Rebirth 08: A Happy Life Begins in Elementary School

Chapter 152 The Politics of Breaking the Balance

The main purpose is to reduce the pretentious feel of the preceding phrase "let's try writing it down."

But to the students, it sounded like—

"I, Li Zhao, don't care about getting first place in the monthly exam at all. I even know how to get points, but I still take the risk and try."

Then, in an instant, it can become, "Even if I deliberately tested them, I can still get first place."

Because it is a fact that Li Zhao's advantage in Chinese and English cannot be overshadowed by his poor performance in history.

Zhou Yun's original plan was disrupted, so she could only nod in agreement with Li Zhao, "Yes, the class monitor makes a lot of sense. The history exam isn't like the language exam, even though the questions seem very open-ended—"

She could only almost repeat Li Zhao's words.

Wu Weisong pursed his lips, seemingly lost in thought. He Shuyao returned the test paper to Li Zhao and gave him a thumbs up.

Liu Changgui, standing behind him, exclaimed repeatedly, "As expected of you, class monitor! This is the first time I've ever seen a top student not lose their prestige even when they get the lowest score."

People haven't realized the seriousness of the problem yet.

Li Zhao can have one, and he can have two: most importantly, he still holds the lead.

Even if Li Zhao scores twice in other subjects, he will still still be first in the overall ranking.

The other students, however, were not laughing.

The next class is math, which is actually the most nerve-wracking class for everyone.

Interestingly, most junior and senior high school students, including Li Zhao in his previous life, believe that mathematics is the key subject that differentiates students' scores.

Teachers would say the same thing on the podium.

But that's not actually the case at all.

When studying mathematics, many people focus on the score difference between "top students" and "mediocre" or even "poor students".

When you see a top student score 118 while the class average is less than 90, you immediately feel that the score difference is huge.

In reality, such exaggerated score differences are often caused by a group of poor students who don't study and score shockingly low.

Mathematics is different from language arts; if you haven't studied it, you really can't write anything down.

You won't even get points for the process; giving one point for just writing the word "solution" is a joke.

Even students who previously had good grades can still perform poorly on the exam if they didn't understand or study this unit carefully.

Treat equally.

However, in Chinese, even average or poor students, let alone those who used to excel, still have the basic knowledge. They can still get points by writing nonsense in reading comprehension and composition, so the overall average score won't be too exaggerated.

However, students who focus on a few points difference and rankings are always primarily top students.

Among top students, the difference in math scores is not as significant as that in Chinese and English.

People often feel that since Chinese language exams include reading and writing, there's nothing that can be done about losing points.

Conversely, math has standard answers, and if you get a wrong answer, you feel "painful for losing points you should have gotten".

This ultimately led to a peculiar group opinion: "Although we were 8 points behind you in Chinese, that's normal. But I can't accept that we lost 3 points in math because we didn't finish the last big question."

Then you'll see a group of people studying and figuring out the final math problem, determined to make up for those 3 points, while ignoring the 8-point difference in Chinese.

People generally feel that Chinese is difficult to improve, that it is what it is, and they are unwilling to think about how to improve their Chinese literacy; but they believe that math can be improved, even if it is a difficult problem that only one or two people in the whole class can solve, it can be solved as long as you work hard.

How strange.

Even when they reached Experimental Class 1, everyone remained the same. Even though the entire class consisted of top students, they still believed that mathematics was the core factor in determining their ranking.

When the results came out, everyone was stunned—including Li Zhao.

Wu Weisong was first in the class with a perfect score of 120, followed by Li Zhao with 118, and there were a total of six people tied for first place.

Until the 30th place was announced, the scores were very close, ranging from 120 to 114 points, with more than 30 people in the rankings.

The rest of the time was more normal, with some relatively obvious score differences appearing.

The top-ranked students are all pretty much the same, while the bottom-ranked students are all uniquely brilliant. It seems that even in Experimental Class 1, there are a group of students who are really not good at math.

Interestingly, all the students who scored 118 were tricked by a very subtle trap in a question. They fell into a situation of taking things for granted, and the answer they calculated was very biased, but it perfectly matched a certain option, so they simply chose it.

The mistakes are so neat and uniform.

Li Zhao got this question wrong. It wasn't actually difficult, but the calculation was quite complicated. His first instinct was that the answer didn't match his intuition, but since it was one of the options, he believed it.

Furthermore, he thought the problem was too easy and didn't bother to recalculate it.

Increased energy, thinking speed, and concentration do not seem to help him avoid this mental trap.

I need to think about this carefully.

Wu Weisong finally breathed a sigh of relief. Although he was still in the bottom position in terms of total score, at least this "only perfect score" gave him a lot of face back for his special admission.

To Li Zhao's surprise, the exam was quite difficult and everyone was writing slowly. He thought things were going to turn out badly, with many papers not being finished.

Goodness, the result was surprisingly stable?

If it weren't for that tricky question, I could have gotten 7 perfect scores.

So everyone thinks that if you can't finish writing easily or don't check it thoroughly, you're guaranteed a perfect score, and that's a disaster?

That's terrible.

The subsequent biology class went smoothly, and everyone managed to get an average score of 97 in history, so biology was even better.

I got 98 on the test and still found a problem with the calculation; it was the subject with the most perfect scores out of all subjects.

It wasn't too difficult to begin with, and the test didn't cover much material.

Geography is similar to math; everyone says they're going to do poorly, but they all do well on the exam. However, they were collectively defeated by the more difficult questions, with most of them getting stuck at the 97 or 98 point range. Li Zhao got a perfect score.

Then everyone realized a problem.

Li Zhao's scores in math, biology, and geography were not significantly different. His worst subject, history, was more than enough to make up for by his Chinese score, but he still had a slight advantage in English.

Song Bowen, whose Chinese score is closest to Li Zhao's, is average in math; among the few who are good at English, the gap in Chinese score that Li Zhao has widened can only be made up for by history, and there is no hope of overtaking him.

It seems like Li Zhao will be ranked first in the class.

Then the political exam paper gave the whole class a huge shock.

First place, 94 points.

It is He Shuyao.

The average score dropped below 85, making it the subject with the worst performance and the largest score difference among all test takers.

No one expected that what was thought to be Karami's political class at the end of today's lesson would disrupt the entire ranking.

Song Bowen, who was originally out of the running, suddenly surged back into the top few with 92 points, while Liang Zhaoxing, who was originally ranked quite well, suffered a devastating defeat because he only scored 82 points.

Li Zhao's 91 points, when included, seem to generate little buzz.

Once the score was released, everyone could tell that Li Zhao was definitely first in the class. However, this first place was not overwhelmingly dominant, and he was not the kind of unrivaled champion who was first in every subject.

This has eased the egos of many people to some extent.

The politics teacher's name is Huang Guifen. She's actually not very old, but her personality matches her name—she's very steady.

"Are you all satisfied with this score?" She adjusted her glasses.

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