Chapter 262: Chinese Test Results
In the previous years, the top notcher for the English exam always came from Cla.s.s 1, and it was usually a student achiever who represented the school in English compet.i.tions around the province.
Even so, these top students rarely got full marks like Yao Tang.
No one could have imagined that a new student—a country girl, no less—would dominate the academics within a few months of her transfer.
What’s more, whenever Yao Tangaced a test, there was a distinct gap between her performance and that of the other students in her grade.
The student who had raised the question immediately put his hand down, wanting to slap himself for asking the obvious.
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It was like an invitation to their teacher to rub their failure into their faces more than he already had.
As soon as the period ended, the students in this particular cla.s.s went on their phones and vented their sentiments onto the school forum.
Surely, they couldn’t be the only ones who felt bad about the results, right?
But in doing so, they had to explain the situation of Cla.s.s 20 regarding their English lessons, which caused another uproar among the student body.
It didn’t take long for the comment section to be bombarded with zealous replies.
Some of them had their English cla.s.s in the afternoon, and finding out about the news preemptively only served to double their dismay and frustrations.
Cla.s.s 20 was supposed to be the trash cla.s.s, and yet almost all of them had pa.s.sed the English test with flying colors.
It was ridiculous and simply unacceptable!
The haters cursed to themselves. Early on, they had proudly predicted to anyone who cared to listen that Cla.s.s 20 would land in the bottom 50 of their grade.
No one expected the opposite to happen. Not only had they done well in Math, but they crushed the English test as well.
If they also succeed in the Chinese tests… No, even if they just scored adequately, they might be able to pull the entire Cla.s.s 20 from the bottom rankings.
Preposterous!
As for Cla.s.s 20, they were still basking in the triumph of their Mathematics test. Their English cla.s.s was in the afternoon, and they wouldn’t have had a clue about their scores if the subject hadn’t blown up on the school forum.
The word spread like wildfire, and the mood in the cla.s.sroom became even more festive. The students laughed among themselves, praising each other for a job well done.
It was then that Teacher Liu, their Chinese teacher, walked into cla.s.s with a wide smile on his face.
The students instantly settled down at their desks.
“Cla.s.s representative, come over and get your test papers. Hand them out and let’s go over the items one by one.”
As the cla.s.s representative shuffled to her feet, a timid voice rang out in the room.
“But… Aren’t we supposed to have Physics cla.s.s next?”
Right on cue, their Physics teacher appeared at the door. He hesitated when he caught sight of another faculty member inside.
Teacher Liu turned and shot him a meaningful look.
“Ah!” the Physics teacher exclaimed, slapping his forehead. “I must be getting old, my memory is all fuzzy. My cla.s.s is in the afternoon. Carry on, Teacher Liu.”
With a parting smile to the cla.s.s, he turned on his heel and trotted away.
“Now,” Teacher Liusaid, still in high spirits. “Hurry and distribute the papers while I call out everyone’s scores.”
As he called out the numbers, the students gradually realized that they had vastly improved in this subject, too.
Lin Xin, in particular, had scored 125 points—the second-highest score in the cla.s.s.
Of course, the top spot still belonged to Yao Tang, who had purposely botched a single item on the test, leaving her with 147 points in total.
Teacher Liu beamed at them, his eyes twinkling with pride.
Meanwhile, just down the hall, the students of Cla.s.s 19 were bent over their desks as they suffered the wrath of yet another teacher.
They never had to worry about something like this before, since Cla.s.s 20 was always sure to rank last in their grade.
But this was no longer the case. Now, Cla.s.s 19 and Cla.s.s 20 were sitting on the same cla.s.s average, making them tied for the bottom spot. In fact, it would only take Cla.s.s 20 another point or two to fully surpa.s.s Cla.s.s 19.
Their Math scores might not be a match to that of the top cla.s.s, but their English and Chinese scores were certainly on par with Cla.s.s 1, if not better.
It was only natural, then, that the form teacher of Cla.s.s 19 was blowing a fuse over his students’ performance. Luckily, there were still a handful of students in Cla.s.s 20 who did badly in the exams. Otherwise, Cla.s.s 19 would be placed last in the whole grade.
“I want you to take a look at your test papers. Take a long, hard look and reflect on yourselves!”