Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 135 County Examination

The county school has two fixed exams every year, one is the mid-year exam in June, and the other is the annual exam in December.

The exam in June is indeed a mid-year exam for students in the lower dormitory and middle dormitory, but if it is an imperial examination year, it is a county school graduation exam for the students in the upper dormitory.

The county examination is also a pre-examination for the examination. Only after passing the examination can you get the admission ticket for the examination, and a recommendation letter for the imperial examination issued by the county school.

Although the students in the previous two years had graduated from the county school, not all of them left the school, and some students attended the master's secret class as chief professor disciples.

This is why the chief professor recruits students. The imperial examination is held only once every three years. Many important contents must be taught to students in the year of the imperial examination. Therefore, some outstanding students must be given a reason to stay in school to attend lectures.

The annual county examination is held on June [-]th, with a total of three days, one day for poetry and scriptures, one day for discussion questions, and one day for countermeasure questions.

All county school dormitory students must take the exam, and students who have not taken the exam in the previous year can also take it as a make-up exam.

Before dawn, the bell of Wuben Building rang.

Nearly [-] students from the upper hall and students from previous years entered the Wuben Building one by one.

The test on the first day was an argumentative essay, requiring no less than [-] words. The time was four and a half hours, that is, nine hours, starting at six in the morning and ending at three in the afternoon.

200 people sat in five classrooms, and Fan Ning sat in the second examination room. His examination number was B NO.15.

Of course, the county test is not as strict as the solution test, but it is not allowed to bring books, bring your own stationery, and there is no need to search. There are two professors invigilating the test room, one after the other, patrolling the test room.

'when! 'A bell rang and the exam began.

A teaching assistant walked into the examination room with a sign, and the sign was today's argumentative essay test question: "Much work must be doubled".

The title comes from "Mencius Gongsun Chou": "A person who has a story half ancient will surely double his work."

To do this question, you must understand the content of the entire article, then explain it, name your point of view, and find some evidence to support it.

The questions are really not difficult, as long as you can understand the meaning of the questions, you can basically pass the exam.

At this time, calligraphy has become the key to passing. If the calligraphy is too bad, it will be vetoed and eliminated first.

Fan Ning's calligraphy is no longer the same as Wuxia Amon two years ago. After two years of hard training, his calligraphy has reached several steps, and even Zhao Xiuwen is full of praise.

Fan Ning is especially good at regular script. When he writes a word, it looks like flowing water, which is very beautiful. Even Zhu Pei's regular script was slightly inferior to him.

Fan Ning wrote down the title on a piece of manuscript paper, "Multiplicity of Efforts".

Of course he is familiar with this question. The whole article is about Mencius’s disciple Gongsun Chou asking whether Mencius needs to build meritorious deeds if he is in charge of Qi’s political affairs.

Mencius believed that the state of Qi is powerful, and if it is governed with kingly and benevolent government, as long as the people are half as favored as the ancients, the achievements can be much greater than the ancients.

The idiom "get twice the result with half the effort" comes from here.

There is a lot of room for this question to be used. It can be used in learning, or it can be written about the national economy and the people's livelihood, such as the development of productivity.

Fan Ning decided to start with agriculture.

The emergence of various agricultural books, silkworm books and other agricultural monographs, the refinement of various agricultural tools, the refinement of the use of manure, and the promotion of various agricultural technologies have greatly increased grain income. In the Jiangnan area, one mu of land can even harvest five As many as six stones.

Because of this, the same iron farm tools appeared in Tang and Song dynasties, but the role played by Song Dynasty was much greater than that of Tang Dynasty. '

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The three days of the county examination passed in a flash.

The end of the county examination means the end of the two and a half years of the county school career of the students in the dormitory. Of course, the students can apply for an extension of residence for half a year, and they will not officially leave school until the end of the year.

Three days later is the day when the county examination results will be released. The county examination only announces the pass list, not the ranking. For most students, they are not very nervous. After all, the pass rate of more than [-]% makes most students feel at ease.

However, for students with poor grades, today's list is a list of life and death. If they can't even pass the county exam, it means that they don't even have the qualifications to be a scholar.

Early in the morning, Mingren and Mingli lingered under the notice board in front of the Qinxue Building, they kept looking inside the building, waiting for the list to be delivered.

There were dozens of students behind them, most of whom were in the middle or lower grades, or students who had failed the rankings before. They were anxious and restless, waiting in torment just like Ming Ren and Ming Li.

Every student knows well that they may not be able to pass the exam, but at least they are qualified to take part in the examination and get the title of a scholar, which is also an explanation to their parents.

"Out!"

Someone yelled, and several teaching assistants came out of the Qinxue building with a roll of red paper between them.

Everyone stepped aside one after another, and the three teaching assistants smiled, brushed a layer of paste on the notice board, and pasted the five lists on it.

There is a list for each academy, and there is another list showing the make-up exams of students who failed the list in previous years.

Ming Ren and Ming Li rushed forward, looking for their names on the first list, which is the list of Luming Academy, the first name is Fan Ning, then Su Liang and Duan Yu, they also saw Li Dashou .

"Fan Mingren, Fan Mingli!"

Seeing their names at the same time, the two cheered excitedly and clapped their hands heavily.

Their names are behind the middle, indicating that the two of them did well in the exam.

Fan Ning, Su Liang, and Duan Yu happened to be walking, but they saw Ming Ren and Ming Li jumping out like two big horse monkeys from a distance, shouting loudly: "We passed the exam! We passed the exam!"

Black lines appeared on the foreheads of all three.

"Fan Ning, no way! They actually passed the exam?" Su Liang was very surprised.

Fan Ning also found it inconceivable that Ming Ren and Ming Li were nicknamed "the cornerstones of Luming Academy". If these two pass the exam, it can only prove one thing, the county school has been released.

"It is impossible for the county school to release water!"

Duan Yu said calmly: "Zhang Jiaoyu made it very clear before that this time the county examination will be strict."

"Just go and have a look!" Su Liang ran towards the list.

At this moment, Ming Ren and Ming Li saw Fan Ning and hurried over. Ming Ren said triumphantly, "A Ning, we passed the exam!"

"Good luck! Will it be the last two again?"

The two looked at each other with embarrassment in their eyes, Ming Li hesitantly said: "This time we played really well, our rankings are all a little below the average."

"Really? Both played well?"

Fan Ning heard the loophole in the words, and both of them were ranked in the middle.

It's also because he knows these two guys too well, and the two people's calligraphy is not good, so they can be ranked in the middle and bottom, which shows that they are not usually outstanding. Is this possible?
At this time, Su Liang ran over and said to Fan Ning in a low voice: "There are four people from Luming Academy who did not make the list."

Fan Ning nodded, and said to Su Liang and Duan Yu, "Go first! I'll talk to these two guys."

After Su Liang and Duan Yu left, Fan Ning said politely to Mingren: "Come with me!"

He brought the two brothers to a remote place, and Fan Ning asked coldly: "Tell me! How did you get the title?"

Based on their normal performance, they are lucky not to fail the rankings, but they are still ranked in the middle. There is only one possibility. The two of them have obtained the county exam questions in advance, and then paid someone to help them write the essays.

In addition, Fanning really can't think of any other reasons?
"Ah Ning, don't talk nonsense! How could we get a topic?" Mingren muttered in a low voice, he obviously lacked confidence when he said this.

"Then it's none of my business, you go and explain the reason to the teaching."

Fan Ning turned around and left, the brothers quickly grabbed Fan Ning, Ming Li scratched his head, and said a little embarrassedly: "The main reason is that Zhang Jiaoyu's window has not been repaired, we went to find a place to enjoy the shade, and accidentally turned into Jiaoyu's study , and accidentally found a handwritten test question in his drawer, we wrote it down curiously, and then..."

"Then you spent money to consult a certain great scholar, didn't you?" Fan Ning coldly added the rest of the words for them.

Mingren laughed, "That's probably what it means! Ask a great Confucian for advice, if you don't know him before, how can you do it?"

Fan Ning slapped each of them hard on the head with a folding fan, "You two idiots, since you did it, you should at least do it a little more covertly, and you can account for the last few exams, but one of the middle exams, it's not It’s like telling others, did you know the exam questions in advance?”

The faces of the two became bitter, and Mingli said for a while: "A'Ning, give me an idea!"

Fan Ning walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said to the two: "If Zhang Jiaoyu asks about you, you will say that I wrote the poem before, and you should write it down.

The silent scriptures are the county entrance examination questions that I once bet on. You just memorized the countermeasure questions for the shipping test this time, and you said that this was the last time to solve the test questions. You have seen many similar countermeasure questions.

As for the topic of discussion, let’s say that Zhao Xuezheng asked this question in his secret class last year, and you asked me for advice, and that’s what the instruction said, do you understand? "

The two were overjoyed and said in unison: "We understand!"

At this moment, Su Liang and Duan Yu waved to Fan Ning from a distance, "Fan Ning, Xuezheng is looking for us for something important."

(End of this chapter)