The chief examiner and the same examiner of the Dayong Dynasty will be the same as the township exam.

The meaning of the so-called internal curtain officer is that he conducts questions, marks papers and selects candidates "within the curtain", and will not interfere with the examination situation of external candidates.

On the other hand, it is the outer curtain officer.

The significance of the outer curtain officer is that he is responsible for searching the entrance, supervising the field and patrolling the field, and even the outer curtain officer is responsible for the needs of the candidates, as well as ensuring a good marking environment for the inner curtain officer, and ensuring that the inner curtain official cannot have any contact with the outer curtain official and people outside the Gongyuan.

The inner curtain officials, after the announcement of the candidates in the imperial court and the Confucian Temple, will immediately enter the capital, enter the tribute courtyard, some of the distant inner curtain officials, mainly elected by the Confucian Temple, in fact, have been decided before the year, because many people are coming from other places to enter the capital to prepare.

Therefore, every time it comes to the examination, the temple wishes, bachelors and others in the Confucian Temples around the country are actually very low-key, and even refuse to meet guests, which has also formed a conventional practice.

Before the inner curtain officials enter, they will first worship the Confucian Temple, and there will be officials from the Ministry of Rites sent by the imperial court to cooperate with them to carry out large-scale worship ceremonies at the Confucian Temple.

However, the ceremony is not open to the public, and all the examiners will go to the Temple of Literature, defeat the saints and ancestors, and then enter the Temple of Literature, and then start to ask questions, which will be completed in a few days.

As a candidate for the exam, what Ji Ning needs to do is only to enter the exam on the afternoon of the eighth day of the second lunar month, and the official opening of the exam will be on the morning of the ninth day of the second lunar month, until the end of the exam, there will be a total of nine days, and after the exam, he will not even be able to appear until the next day.

The content of the exam is basically the same as that of the township test, but there are some differences.

What Ji Ning prepared is actually very adequate and comprehensive, and it cannot be limited to the content of the Four Books and Five Classics, because in the examination, it is not only necessary to look at the candidate's performance in the Four Books and the Five Classics, but also to focus on the understanding of a lot of knowledge, and must be knowledgeable in order to be admitted.

Different from the township examination, the examination will also add the examination of poetry and songs, which is also the examination subject that will only be available at the level of the examination.

As for the examination of the Sutra mentioned by the imperial court, it will be added to the third examination of the question.

In this way, the first exam is still four books and five scriptures, the four books are two, and the five scriptures are three, of which the focus is still on the four books, and the pressure of the first exam will be lower than the previous township test, and it is also a simple opening to allow candidates to adapt to the rhythm of the exam.

The second session is a poem, a table, a subject, and a judgment, plus five words and eight rhymes, which is still less pressure than the township test, because there is only one question for each one, which is equivalent to only four application questions and one poem in the second session.

The third test is to ask the question of adding the sutra, and the sutra is a selection question, which is also to not affect the questions of the first two exams of the candidates, once the first two performances are not good, you can choose the question of the sutra in the third field. The third question is five questions, which involve five things about history and current affairs, so that candidates can make their own answers, which are more inclined to argumentative essays.

Each exam is three days, and the papers are collected separately, and they will not wait until the ninth day to collect the papers together, so the candidates are equivalent to three exams, and each one is independent, which is different from the township test.

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Ji Ning's preparation for the exam, mainly to prepare for the questions of the Four Books and Five Classics, in general, the exam pressure of the exam will be lower than that of the township exam, but the accuracy required is higher.

After all, the township examination only focuses on the first exam, and even the first three articles of the four books, and when it comes to the examination, the questions of the four books become two, and it is not necessary to ask questions in the "Analects" or "Mencius", and the scope of the examination should not only consider the "Analects" and "Mencius" that are most likely to be questioned, but also consider the other "The Mean" and "University", so it is necessary to memorize some more annotations to prevent some questions from involving the content of the annotations.

The Five Classics questions of the examination are also very important, Ji Ning's examination scriptures will be handed in when he enters, he has five options, which are one of the five classics, and the last questions he got are the three questions of the scriptures selected in the Five Classics, and the wave of these three questions will also be added to his first exam results.

In the second exam, in Ji Ning's opinion, the pressure is the least, because the second exam is still an application exam.

If you can write these articles well, you can be a good second-in-command, to put it bluntly, it is to write the official documents for the yamen.

The big and small things in the yamen need people to write, and these things need to be written by the jinshi themselves.

As for the five-character and eight-rhyme poems, it may also be a new attempt for Ji Ning, and it is not difficult for him to write poems in the exam, after all, there are three days in the second exam, and he also has enough time to complete a poem, so that he will not have less than half an hour to think about it like a poetry club.

The third exam, in Ji Ning's opinion, was the most difficult in the entire exam.

For example, for the view of a certain historical event, we must also determine who is righteous and who is evil, or what impact this matter has on etiquette and religion, these questions will narrow people's thinking, which is similar to ideological and political questions, and cannot be written according to their own ideas.

But after the examination, the questions became well-educated court officials and famous Confucians, their literary atmosphere is quite high, the direction of the questions is more extensive, and they can even discuss things in the court, even if there is a "former prince rebellion" in the question, it is not unusual, because the Dayong Dynasty also has conventions and rules, anything can be said in the examination room, there is no taboo, even the emperor has to agree that students can be clear, and they can have their own unique opinions on anyone and anything, and they can not criticize this opinion.

Although the test has an open-minded mind and accepts all the insights of the candidates, it also has a limitation, that is, "retain your right to speak, but not your right to admit".

To put it bluntly, you will criticize the government and the king in the test, but if you say these things, you don't want to be admitted in the exam, and you will make many mistakes, if you want to be in the Jinshi, please be early next time.

This still adds shackles to the candidates, so that the candidates cannot speak freely.