Chapter 55 Examination
Li Zhenzhen was even more adoring. The senior student couldn't help but curl her lips as she looked at the two junior students. She asked Lily, "Do you want to learn?"
Lily nodded vigorously and answered without hesitation, "I want to learn!" Her firm tone made the senior student smile and said to Lily, "Then come to the Mecha Department."
After Wen Le and the others got on the bus, she said to a senior student next to her, "I haven't seen such an interesting little sister in years."
The senior student smiled and said, "Don't try to lure a pretty junior student to the Mecha Department every time you see one. You're enough for those guys to handle. If you get another one, how will they survive?"
The two seniors laughed together, while the senior who was listening to their conversation looked helpless. As fellow students in the Mecha Department, they didn't dare say anything in front of this person. It was just a pity that another cute junior had been snatched away.
After getting into the car and away from the gazes of the senior students, Wen Le and Xu Dongdong finally calmed down. Xu Dongdong patted his chest with a lingering fear, and said with a look of relief that he had survived a disaster, "It was a close call." He almost lost his life just now.
Wen Le glanced at him sideways and thought: Let's see if you, a naughty boy, dare to run over and flirt with a beautiful woman when you see her in the future.
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Shaohua College has an admissions policy: they first administer a placement test to new students, then recommend and arrange their studies based on their strengths and areas of expertise. For example, liberal arts students will never be asked to study science, but there are exceptions, where students may choose to pursue a subject of their own liking, rather than accepting the school's recommendation. This is fine; Shaohua won't force students to choose. However, if they fail the final comprehensive assessment, they will not be allowed to graduate.
As a result, many skeptical students, failing their exams just before graduation, transfer to another department to retake credits. Furthermore, with life expectancy increasing across the interstellar system, many places consider adults only at 20, and it's common for people to still be in school at 30. Consequently, you'll often see many seniors who haven't graduated despite being old enough. It's not surprising that Wen Le and his classmates were assigned to the foundation class.
However, in order to be fair and avoid unnecessary trouble, Shaohua still separated these adult students from the underage students. Wen Le and the others were assigned to the junior class, which was full of children of the same age as them. This would also allow everyone to better integrate into the group.
Wen Le, needless to say, went to the Basic Medicinal Material Identification class, which is related to healers. Li Zhenzhen went to the Basic Management class without a doubt. Lily also proved herself with her strength during the physical fitness test, and the examiner was so impressed that she was immediately assigned to the Mecha Department. However, Xu Dongdong surprisingly went to the auxiliary class.
The auxiliary class here is a general term for mecha maintenance and manufacturing. No one expected that this kid would quietly learn this, and no one expected that the teacher would give him a very high score during the assessment.
Wen Le joked about this, "I thought you would be assigned to the cooking class, but I didn't expect you to go to the auxiliary class." When the four of them went to play on Water and Jupiter, this kid had the best nose. He could find delicious food wherever there was one. When he was in the mood, he would learn to cook from the local residents, and he did it quite well. The food he made tasted surprisingly good.
No one expected that he was so good at hands-on work.
After all, not everyone can enter the auxiliary class.
Xu Dongdong said smugly, "I used to be too low-key. Now that I've revealed my true abilities, you're scared of me, right? Haha!"
Lily rolled her eyes at him and didn't bother to pay attention to him.
Xu Dongdong didn't dare to tease the tiger anymore. He used to dare to do so, but ever since Lily joined the Mecha Department, her progress under the guidance of the senior students had been rapid. Adding to her own hard work, her fighting ability had skyrocketed. Now, getting punched by her would be a near-fatal blow. Even a brazen kid like Xu Dongdong could only withdraw his claws in fear.
But Lily didn't have that much time to argue with him about this.
As our studies progressed, we became busier, but we still found time to get together every day. For example, like now, we gather in the school cafeteria to have dinner and chat.
Wen Le had recently learned a new recipe from the system and made a bunch of potions, which he shared with his friends for self-defense. This potion had a very good anesthetic effect, and he had specially made it into a spray that could be used in emergencies, similar to the anti-wolf spray used on Earth.
To avoid any blunders, such as knocking himself out instead of knocking out the bad guy, Wen Le even bought a few anti-sickness patches from the system. Simply applying them to the nose would prevent the anesthetic from knocking him out, and Lily and the others readily accepted them. Xu Dongdong also said, "This is great! Next time I put someone I dislike in a sack, I don't have to face them. I can just spray them directly." Knocking someone out and carrying them away would be incredibly easy.
Wen Le: "..." He knew that this naughty kid would feel uncomfortable if he didn't cause trouble for a day.
Wen Le was afraid that he would really do that, so he quickly said, "This medicine is very expensive, don't waste it."
Xu Dongdong clicked his tongue: "I was just kidding you."
Lily glanced at him and said, "What are you afraid of? Just don't ask us to help clean up the mess if something goes wrong." The implication was that you should bear the consequences even if you have to kneel down, and never drag them into it.
Wen Le acted like a flatterer and said, "Yes, yes, that's exactly what I meant. What Sister Li said is exactly what I want."
Xu Dongdong was so angry that his cheeks puffed up. His face was already round, and if his cheeks puffed up like this, he would look like a puffed-up pufferfish. Li Zhenzhen couldn't help laughing as she watched from the side.
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Time flies, and three months have already passed. Wen Le and his team are about to face a quarterly assessment.
Shaohua College's exam schedule is different from other schools. It's held quarterly, with a comprehensive score calculated based on performance. This score is added to the overall grade, and failing the exam results in a point deduction. With this kind of addition and subtraction, if the overall score falls short at graduation, you can't graduate.
So quarterly exams are still very important.
The exam was divided into theory and practice. All four of them had no problem with the practical part, but they all struggled with the theory. Because the theory part required a lot of rote memorization, the four friends decided to meet in the school library.
To minimize disruption to others, the library has designed independent rooms. Students simply tap their student ID card against the sensor in an empty room, and the room becomes theirs temporarily. The rooms are also highly soundproofed, eliminating the need to worry about outside noise disturbing those inside. Outsiders must obtain permission from the room's owner to enter, and they can even set a Do Not Disturb (Do Not Disturb) mode, making them extremely convenient and safe.
Wen Le and his friends rented a collective room for group discussions.
As four poor students, no matter how good they were in practical classes, they would still fail in theory. Wen Le, who aspired to be a landslide among poor students, was completely overwhelmed by the piles of herbs that looked similar in shape, pharmacology, and smell. These were all required questions on the written exam. Students were required to describe the differences between these herbs and how they were distinguished.
Moreover, once you have been cruelly circled for more than half of it, it is all content that you have to memorize, which makes you almost collapse.
Lily and the others weren't much easier than he was. The mecha-related subjects Lily and Xu Dongdong were studying were even more mind-boggling; the principles of propulsion alone were enough to make them both suffer. Even the usually calm Lily pursed her lips, staring at her textbook with a look of deep resentment, as if she was staring a hole through it.
Xu Dongdong collapsed directly onto the sofa next to him, looking weak and out of breath. "Why are there such difficult things in the world... Ugh, I feel like I'm going to die." Why had he stupidly chosen the Mecha Repair and Construction course in the first place? He was simply courting death. Sure enough, if he didn't do anything, he wouldn't die.
The key point is that this exam is too important. The assessment score is linked to the total score. If I fail this time and fall behind in graduation, it will be too embarrassing. But that's not the point. The key point is that if I can't graduate, I will have to go back and retake it, and go through this hellish life all over again, and have to face the big devil of "exam" again. What's more, this dungeon is in single-player mode and cannot be played in a group.
Just thinking about that scene makes people feel completely depressed.
So among the four people, Li Zhenzhen was the most relaxed. She already had a foundation in this area and was particularly good at memorizing, so it was extremely easy for her to memorize these theoretical knowledge.
This is very jealous.
So she was reduced to running errands for the other three friends, and tasks like getting meals all fell on her. After all, she had the easiest job among the four and didn't have to worry about failing the exams.
Li Zhenzhen watched her friends make fun of her while doing what she could.
After a week of reviewing like this, Li Zhenzhen walked into the exam room amidst the fearless expressions of her three friends. By the time they finished the basic written exam, Wen Le and the others were practically exhausted. Xu Dongdong said weakly, "I feel like I've been elevated." He felt like he was halfway out of his mind.
A few people thought that the exam was over, but they didn't know that there was a follow-up waiting for them.
The Pentagram's five-yearly college ranking competition has begun!
Every student must participate, and the school will reward the winning student with ten original points.
All the students were excited at this moment. They actually gave out raw points! Even one point was good.
Shaohua’s credits are divided into original scores and comprehensive scores. The original score is the attribute score given by the teacher during the entrance examination. This is the basic score and will not be deducted after being calculated in the total score. You can imagine how important it is.
Now the school is generously giving out ten points of reward at once!
No wonder the students were excited.
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