did not prevent him from having a good nap at noon.

Li Zhao was woken up by a stranger passing by while her deskmate Wu Weisong was studying in the classroom.

He seemed to be a huge fan of Lee So, and was even happy for a while because he had woken Lee So up.

When Li Zhao walked into the classroom yawning, the whole class was already there.

He had just returned to his seat when the biology teacher walked in with the test papers, five minutes before the exam was scheduled to start.

"The squad leader is awesome, so relaxed, he even managed to get right on the line," Liu Changgui whispered.

"I'm sleepy, I'm going to take a nap," Li Zhao said. "You guys are amazing, none of you need to sleep."

"Actually, we lay here and slept for a while too—" Wu Weisong said.

"Weisong, you're so honest." Liu Changgui patted him on the shoulder. "We'll sleep together here, and the class monitor and Shuyao will sleep together over there."

The slightly risqué jokes that students loved during their school days were not something even the Experimental Class 1 could escape.

"You have such a damn foul mouth," Zhao Dabao sneered. "Chang Gui, you better watch out when you go out in the future. The class monitor might not bother with you, but if it were some thug, he'd slap you across the face."

"I'm not afraid of fighting."

Judging from this chat alone, it would be hard to imagine that they are the best students at New Taipei First High School.

The school bell rang, the biology teacher began handing out test papers, and the whispers immediately disappeared.

The ability to instantly focus is also a characteristic of outstanding students.

To Li Zhao's surprise, the biology exam was very simple, completely different in difficulty from the three main subjects he had taken that morning.

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It seems that he was just starting out and the knowledge he learned was too simple. As for the various logical concepts mentioned that required understanding, Li Zhao didn't need to memorize them at all.

What is the relationship between organisms and their environment? Organisms adapt to and influence their environment.

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The current knowledge concepts are still too rudimentary. Biology is more like a humanities subject; you can just memorize the corresponding knowledge points.

Not only did Li Zhao find it easy, but the whole class wrote very quickly. In the forty-minute exam, they had basically finished writing in about ten minutes.

As a result, the whole classroom was filled with a cheerful atmosphere during the break.

Then it was instantly shattered by geography.

Latitude and longitude, latitude and longitude grid positioning, and the Earth's rotation direction—

They even tested me on time zones.

"BJ flies to London" is a classic example of a counterintuitive cognitive question.

This must be quite exciting for students who have just entered junior high school and are just beginning to learn about geography.

In reality, Li Zhao's situation was not easy either. He had memorized too many strange geographical tidbits in his previous life, which resulted in his mind being full of all sorts of special cases. When faced with simple questions, he would be led astray by his own ideas.

Overall, aside from needing to think a little more, it didn't affect the final quality of my answers.

With the monthly exams now at this point, Li Zhao has a significant advantage.

However, the two exams he was least confident about were placed last.

Politics and history.

These two courses are completely different when you learn them now compared to when you understand them later.

The politics in junior high school was still called "ideological and moral education" back then, which Li Zhao found very puzzling in his previous life.

How can moral character be tested?

Later he realized that it was the ultimate introductory version of "human philosophy", and the later "politics" was the ultimate introductory version of real politics.

The content presented has been specially adjusted so that children of this age can have some understanding of these things.

The same principle applies to history. History classes teach what they "want to present" to you, not the real history.

All the critical thinking required in junior high school is excessive, and too much critical thinking will greatly affect the learning and exams of these two courses.

For example, Li Zhao today.

What he needs is to simplify complex issues and provide mechanical answers to questions.

Just like back then, the all-purpose answer that history teachers repeatedly teased me about was "the tyranny of Qin." Whenever asked why the Qin Dynasty was gone or what was wrong with it, you could use these four words to answer.

Junior high school will not test you on "how to view the Qin Dynasty dialectically," nor will it ask you to think about the relationship between the Qin Dynasty's achievements and "tyranny." When asked to give an evaluation of Qin Shi Huang, you can simply answer the question directly.

If you ask him what was good about him, you can confidently say he was a great emperor of all time, unified the country, standardized writing and cart axles; if you ask him what was bad about him, you can directly say "tyrannical," directly say "burning books and burying scholars alive" —

Li Zhao could do this with a normal exam paper.

However, the test papers of Experimental Class 1 were not normal. The political teaching this month was very basic. Cherish this new starting point. We will tell you how to get to know your new school and new classmates, how to integrate into the class, and how to adapt to the new life in junior high school.

Logically speaking, asking these questions is fine; you can just write down whatever knowledge points are in the textbook.

However, the test paper for Class 1 had the following question: Some people say "learning is bitter," while others say "learning is joyful." Based on what you have learned, please talk about your feelings and understanding of learning.

Li Zhao really couldn't figure out what the "correct answer" to this weird question should be, or rather, whether this kind of question should not have a standard answer in the first place.

8 points.

After thinking about it, Li Zhao decided to write a short argumentative essay.

Learning is not a simple binary of pleasure and pain —

He couldn't help but write down his understanding of sociology and some of his thoughts on exam-oriented education from his previous life: "From the perspective of social reality, the current compulsory education is both a path to self-growth and a tool for social stratification and selection. Some of the pain in learning does not come entirely from knowledge itself, but from external evaluation, exam competition, and the pressure of getting into a higher education."

As for the joy of learning, Li Zhao believes it can be divided into two types: one is the pure joy of learning itself, and the other comes from external rewards. The latter is obviously the joy of learning in the eyes of most people, which is a point that must be acknowledged.

Even if learning doesn't bring joy during your student years, or even if the joy comes from external rewards, you should still do it.

Just like when you start working after graduation, many things you do are out of necessity for survival and development, which doesn't mean that the thing itself is necessarily full of positive feedback.

As he wrote, he realized there was a problem.

Since it is about "moral character" and "politics", the answers to the questions on this test can only be positive and encouraging.

He seemed to suddenly realize what the correct answer should be:

The joy of learning is pure and simple, and perhaps external rewards should also be considered positive; while the hardship of learning is "difficult," requiring concentration and expending energy.

Li Zhao gave a self-deprecating laugh.

Thinking of changing my answer, I found that it was almost completely filled with his answers, leaving me with no way to write anything more.

—Never mind, let's leave it at that.

Li Zhao felt there was no problem with being penalized for this reason.