Chapter 40: Before the Results Come Out
The examinations lasted for two days, and then a weekend passed.
Everyone was talking about last week's exam on Monday morning.
Many people in the class gathered together to compare their answers. There were several people gathered around the table in front of Huo Tian. They were discussing the last few high-points questions toward the end of the math paper.
Huo You was stopped by a classmate as she walked past. "Huo You, how did you answer these questions? We all have different answers."
Huo You took their draft paper and looked at it for a while before saying, "The questions in the math exams this time are very difficult. These questions require some competition-level techniques. You'll understand once I write out the steps."
After she wrote down the steps and answers, she passed them to the students. Some of them sighed and said, "I didn't write a single step correctly. I won't be able to get any marks for this."
Some of them said thankfully, "Fortunately, I only made a mistake at the last step. I should be able to get some points."
However, everyone was impressed by Huo You. "Huo You, you're amazing. We've been under so much pressure this semester yet you still have the energy to study the competition-level questions."
Huo You waved her hand and said humbly, "No, it's hard for me to learn them too. I participated in a few competitions when I was in Year One. My parents thought I liked it, so they specially hired a teacher to teach me. It gave me so much stress."
Her classmates laughed and said, "This kind of love is too heavy…
Huo You glanced at Huo Tian from the corner of her eye and realized that she wasn't affected at all. She was still in the mood to sleep.
A classmate accidentally bumped into Huo Tian's table. She was woken up by the commotion and straightened her body sluggishly. Her face was full of fatigue and sleepiness from having been ravaged by the exams.
Huo You was secretly happy. She had been tolerating Huo Tian for too long. Now, all she had to do was wait for her exam results to come out and she would be kicked out of school. How could Huo You not be happy?
She even smiled at Huo Tian. "How did Huo Tian do? Do you want to compare your answers with our classmates?"
The other students had been very curious about Huo Tian for a long time. In class, when the teacher asked her questions, she would be able to give the right answers immediately. However, her class test results were very ordinary. Moreover, the teachers always leave her be regardless if she were to sleep in class or did other things. They had never seen such a strange student before.
Hence, a girl asked Huo Tian carefully, "Huo Tian, we were just discussing the last few questions on the math paper. Did you manage to solve them?"
Huo Tian pulled a long face at the thought of those tedious and long steps.
Just when everyone thought that she didn't manage to solve it, Huo Tian said, "I managed to solve them, but I still have to say that those questions are really difficult."
Of course, for Huo Tian, the difficulty was in writing the steps.
A student placed the piece of paper Huo You wrote on in front of Huo Tian and asked, "Is your answer for the third last question the same as this?"
"The third last question? My answer is different from this."
A smug smile appeared on Huo You's lips. "Then, Huo Tian, I don't think you will be able to score points for this question. After all, you usually don't even bother to write the steps."
Huo Tian said calmly, "You used the wrong formula from the start. So there's no way that you'd be able to get the correct answer, right?"
"What? That's impossible. I also used this formula…"
The students all knew that although Huo Tian didn't like to write down the steps, her answers had never been wrong before. Therefore, all of them started wailing.
However, Huo You was very confident in her answer. "You haven't seen the correct answer, how do you know that my formula is wrong?"
Huo Tian glanced at Huo You before pushing the paper away. She yawned and was prepared to lie back down on the table.
Huo You said angrily, "Hey, Huo Tian! Explain yourself!"
Huo Tian tilted her head and looked at her. "I'm not your teacher, why should I clarify things?"
Just as Huo You was about to continue arguing with Huo Tian, Mr. Wang walked in.
"It's time for class, why are you still gathered over there?"
The form teacher could not hide the joy on his face. He gave everyone a huge smile for the first time, giving the students in the front row such a scare that they sat up straight.
Mr. Wang said happily, "The teachers have been working overtime over the past two days to finish marking the papers. Although the rankings have not been released yet, I can reveal to everyone that the overall results of our class are very good."
A guy asked loudly, "Then who has the highest score in our class?"
"I just said that the rankings are not out yet. Don't worry, it'll definitely not be you, Lin Hao."
At this moment, Huo You raised his hand and asked, "Teacher, how did Huo Tian do?"
Mr. Wang glanced at Huo You and said, "The humanities teachers are not very satisfied, but her overall results are not bad."
Huo You asked again, "Then who has better grades between the two of us?"
Mr. Wang frowned and said in a low voice, "We don't know about that yet. Huo You, why are you so concerned about other people's results?"
"Of course I care about Huo Tian's results. After all, if her results are much lower than mine, not only will she be embarrassed, but she will also be expelled!"