As soon as Shen Shi arrived, a tight gong sounded in the examination room!

This is the sound of the gong that closes the paper, and as soon as the candidates hear this gong, they must stop the pen in their hands and cannot answer the paper. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The invigilators of each examination room received the candidates' examination papers in turn, and then the special officials tied up and sealed the examination papers in each examination room!

At this time, the gantry can be opened and the candidates can be released.

With the sound of three cannons, the gate of the Gongyuan slowly opened, Zhong Hao carried the examination box and the cover paper, and walked out of the Gongyuan with all the candidates exhausted.

After the three days of exams, it was really exhausting and exhausting, and Zhong Hao never wanted to enter this tribute academy again.

After all the candidates leave the Tribute Academy, the Dragon Gate will be closed again, and the candidates can leave the Tribute Academy, but the examiners can't leave yet, and they won't open again until the day of the release of the results, and these examiners can leave the Tribute Academy!

After the candidates leave the Gongyuan, their examination papers will be sent to the collection center in the Gongyuan first.

In the collection room, there is a collection officer who first checks whether there are any irregularities in each test paper, mainly to see whether the words are written on the outside of the grid, and then to see if there are marks on the inside. If there is, this test paper will be singled out, and it will be completely out of play.

Passing papers will be stamped with an exam number and handed over to the seal office. The duty of the seal office is to blur the name, that is, to seal the candidate's personal information and seal it, even if the examiner cannot tear it open.

After that, it was handed over to the transcription office, which transcribed all the scribes in the hundreds, and transcribed the examination papers with a red pen, each of which had to be copied in its original form, without any mistakes, including any typos. On the completed volume, the name of the person who transcribed it should be indicated.

In order to ensure the accuracy of the transcription, the examination papers are also transferred to the reading center. In a group of two people in the reading room, you read me to start reading wrong, and after confirming that it is correct, you should also indicate the person who read it. A copied test paper is signed by three people, and all three will be held accountable if there is a problem in the future.

The examination papers were completed to prevent fraud, and then they were sent to the internal curtain officer in charge of marking the papers.

There is only a curtain between the courtyard where the test papers are processed and the marking papers are marked. But this curtain is insurmountable, the inner curtain officer and the outer curtain official can only speak through the curtain, no outer curtain official can go in, and every inner curtain official cannot come out, this rule must not be violated, in order to prevent collusion between the inner curtain and the outer curtain people.

The inner palm received the red scroll sent by the outer curtain and gave it to the chief examiner Wang Gongchen!

However, the examiner did not mark the papers himself, but distributed them to a group of fellow examiners.

This examination paper is graded separately. Although the imperial examination of the Great Song Dynasty opened more than ten subjects at the same time, and Jinshi was only one of them, but today, the imperial court is a unique Jinshi, so there are many more people who are admitted to the Jinshi Department than the Ming Sutra, the Ming Law and other subjects combined.

Therefore, there are also the largest number of graders who are sentenced to the judges' papers, with a total of 30 people, and there are only one or two graders in each of the other subjects. Fortunately, the most important thing in the Great Song Dynasty was officials. Even if there are more graders, Da Song will not worry.

The graders of this Jinshi course generally read the examination papers of the locked hall examination first.

The number of Jinshi places for the locked hall test and the number of Jinshi places for the main examination are separated.

A total of 320 people have been admitted to the science department, including 120 people who have taken the entrance examination in the hall and 200 people who have taken the entrance examination.

There are only 12,300 candidates for this screaming exam, and this is 120 people, which is basically equivalent to one-tenth of the middle ratio! This percentage is still very high.

There are about 5,000 candidates in the main examination, and there are only 200 places, and the ratio is only 25 to 1, which is much more difficult than the locked hall test.

And those who can participate in the main test are all in the solution test in various places. That is to say, the level is not too bad, and those who are too bad generally do not understand the test. Of course, such a remote state or a frontier state is another story. Those people in the prefecture area who are at the same level as Nong Zhigao can come to participate in the provincial exam! However, there are very few places in those states, and basically each state gives one or two places symbolically. Of the nearly 5,000 candidates in the main examination, there are only 1,200 candidates from remote states and detention states, and most of the rest of the candidates are still quite high.

In the lock hall test, there are many children of high-ranking officials, and there are also some who rely on the merits of their fathers and ancestors, and many of them are some people who eat and wait for death, they are purely here to try their luck, and exclude this part, in fact, the proportion of winning in the lock hall test is much lower than ten to one.

Therefore, the difficulty of this test is relatively much greater than that of the lock hall test.

However, the difficulty of the lock hall test is low, and it has not changed over the years.

Of course, there are also many scholars from poor families who have called for reform, but the imperial court has not moved to change the proportional advantage of the locked hall test, and still insists on maintaining the proportional advantage of the locked hall test. The only change that is beneficial to the poor scholars is that it is stipulated that the champion of each subject must be selected from among the candidates who are taking the main examination, and the candidates who are locked in the hall examination are not eligible to be named the champion.

However, this change has no impact on most of the poor scholars. After all, it takes three or four years to take one subject, and one subject is just such a champion, which is out of reach for most of the poor scholars, so the imperial court's regulations on the implementation of the locked hall test and the main test have little impact on them.

Of course, the reason why the imperial court turned a blind eye to the huge proportional advantage of this locked hall test, or deliberately turned a blind eye, was naturally related to the officials of the imperial court themselves. The Great Song Dynasty treated scholars and doctors well, and treated them the most generously in all dynasties. In this treatment, grace is also a very important aspect. The prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty far exceeds that of previous dynasties.

Who of these high-ranking officials in the imperial court today does not have three or two children to be officials, and who does not have a few children to participate in the hall lock test? Well, of course, there are none, but who can guarantee that their children will not participate in the lock hall test in the future. Who would be willing to cut off this path that would make it easier for future generations to be Chinese?

Even if one or two high-ranking officials occasionally want to change the proportion of the lock hall test, the other high-ranking officials will collectively oppose it. Because they are violating the collective interests of all high-ranking officials, there is basically no suspense in this matter.

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Let's get back to the point and continue with the marking process of the exam papers.

Those fellow examiners, as markers, will be numbered in bundles of test papers in order to avoid suspicion, and these markers will draw lots in turn, and read which bundle they shake.

Each grader reads about 200 copies, first reading the scriptures, and then reading the Moyi, which has a standard answer, and is the easiest to read.

Regarding the marking of this post and Moyi, the examiner follows the same standard agreed by Wang Gongchen and everyone, the candidate can make a maximum of one mistake in the ten questions of the post, and a maximum of two mistakes in the ten questions of Moyi, uh, these two cannot be juxtaposed, and the Moyi and the scriptures can not be wronged in a total of two in order to be considered passed.

A candidate's ten questions are wrong, and Moyi is wrong two out of ten, and he can't pass this time.

Of course, the marking standards of this post and Moyi are agreed in advance by the examiner and the same examiners before the marking of each subject, and they are not the same every time, but they are basically the same, and the fluctuation of fault tolerance is not large.

Only those who pass the scriptures and Moyi are eligible to be read further.

If you don't meet the requirements, you will be directly deposed, even if the poems and articles behind you are written like flowers, and the examiner won't even read them.

Some may think that this is unfair, but it does greatly reduce the workload of the examiner, and it makes sense...... Tijing and Moyi only look at the basic skills, if they don't even learn these most basic things, it can be seen what the candidate's learning attitude is.

For such a candidate, how can he be dismissed from the Ministry of Rites? Even if his poems and essays are written in a variety of flowers, they can't be selected.

Probably in this section of the scriptures and Moyi, two-fifths of the candidates will be dethroned, but the real difficulty in judging the examination paper is behind, that is, the poetry and strategy.

Poetry and strategy are both subjective questions, and the examiner must read them over and over again in order to judge the merits.

In order to prevent the examiner from being perfunctory, the examiner of each subject asks the examiner to add sentence readings to the candidate's essay. Classical Chinese is devoid of punctuation. Well, the classical Chinese that later generations read was naturally for the convenience of reading, and later generations added punctuation.

Only by adding punctuation can you prove that you have read it, and that every copy should be punctuated.

It's not enough to read intensively, you also have to write reviews. Regardless of whether they are admitted or not, the reasons for the marking officer's judgment must be given.

Each examiner has 200 test papers and 1,600 essays, which are required to be completed rigorously within 10 days, which is still a very large task.

However, none of the officials involved in the marking of the papers dared to be perfunctory, because the examination papers reviewed had to be sent to the Ministry of Rites for grinding and reviewing the examiners' marking work. Even if it's just incorrect punctuation, it's a misjudgment. Miscarriage of convictions will result in fines, and if the miscarriage is serious or the number of misconvictions is high, demotion.

Therefore, the pressure of marking can be imagined, so no one wants to be the same examiner to mark the papers...... Therefore, every time there is a scientific examination, the marking officer is the Ministry of Rites, and he is forcibly appointed.

The examiners will send the papers that they think are desirable back to the examiner, and the deputy examiner will first read them, and if they think they are advisable, they will write a 'desirable' and hand them to the examiner, and if they think they are undesirable, they will send them back.

The examiner generally does not refute the face of the deputy examiner, and finally approves the word 'medium', and the candidate who made this paper will be selected.

If the marking officer finally takes not enough places to take the taxi, he also needs to take it out of the exam papers that were knocked down in the front, and re-read it again to pick out the ones that can be taken.

All in all, there is a set of effective regulations to prevent fraud and slackness in the scientific examination and marking work of the Great Song Dynasty, and the marking of the papers can also ensure fairness and impartiality as much as possible.

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Of course, this marking work has nothing to do with Zhong Hao, he is now completely liberated!

Zhong Hao walked out of the Dragon Gate of the Gongyuan, and after walking for a while, he was found by the servants brought by Yang Huaiyu who came to pick him up, and he was soon pulled into the carriage.

Soon, Xu Feng was also found by the servants of the Yang family and sent to the carriage.

As soon as Zhong Hao and Xu Feng met, they both looked at each other with a tired face and smiled.

"Big brother, third brother Xu, how did you do in the exam?" Immediately, Yang Huaiyu laughed again and said, "Look at what I asked, the two elder brothers will definitely be able to go to high school!" Let's find a place to celebrate! Do the two elder brothers want to go to Pan Lou or Yan Lai Lou? Why don't you go to Pan Lou, didn't the eldest brother say that you know Pan Lou's Oiran and Lin Yuchen? The younger brother also went to meet this famous beauty! ”

Zhong Hao heard Yang Huaiyu's words full of anger and cannonballs, and couldn't help but smile weakly: "I want to eat a good meal and sleep beautifully, as for going to have fun, let's go another day!" ”

Xu Feng also said with a tired face: "Hehe, I'm the same as Wenxuan, I just want to eat something good, and then get a good night's sleep!" "Xu Feng is also quite particular about eating and sleeping on weekdays. I slept in the examination room for two nights, and I was afraid that I would be tossed enough, because Zhong Hao found that his face was very pale. When Zhong Hao went south with the Western Army to quell the rebellion, this group of people was used to sleeping in tents together, but Xu Feng had not undergone this exercise.

Yang Huaiyu saw that the two of them were really tired, so he had to give up his plan to go to Pan Lou, and said with a smile: "Let's go home and have a big banquet at home!" Tomorrow when you recuperate, let's go to Panlou to have a good time! ”

Zhong Hao and Xu Feng both said: "This is very good! ”

At that moment, Yang Huaiyu asked the servants to drive home.

On the way, Yang Huaiyu looked at Zhong Hao and Xu Feng who were tired and exhausted, and couldn't help muttering: "How can everyone be tortured like this when I go to the Tribute Academy, Mother~, look at this posture, this is more scary than going to the three-day prison, fortunately, I don't have to go to this Tribute Academy for the exam!" ”

Zhong Hao and Xu Feng were carried back to the fine house in the west courtyard of the Yang family by Yang Huaiyu, and Yang Huaiyu asked people to arrange a large table to shock the two. Well, I don't know if Zhong Hao and Xu Feng were shocked by the posture of this tribute academy provincial test, anyway, Yang Huaiyu was a little surprised!

Mrs. Du heard that Zhong Hao had finished the exam, and she also came over to ask Zhong Hao how he did in the exam. Mrs. Du is still very concerned about Zhong Hao's exam.

Regarding Mrs. Du's question, Zhong Hao could only answer in general terms.

Of course, Zhong Hao felt that he was unlikely to be Chinese-style. Unless most of the more than 1,000 candidates for the hall test are unlearned, then maybe they still have some hope. Otherwise, any candidate who has been studying seriously for a few years will probably have a higher level than him.

Although Zhong Hao felt that compared with those candidates who studied all year round, the level of ancient literature was really unbearable, but he felt that his luck this time was relatively good, and the objective questions of this scripture and Moyi had passed well. In fact, Zhong Hao felt that he should still have a little hope of the Chinese style.

Even, Zhong Hao felt that if he was judged by strategy this time, he might naturally have a lot of hope for Chinese style. He still has some confidence in his last three policy theories, if he doesn't collect them, but only talks about the dry goods, I'm afraid there are few who can compare with his own.

Of course, Zhong Hao also thought about it casually, in fact, all along, the evaluation criteria of the Great Song Dynasty Kaike scholars have been based on poetry, supplemented by strategy.

Zhong Hao and Xu Feng ate Haisai by Yang Huaiyu for a while, and when they were full of food and drink, they immediately went to their respective houses to fall asleep.

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