novelinnhs Chapter 9: Is he controlling the score?
Chapter 9: Is he controlling the score?
6 points are deducted.
Score for multiple-choice questions: 120 minus 6, 114 points.
Teacher Chen continued reading the more challenging questions.
"The first major physics question combines celestial mechanics with electromagnetic induction. It's worth 18 points."
Teacher Chen's gaze moved across the answer area, gradually slowing down.
He took off his glasses, put them back on, and looked closer.
"This question..."
Teacher Chen paused for a moment.
Baldy Wang leaned forward.
"What's wrong?"
"The solution process is very complete."
Teacher Chen's tone became cautious, "But he didn't use the standard solution."
"What solution method was used?"
Teacher Liu came over.
"After parameterizing the circular orbits of celestial bodies, he directly used the vector cross product to determine the direction of the Lorentz force. This method is quite common in university electrodynamics. High school students—"
Teacher Chen pushed up his glasses.
He didn't finish speaking.
"What's the score?"
Li Hao's voice sounded somewhat urgent.
"18 points. Full marks. Rigorous process, correct conclusion. No points can be deducted."
Li Hao's fingers tightened.
"Let's move on to the next question."
The second physics question. Total marks: 16.
Teacher Chen watched for twenty seconds.
"He got 14 points on this question. He only wrote up to the third step of the last sub-question and didn't substitute the final value. Deduct 2 points."
"Why didn't you finish writing it?"
Wang the Bald blurted it out.
Teacher Chen shook her head.
"Judging from his first three steps of derivation, the last step, substitution, is purely arithmetic, which is impossible for him to do. Perhaps he didn't have enough time?"
He handed in his paper an hour early.
This sentence came from the door of the marking room.
Everyone turned their heads.
Xia Zijing stood by the doorframe. She was holding a stack of books, and her eyes were expressionless behind her thick-rimmed glasses.
"He handed in his paper an hour earlier than everyone else. The excuse of not having enough time is invalid."
Xia Zijin left after she finished speaking.
There was a three-second silence in the marking room.
Old Zhou coughed.
"continue."
The chemistry grader took over. It was an organic chemistry deduction question, worth 15 points. Lin Yu got 15 points.
"This is the simplified structural formula he drew for organic deduction..."
The chemistry teacher hesitated for a moment, then said, "He marked the configuration of one more chiral carbon than the standard answer. The standard answer didn't require it, but his marking is correct."
The biology teacher took the answer sheet and looked at the genetics question.
「遗传题满分12分。他拿了10分。第二小问的表现型比例，他的答案是9:3:3:1，正确答案也是9:3:3:1。但他在计算过程中……」
The biology teacher paused for a moment.
「他把中间一步的配子比例写成了1:1:1:1，实际上应该先分开讨论两对基因再合併。结果虽然对，但过程的逻辑链被阅卷标準判定为跳步。扣了2分。」
"In other words..."
Old Zhou picked up his pen and summarized on the paper, "Physics 114 plus 14, 128 points. Chemistry—"
"Wait a moment."
Li Hao suddenly stood up.
His chair scraped sharply against the floor.
"Don't you think there's a problem?"
Everyone looked at Li Hao.
Li Hao's eyes were bloodshot and his breathing was rapid.
"He only got one multiple-choice question wrong. He lost 6 points for that one. He deliberately omitted one step in the second physics problem, so he lost 2 points. He skipped a step in the logic section of the biology genetics question, so he lost 2 points."
Li Hao slammed his hand on the table.
"That adds up to exactly 10 points deducted! The combined science score is 300, and he got 278! As for me—"
Li Hao's voice faltered.
His combined science score was 277.
278 minus 277 equals 1.
The number that Lin Yuxuan had mentioned three days ago.
Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Lin Yu's voice rang out in the examination room.
He remained leaning back in his chair, hands in his pockets, looking into Li Hao's eyes.
"I already said that."
No one spoke in the marking room.
Mr. Chen's hand trembled slightly as he held the answer sheet. He had taught physics for thirty years and seen countless gifted students. But he had never seen a student who could control the points deducted in an exam with such precision.
Intentionally getting one multiple-choice question wrong will result in a precise deduction of 6 points. Intentionally omitting one step in a free-response question will result in a precise deduction of 2 points. Intentionally skipping a logical question will result in another deduction of 2 points.
Total deductions: 10 points.
Total score: 278.
He scored 1 point higher than Li Hao.
This is not an exam.
This is a massacre.
Li Hao's lips were trembling. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out.
Outside the corridor window, Su Qingwan's hand slipped from the window frame. She took a step back, her back hitting the opposite wall.
Only one thought remained in her mind.
He scored 520, not because 520 was his only possible score.
He scored 520 because that was all he wanted to score.
520 for her.
The door to the marking room opened.
Lin Yu came out.
He walked past Su Qingwan without stopping, and didn't even glance at her.
Su Qingwan's lips moved slightly.
"Lin Yu."
Lin Yu stopped. He turned his back to her.
"Did you deliberately get such low scores before?"
Lin Yu turned his head to the side. The lines of his profile were cut into a cold, hard shadow under the fluorescent lights of the corridor.
What do you think?
He continued walking forward.
A very faint, almost inaudible gasp came from behind me.
Lin Yu did not turn around.
He walked to the top of the stairs and saw Xia Zijing sitting on the steps with a Chinese language mock exam paper spread out on her lap.
"Your Formula One."
Xia Zijing didn't even look up. "I just tried it on the mock exam. My reading comprehension score improved by 12 points."
"normal."
Lin Yu walked past her.
"Lin Yu."
He stopped.
Xia Zijing raised her head. Behind the thick glasses, there was no worship, no shock, only a pure, rational confirmation in her eyes.
"Your science exam. That multiple-choice question. Question eleven."
"Um."
You chose B not because you didn't know the answer was C.
"Um."
"You chose B because question 11 is worth exactly 6 points. If you had gotten question 7 wrong, it would have been worth 5 points. Your total score would have been 279, which is 2 points higher than Li Hao's. That doesn't meet your goal."
Lin Yu turned around.
He looked at Xia Zijin.
This was the second time he had met someone at this school who could keep up with his thought process.
"so what."
Xia Zijin closed the paper and stood up.
"So what score are you planning to aim for in the next monthly exam?"
Lin Yu did not answer.
He walked down the stairs.
A very soft mutter came from behind Xia Zijin.
"interesting."
The results of the vetting were announced throughout the entire grade that evening.
However, the version that has been circulated has undergone at least three rounds of exaggeration compared to the actual situation that occurred in the examination room.
"Have you heard? Every single wrong answer on Lin Yu's science exam was intentional!"
"Not only that, he even calculated how many points he would deduct. The examiner was completely dumbfounded."
"The most outrageous thing is that he handed in his paper an hour early. An hour! Li Hao didn't finish even at the very last second."