Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 166

It could be seen that Wuzhong’s reputation was more popular than that of No. 1 High School. But this time, someone from No. 1 High School actually took first place. No wonder it was a shock to Song Peifeng, the original top scorer in Wuzhong. Because he had always been very steady, just like every time before, he was outstanding and his scores were ridiculously high.

Even the class teacher of Class 10 in Wuzhong—yes, the key classes in Wuzhong were just the opposite of No. 1 High School. They were Class 10 and Class 9. When the class teacher of Class 10 saw such a ranking, he felt sad and had to come over to comfort Song Peifeng, “It’s not that you did poorly in the exam, it was just an accident. It’s normal for someone to do well in the joint exam. Even if she scores one more point or less, it may affect her ranking. This does not mean that her score was really higher than yours.”

That was not just nonsense from the Class 10 teacher.

The Chinese compositions were all corrected by the same teacher. Several school joint examinations and thousands of essays had to be graded. The teacher who started marking the essays could still read them carefully and grade them properly. But later, if the essay was not particularly eye-catching, the teacher had basically become numb to it. Sometimes they didn’t really look at how the essay was written, but only checked the title, form, quotations, etc. Just like a mathematical formula, the teacher saw that the student had written an excellent essay. All the major elements of the essay were written. After a quick glance at the essay, if they thought it was good, they rated it according to their feelings.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to finish grading thousands of essays in a day without being able to read them all.

They were teachers themselves and had corrected the joint entrance examination papers, so they knew the system very well. Sometimes, it really depended on luck whether a student got more or fewer points.

In his opinion, Jiang Ning was lucky that time and was given a few more points by the teacher, while Song Peifeng had just performed stably. On the other hand, Song Peifeng himself was very calm.

He was not a native of Wucheng. He attended the best school in the provincial capital for primary and junior high school. In his original school, his grades were very good. Later, when his father was transferred for work, he came to Wucheng and took the high school entrance examination in Wucheng. His grades were very good. He directly surpassed a large number of local students in Wucheng. After entering high school, he had always been the best in Wucheng.

His classmates and teachers from his original school would often send him review papers and study materials for the high school in the provincial capital. He would also take them to the teachers at his high school and share them, never keeping anything private.

He looked at the scores of the classmate who was one point higher than him, smiled at the teacher who comforted him, and said with a lighthearted tone, “It’s okay, teacher. If a classmate has good grades, I am happy for her.”

His father was the top leader in Wucheng. If during his father’s tenure in Wucheng, his son could get admitted to one of the two top universities in the country, it would also be good news and a political achievement for his father.

He himself was working hard with those two universities as his goal, and he also hoped that this student would not let him down.

The county’s performance rankings were first spread among teachers in each school on a small scale, and then posted on the bulletin boards of each school, mainly Wuzhong No. 1 and No. 2 High Schools.

The No. 2 High School posted the ranking of the top 100 students in their grade, and then the number of students from the school who made it into the top 200 in the county. As for the specific ranking, it wasn’t marked. They only listed the ten students who made it into the top 200 in the county. The good news for those two hundred students was that the names and photos of the ten top scorers were posted on the honor roll, and each of them was awarded a scholarship ranging from fifty to one hundred yuan.

That was already a lot of money. Even Wuzhong and No. 1 High School might not set up scholarships for examinations such as the joint examination. Generally speaking, scholarships were only awarded after the final exam of each school year.

That time, the honor list was posted during the day, and it didn’t cover the ranking list of the last midterm exam. Instead, a separate space was made on the other side of the bulletin board, where the county’s performance ranking list was posted.

The teachers at No. 1 High School were quite interesting. They posted the rankings of the first-year students on the left bulletin board and the rankings of the second and third-year students on the right bulletin board.

The results for the first year of high school were posted like this: for example, the first place, Jiang Ning, followed by brackets with the score and school.

Second place, Song Peifeng, brackets, score, and school.

And so on…

So all the students at No. 1 High School could clearly see how many No. 1 High School students and how many Wuzhong students were in the top ten, especially the first and second places.

Whether they admitted it or not, when they saw the rankings, even if they weren’t the ones who achieved those results, the students all puffed up their chests and felt proud, as if they themselves had ranked first and surpassed the Wuzhong students.

The name Jiang Ning was suddenly well-known in No. 1 High School.

Before, there were many students who were solely focused on their studies and didn’t care about what was happening outside their own classrooms. But now, everyone noticed that name and asked around to find out who Jiang Ning was. When they learned that the top scorer was from a parallel class, they were all surprised and gave her a thumbs up.

Even the students in Class 1 and Class 2 were talking about Jiang Ning’s performance in the competitive class, saying that she had only been in the class for a month, yet she had already surpassed many of them who had been in the class for three months.

Jian Ning wasn’t really surprised by the result.

Many students had never seen Song Peifeng in person, but they had seen his high school entrance exam results.

Song Peifeng was a standout, with a high school entrance exam score several dozen points higher than the second-place student. In the following exams, he had never once dropped below first place. If it hadn’t been for the “dark horse” Jiang Ning, Song Peifeng would have been number one yet again.

In fact, Song Peifeng’s results in that joint examination were still remarkable to many people.

Jiang Ning’s progress was incredibly fast, almost abnormally so.

Many were surprised, but the only one who wasn’t was Jiang Ning herself.

She was familiar with the name Song Peifeng, and they even crossed paths later.

In her sophomore year of high school, a banner was hung at the gate of Wuzhong for an entire year. It congratulated Song Peifeng, a student from their school, for being admitted to Tsinghua University as the top scorer in the city’s college entrance examination.

Students from both No. 1 High School and Wuzhong looked up to that name for a whole year.