Chapter 106 Midterm Exam
October 30th.
After a busy month and a half starting from mid-September, Fang Wei's first phase of 30 acres of mussel farming was finally completed yesterday.
Looking around, you can see white floats dotted on the sea, arranged in neat rows.
By August or September next year, we will be able to submit the first report on "Mussel Farming".
And today, the midterm exam of Baitan Middle School has also begun.
The drizzling rain yesterday stopped at night.
The autumn breeze is warm and the sunshine is just right.
The exam lasts only two days, but there are seven subjects to be tested, so the schedule is quite tight.
On the first day, we take Chinese and history in the morning, and geography and biology in the afternoon; on the second day, we take English and politics in the morning, and math in the afternoon. After the exams, we have the weekend off.
"Teacher Wen! Tomorrow's math test is only at 3:40. Can we go home directly after school then?"
"Yeah... Hey? The exam is coming up soon, and you're just thinking about taking a holiday instead of taking the exam?"
Wen Susu was both angry and amused.
After the morning reading class, she clapped her hands and said, "It's almost time. Everyone, pack up and go to the examination room to prepare. The first subject is Chinese. Have you memorized everything you need to memorize?"
"I know how to memorize it!"
"When you get the test paper, remember to read it carefully first. Don't miss the test paper of other grades. And remember what I said, look at the essay topic first, do the simple ones first, don't spend too much time on the difficult ones, and remember to write the class name, don't forget this!"
"understood!"
I never thought that Wen Susu could be so nagging like an old lady, explaining all kinds of precautions over and over again.
"Go ahead, come on! Don't sit in the wrong seat!"
"understood--!"
Everyone then started to pack up their things.
Actually, there is nothing to bring. These days, papers are graded manually, and there is no need to fill out answer sheets or anything like that. Just put on your back and go there.
Xu Cailing was quick and ran over with her schoolbag to find Liu Zhiyi. They were both taking an exam in the class next door.
Fang Wei stayed in his own class to take the exam, while A Sheng had to go upstairs to take the exam in Class 2 and 3 of Junior High School.
It is the time for the midterm exam, so there is no need to do exercises during breaks. These twenty minutes or so are the time for everyone to go to the exam room and prepare.
"Zhiyi, are you ready? Let's go together."
"Yeah, well, put it away."
"Let's go then!"
The two girls left the classroom together, turned right and went into the next class.
Normally, students are not allowed to visit other classes. This was the first time that Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi walked into Class 1's classroom.
There were still quite a few students from Class 1 in the classroom at that moment. In addition, the two girls were pretty and attracted a lot of attention from students from other classes. They felt quite embarrassed when they walked in.
Perhaps they were used to it after staying in their own class for so long, but when they walked into Class 1's classroom, Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi both felt that the classroom was inexplicably dull...
“There’s no blackboard either.”
"The hygiene is not as good as our class's."
"Wow, the table is all crooked, how did the footprints get to the wall?"
Xu Cailing frowned. As expected, she had to go into other classrooms to take a look. Only then did she realize that there were gaps between classes. The school obviously didn't have any key classes or fast and slow classes, but she just felt that Class 1 was not as good as Class 2!
Liu Zhiyi smiled and said, "It's okay. I'm not here to attend classes anyway. I'm just taking a test."
"Right!"
Although the two were taking the exam in the same class, their seats were a bit far apart.
Everyone should put their belongings away at their own examination seats.
The students who were taking the exam with them at the same table were all in the second grade of junior high school. The students before and after them were students from different classes who were also in the first grade of junior high school. She didn't know any of them.
Liu Zhiyi, who has always been quiet and indifferent, has no interest in getting to know the "new classmates" around her.
Even Xu Cailing, who is good at socializing, had no interest in meeting "new classmates" in this makeshift examination room.
After they put their things away, Xu Cailing came to find her again, and they went to the bathroom together before the exam started.
When I came back and passed by my class, most of the students in the class had already left. Just like Class 1, many students from other classes had also come.
Many students looked at their class's blackboard newspaper curiously.
Fang Wei stayed in his class to take the exam, so he sat in the first group, next to the window.
The window was open, and when the two girls passed by, they poked him in the back while he wasn't paying attention.
When Fang Wei looked back, the two of them were laughing and running away hand in hand.
Not long after, Fang Wei's 'new deskmate' also came.
She is a girl in the second grade of junior high school, and should be addressed as "senior sister".
However, this senior student looked like she had poor academic performance. She wore an obviously modified "personalized" school uniform, had pierced ears, and was chewing gum. She didn't bring a school bag or other review materials, only a pen.
She glanced at Fang Wei without saying hello or anything. She pulled out a chair and sat down with a big movement, then fell asleep on the table.
Perhaps this senior thinks that this is handsome and cool.
But in Fang Wei's opinion, it was still quite funny.
Of course I don't mean to laugh at you, it's just that as my horizons and mindset have become higher, looking back at these behaviors that I once thought were so "cool" and "handsome", I now feel like shaking my head and sighing.
The island’s educational resources are scarce, and the majority of students have poor academic performance.
Influenced by their growing environment and their parents' education, there are not many students who can realize the importance of learning with a long-term vision. Many students think that they can't get into high school anyway, so they just muddle through in school and go out to work after graduation.
Especially in the second year of junior high school, under the influence of the arrival of puberty, the concepts of boys and girls will undergo a great change, and it is not uncommon for some good students to suddenly "degenerate".
……
As the old man rang the bell, the midterm exam officially began.
The invigilator came in with two stacks of Chinese test papers, one for the first grade and one for the second grade. He gave them to the student at the front and asked everyone to pass them around. The paper color of the test paper was gray-green, and Fang Wei liked this color of test paper better than the white test paper.
Firstly, it is comfortable for the eyes. Secondly, the paper surface is relatively rough, so the pen tip is not easy to slip when writing, and the written words look better.
There are only a few types of questions in the Chinese language exam, including multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank questions on basic knowledge, dictation of required texts and ancient poems, reading comprehension, and writing a 600-word composition based on the materials. The full score on the paper is 120 points.
Fang Wei took a quick look at the test paper in his hand. It was almost not difficult. The only part where he might lose some points was the composition.
He opened the pen cap and wrote his class name first. While thinking about the composition, he quickly did those basic questions that did not require much thinking.
Fang Wei's handwriting was very beautiful. He finished the questions fluently without even making any corrections.
The Chinese language test lasted a total of two hours, and just over forty minutes into the test, he had already started writing his composition.
Many other students in the same examination room had just finished the ancient poetry dictation section.
After the exam started, my deskmate didn't sleep anymore. After all, Chinese was one of the few subjects in which she could still get some points. If she didn't want her total score to be too bad, she had to do it seriously.
It's just that my basics are so poor that I had a hard time reciting ancient poems. So I looked around restlessly to see if I could see something. Unfortunately, there were strangers around me and my deskmate was a freshman.
She took a look at Fang Wei's test paper and was stunned. It was just over an hour and this guy was almost done!
It took Fang Wei one hour and twenty minutes to finish all the test questions in the Chinese language paper. Then he stopped writing, drank a sip of water, and leisurely checked his test questions.
The senior student standing next to him secretly nudged him with her arm, pointed her pen at a blank ancient poetry dictation question on the test paper, winked at him, and looked for help.
Fang Wei was stunned... No? I'm a freshman, and you're a freshman asking me questions?!
[I want to ride the wind back home, (underline) (underline)]
"..."
Fang Wei ignored her and spread his hands, indicating that the question was too difficult and he could not help.
After checking the test paper again and again, Fang Wei closed the pen cap, supported his chin with his hand, closed his eyes and dozed off, trying to replenish his energy for the next exam.
The senior was stunned. Maybe this is what is called "cool" and "handsome"...
……
At half past eleven, the history exam was over.
The get out of class ended a little earlier than usual. After handing in his paper, Fang Wei came to the door of Class 1 with his schoolbag and waited for Xu Cailing and Liu Zhiyi.
Class 1 was taking a long time to collect the papers. Fang Wei was standing in the corridor and could see Xu Cailing trying hard to finish her test paper through the window. The classmate who was collecting the papers happened to be from his class and was standing nearby waiting for her to finish the last part.
After finally finishing, Xu Cailing let go and let her classmates take the paper away.
Liu Zhiyi was much calmer. After handing in the paper, she packed up her things and came to find Cailing with her schoolbag. The two girls then came out together and met Fang Wei outside the corridor.
"Why, not enough time?" Fang Wei asked.
"Only one hour! It's definitely not enough! I'm slow at doing questions, luckily I caught up..." Xu Cailing was still in shock and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
It was just these two subjects that she took in the morning, but she felt so tired as if she had run ten kilometers. She had to finish the Chinese and history papers on time. Her heart was pounding with nervousness and her palms were full of sweat.
"So how does it feel after you're done?"
"Wow... Teacher Wen is lying. Didn't you say it's easy? Why do I feel it's so difficult?"
Xu Cailing was distressed. She had been cramming for more than half a month and even pestered Fang Wei to review every night.
But when I arrived at the examination room, I still felt a little at a loss. Even though the test was over, my mind was still full of the questions. I was trying hard to recall if I had written anything wrong.
"Zhiyi, what about you?" Fang Wei asked Liu Zhiyi again.
"Ah? Everything is fine..." Liu Zhiyi didn't have any special reaction. He looked calm, not like he had just finished an exam, but rather like he had just finished a walk.
"Is Ah Sheng coming down?"
The three were looking for Ah Sheng when he came down from upstairs with thumps on his chest.
"Damn! This exam is so hard!!"
"Right?! I told you it would be hard!!"
Xu Cailing found a soulmate at once. Seeing that Ah Sheng seemed to be in a more difficult situation than she was, she felt relieved...
As for Fang Wei and Zhiyi, these two stinky guys are good at attacking people!
The four of them got together and walked to the cafeteria to eat while chatting about the exam.
"Oh, right! Ah Sheng, what did you choose for the second multiple-choice question in Chinese?"
"Ah? What was the question?"
"The one that fills in the blanks with the right idioms!"
“Oh, I choose D.”
"I chose D too! At first I was undecided between C and D."
"Then why did you choose D?" Fang Wei asked curiously.
"I'm spinning the pen."
Xu Cailing was about to be happy, but then she remembered that the answer she got from Ah Sheng was not reliable, so she asked Fang Wei.
"Fang Wei, what did you choose?"
"…The exams are all over, so there's no need to check the answers, right? Why not just let it go after you finish one subject and concentrate on preparing for the next one?" Fang Wei advised in a kind voice.
"No, no, if I don't get the answer, I'll be itching all over and thinking about it all the time!"
"I chose C." Fang Wei said.
"Haha, I wanted to choose C at first...C?"
Xu Cailing was stunned for a moment, then quickly asked Liu Zhiyi: "What did you choose, Zhiyi?"
"C, right?"
“……? ┗|｀O′|┛Ah~~”
"What's wrong? Didn't you choose D?"
Ah Sheng scratched his head and said, "Even if it's a vote, C and D each have two votes now!"
This is the truth, but... can the two votes of a poor student be compared with the two votes of a top student? !
(End of this chapter)
