Chapter 164 National Examination Finale
During this twenty-day holiday, Luoton really devoted himself to preparing for the exam.
He did not go to see Lisa or Itas.
Women will affect the speed at which he writes when doing exams.
Among the nine main examinations, one is a long essay test, which requires 1,000-1,200 words. It discusses some of the materials and requirements given in the question, which may correspond to the policy essay in the Hua Xia civil service examination.
The other eight exams generally have 20 questions, all of which are subjective questions, and the word count for each question is generally required to be between 150 and 200 words.
Therefore, when answering questions, the answers must be concise and to the point.
Since each exam lasts for 3 hours, you will be given nine minutes to answer each of the 20 questions.
After deducting the time for reading the questions, understanding, thinking and conceiving answers, the time left for candidates to write and answer the questions is very tight, perhaps only five or six minutes. It is still somewhat difficult to write more than a hundred words in this time.
A normal person can write about 20-30 English words per minute. Of course, this may vary depending on the length of the words and everyone's proficiency.
Candidates taking the national examination have generally received special intensive training in writing, and can usually guarantee the ability to write forty to fifty words in one minute.
But this is normal. When taking the national examination, you also have to consider the neatness of your writing and the content of your answers, so your speed will definitely be affected.
If you spend a little more time thinking about the question, you may not have enough time to write down the answer.
Therefore, during the examination, you must use your brain quickly and write quickly.
Therefore, Luoton also practiced writing words specifically.
While writing the words clearly, you also have to ensure speed and accuracy.
A neat paper will definitely be a plus and can leave a good impression on the teacher who is marking the paper.
Of course, even if he wanted to find the two women now, they would not see him at this time. Roton was very clear about this.
When it comes to the national exam, the two women know clearly which one is more important.
In order to allow Luoton to concentrate on preparing for the exam, the two girls even seemed to have tacitly cut off contact with Luoton.
Normally we would have time to chat on the phone every day, but now, for fear of disturbing Luoton, all of this has been cancelled.
So Rawdon began to live the life of an ascetic.
But for the sake of future happiness, what's wrong with persisting for 20 days? After passing the national examination, there will be a wonderful life waiting for you in the future, and everything can be made up.
Just like last time, after Rodon met up with Deu in Mumbai, they arrived in Delhi on September 7, three days ahead of schedule.
Come early so you don’t have to rush and can get familiar with the examination room and the surrounding environment.
Accommodation and other things had been booked long ago. The hotel cannot be said to be the best or most luxurious, but it is a star hotel and the environment is definitely comfortable.
There are nine subjects to take next, and each one is a huge test and challenge for the candidates. They must ensure good rest to ensure they have enough energy for each exam.
After all, for each of the eight exams, you have to write 3,000 to 4,000 words, which means 24,000 to 32,000 words for all eight exams.
Completing the exam in just a few days is definitely a daunting challenge.
There is also the long essay. Although the total number of words is less than the other eight subjects, the conception and structure of the long essay require more thought. In short, no exam is easy.
This is what makes the national civil service examination so hellishly difficult.
This is not only reflected in the huge number of candidates and fierce competition, but also in the fact that the test questions themselves are extremely difficult.
Anyone who passes the national exam is naturally the elite among the elites, with great talent, erudition, knowledge of ancient and modern times, and mastery of Indian and Western cultures...
Unfortunately, when these elites become civil servants, they do not think about working for the country, but for themselves.
Because they have become the country's very small elite and hold enormous power in the country.
Why did you work so hard to get in? Isn't it just to enjoy the moment of becoming an official and having countless privileges?
From then on, he embarked on a decadent life, which made people envious.
Luo Dun's examination venue was at Delhi University, while Daiu and he were not in the same examination center, but in another university.
The exam lasts for four and a half days, with one session in the morning and one in the afternoon on the first four days. The ninth exam, which is the final essay exam of the national civil service exam, is held on the morning of the fifth day.
This is a marathon exam and it is absolutely grueling.
"Come on, brother." On the morning of the first day of the exam, Daiwu said to Luoton in front of the hotel.
"Come on, we'll pass it together." Roton and Daiwu bumped fists to encourage each other, then left separately.
In the first four days of examinations, the scope of the questions was the same as in the preliminary examination, which was also very broad and there was no clue at all.
International relations, domestic and international social issues, government governance, economics and finance, culture and law, etc., these types of questions are all reflected in the exam questions.
For example, in foreign countries, the question will give the words of a Western celebrity, both ancient and modern, and ask you to discuss his words, what they mean, or what inspiration you get from them.
Or your opinion about a foreigner, for example, there is a question about how to view Leonardo da Vinci's contribution to the Renaissance.
Domestically, it involves some things about India's colonization by Britain, such as the Indian uprising, the pros and cons of India's development during Britain's colonial rule, how much wealth was seized from India, etc.
There is also the history of India, dynasties of different periods, etc.
Or the deeds or words of domestic celebrities, such as Gandhi, Nehru, etc.
Of course, these are all relatively popular figures, and candidates will certainly make various preparations and review for them.
Many of the questions are about unpopular characters and knowledge. In short, it is basically impossible to know all of them.
Relying on his powerful memory and the vast amount of memories from his previous life that he had awakened, Luoton could still answer most of the questions with ease.
Of course, there were some individual questions that he really had no idea about, so he could only write them randomly, and whether he could guess the right answer depended on luck.
After all, subjective questions do not have answers for you to choose from like objective questions, so if you rely on guessing, you will basically not get any points for this question.
Before the exam started on the morning of the fifth day, Luo Dun took a deep breath as he sat down.
The four consecutive days of exams were really hard to endure, it was a double torture both mentally and physically.
His hands felt numb and painful from writing.
When I practice normally, I write more words than in the exam, and it doesn’t seem to be a problem.
But Luoton knew in his heart that everything was caused by pressure.
During the exam, every word is several times more burdensome than writing normally.
The test papers for the last major essay exam have been distributed.
When he saw the above question material, Luo Dun's eyes lit up.
This is a description of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year. Candidates are required to discuss the mistakes made by the police and the government in the process, and how to prevent these terrorist attacks in the future. Please propose corresponding measures and countermeasures.
I'm afraid many candidates have thought about this kind of question.
Because many of the test questions are about recent current events at home and abroad.
Therefore, when candidates are preparing for the exam, since they need to concentrate on reviewing, their parents and relatives will help cut out important news events from the newspapers every day. If there are no newspapers, they will also write down what they see on TV.
Then they would organize these and let their children who were preparing for exams read them together at the same time.
This is all to prepare for some current affairs questions in the national examination.
The terrorist attacks that happened last year had such a huge impact that everyone thought it would be tested on the exam.
Of course, most people think that it should be treated as a small question.
But I didn’t expect that it would be directly used as the title of my final paper, which was surprising.
After the terrorist attacks, various experts and scholars at home and abroad have published countless countermeasures, and some problems of the government, police, and anti-terrorism forces have also been described.
It can be said that this question is suspected of giving away points.
Because it is such a big thing, it is impossible for the candidates not to pay attention.
This was also what Luoton thought at first. He wanted to integrate the news he saw and the opinions of various experts and scholars, discarding the dross and retaining the essence.
However, he quickly rejected this idea.
If this question is really that simple, how can we get to the finale?
Luoton realized that if he really wrote like this, he would just be following the crowd and had no originality at all. Even if he wrote it well, the score would definitely not be very high.
After thinking about it, Roton had another idea.
The suggestions given by experts and scholars on the market are actually similar, such as increasing the firepower of local police, whether it is guns or vehicles, etc.
In short, it is obvious that the police lacked firepower during the Mumbai terrorist attack, and they also needed to strengthen coordination among various departments.
Roden would write about these, but he would just touch upon them briefly.
What he really wants to write is how to execute it.
Roden remembers that two years later, in 2011, Mumbai was hit by another major terrorist attack.
Three bomb explosions occurred within 11 minutes, causing hundreds of casualties.
Only three years have passed since the 2008 terrorist attacks, and Mumbai's anti-terrorism efforts are still so lame.
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Since 2008, Mumbai has indeed increased its police firepower.
Even anti-terrorist elite forces were deployed in some important cities such as Mumbai.
You know, previously these elite counter-terrorist forces were only in Delhi.
They will only be mobilized from Delhi if there is any anti-terrorism mission.
Now that a group of elite counter-terrorism troops are stationed in important cities, they can respond more quickly and avoid being delayed for too long like the Black Cat Commandos did when they were moving from Delhi to Mumbai, due to too many strange incidents.
Various firepower has been strengthened and anti-terrorist forces are also available, but the final result is still a mess.
What's the problem?
Of course it’s a problem of execution.
The weapons of the police and others have improved, but the operation of the system has not changed and it is still inefficient in terms of execution.
After the terrorist attacks in 2008, there was a plan to increase the number of cameras in important cities such as Mumbai, so as to effectively monitor the actions of some criminals.
Even if it cannot be prevented, the images from these cameras can be used to identify the criminal more quickly and accurately or to find clues afterwards.
The plan was not implemented until the terrorist attacks occurred again in 2011.
After investigation, it was discovered that the plan document for adding more cameras was lying in the cabinet of the Ministry of the Interior of Maharashtra and had not been implemented at all.
The plans are all good, and there are smart people involved, but whether they are executed is another matter.
So, Rawdon started from this point and discussed.
He knew very well that even if he told the bigwigs above him about his ideas, it would be useless. Given the situation in India, it would be impossible to truly implement them.
However, how the actual operation will work is not what Roton needs to worry about.
He is taking an exam now and is just providing some theoretical suggestions, so there is definitely nothing wrong with writing it this way.
After the exam, Luoton couldn't help but stretch as he walked out of the exam room.
After four and a half days of exams, I feel exhausted.
Now I am finally completely liberated.
Luoton felt very good. Although there were a few questions on the test that he had never seen or heard of before, he still managed to answer most of them.
Compared to someone like Luoton who was optimistic and felt good, most of the candidates leaving the examination room had heavy faces.
There is no way. Most candidates will definitely not perform well in the exam because it is too difficult.
There are definitely not many candidates who feel as good as Luoton.
Even if some candidates feel they are very confident, they will not show their happiness.
After all, we have to wait until the results come out before we can make a final decision.
There is always some water in your estimates.
Besides, this is just the main written test. Even if you pass it, there will still be an interview later.
You have only gone two-thirds of the way to taking the civil service exam.
Of course, for Rawdon, his journey to the national exam was over.
The next step is to wait for the main examination results, which will be announced within a month.
The fate of Rawdon will be decided within this month.
Of course, if he is really unlucky and fails this time, Luoton will have to take the exam again next year.
He still has a chance, after all, he can take the exam several times.
For Roton, it would be best if he could pass it in one try.
No one can guarantee that you will pass next time.
Luoton immediately called people close to him to let them know that he was safe.
Especially Itas and Lisa, they naturally talked longer.
While talking on the phone, Luoton was walking towards the gate of Delhi University. At this time, he was talking to Daiu and discussing his feelings about the exam.
Hearing Daiwu's relaxed tone, Luoton knew that he had done well in the exam.
By asking about the exam, Daiwu shared some angles of his thesis with Luoton.
After listening to Daiwu's words, Luoton sighed in his heart that Daiwu's thoughts were similar to his own.
We cannot directly copy the reports and measures on the market. What the examiners need to see in this exam is definitely some novel ideas from the candidates, so Dai Wu added some of his own ideas as a distinction.
In Roton's opinion, Daiu is not as perfect as his side, but he has some new ideas and he believes that the scoring should not be too bad.
In addition to the exams in the previous four days, Dai Wu also said that he did well in the exams, so I believe that the possibility of Dai Wu passing is much greater.
Of course, there are still surprises here.
That is, the purpose of the long paper is not what they think. Maybe it is to summarize the words of the news media and experts and scholars?
Then the results of Luoton and Daiwu in this exam must be very bad, and they may be off-topic.
Can you be better than those experts and scholars?
No matter what, the exam is over, the answers are written down and cannot be changed, and everything depends on the results to be announced in the future.
The two agreed to go back to the hotel restaurant to have a good meal and reward themselves.
The hotel they stayed in was a star hotel and the food in the restaurant was high-end, with both traditional Indian dishes and Western food.
At this moment, a clear and suspicious voice suddenly came from behind Luo Dun: "Is it you?"
Roton didn't know who the person behind him was calling, it felt like he was calling him.
He stopped, looked back, and was stunned for a moment, "Huh? Who are you?"
"It's me, it's me!" the woman said hurriedly.
Luo Dun also smiled and said to the phone: "I have something to do here, let's talk later."
After saying that, he pressed the hang-up button without waiting for Dai Wu to say "Hello, hello".
Luoton didn't expect to meet an acquaintance here.
Actually, not really. After all, we only met once. We can only be considered as having met, not being acquaintances.
The woman who appeared in front of Roton was Suvi Palma, the beautiful daughter-in-law of Freese who was not yet married.
(End of this chapter)