A Snow Biscuit
Chapter 38 Math is Still Harder Than Girls
Xia Xinyu should be a powerhouse who can rival Tang Siwen in mathematics. Not counting the total score, the difference between the two in math is minimal.
Tomorrow's pop quiz will determine the candidates for the Dome Battle. Although Tang Siwen has already been decided internally, she will definitely give it her all to take first place in the pop quiz, so as not to give her classmates something to gossip about.
Therefore, if he wants to simulate the exam, he needs to transfer Xia Xinyu's answers to his side as much as possible and get the same score as her.
If she holds back, then the meaning of this simulation will not be so perfect.
"Okay."
Xia Xinyu gave an okay gesture, looking at Chen Yuan with a light smile, as if to say—I will definitely win.
[Although I'm not that competitive, it's kind of fun to be praised as a top student.]
So that's her mentality...
If Chen Yuan were to evaluate Xia Xinyu's performance with an 'Oh, not bad,' it would probably frustrate him to death.
"Then I'll go get the small folding table."
"No need." Just as Chen Yuan was about to get up, Xia Xinyu stopped him. Then she turned around, took out a sunflower-shaped cushion and placed it by the bed, then lifted a corner of the quilt, knelt in front of the bed, and planned to start writing the test paper.
"Isn't that uncomfortable?" Chen looked at Xia Xinyu behind him, feeling that this posture was a bit uncomfortable.
"Hehe, it's okay." Xia Xinyu turned her head and explained with a smile, "Actually, when I was at home, I was never comfortable sitting in the chair at the desk, so I always knelt like this. Come on, let's start."
"Alright."
With that, Xia Xinyu turned her head, ready to start the exam.
At this time, she was wearing casual shorts, so when she sat cross-legged, her thighs were more exposed than before, and she didn't look as thin visually as before, but more healthy and fleshy...
[Class 3, Grade 1...]
Eh eh eh, why is she writing so fast!
Before he could get distracted, Xia Xinyu was about to start doing the questions, so Chen Yuan quickly turned around and wrote his name and class at the top of the test paper.
Class 18, Grade 1, Xia...
Who said your surname is Xia?
Smearing the character Xia into a black blob, Chen Yuan wrote his name, Chen Yuan.
Then, without daring to delay for a moment, he went straight to the questions.
[A and C are excluded, there's no negative sign, choose d]
Great, he can hear her clearly.
It's the same as his own way of thinking. The first question on a math test paper usually involves very little calculation, and you can almost see the answer at a glance.
Following Xia Xinyu's problem-solving思路 (silu, train of thought), Chen Yuan chose d for the first multiple-choice question.
Then, immediately following the second question.
[Parallel... perpendicular... A, wrong. B is wrong, C is correct. Take another look at d, um, d is also wrong, so it's C]
Chen Yuan kept up quickly with such simple questions, until the eleventh question, when the amount of calculation suddenly increased, Xia Xinyu finally began to think.
[The maximum value of z=x+y is...]
[The generatrix length of a cone is 8, and the circumference of the base is 6π, so its volume is...]
Wait, this isn't a multiple-choice question, is it? Where did she suddenly jump to?
Chen Yuan was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked for it in the fill-in-the-blank questions. Sure enough, after Xia Xinyu spent more than ten seconds on multiple-choice question 11, she quickly switched to other simple questions—the first fill-in-the-blank question.
This strategy is the same as his own.
Fortunately, he didn't lose track.
Immediately after, Xia Xinyu quickly solved the first three fill-in-the-blank questions.
[Should I skip the fourth question and do the big questions, or should I take a look... oh, it's quite simple, so I'll do it by the way.]
Simple? Why does it look so difficult to me...
After solving the fourth fill-in-the-blank question, Xia Xinyu returned to the multiple-choice questions, first doing question 12. In about five minutes, multiple-choice questions 12 and 11 were solved.
A total of 16 questions, 25 minutes, all solved.
[Um, 80 points in the bag]
Damn, Crazy Xia!
Great, if it's multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank, as long as he focuses on listening to Tang Siwen's voice, he will be able to copy it one hundred percent.
Copy Ninja Kaka-yuan.
He can definitely keep up with the first question of the big questions. Chen Yuan continued to follow Xia Xinyu's train of thought, writing the solution, writing the answer, writing...
Halfway through writing, he suddenly froze.
No more inner voice!
Did the superpower fail?
No.
After determining the思路 (silu, train of thought), Xia Xinyu didn't need to think about the subsequent answers at all. And for Chen Yuan, although these questions were simple, he was too reliant on the inner voice. Now that he has lost his assistance, he panicked. He couldn't understand the simple questions at all, and his thoughts began to wander...
Calm down, calm down.
Closing his eyes, Chen Yuan took a shallow deep breath and decided to leave this question blank for now. Anyway, he can write it himself. Then, he carefully read through the other questions first, so as not to be unable to keep up with Xia Xinyu's thoughts later.
About three minutes later, Xia Xinyu completely finished the first big question. She began to attack the second problem-solving question, question 18. Soon, Chen Yuan successfully took the 12 points.
Question 19, also taken down.
Although there were slight stumbles in the middle, the process and results should be fine.
Question 20, the elective question 22, was also barely completed by following Xia Xinyu.
To be honest, there were actually some problems with the process, but Chen Yuan really couldn't keep up, so he could only bite the bullet and finish writing.
Finally, there was question 21, the most difficult question. Chen Yuan was already feeling a little overwhelmed with just the first part. Fortunately, Xia Xinyu was very focused when doing this question, and he only needed to follow along and write.
The second part also went smoothly.
The third part was a field that Chen Yuan couldn't touch at all, but Xia Xinyu seemed to be getting more and more courageous as she fought. Chen Yuan's pen also seemed to be voice-controlled, producing beautiful writing with every stroke, writing more and more enthusiastically.
[Oh no! Ah!]
What?
What's wrong?
Chen Yuan was even more nervous than Xia Xinyu.
[Ah! I misread the conditions, I have to cross out everything from the second part onwards!]
"Tsk." Chen Yuan clicked his tongue and put the pen on the table, raised his head, pursed his lips, and looked complicated.
No, what are you doing?
After the two sighed in their hearts at the same time, they lowered their heads at the same time, and took out their pens to draw black blobs on the test papers in complete synchronization...
After an hour and a half, Xia Xinyu finished writing all the questions, without missing a single one. After carefully checking, she turned the test paper over and covered it on the bed.
Then she got up, carefully stretched her arms, walked to Chen Yuan's side, and watched him solve the problem from the side.
As a result, she was shocked at first glance.
[This... what strategy is this? Putting question 17 last?]
Are you asking me?
If you had done the questions more carefully, would I have kept question 17 for last?
[You did it right, that's good, but you're a little slow]
What's wrong with being slow? It's enough to get the points, this Xia Xinyu... big idiot!
"Okay, let's exchange and grade them."
After solving question 17, Chen Yuan picked up the test paper and handed it to Xia Xinyu.
"Don't you want to check it again? There are still twenty-five minutes left." Xia Xinyu asked.
"What kind of easy questions are these? No need to check."
Xia Xinyu's checks are much more detailed than his own. Chen Yuan has full trust in her.
"Okay, then let's grade each other's."
Just like that, the two sat down at the desk together and began to grade each other's test papers.
All that can be said is that, as expected of Xia Xinyu, when she said 80 points were in the bag, they were in the bag.
There was no difference in the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, and she didn't miss a single fill-in-the-blank answer.
The first three big questions were also perfect, earning 36 points.
The two slightly more difficult questions earned 10 points and 8 points respectively, and the final elective question earned 8 points.
So the total score is 142.
Strong!
Finishing a set of test papers in an hour and a half and scoring 142 points, this Xia Xinyu feels even more powerful than Tang Siwen.
Damn it, the top 100 disciples of the Eleven Sects' Crown Ranking are so vulnerable.
What's despairing is that this is not even a direct disciple of the Four Sects...
The second sect in Haidong Prefecture is so terrifying!
"142 points, as expected of a top student." Although he wanted to make Xia Xinyu anxious and experience the feeling of almost but not quite, since the other party wanted to be praised, Chen Yuan naturally didn't skimp on his praise.
"131 points... You're also amazing." After Xia Xinyu finished grading the paper, she couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for Chen Yuan while exclaiming, "And you also misread the conditions for the second-to-last big question... I knew it, the question was set up too confusingly!"
A mistake is a mistake, what kind of excuses are you making, Xia Xinyu?
You made Chen Yuan, who was copying you, make the same mistake. Reflect on yourself next time.
"131 points... Where did I go wrong?"
Chen Yuan felt that the point difference was a bit too big and was a little strange, so he reviewed the deducted points on the test paper and found that, in addition to the process points deducted for the big questions where he didn't keep up with Xia Xinyu's pace, he got one multiple-choice question wrong, deducting 5 points.
How could this be?
Chen Yuan frowned and carefully compared the two test papers.
Then, he found the reason.
For one question, Xia Xinyu read 'B' in her mind, but in reality, she chose 'C' for that question, because the answer content of C was a line segment starting with Bd.
Although she read it as B in her mind, her vision fed back C, so naturally she wrote C.
This is the misleading nature of the inner voice!
It seems that the ninjutsu copied by Kakashi-yuan is ultimately a counterfeit, and there is still a gap compared to the original.
But fortunately, he will be more careful and skilled tomorrow to avoid such mistakes.
As long as Tang Siwen scores 140, and he exceeds 130, he will have a great chance of obtaining the qualification to go to the Dome Battle.
The first step is key.
"Your math is really good, why do you say you're not good at it?"
"No, who are you saying is not good... Oh, you're referring to grades."
After thinking about it, Chen Yuan explained, "Lao Mo has been keeping a close eye on me recently, and then I seemed to have suddenly understood, and my math has improved a lot. However, my other subjects are still pretty bad..."
"What was your score on the last exam?"
After mentioning grades, Xia Xinyu suddenly asked a little concerned.
After recalling it, Chen Yuan replied, "504 points."
"I see..."
After Xia Xinyu responded, she started putting the required textbooks into her bag.
And Chen Yuan, because it was already very late, planned to leave. Just as he was about to go, Xia Xinyu suddenly said to him face-to-face, "That... current grades can't determine anything. I believe you can improve by 121 points on the college entrance exam."
"Why is it such an uneven number..."
[Because 504 + 121 equals 625]
I see...
625 was Xia Xinyu's score on the last exam.
So, she wants him to catch up to her score...
"Because 504 + 121 equals 625."
Xia Xinyu put her hands behind her back, tilted her head slightly, and showed a clean smile that didn't back down at all.