Humanity after the Grand Nirvana period, especially during their battle with the monsters, desperately tried to advance in technology and increase their martial arts skill. Because of this, everyone realized the importance of ‘mathematics’. Anyone planning to achieve in the fields of computer science, biology, and physics needs to have a strong foundation in mathematics.
So──
Mathematics became more important in education. Luo Feng was a bit weak in liberal arts, but had an immense advantage in mathematics.
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June 7th: Science exams
June 8th: Liberal arts exams
In a blink of an eye, it’s already June 9th.
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Inside the testing classroom, the mathematics exam has just been passed down.
“All that’s left is this mathematics exam” Luo Feng took in a deep breath, “The science exam wasn’t too hard, so I should’ve done pretty well on that. I also performed normally on my liberal arts exam. In other words, my grades for those two tests should be what I usually get. As long as I don’t mess up on this mathematics exam, I can get into Jiang-Nan’s number one military academy for sure.”
“I can do this!”
After encouraging himself, Luo Feng lowered his head and started the exam.
There was absolute silence throughout the classroom. Many of the student’s eyebrows started to wrinkle, which showed that the problems were quite difficult. Every year’s high school mathematics exam problems are never easy, as these are the problems that pick out the people to advance humanity’s technology.
“This is pretty hard” Even Luo Feng felt the difficulty, “Even harder than last year’s problems! However… the harder the better!”
If the problems were easy, those worse than Luo Feng at math would probably be able to get around 220 points. Luo Feng would only be able to get around 230 points, so his advantage isn’t really demonstrated.
However, if the problems are hard.
Luo Feng would probably be able to score around 210 points, while those worse than him would only be able to manage around 150 points. In this case, Luo Feng’s advantage is clearly shown.
[PA!] a breaking sound was heard.
The examiner immediately looked towards the sound’s direction, but it was a student who broke his ball point pen in his hand. This student wrinkled his eyebrow and clenched his teeth. As he stared at his exam, it was clear that it was much too difficult. After that, he threw his broken pen aside and took out another one, continuing his exam.
“From the student’s faces, I can tell that this year’s mathematics exam is really difficult” The examiner thought to himself.
Indeed, essentially every single person in the room had wrinkled eyebrows and were in deep, bitter thought. Many students were so nervous that tears started falling.
Students whose mathematics ability were already poor could only think….. Can’t do this problem, can’t do that problem, still can’t do this third problem….. The students were on the verge of collapse as they looked at this kind of exam.
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One hour later, testing classroom.
The time duration for the mathematics exam is 2.5 hours.
At this time, Luo Feng has already finished the ‘multiple choice’ and ‘fill in the blank’ questions. All that’s left are the ‘calculation’ problems. In the mathematics exam, the multiple choice and fill in the blank problems only added up to 90 points. The calculation problems (five large problems) added up to 160 points. Only these types of problems were able to clearly demonstrate the student’s mathematics ability.
“This is really difficult, I couldn’t even solve two of the fill in the blank problems” Luo Feng took in a deep breath, “Below are the calculation problems. This is where the most points are. Solving just one more would give 30, 40 more points!”
Out of the five calculation problems, four of them are worth 30 points, while the last one is worth 40 points.
“Hm?” Luo Feng was already faced with a challenge as he looked at the first calculation problem.
Luo Feng kept thinking and calculating on his scrap paper.
“Yes, change this part by a bit, reverse that, and now wouldn’t I be able to change that to the way I want?” A light flashed in Luo Feng’s eyes. Write! Write! Write! If you just think about it, this problem is actually quite easy to solve. Luo Feng easily finished the entire problem in one breath and then double checked his work.
“Yep, first problem done” Luo Feng looked at his watch on his left wrist and his heart jumped, “The first problem took me 20 minutes? I need to pick up the pace”
Luo Feng lowered his head and looked at the second problem.
After looking at it for a bit, Luo Feng felt that it was easy and started calculating on his scrap paper.
“Hm, not right”