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Chapter 144 - 143, Middle School Exams Like a Tiger (Second Update)_1

Chapter 144: 143, Middle School Exams Like a Tiger (Second Update)_1

On the morning of the middle school exams, Ren He couldn’t see Ren or Mrs. Ren; those two probably didn’t even know that today was the day of the exams...

Ren He, Yang Xi, and Xu Nuo were in different examination rooms, located in three different schools, so they couldn’t go together. They had agreed to meet at the small restaurant by the entrance to Yang Xi’s house after the exams that evening.

Examination tools included pencils for marking the answer sheet, black pens, erasers, etc. Ren He also found it interesting; at 26 in his past life, he thought he would never enter an examination room again, yet fate had its quirks, mystically sending him back to relive his student days.

In his past life, before the college entrance exam, a teacher taught them that if they encountered a question they couldn’t answer, they should at least copy the question. To put it nicely, the marker might just give you 1 or 2 points for it.

But that’s not how Ren He explained it to Xu Nuo. The questions he prepared for Xu Nuo only accounted for 80% of the total score, so Xu Nuo was bound to come across questions he didn’t know. Ren He told him, "If you encounter a question you don’t know, don’t just copy the question, understand? All the teachers are teaching that, and there must be a vast number of students doing it. The markers must be sick of it already!"

The real trick is to memorize some classic jokes. While others copy down the question, you write down a joke on your paper. That way, you’ll stand out, won’t you!?

Xu Nuo was bewildered at the time, "Do you have some misunderstanding about standing out?"

"Misunderstand my ass, just do as I say, and it’ll be perfect!"

Anyway, Ren He could ensure Xu Nuo would at least score 80% now, so making a joke was all in good fun. And indeed, it was true: the markers were well experienced, immediately knowing what’s up when they saw copied questions. Were they supposed to give points to every student who copied? That’s just laughable.

But imagine the feeling of stumbling upon an interesting joke amidst the dry marking process—it’s a freaking pleasant surprise; that joke is worth two points!

Ren He did just that during his college entrance exams in his past life, and every subject’s final score was at least 4 points higher than his estimated score. It definitely was the power of the jokes at work.

Xu Nuo looked at him with suspicion and distrust, feeling like he might have encountered a con artist...

Ren He’s exam location was conveniently nearby his home, just a 2-minute walk away. After finding the examination room and sitting at his spot, he waited for the teacher to check his admission ticket before the exams began.

How nostalgic such a formal examination room was. Since starting university in his previous life, Ren He hadn’t taken an exam honestly. Cheating wasn’t even called cheating; it was called mutual prosperity! Now, the white paper strips on the desk in front of him, with exam information and admission number, felt oddly familiar to Ren He.

Ren He had no intention of scoring too high on the middle school exams. In 2006, the total score for Luo City’s middle school exams was 645, with 30 points for physical education, which Ren He unsurprisingly aced...

During the physical education exam, when Ren He effortlessly jumped 3.2 meters in the standing long jump, even the supervising PE teacher was flabbergasted...

But his classmates were numb to it, thinking it was quite normal. After all, he made jumping from buildings look like a game...

By the time Ren He completed the 50-meter dash, standing long jump, shot put, skipping rope, and pull-ups, even the visiting PE teachers supervising the exam were numb. They couldn’t help but ask if Ren He had considered pursuing sports, to which Ren He immediately rejected the idea.

Being involved in sports was minor; he was playing with his life...

And with a total score of 645, scoring 610 points would normally be enough to rank among the top contenders, while 540 points would suffice to get into his current school.

Ren He’s expected score was 580 points, not too high, but still above average, surpassing most people. It would give Ren and Mrs. Ren something to be proud of when talking to others; after all, wasn’t he taking the exam just to earn them some face?

Filial piety is just about doing things that make your parents a bit happier; it’s not that hard. But that doesn’t mean Ren He would live for his parents and follow the path they laid out for him. Those are two different concepts.

When Ren He received the test paper, he breathed a sigh of relief, the middle school exam questions hadn’t deviated from what he remembered, which meant that his memory when it came to exams was still reliable, and Xu Nuo was bound to score well this time.

That meant work on the game development could continue smoothly.

The proctoring teachers were two women, who, with their gold-rimmed glasses, appeared quite stern...

The one standing on the podium said coldly, "Pay attention to exam discipline. Don’t let a little fidgeting lead to wasted efforts and regrettable outcomes," she glanced at her watch and declared, "You may begin your papers now!"

Ren He’s pen flew across the paper as he began writing the answers, his super memory really was a great thing—at least the knowledge he had learned didn’t have to be returned to the teacher.

The difficulty of the middle school exams compared to the college entrance exams was as different as Ren He drifting on a bicycle at 23 kilometers per hour versus 68 kilometers per hour, the disparity was immense.

Hence, he could even comfortably control his own scores, ensuring his total was hovering around 580 points.

By the time the afternoon chemistry and physics exams came around, those were still his weak subjects, but combined, they were worth no more than 50 points. He genuinely disliked chemistry and physics, and had not even reviewed them on his own, even when he was helping Xu Nuo with revisions—he had skipped over chemistry and physics entirely, because to teach someone else, you have to understand it yourself, yet Ren He was an arts student during his college entrance exams, and his chemistry and physics were weak his entire life.

He felt he was simply incompatible with chemistry and physics, and decided to leave those scores up to fate...

After finishing the questions he knew how to do, Ren He did just as he told Xu Nuo he would, writing a whole paper full of jokes and then earnestly requesting the teacher for some points. He had no idea with what kind of mood the grading teacher would score his paper...

It was truly a paper crammed full of jokes...

Xu Nuo had to memorize his jokes, but the ones in Ren He’s head came naturally on the spot...

This wasn’t a chemistry or physics test paper, but a collection of jokes!

Ren He considered that for this 50-point chemistry and physics paper, he would be lucky to scrape up 20 points, right? So, if he wanted to hit a total of 580 points, he couldn’t afford too many mistakes on the other papers.

Suddenly, someone behind him chuckled. He turned around to see that it was one of the proctoring teachers who had come around on her rounds and couldn’t help but laugh out loud upon reading the jokes on his paper.

After being spotted by Ren He, she walked away nonchalantly, only to casually circle back a little later to continue reading the jokes...

Ren He’s face darkened—this stern-looking proctor was quite the joker herself!

When he submitted his paper, he even noticed that this proctor specifically set his paper aside, just to have another look at the jokes...

And that wasn’t the end of it. The next day during the exams, the same proctor occasionally made her way to his desk to see if he had written any more jokes! She seemed somewhat disappointed and sighed when she found none!

Are you sick in the head? Ren He was simply at a loss for words!

He had mastered the subjects of each exam he took that day, as they were necessary to compensate for the massive deficit in chemistry and physics. If he didn’t do well on these exams, he wouldn’t be able to reach 580 points.