I Have Decided to Go Look for My Father

When 60-minute time was up, the teachers collected everyone’s test papers.

The four teachers graded and swapped the papers on the spot and they quickly graded all 8 sets of them.

The dean looked over everyone’s test papers carefully, had a discussion with the other teachers and finally arrived at a decision on how to split up the teams.

“Let me announce the dividing up of teams.” The dean wrote them down on the blackboard as he talked.

“Event 1, mathematics, Gu Xi, Sheng Xiuyan, Wang Zhouwei.

“Event 2, chemistry, ……”

Each group consisted of three members.

Surprisingly, Gu Xi, Sheng Xiuyan, and Gu Chenyi would each compete twice.

Of the remaining people, with the exception of the top of junior class, all the other individual would only be competing in one event.

Yan Jie was at least top of the junior class. That made sense.

Gu Xi and the others were only sophomores, why would the teachers pick the three of them to do the heavy lifting?

The others were baffled.

The others peeked their heads over at Gu Xi and the others test papers curiously – they just wanted to know their differences.

When they saw them, they were dumbfounded.

“Em…….” Wasn’t Gu Xi’s test papers a bit on the simple side?

– What took them 7-8 steps to solve, it took her only 3 lines!

It seemed she had skipped a lot.

At least Gu Xi’s one had something written on them. Gu Chenyi and Sheng Xiuyan’s ones were even worse!

Gu Chenyi, too, drew a diagram much like Gu Xi’s for the first problem. Then he wrote on there – “It looked to be about 30 or so degrees from the diagram. As such, the answer is C.”

Sheng Xiuyan’s one was even worse. First problem: Inkling.

He might as well have said if there were 3 long and 1 short one, then pick the short one; if there were 3 short and 1 long ones, then pick the long one. If they were all different length then pick C!

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“Teacher, what kind of standard was that?” Someone couldn't help but asked.

They were picked to compete in the mathematic segments with these kinds of answers? This must be a joke.

Looking at the few with the dissatisfied look, the dean said nonchalantly, “This is multiple choice, not problems. We asked you to list out your steps not to so that we can grade your steps but to follow your thought process.”

That was the biggest difference between an examination and a competition.

The dean paused a little and went on, “During a competition, the key isn’t the how you solved the problem. Rather, the person who could best determine the accurate answers with the fastest speed would be able to score the highest.”

Especially in the final time-limit part. Speed and accuracy were the key.

Having said that, the dean looked over at Gu Xi and the other two. He hesitated for a little while before she finally decided on Gu Xi and Sheng Xiuyan for the final time-limit round.

She knew Sheng Xiuyan’s ability very well and so she was not at all worried.

As for Gu Xi, not only was she not worried, she was anticipating it, in fact. She looked at the test papers for the final round during last year’s competition. Gu Xi scored the highest among all contestants.

Had the other stupid not made so much mistakes that the total score was lowered, the victory would have gone to Liming instead of HSAU.

As for the reason that she did not pick Gu Chenyi – it was his first time participating in a competition of this sort. She worried that he would have stage fright, this being his first time.

“Alright, so that’s that. Now focus on preparing for your segments. We will make adjustments accordingly should the need arise,” said the dean.

She went on to give them more information about the competition. “This is the first time for some of you so I will remind you here. The competition will start on a Friday and go over the weekend. That will be three days total. The school will arrange for transportation and room and board. Don’t forget to let your parents know……”