The day of the final exam arrived quickly.
The witches sat in the hall, waiting for Teacher Scroll to hand out the exam papers.
Andrea elegantly trimmed her nails with a knife, her mind already drifting to dinner — according to His Highness Roland, the first semester would come to an end after the exam today. To celebrate, everyone would get a piece of ice cream bread.
This meant that she would get to eat more than one piece of bread.
These days, whenever she had time, she would play Landlord with Ashes and Shavi. This kind of game required a certain level of strategy and skill, and was somewhat similar to the popular game of Beasts Chess used by the upper nobles. Both of them paid particular attention to playing to their strengths and avoiding their weaknesses. In this aspect, she believed that she was not inferior to Lady Tilly, let alone Ashes, and the facts proved this point. Currently, she had six IOUs for ice cream bread, four of which were from Ashes and two of which were from Shavi. In other words, as long as His Highness added this delicacy to the dessert, the two would have to give it to him.
Today was obviously a good day, and when dinner came, she would be able to enjoy three pieces of ice cream bread, which would be enough to fill her stomach!
As for the exam, Idelia was naturally prepared.
Ever since she found out about this, she asked Sylvie about the situation of the last test, and even did the test herself. She found that the exam was very simple, probably similar to the nobles' Knowledge Initiation, which mainly focused on literacy and word recognition. Some of the so-called arithmetic knowledge was the simplest calculation of profit and loss, which was not as good as the accountant, let alone the financial and trade calculations of the family. In this aspect, she was recognized as a genius in the family, and she could already check the account books at the age of 15.
Doing everything to the best of her ability was the demeanor of a noble.
The exam papers were quickly distributed.
There were three questionnaires in total. Andrea quickly glanced at them and raised her head. The three papers were written on the Kingdom's Language Test, Basic Arithmetic, and Elementary Nature.
Very good, exactly the same as last time.
She could not help but smile, spread open the Kingdom's Language Test Paper, and picked up the quill pen to write.
In only a quarter of an hour, she finished answering the questions on the paper. Although the range of vocabulary was wider than last time, and there were a few more strange tests, such as "Reading Comprehension" and "Cloze Test", these were not difficult for her. All he had to do was to answer the questions and complete the sentences after he understood the content. He was just deliberately mystifying things.
Next was basic arithmetic.
At the beginning, it was still a simple calculation of profit and loss, but gradually, Andrea slowed down.
What did that mean? Two intersecting lines and a few points on top of them. Describe it with equations?
Her heart suddenly tightened, and the feeling of reading Natural Science Theoretical Basis came to her again. Why did she know every word, but she didn't know what they meant when they were connected?
The next few questions were the same.
Andrea felt beads of sweat on her forehead.
She took a deep breath, held her breath, and quietly turned her head to look at Nightingale in the back row. As a fellow noble, could Nightingale give her some hints?
However, the other party's expression sent a chill down her spine.
Nightingale stared at the paper in a daze, her quill pen dangling from her mouth, her eyes unmoving for a long time.
Could it be that the questions were too difficult?
Lady Tilly did not participate in the exam, and the legendary talented Miss Anna was also nowhere to be seen. The people around her were still competing with the first page, so there was no way for them to use as reference.
After about another quarter of an hour, everyone began to turn to the second paper. Even so, the pens in their hands did not stop for even a moment. Even Maggie kept writing. Oh my god, she even held the quill in the wrong way. It was like she was holding a claw in her fist. How could she answer the questions like that?
Andrea finally could not hold it in anymore. She pretended that she had finished answering the basic arithmetic paper and turned to the last paper, Elementary Nature.
However, compared to the simple questions and answers from last time, this time there were numbers and symbols that she did not understand. Wait … does this also need to be calculated?
She suddenly felt that the development of things had deviated from her expectations.
The only good thing was that Ashes had stopped writing a long time ago. Obviously, she was also at her wits' end about these questions.
But … Damn it, she thought bitterly. What's so good about winning against a big fool with muscles for brains?
In the midst of her anxiety, Scroll announced the end of the exam. Andrea leaned back in her chair and watched the papers being taken away. For a moment, the three ice creams in front of her didn't taste so good anymore.
*****
"Your Highness, these are all the papers." Scroll put a stack of papers on the desk. "Do you really want to check the results yourself?"
"Yes," Roland said with a smile. "Sometimes, reading papers is also a kind of pleasure."
For example, he could see many strange answers, or capture the pain and suffering of the answers between the lines. These were all spiritual food in his spare time.
"Let me help you calculate the scores?"
"Then I'll have to trouble you." He nodded and then shouted, "Nightingale, don't peek."
"I knew it." Nightingale appeared from the recliner and curled her lips. "Why didn't Anna take the exam? Didn't her studies come to an end? All the sisters of the Witch Union should have participated. "
Roland couldn't help laughing. "Because she and Scroll came up with these papers."
Her voice choked. After a long time, she said, "What about your sister?"
"Tilly … She acted as the examiner and read the papers in advance to see if there was anything overlooked." The prince spread out his hands. "By the way, she got full marks."
Nightingale's figure suddenly looked very heavy.
Roland shook his head helplessly and began to mark the papers.
…
When all the results were tabulated, he stretched himself. The Sleeping Island witches had made great progress in this final exam. Candle, Evelyn, and Sylvie had all passed. Evelyn had improved the most, from five points last time to sixty-two points this time. Although she was still the lowest among the three, it was obvious that she had put in a lot of effort.
However, the results of the three new combat witches were generally low. None of them had scored more than fifty points. It was probably because of the short teaching time and the fact that the proportion of points for the national language had decreased, so it was understandable that their results were not ideal.
However, Nightingale was very bad. She had been learning with the others, but the total score of the three exams was lower than the last time, which made Roland not know whether to laugh or cry. It seemed that learning was really a kind of talent, and sometimes it couldn't be forced.
The only thing that surprised him was Maggie.
She didn't get most of the math and natural calculations right, and the formulas she used didn't match. However, she got 90% of the multiple-choice questions and true/false questions right. In the end, she still managed to get 63 points, which was quite incredible.
How did she manage to do that?
Roland was puzzled for a while.
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