Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 104

Excluding the 120 people in the key classes, there were only 80 people left who could make the list. If the scores were averaged, there were eight parallel classes, which was almost ten places in one class.

If a class had less than ten students on the list, or even less, it would inevitably leave the impression of being the worst class in the grade on students in other classes. Such an impression was also detrimental to the teacher’s professional title evaluation.

Therefore, both teachers and students attached great importance to that midterm exam performance ranking list.

Everyone was a little absent-minded at that time and had no intention of reading. They kept glancing at the two bulletin boards in front of the teaching building outside the window from time to time. The bulletin boards currently posted the final grades of the first semester of the second and third grades of high school.

Xu Xiuli was concentrating on reading. Occasionally she would look back out the window. When she saw Jiang Ning finally arrive, she raised her face and smiled at her. “Why are you here so late? The food I brought you was almost eaten by them.”

Jiang Ning also thought about the snail meat sauce she kept in the cellar. She brought a bottle with her when she first started school and never ate it since. She didn’t know if the snail meat sauce in the cellar could still be eaten.

Jiang Ning smiled and touched her belly, saying, “I haven’t eaten dinner yet. I’m so hungry.”

“What were you busy with? Why haven’t you eaten yet?” Xu Xiuli was a little surprised.

She liked to eat chicken, and what she brought this time was braised chicken with soybeans. “I brought braised chicken with soybeans. I’ve kept it in the drawer of the table in the cafeteria. I’ll get it for you.”

Jiang Ning grabbed her and told her not to go. After a while, the class teacher came. After the first period of evening self-study, they decided to go eat wontons.

Thinking of the face of the class teacher, Teacher Wang, not smiling, Xu Xiuli hesitated and sat back.

Sure enough, within five minutes, the class teacher, Mr. Wang, walked into the class with his signature model steps and raised his signature lips again. “You are all waiting for the results,” he looked around. “Don’t worry, the results are out, and someone will post the results soon.”

When the students in the class saw the class teacher’s reaction, they knew that Class 3 did not do too badly in the exam, and they all breathed a sigh of relief.

The class teacher became serious, and even the corners of his lips that were habitually raised were retracted, “Some students, don’t relax too early. Not only will the results be posted on the bulletin board, but also in the class.”

Such eyes and tone made some students in the class who felt they had not done well in the exam shudder, especially He Xiaofang, who was so frightened that she did not dare to raise her head for fear that she would be the last in the class. She stayed until the first period of evening self-study. After class, she was not in a good mood. Even when Jiang Ning went to the cafeteria to have dinner, she didn’t notice. When she raised her head to look for Jiang Ning, she and Xu Xiuli were gone.

It wasn’t until the evening self-study of the second period started that Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli came back. Xu Xiuli was holding Jiang Ning’s arm. She didn’t know what they said, but they were looking at each other and smiling.

He Xiaofang watched the two people go in and out without calling her. The feeling of being excluded by the two made her feel sad and want to cry. At that time, someone said, “Have they posted the midterm results list?”

Everyone looked out of the window when they heard the voice.

The night was dark, and everyone could not see clearly. They could only vaguely see a teacher opening the glass door of the bulletin board and posting something inside. They couldn’t help but follow the image they saw and moved closer to the window. Some people ran to the corridor to see.

The Chinese teacher, who happened to be occupying their evening self-study in the second period, saw it and scolded them, “I didn’t hear the bell. If you really want to see it, why don’t you get better grades so that you can be on the list?”

The Chinese teacher seemed to be in a bad mood, with a serious face and a test paper under his arm. After entering the class, he threw the test papers on the table and asked the Chinese class representative to hand out the test papers. Then he looked back at the blackboard. He found that the grade ranking of this class had not been posted next to the blackboard.

Because he was not the class teacher of Class 3 but just a subject teacher, he did not pay attention to the results of other subjects. He only cared about the results of the course he taught. He said with some dissatisfaction, “I know your class teacher is an English teacher. You pay more attention to English, but the same goes for Chinese. Both are the main subject and hold 150 points in the college entrance examination. Don’t you also need to spend more energy on Chinese?”

The average score of the Class 3 in English was among the top three in the grade, and the individual subject scores were also very impressive. However, the Chinese language scores were not only average but not in the top five, and the single subject scores were not as outstanding as in the previous monthly exam. That made him very dissatisfied. “It doesn’t matter if you can’t get better scores than Class 1 and Class 2. Why can’t you surpass other parallel classes?” 

He glanced at everyone, and finally his eyes fell on Jiang Ning and paused for a second. “I don’t think you don’t work hard. You just don’t take my Chinese language to heart.”

After he finished speaking, everyone also got their Chinese test papers. Jiang Ning looked at her Chinese score, 116.

Midterm exams were different from weekly exams and monthly exams. Weekly exams and monthly exams only tested their mastery of the knowledge in the books that week or that month. Midterm exams and final exams were like comprehensive exams. Not only did the difficulty levels of the questions increase, the scope of the exam was also wider and more like a real exam.

Because Jiang Ning felt that liberal arts were easy and did not need to be studied, she focused all her energy on mathematics, physics, and chemistry, which were difficult for her, and was not so concerned about Chinese, politics, and history.

Mainly because she thought it was not difficult. Once she picked up math, physics, and chemistry, she would be able to get good grades in liberal arts by just studying, so she was not in a hurry to review these courses.

In the end, she had been away from school for too many years, so she still had to review. Jiang Ning felt that she would probably be out of the top ten ranks in her grade.

After the evening self-study, many people couldn’t help but run outside to look at the bulletin board. Even the slightest rain could not resist their enthusiasm to see the grade rankings.