Monthly Exam

“Fought?” Jiang Xizhi was very curious about the reasons for Zhou Yining’s quarrel with her family.

Her family was harmonious, and there were only her and her sister, so the whole family almost spoiled her rotten.

It was impossible for her to argue with her family.

Zhou Yining nodded to her.

“Yeah, just some annoying things. Let’s not talk about it, lest you get upset listening to it. Let’s go, it’s almost time for morning reading once we get inside.”

“Okay.” Although curious, Jiang Xizhi was embarrassed to ask more, after all, she and Zhou Yining weren’t really that familiar.

At most, they only knew each other because of Zhou Yining’s diary.

The two walked towards the school, and neither of them saw Shi Yuanyuan and Si Yaqing not far behind them.

Shi Yuanyuan patted Si Yaqing’s arm.

“Look quickly, isn’t that Jiang Xizhi? Who’s the girl next to her?”

“I don’t know, she looks a bit like Zhou Yining.” Si Yaqing squinted for a long time before recognizing that the person seemed to be Zhou Yining.

“Why have they been so close recently? This isn’t a good sign. It’s enough that Jiang Xizhi has the two of us as followers. I don’t want any more.” Shi Yuanyuan pushed up her glasses, her expression towards Zhou Yining turned cold.

“I think so too, but you don’t have to worry. Few people can stand Jiang Xizhi’s temper as a young miss. If it weren’t for our families, the two of us wouldn’t be friends with someone like her.”

“That’s true.” Shi Yuanyuan nodded with a smile.

When Zhou Yining and Jiang Xizhi reached the third floor, they separated, and Zhou Yining continued to the fourth floor.

When she entered the class, some people had already arrived.

Xu Yueming, seeing Zhou Yining enter, rolled her eyes at Zhou Yining and continued talking to the people in the back.

“Did you hear? There’s going to be a monthly exam later, said to be a surprise check before the final exams.” Xu Yueming said mysteriously on purpose.

“Really? There wasn’t any news about it.”

“Of course it’s true. Teacher Chen just asked people to help count the papers. Morning reading will directly start with the Chinese exam.” Xu Yueming curled her lips.

The people in the class who heard the news immediately wilted.

Every monthly exam, midterm, and final exam would have a grade-wide ranking.

If they did well, everyone would be happy, but if they did poorly, it would really be over.

Those whose grades regressed a lot might even have their parents called in.

Zhou Yining didn’t feel anything though.

Her grades in her previous life were very good, and she was the type of person who performed well on exams.

The bigger the exam, the more stable Zhou Yining’s mentality became.

Sure enough, a dozen minutes later, Chen Yitong entered the class with a stack of thick Chinese papers.

Seeing that the students looked like eggplants beaten by frost, Chen Yitong laughed.

“Come on, you can’t even handle this before becoming seniors in high school. Cheer up, this monthly exam will also have a grade-wide ranking. Move your desks outward, don’t sit so close.”

The students sighed and started dragging their desks one by one.

After the desks were arranged, Chen Yitong started handing out the papers.

After receiving the paper, Zhou Yining scanned it.

It was a standard national college entrance exam paper.

The essay topic was also a standard argumentative essay.

The material quoted a passage from Hemingway, asking the students to write an argumentative essay on the theme of the spirit of a tough guy.

After scanning the paper, Zhou Yining started answering the first page.

After filling in the answer sheet, she began to answer the questions quickly.

However, Chinese required a lot of energy to think about reading comprehension and other question types, so Zhou Yining’s speed wasn’t too fast.

By the time she finished the essay, there were only twenty minutes left before the papers had to be handed in.

Zhou Yining quickly checked to make sure that there were no problems with the questions she had done before.

Then she sat in her seat and spaced out.

As soon as the bell rang, Chen Yitong had the students in the back row get up to collect the papers.

Because it was a monthly exam, she had to hurry back to grade the papers, and the results and grade-wide ranking had to be released tomorrow.

And so, during the second period, which was math class, Zhou Yining and the others continued to take the exam.

Math was much easier for Zhou Yining, especially the regular questions at the beginning, which she basically knew how to do.

The only thing that required some time to solve was the last big problem.

The last few questions of the last big problem were often beyond the syllabus, belonging to advanced questions.

However, Zhou Yining’s foundation was solid, and she quickly solved all the problems, even with half an hour to spare.

Having woken up early, Zhou Yining was a little sleepy, so she simply lay down on her desk and started to catch up on sleep.

Teacher Zhang scanned the class and saw that Zhou Yining was actually sleeping.

She got up to remind her, after all, even if she couldn’t write, she could still check her work.

Sleeping was really outrageous.

Teacher Zhang moved to Zhou Yining’s side.

She was about to wake Zhou Yining up, but her eyes fell directly on Zhou Yining’s paper, which happened to be turned to the side with the big problems facing outward.

Teacher Zhang scanned it and found that Zhou Yining seemed to have gotten all the big problems right.

She looked at the last big problem again and found that Zhou Yining’s answers were still all correct.

Teacher Zhang looked at Zhou Yining with some surprise.

Yesterday, she had asked Zhou Yining to go to the podium to do a problem, and Zhou Yining had solved it.

Today, the big problems on the test paper were all correct again.

Did Zhou Yining go to tutoring?

Teacher Zhang reached out and patted Zhou Yining, but didn’t mean to blame Zhou Yining.

She smiled at Zhou Yining and asked in a low voice, “Have you finished answering everything?”

Zhou Yining rubbed her sleepy eyes.

“Yes.”

“Then I’ll take the paper away. Are you sure you don’t want to check it again?”

“No need, teacher, I’ve already checked it twice.” Zhou Yining didn’t want to check it again.

Her accuracy rate was very high, and Zhou Yining always believed that the first answer she chose was more accurate.

When checking, it was very likely that she would change the correct answer to the wrong one.

Teacher Zhang smiled at her.

“Then I’ll take the paper away.”

“Yeah.” Zhou Yining was dazed.

Seeing that the teacher didn’t say anything about her sleeping during the exam, Zhou Yining lay down again.

Xu Yueming curled his lips on the side.

He didn’t believe that Zhou Yining’s studies had suddenly improved.

He thought that Zhou Yining had either guessed correctly or had done the paper in advance.

The top students in the front row of the class also became restless, after all, the last two questions of the last big problem were too difficult.

They had been calculating for a long time but didn’t have any ideas, but looking at the paper in Teacher Zhang’s hand, it was obvious that Zhou Yining had answered all the big problems.

Could it be that Zhou Yining had really suddenly gotten the hang of it?

Teacher Zhang sat down at the podium with the papers, with twenty minutes left to collect them.

She simply started grading them on the spot.

Starting from the multiple-choice questions, Teacher Zhang became more and more surprised as she graded.

Zhou Yining’s paper was all correct.

She started to grade the big problems at the back, and they were all correct, even the last big problem was completely correct.

When Teacher Zhang wrote 150 points on Zhou Yining’s paper, she was a little dazed.

After all, this set of papers was compiled by the teachers, and the difficulty was quite high, especially for the big problems.

She felt that it would be very difficult for anyone to score above 140 on this paper, but she didn’t expect that there would be a student in the class who got a perfect score.

Teacher Zhang looked brightly at Zhou Yining, only to see Zhou Yining lying on the table and sleeping again.

Teacher Zhang couldn’t help but say, “You must check carefully. I just graded a perfect paper. Don’t think that if you don’t know how to do something, no one else will.”

As soon as these words came out, the people in the class immediately started whispering to each other, especially the students around Zhou Yining, who had seen Teacher Zhang take the paper away with their own eyes.

Seeing the commotion below, Teacher Zhang quickly added, “Alright, everyone, answer the papers carefully and stop whispering.”

Twenty minutes later, Teacher Zhang stood up and said to the students in the back row of the class, “The last person in each row, stand up and collect the papers, quickly.”

Accompanied by the students’ wails, the papers were collected.

As soon as Teacher Zhang left, the students in the class slumped like bitter gourds, and many students were comparing answers.

“Hey, why are there so many choices for C this time? It made me afraid to choose it.” Xu Yueming sighed.

“Really? I thought most of them should be A? The questions were quite difficult this time, and the big problems at the back were also difficult.” The math representative, Jiang Hao, replied.

“Yeah, I also think there were a lot of A’s to choose. Those fill-in-the-blank questions were also so difficult, but did Zhou Yining really get a perfect score?”

Several people curiously looked towards Zhou Yining, and Xu Yueming was the first to ask,

“Zhou Yining, have you done this paper before? Do you know the answers?”

Zhou Yining glanced at him and said lightly,

“Do you think that just because you can’t do it, no one else can? How self-centred. Oh right, don’t forget our bet. Whoever is behind in the final ranking loses five hundred yuan to the other.”

Xu Yueming blushed and stammered,

“Don’t be smug, you just got lucky this time to get such a high score. The final exam questions are all city-wide unified exams and are kept secret. You will definitely not be as lucky as you were this time.”

“Then you’ll have to be disappointed, because exams aren’t about luck, they’re about strength.”

After Zhou Yining finished speaking, she didn’t bother to pay attention to Xu Yueming and took her cup to get water.

Ten minutes later, the third exam of the morning began: the English exam.

Teacher Cao entered the class with the papers in his hand, his face tense, his eyes glaring at Zhou Yining.

“Alright, everyone be quiet. The papers for this exam are compiled by each of the teachers in the English group contributing a few questions, so there’s definitely no way to have seen this paper outside.

Those who like to take shortcuts, pay attention. Don’t think that just because you did well once or twice, you can do well this time too.”

As he spoke, he deliberately looked towards Zhou Yining.