Chapter 379: Cheating
A week later, the exam was on schedule. The "cram students" www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion have serious faces. The exam takes place in a large classroom where the "Wizard Level Exam" is held, where the sounds and magic of the outside world are insulated, and it is not disturbed by the ghosts that roam the castle all day. More than 30 cram students sat far away from each other, but they could still talk to each other before they handed out the papers.
Everyone is not a child, and they know that there is no point in being nervous and worried at this time, so they are cheering each other up and blessings, and "must get good grades" is the most common thing everyone says.
The exam was personally proctored by the principal, Armando Duppert, and other teachers were allowed to assist in the proctoring through periscopes outside the door, but were not allowed to enter the examination room. Dumbledore had shaken hands with each student at the door of the classroom, wishing them success in their exams. When Zhao Mai entered, he took Zhao Mai's hand and asked him in a low voice, "How are you going to take the exam?"
"Finish the exam. Zhao Mai only said four words, and then walked in. Dumbledore smiled slightly, and after completing the handshake and blessing ceremony, sat down on a bench in the hallway outside the classroom, with his hands on his knees, and waited quietly.
"Aren't you coming to see how your students are doing?" Professor Spence of Magic floated to Dumbledore's side, "This is the first time this tuition exam has been recorded in the history of the school, and you are not excited at all?"
"It's just an exam, and the students in it are all good. Dumbledore said, "I have always thought of exams as a test, not a proof of character and potential. If they had been able to go to school in their early years, some of them would certainly be the best of the wizards now, and others would have been good wizards, and we should make up for the time they lost. ”
"You're very good to your students, but how do they learn? How many pass and how many eliminate?"
Dumbledore smiled and shook his head, not answering the question.
Zhao Mai sat at the front of the classroom on the left side, Tolkien was in the middle of the far right, and the tall Addo was naturally in the last row, and it was very difficult for the three of them to see each other, let alone communicate anything. Principal Dippet stood in front of Zhao Mai, and his high-pitched voice spread throughout the classroom:
"In this exam, everyone has to answer the same questions, but the questions will move by themselves, and they can only be answered by grabbing them, so no one's paper is the same. The pen you use also casts an anti-cheat spell, so put away all the little tricks. Any candidate who cheats will be dealt with as if they had no score, which means that Hogwarts will not accept you!"
"All of you are on the radar of the Ministry of Magic, and some of you are being given special attention because of certain circumstances!" his gaze swept over Zhao Mai, Tolkien, and Addo, and the meaning was self-evident. "Don't think that because you're older than the other students in the school, you can go beyond the school rules and discipline, it's absolutely not allowed! Remember, any student who attracts attention in the exam will have a hard time going on in the future!
Since there is a lot of content in the exam, spanning multiple grades at once, four cylinders are issued in front of each person, on which are written grades 1 to 4, containing the exam questions of the corresponding grade. Open the cylinder marked one, and inside are the Charms, Herbs, Flight, and History of Magic exam questions for the first grade. Due to the written test, the questions in the flight lesson are basically given points.
The bell would be struck every half hour, the bell would be rung every hour, and at the fourth time the bell would fly up and return to the table next to the headmaster, and the roll would be put away. If you forget to put the finished paper in the cylinder, it is equal to a zero point.
The subjects are different in each grade, and some of them are difficult to test in the form of written questions, so the papers will be short and can be completed faster than other subjects. Basically, there is an hour for the papers of each subject, and there will be a special reminder for the bell ringing before the papers of the corresponding grade are received. Therefore, the faster you answer the first questions, the more time you have to deal with the later questions. It is said that the more complicated the questions will be, so everyone thinks that if you want to get the entrance qualification for a higher grade, it is better to be faster in the front and leave more time in the back.
But another way to think about the exam is not to be too ambitious, and make sure to stay in school first. After all, the higher the grade, the more books you need to read and the knowledge you need to learn, and some even only have a general direction, and there is no direct answer in the textbook, so you need to find the information yourself. How can cram students have so much time to read and memorize?
Xiaohua hid in Ado's body, relying on her ability to suppress magic and psychic abilities to blend into the examination room. If there is no Xiaohua, Ado can only write his name at most, and he can understand and answer the rest of the exam questions, so Xiaohua needs to control and write down the answers. Xiaohua set a goal for herself to be at least in the second grade, preferably in the third or fourth grade. However, she is not good at rote memorization, so she is not very confident. However, if it is changed to a test of "feeling" and "perception", the people present will not be able to test her together.
Tolkien knew that his level was only average among the crowd, but the format of the exam gave him some advantages. He has his own set of shorthand methods, which are like compressing documents, and can "condense" a large number of words and bullet points. So he thinks it's okay to finish the third-grade exams, while the fourth-year students need to look lucky.
Zhao Mai is different from all of them. One of the psychic abilities is a technique called Psychic Engrams, which stores a large amount of meditation results. As long as you continue to use psychic ability maintenance, you can access it at any time.
Functionally, there is a kind of memory ball in the wizarding world that is capable of doing similar things. The difference is that the memory ball stores memories, so you have to remember it first, while the psychic memory crystal only needs to meditate, and you don't need to remember it before storing it, so it is easier to read a lot of information. In addition, the memory ball is a magical piece of equipment that will definitely be found in the exam room. However, the engram is in tune with Zhao Mai's own psychic ability, and can be placed in the head as an intangible and substantial thing, and when detected from the outside, it is like a part of the brain and will not be discovered.
Yes, Zhao Mai passed this exam by playing music and cheating methods from the beginning.
The two courses of animal and plant class and history of magic, only need to query the information is enough to answer, Zhao Mai uses his mind and soul for two purposes, and naturally writes quickly. It took him only half the time to answer the question of the first cylinder, and after installing it, he disassembled the second cylinder.
In Year 2, flying lessons were the equivalent of Quidditch activity lessons, with questions about the rules of Quidditch on half a sheet of paper. The topics for Potions and Astronomy came up, right after the topics for Transfiguration and Animals. Fortunately, the students recognized that the more troublesome course appeared in the second grade, that is, the arithmetic class, which was a headache for everyone.
The only course that can't be passed by rote memorization is this.,There are this courses from the second grade to the seventh grade.,It involves ordinary mathematics.,There are also some geometry-related magic pattern drawing and map making.,And everyone is recognized as the most perverted topic There are two categories:One is to calculate the optimal casting model of a spell according to the person's physical condition and the details of the wand;The other is to use arithmetic for divination.。
Zhao Mai rubbed his hands, he graduated from a serious mathematics major, although this does not mean that he will definitely be able to get a high score, but when he has enough time, it is not a big problem to get a good one. (To be continued.) )