In practice, I originally just wanted to be a slacker.

However, given the current situation, second-year students might indeed think that way, but first-year students might not necessarily think that way.

After all, it's only been a week since school started, and the first-grade classes probably haven't even fully integrated yet. Before they've experienced the harsh realities of school, they might not necessarily choose to help their classmates.

Many first-year students will likely team up with high-achieving second-year students to compete for individual competition rewards.

However, besides that, there was another thing that Kamio Tatsuya was curious about: the class points.

The rule for failing is clearly stated: if a first-year student fails, no matter how many class points they maintain, they will not have any points added to their personal score for the next three months.

Does this mean that the class points were announced just one week after the start of the semester?

Could it be that Class D was too outstanding last year, so they changed the policy this year? The monthly moral assessment has been reduced to one week?

"Um, teacher, how do I register after we've chosen a partner? And can we cancel our partnership after it's been established?"

While finding a partner is one thing, confirming the partnership after finding one is also very important. Just like in business, verbal promises can be easily reneged on.

However, it is clear that the school has taken this into account.

"The partnership is formed with the consent of both parties. One person in O sends an invitation, and then the other accepts."

Although you can team up from this moment on, once you've accepted a partner, you can't disband the team for any reason afterward.

As he said this, the image on the electronic blackboard changed again, displaying the method and rules for determining partners.

You can only send one application to the student you wish to partner with using O each day (if the application is not accepted, the application opportunity will be reset at 0:00 the next day).

If the other party accepts the application, the partnership will be confirmed and cannot be dissolved in the future.

Except for force majeure events such as dropping out of school or serious illness.

Once the two partners are confirmed, their information on O will be updated simultaneously at 8:00 AM the next morning, making it impossible to accept new applications.

O will not display which student has been chosen as a partner.

"Teacher! No junior student would ever want to team up with me! How am I supposed to do this exam, being such an idiot?"

Hearing Ishizaki's scream, Ban also twitched his face, and then glared at Ishizaki fiercely.

If I could help you directly, would you need to ask me? I would have told you already, okay? What an idiot!

"It is your responsibility to work hard to pass the exam, and it's okay even if no one wants to team up with you."

If the teams are not fully paired by the day of the special exam, teams will be randomly selected at 8:00 AM that day.

"But those who were left behind at that time were almost all people with low academic qualifications, right?"

Ishizaki was well aware of this, because students with high academic abilities would inevitably receive many applications to form teams.

"You can discuss this later. Also, for students who cannot find a partner, five percent of their final score will be deducted as a penalty."

Currently, four students have dropped out of the second grade, bringing the total to 156, while there are 160 students in the first grade. Therefore, as stated on the board, second-grade students will not encounter situations where they cannot form teams.

Conversely, there will be four students left out in the first year, and if these four students are not academically strong, they may fail.

Hearing what was said on the board, Tatsuya Kamio rubbed his head.

This exam is probably an exam that Tsukishiro is holding specifically for Ayanokoji.

If so, then there must be pawns arranged by Yuecheng among the first-year students.

This piece is used to trigger Ayanokouji's self-destruction.

Even if we drop out of school together, so what if we don't get any personal points for the next three months?

As long as Ayanokouji is successfully expelled from school, nothing else matters.

Therefore, as long as you team up with Ayanokouji, the other party can use methods such as cheating or getting a zero on a test to ensure that Ayanokouji will inevitably be expelled from school.

The rules clearly state that students who intentionally answer questions incorrectly, manipulate scores, or lower grades will be expelled and will not be able to use points for assistance.

But it doesn't say that this student's partner can avoid dropping out of school because of this.

So, Ayanokouji-san, how do you plan to find a partner from these 160 first-year students who can safely get through this exam?

Well, putting that aside, Tatsuya Kamio suddenly had an idea: he wanted to protest, and he wanted to lead all the second-year students in a collective protest!

We demand fairness and justice. If the punishment for first-grade students isn't changed to expulsion, second-grade students will collectively refuse to take exams!

If this really happens, then Tatsuya Kamio wants to see if Tsukishiro will actually expel all the second-year students.

If they all drop out of school, haha, that would be a complete educational disaster. I wonder if Yuecheng can bear the responsibility.

Of course, this situation will definitely not happen. If Yuecheng dares to gamble, he will find that everyone is still taking the exam according to his rules.

However, Tatsuya Kamio was betting that Tsukishiro, that old man, was someone he dared not gamble on!

Chapter 297 Is the school looking down on first-year students?

The exam rules and team formation rules have been explained clearly, so the next step is the most important thing for students—the exam scope.

Because the exam scope is directly linked to the grades, talking about academic ability without discussing the scope is just being irresponsible!

"The scope of this joint written test is basically what you learned in your first year. As for the difficulty, there are many very difficult questions, but there are also some very easy ones."

The somewhat abstract words on the board puzzled most of the students in the class. Although they could understand them, they didn't understand why they were specifically mentioned on the board.

Because in previous exams, it was basically always like this: the whole test paper would have some particularly difficult questions, and of course, some easy questions as well.

"Um, could you tell me more about it?"

"The difficult questions are very challenging, even in the exams you've taken so far, because they are not only difficult, but may even include questions that are beyond the syllabus."

Even a student of Ishizaki's caliber could easily score 150 on the simple questions, and with just a few days of hard work, he could reliably get over 200.

After the teacher finished speaking, a score prediction table based on academic ability was displayed on the screen.

Academic Ability E: 150-200 points

Academic Ability D: 200-250 points

Academic Ability C: 250-300 points

Academic Ability B: Around 350 points

Academic ability: around 400 points

The full score is for five major subjects, totaling 500 points. If we extrapolate from this result, there are about 50 points of questions that are beyond the syllabus, and these questions are not even designed for ordinary students.

Currently, Ishizaki has the worst academic ability in Class C. Although his academic ability has improved after last year's intensive training, his evaluation on the O-level is 33, and his grade is D.

In other words, if Ishizaki performs normally, he can score over 200 points.

In order to ensure that Ishizaki can pass the exam smoothly, they need to find him a first-year student whose academic level is at least B class.

"As long as you review the knowledge you learned in first grade, you can easily get these scores."

However, this is not absolute. If one neglects their studies due to pride and complacency, it is certainly possible to end up with the predicted scores below.

"Also, as I just mentioned, there are some questions in this exam that are beyond the syllabus, so let alone a perfect score, there probably won't be any students who score more than 90 in any subject."

"The above is a summary of the special exam to be held in April. Please be on your guard and take on the challenge."

Finally, with all matters concerning the special exam concluded, Kamio Tatsu did not immediately seek a solution. Instead, he began to examine the academic performance of all first- and second-year students.

Of course, he only glanced at it briefly because he wanted to confirm the number of students in each grade.

The good news is that there are very few students in the second year with grades D and E, totaling less than ten.

On the other hand, there are a lot of first-year students with academic ability B or above. There are 17 students in Class B, 13 in Class B, 13 in Class C, and 11 in Class D, for a total of 54 students.

Students with an academic level of E can score around 200 points on the exam, while students with a level of B can score around 350 points.

So normally, if students with a grade of B or above team up with students with a grade of E, they can theoretically pass the exam easily.

In other words, based on current information, there exists a combination that allows everyone to pass the exam, and such a combination can be easily created.

However, the more this was the case, the less interested Tatsuya Kamio became in the exam.

Unfortunately, the reward was far too cheap.

Leaving aside the personal points earned by top-ranked individuals, the rewards and punishments based solely on class points are simply absurd.

Fifty class points—it's laughable just thinking about it.

After finishing the instructions on the board, the remaining time was handed back to the students. Ryuen glanced at Tatsuya Kamio, who hadn't spoken for a while, and knew that he had no interest in the exam.

Indeed, not only Tatsuya Kamio, but even Ryuen couldn't muster much enthusiasm for the exam itself.

Although he wasn't interested in the exams, Ryuen was still interested in information about the first-year students.

Because this exam is like an experiment, an attempt to break down the barriers between grades, and understanding the information about first-year students may become a necessity.

However, the exam content has only just been released, so there's no need to rush.

"Kinda, starting today, you'll be in charge of organizing the study group. Everyone with a C grade or below, you'd better start studying. Morofuji, you'll be helping Kinda."

I will arrange the team formation. Before I give my permission, no student with an academic level of B or above is allowed to form a team on their own.

As for the rest, if you can find teammates with suitable academic abilities, you can form a team directly.

Longyuan's two simple commands temporarily calmed the students in the class.

Both commands were quite routine, and it wasn't the commands themselves that calmed the students down, but rather Long Yuan's opening remarks.

If Longyuan speaks up, it means that Longyuan already has a solution or is already thinking of one.

They naturally stopped worrying, thanks to the trust built up over the past year.

"Of course, that doesn't mean you're all done with nothing to do." Ryuen glanced at the students who had just breathed a sigh of relief. "What was said on the board is right. Communication skills are always necessary, so you should try to find first-year students."

If necessary, students with higher academic abilities can be exchanged to form teams.

While Ryuen was speaking to his students, Tatsuya Kamio's phone vibrated.

We have been granted permission to hold an exchange meeting for first and second graders this afternoon from 4:00 to 5:00 PM in the gymnasium. Students with sufficient time are requested to attend.

The text message was signed by Ichinose Honami from Class 2-B.

Although it wasn't explicitly stated that the purpose was to discuss the exam, anyone with a brain could see Ichinose's true intentions.

Not only Tatsuya Kamio, but also students from Ryuen and other classes received this text message. Moreover, judging from the content, it seems that it was not only aimed at the second-year students, but probably all the first-year students also received this message.

"Hmph, this guy is as naive as ever."

"Don't say that. After all, Ichinose's goal isn't just to graduate from class, but for everyone to graduate from this school together."

From this perspective, Ichinose's decision was arguably the most correct one.

Ryuen did not refute this, but instead looked at Tatsuya Kamio.

"In that case, I'll leave the other side to you."

"Aren't you going?"

"I don't have that spare time."

Kamio Tatsuya shrugged. He welcomed Ichinose's approach, as it would be a good opportunity to see what kind of people the first-year students were.

This exam was basically not challenging for the class, because the class points awarded for first place were too few, so neither Tatsuya Kamio nor Ryuen were interested in it.

So all they need to do is ensure that no student in this class drops out because of this.

This isn't difficult at all, because there aren't many people in the class to worry about.

Besides, hasn't Ichinose already taken action?

After putting these matters aside, Tatsuya Kamio took out his phone and sent a text message to Ayanokoji.

Keep it up!

Although it seems nonsensical, Tatsuya Kamio is confident that Ayanokouji will understand what he means!

As for Class D, Ayanokouji sighed inwardly after seeing the text message.

Originally, the two were allies, but now he was at a disadvantage because his protection points had disappeared, while Kamio Tatsuya was completely unafraid.

At noon, a post appeared on the school forum about the joint written test for first and second graders.

The gist of the statement is that they are dissatisfied with the varying degrees of punishment for this exam and demand that the punishments for first and second graders be made exactly the same.

In other words, if the combined score is less than 500 points, both students will drop out of school.

As for the poster, Tatsuya Kamio certainly didn't remain anonymous this time, because he wrote this for the school to see, and even if he were anonymous, the school could still find out about him.

As for whether he would be targeted by the school and removed from his post, Kamio Tatsuya was not worried at all. After all, he was now a prominent figure who had led Class C to promotion, and he had not done anything to violate school rules.

After all, it's about freedom of speech.