After Reborn, I Became the Bigshots' Beloved novel Chapter 33

Chapter 33: Chapter 33: Nothing much, just that I am handing in my paper

Chapter 33 -33: Nothing much, just that I am handing in my paper

Lin Yan came today specifically to proctor the exam.

Generally, students from the countryside that manage to get into Shengjing are placed in her Class E, with very few advancing to Class D.

That’s why she personally came today—to strictly control the admissions into Class E.

Class E is essentially formed by students with the poorest grades at the beginning of the term, and their average score has always been the lowest in the grade.

This Lu Sheng isn’t even an exceptional student; he was just average in a shabby rural school. If such a person were to join her class, wouldn’t that just drag down the class average?

Lin Yan did not want, or should say, did not think highly of Lu Sheng, and did not want Lu Sheng in her class.

Since he is a liberal arts student, subjective questions in test papers have no standard answers, meaning there’s a lot of room for scoring manipulation.

It’s said that if scores are not too far from the passing line, one can be admitted into Shengjing; thus, she has the final say in how much or how little to score the subjective questions.

Giving him around three hundred points, even the Lu Family wouldn’t brazenly insist on placing him in her class, right?

Moreover, he’s just an illegitimate daughter, nothing worth paying much attention to. Not like young master Lu Youye, who she needs to curry favor with.

Once everyone was gathered, Lin Yan led these dozen students directly to a classroom and asked them to prepare there.

Speaking of which, the examination rules at Shengjing are extremely strict.

The subjects of Chinese, mathematics, English + social or science comprehensive are not tested separately but are all included in a single test booklet, which totals eight pages and sixteen sides.

In other words, it’s a continuous examination. The maximum time for the test is six hours, from ten in the morning until four in the afternoon, during which the candidates cannot even eat.

If they finish early or cannot continue, they may hand in their papers early.

That’s why, when Lu Qianrou was at the restaurant of the Lu Family earlier, she told Lu Sheng that she had an exam that would take all day.

Forcing students to stay tense for six hours, Shengjing beautifies this by saying they are selecting the most worthy talents under harsh rules.

They claim that it is under such high-pressure circumstances that one’s abilities can truly be revealed.

But in reality, it’s all high-sounding nonsense.

For normal students like Lu Qianrou, the entrance exam lasts the usual two days. These cruel rules only target the exceptional students from impoverished families who qualify for admission each year.

After all, children from wealthy families bring benefits to Shengjing, as the various constructions of the school are funded annually by the parent council, whereas these poor exceptional students only consume the school’s resources.

The only value to be mined is their capabilities. Thus, Shengjing must select those with exceptional abilities among them, as only then is the resource consumption justified.

After Lin Yan left, the classroom was still absolutely silent.

Practically every student sat at their desks reviewing their notes, as if they were so tense they could barely breathe.

Among them all, only Lu Sheng, sitting in the back row of the classroom, along with the boy she had previously been staring at, weren’t looking at their books.

Lu Sheng moved closer to the boy and asked, “…What’s your domain?”

The boy furrowed his brow, suddenly looking at her as if he didn’t understand what she was talking about.

“I’m talking about K.A,” Lu Sheng pointed at his wristband and asked again seriously, “What’s your domain?”

Hearing this, the boy’s body stiffened, and his pupils shrank slightly as he looked at Lu Sheng: “…You know about K.A?”

The K.A Club was founded sixty years ago by a British physicist named Wells who won the Nobel Prize in Physics at the mere age of twenty-five.

Very few people know about this club because most simply cannot come into contact with it, let alone hear about it.

Unlike in the liberal arts comprehensive, where subjective questions in politics, history, and geography can always be filled to earn some points.

A rural liberal arts student wants to take Shengjing’s science paper?

Does she not know how over her head she is, or does she simply not want to be admitted into Shengjing?

Either way, it was good news for Lin Yan.

She wouldn’t even need to mark down Lu Sheng now; with her middle-level rural high school standards, she wouldn’t even score two hundred points on Shengjing’s science comprehensive.

“Sure,” Lin Yan scoffed disdainfully and immediately pulled out a set of science papers to place in front of Lu Sheng, “then you take the science paper.”

Having said that, Lin Yan turned and walked back to the podium.

At ten o’clock, the classroom bell rang on time, and the examination officially began.

The students in the classroom started writing furiously, Lin Yan leaned back in her chair, sipped her brewed tea, and opened a novel to pass the time.

These students would be taking the exam until four in the afternoon; six hours were enough for her to finish reading two novels.

Yet, she had barely reached page eighty of her book when suddenly a voice called out from beneath the podium, “Report.”

Lin Yan looked up and saw that it was Lu Sheng in the last row raising her hand.

Lin Yan frowned subconsciously and checked her watch, noting that it was only 10:40.

The exam had just started forty minutes ago. What was Lu Sheng up to?

Lin Yan put away her book, her eyebrows furrowed, impatiently asking, “What is it? What are you reporting?”

“It’s nothing,” Lu Sheng looked up, her expression calm, “I have finished. I want to hand in my paper.”