Chapter 38: Exam Paper Score: Zero!
The exam ended. All the students’ test papers, answer cards, and draft papers were safely brought to the marking site.
The security at the marking site was no less than the bank’s security at the cash truck.
During the marking process, the marking teacher was not allowed to use mobile phones, and all the test papers were anonymously recorded. According to the different reminders, they were separated and recorded into a unified electronic device to be corrected.
As the math teacher as well as Jingcheng Experimental High School’s dean, He Yang, took the initiative to mark the last big question.
Because this question was the easiest to change.
After all, the difficulty was set here. For most students, the final question was impossible to solve.
So, the answer card was blank.
Just mark it with zero.
“Zero, zero, zero… All Zero. Looks like this batch of students can’t do it.”
“If they can’t solve this last big question, how are they going to challenge the top schools in the country? I’m really worried for them.”
“I’ve changed it for the whole morning, but I haven’t found any solutions that make my eyes light up.”
He Yang held a cup of strong tea in his left hand and pointed at the screen with the mouse in his right hand.
Suddenly.
A test paper filled with formulas appeared in front of him.
“This is…”
He Yang put on his glasses and looked at it carefully. He found that he couldn’t understand the formula written on the test paper at all.
The solution was inconsistent.
But there were no mistakes in every step of the deduction.
The last big question was a spoof question and didn’t need to be solved.
According to this student’s deduction, even though the deduction was a little too complicated, every step was correct and the conclusion should be correct.
For the test papers that could not be confirmed.
According to the marking process, it should be reported immediately and judged by the question setting team.
Just as He Yang was about to click the upload button.
He heard a colleague beside him who was marking the test papers discuss, “This time, some of the mathematics test papers that were distributed are of rather high quality.”
“That’s right, the correct rate of multiple-choice questions is high, the fill-in-the-blank questions don’t fall into the trap, the proof questions are direct and powerful, and the arithmetic questions are calculated meticulously.”
“Which school do you think this batch of papers came from?”
“Do you even need to ask? Of course, it’s Yun Ding High School!”
“Did you listen to Yun Ding High School’s public lecture? That math teacher’s lecture was impeccable.”.
“After class, I specially went to ask where the teacher came from.? In the end, you know what he said?”
“What did he say? What did he say?”
“The person who lectured the entire class was actually not a teacher at all! He was a student!”
“There’s actually such a thing?”
“That’s right.”.
“They used the student guidance system from the European and American education systems.”. Simply put, it’s the gifted students leading the underachievers.”.
“At that time in the class, I remember telling you about the similar type of question for the last big question in the mathematics test. However, the student guidance said that if you went any deeper, it would involve a famous conjecture in the history of mathematics. There’s no conclusive conclusion at the moment, so it hasn’t been developed yet.”
“No wonder you are so sure that it’s a student of Yun Ding High School.”
“Yeah, it can only be their school. Yun Ding High School’s results in the exam this time might be the best in the city again.”
“Be more confident and remove the word ‘might’.”
“It seems that the pattern of secondary education in Jingcheng city has completely changed.”
“The original Municipal No. 1 High School and foreign language school could still fight for the national key High School. Now that Yun Ding High School is here, there is probably no hope.”. The experimental High School is even worse. If Yun Ding High School is enrolled, the experimental High School will definitely be squeezed out of the city’s key High School.”
“Shh. Watch your words, watch your words. There are teachers from the experimental High School in the marking room!”
…
He Yang sat in a corner at the back, listening to the discussions of the marking teachers from other schools.
He had indeed heard of the public classes at Yun Ding High School.
He had to admit that the other party’s strength, even if he was a student guide, was far beyond the knowledge of the teachers.
Moreover, he was able to analyze and help the students understand.
The more he thought about it, the more He Yang was jealous.
If he had not left Yun Ding High School in the beginning and instead followed Principal Fang Yuan to do a good job.
Wouldn’t he be the one who would accomplish something today?
It was also rumored that Principal Fang Yuan was generous. He was never stingy with his students’ scholarships. Sometimes, he felt that the amount of the government’s reward money was not enough, so he would take the initiative to pay out of his own pocket.
The reward for teachers was even more enviable. Teachers who trained good students were rewarded with a car worth six hundred thousand each for semester.
This was simply incomparable to a public school like the Experimental High School.
He Yang looked at the test paper in front of him. Although he could not understand a few steps of the working, with his years of mathematical knowledge and intuition towards the truth, he knew that there was no problem with the working.
However, if this full score was given to the students of Yun Ding High School, then Yun Ding High School would really get first place in this exam, just as they said.
If Yun Ding High School was promoted to a national key High School.
Then all the corresponding rankings would go up.
And the number of key High Schools was limited.
In this way, it was very likely that the Experimental High School, whose results had been gradually declining recently, would be pushed down!
He had just transferred to the experimental High School, and his heels were not stable, so he could not allow any accidents to happen.
He Yang carefully read the “Points to Note for Marking teachers of Examination Papers” booklet.
He found one of the reasons for points being deducted: scribbles on the paper.
If the paper was dirty, so that the answer area could not be identified, the marking teacher could deduct the marks at their discretion.
If there were obvious special marks on the paper, the marking teacher could determine that there was a suspicion of cheating and directly report it as a question paper.
Once verified, the whole paper would be dealt with zero marks.
The way the student wrote the questions was too complicated to understand the proof process at all.
Moreover, he messed up the blank parts of the paper.
There was a great suspicion that he was sending a hint to the marking teacher of the same school to remind him that he was a student of Yun Ding High School.
In that case, he would deduct all his marks.
He Yang gently waved his mouse and drew a bright red circle on the screen
Zero marks!