Although it is only a monthly exam, Ruxu No. 2 Middle School still strictly adheres to the standards of the college entrance examination in terms of time and the number of people in the examination room.

The Chinese test will be at 9 a.m. on Saturday, lasting two and a half hours and ending at 11:30 a.m.; the math test will start at 3 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. in the afternoon.

The next morning, the liberal arts exam also started at 9 o'clock, and the last subject, foreign language, was taken in the afternoon.

In order to prepare for this monthly exam, Ruxu No. 2 Middle School almost requisitioned all the classrooms in the school to arrange the examination rooms, and each examination room was arranged according to the standard of 30 people in one examination room during the college entrance examination.

8:45.

Fifteen minutes before the exam started, Zhou Yu and another invigilator received their test papers and planned to go to the examination room.

The examination room where Zhou Yu was invigilating was the 6th examination room for liberal arts.

The personnel arrangement in the examination room is based on the students' final examination results in the second semester of their sophomore year.

Assuming there are 30 people in one examination room, the students in the examination room where Zhou Yu is invigilating today are ranked between 151th and 180th in the school, which is roughly in the upper-middle position in the entire Chinese department of Ruxu No. 2 Middle School.

The invigilator who partnered with Zhou Yu was a middle-aged male teacher who taught mathematics in the first grade of high school. Zhou Yu had only met him a few times and the two had never spoken to each other, so after receiving the test paper, he just smiled friendly and walked towards the teaching building in silence.

The two of them soon arrived at the classroom. The Liberal Arts Examination Room 6, which was originally a bit noisy, quickly quieted down after seeing that the monitoring teacher had arrived, and they quietly waited for the exam to begin.

After taking a look at the time, Zhou Yu directly opened the sealed test paper, divided it into two piles, took out half and handed it to another monitoring teacher. As they distributed the test papers, they said, "Don't rush to do the test papers. Wait until you hear the bell to start the exam before taking the exam!"

"As soon as you get the test paper, fill in your name, class and other information on the left side of the test paper. In addition, everyone should turn off their mobile phones and other electronic devices or hand them in. Mobile phones can only be used after the test is over."

"During the exam, if you have any questions, please raise your hand and ask the invigilator. Don't whisper to each other! Also, there is no point in cheating. It's just a monthly exam. The cheating results are not your own. If you are caught, you will be criticized and your score will be reset to 0. So there is really no need!"

The candidates were very obedient. With Zhou Yu's warning, they just filled in their names, classes and other information, put down their pens, picked up the test papers, looked at the questions on the test papers attentively, and waited for the test to begin before they started writing.

Zhou Yu and another invigilator quickly distributed all the test papers.

Just two minutes after the test papers were distributed, the bell outside the window rang, signaling the start of the exam. Then in the classroom, the sound of pens sliding across paper was heard.

Since he was not familiar with the teacher next to him and due to the examination room discipline, Zhou Yu could not do anything else, so he took out one of the extra papers placed on the podium, took it in his hand, and began to look at it carefully.

What surprised Zhou Yu was that he originally thought that even if the difficulty of the first monthly exam paper was relatively basic, it would at least be a little more difficult than the first monthly exam of Wuzhou Middle School.

Unexpectedly, after Zhou Yu finished reading the test paper, he found that he had thought too much. He did not expect that the difficulty of the test paper of No. 2 Middle School was as difficult as the first monthly exam of a garbage school like Wuzhou Middle School.

But considering that even No. 2 Middle School might need to build up students' confidence in the first monthly exam, Zhou Yu was relieved.

Not only Zhou Yu thought the test paper was easy, even Zhao Xiaolin, who was in Zhou Yu's class and was sitting in the sixth examination room, was stunned after getting the test paper.

This...is this test so easy?

Zhao Xiaolin took the test paper in her hand, blinked, and thought she had seen it wrong.

Therefore, Zhao Xiaolin spread the test paper in her hand flat on the table, rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, and confirmed it again.

Zhao Xiaolin became excited after discovering that the test questions were really easy and that basically the question types were what Zhou Yu had explained before.

Zhao Xiaolin was so excited that she wanted to hum out loud on the spot, but because her homeroom teacher, Mr. Zhou, was invigilating the class, she held back from making any sound and could only chuckle in her heart.

In the next two and a half hours, Zhao Xiaolin wrote the questions on the test paper, as if she had already prepared a draft in her mind, and she wrote down the answers on the test paper fluently and quickly.

So much so that when Zhou Yu announced that there were only fifteen minutes left in the exam and asked everyone to hurry up if they had not finished writing, Zhao Xiaolin had already finished the last part of the composition and had already started checking it.

Zhao Xiaolin felt this feeling of fluency more clearly during the math test in the afternoon.

Before senior year of high school, Zhao Xiaolin, who was not good at math in the past, now seemed to handle this math test with ease.

When the math test was over, Zhao Xiaolin handed in her math test paper, which she had completed and checked again from beginning to end. At this moment, she still felt dizzy and a little unsatisfied.

"Hey, Xiaolin, how did you do in the math test?" A classmate of Zhao Xiaolin from other classes came over to say hello and asked casually.

The classmate's question brought Zhao Xiaolin back from the pleasure of answering questions in the math test. After looking at her classmate with some dissatisfaction, Zhao Xiaolin said softly, "Ah, I feel okay. The test was quite easy this time."

The classmate was a little dissatisfied when he heard this, but he still smiled and said, "No way? They are all quite simple? I agree if you say the first part is simple, but the last small question of the last two big questions must be easy, right? Even if people in the key class can solve it, I guess not many people can do it, right?"

Zhao Xiaolin was a little confused when she heard her old classmate say that. She was still wondering if she really got the problem solved in the wrong direction and got the problem wrong. "Ah? Is that so?"

After Zhao Xiaolin unconfidently told her former classmate about her solution to the problem, the classmate standing opposite her immediately showed a disdainful expression after hearing it.

"I'm telling you, your way of thinking is totally wrong!" Zhao Xiaolin's former classmate said disdainfully, "Although I don't know how to solve this problem, no one else will solve it the same way you do. There's something wrong with doing it this way! Come on, just ask the teacher later."

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"It's better for you to believe that I am Qin Shi Huang than to believe what your classmate says!" Xu Jiahao said with a funny look on his face looking at Zhao Xiaolin who was standing beside him.

Since there is an exam the next day, even though today is Saturday, evening self-study will still proceed as normal.

Before the evening self-study began, Zhao Xiaolin came to Xu Jiahao's seat, thinking that Xu Jiahao was from a key class and was among the top dozens in the school. She repeated to him the doubts and problem-solving ideas after the math test this afternoon.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she finished speaking, Zhao Xiaolin saw Xu Jiahao mocking Zhao Xiaolin's classmate with a look of disdain on his face.

Then, Xu Jiahao continued to say to Zhao Xiaolin, "Don't worry, your idea is right! Have you forgotten that someone asked a similar question during Teacher Zhou's evening study session? Teacher Zhou thought this question was a classic and even told the whole class about the solution!"

After hearing what Xu Jiahao said, Zhao Xiaolin immediately remembered it, so her heart, which had been hanging in the air, fell back into her stomach again, "Hehe, that's fine! Hey, after hearing what he said, I was worried that I had done something wrong!"

"She is just a bunch of idiots, why would you care about her?" Xu Jiahao said disdainfully, "Okay, don't worry! Teacher Zhou has taught us for so long, you should have some confidence in yourself, why are you still so confused!"