The quiz results came back real quick, almost out the next day. Qin Xiangnuan placed third in class, which was a pretty good performance, and their class was considered a class of top students, since three out of the top ten school-wide were from their class. Since the school-wide results hadn’t been released yet, Qin Xiangnuan didn’t know if she made the top ten, but being in the top hundred shouldn’t be a problem for sure.
She really admired the boy who ranked first. Although he appeared dull and blank on the outside, he was truly excellent at studying. But she feared he was too good, eventually becoming a true bookworm. However, such bookworms were often the teachers’ favorites. Fortunately, she wasn’t one. Although, she did spend a lot of time studying. That’s right, she had a system that allowed her to study ten times more than anyone else. What about that first-ranked student then?
Thinking this way, she couldn’t help feeling she was really stupid.
In fact, she was just the early bird who gets the worm.
Teacher Wang was very satisfied with the results of the quiz this time, hoping that everyone could maintain this performance during the exams. If so, their class would remain one of the top in the entire school.
Time flies, passing in the blink of an eye.
On the day of the exam, Qin Xiangnuan still set up her stall as usual. Luckily, the snow had stopped, and the snow on the roads had been cleared. Although there was some unmelted snow, it no longer affected anyone’s travel.
Jian Zhiqing handed her a bag.
"What?" Qin Xiangnuan took it, opened it, and suddenly felt a sourness in her nose.
A fried dough stick and two eggs.
Was this for good luck on her exam, to score a hundred percent?
"When I went to school, my mom always fed me these, so my grades were always good," Jian Zhiqing ruffled her hair, then went to the table to serve pancakes to the others. Although he couldn’t make pancakes himself, he was definitely good enough at serving them.
Qin Xiangnuan sat aside, eating the eggs and fried dough stick from the bag.
Yeah, let’s do this, score a hundred percent.
After packing up her stall, she headed to school. As it was exam time, there was a kind of tense atmosphere, everyone seated at individual desks to prevent cheating. The first subject was Chinese, which was Qin Xiangnuan’s strongest subject.
With so many books she had read within the system, and at least the classical Chinese would not stump her. And with her experiences from two lifetimes, her comprehension was much better than those students in school. Plus, she revised daily, remembering all the key points. And even those she couldn’t remember, she would memorize by rote.
Two exams in the morning: Chinese and English. She was good at both now. When the English exam paper was handed out, she browsed through it briefly and indeed it was quite simple; Teacher Wang’s English teaching was very good. Though he taught at the middle school level, Qin Xiangnuan felt he could easily teach university students.
She didn’t know how good her English was exactly or what level she could achieve, but for now, the English in her first year of high school certainly posed no challenge.
She did well in the first two exams, and she wasn’t worried about the rest because she had thoroughly reviewed.
At noon, she went home instead of eating out, since her home was very close.
Right, she was about to leave when she turned back and asked her two classmates, one named Li Li and the other Mao Xiaomei, who both came from not-so-privileged families, which is why she often shared her scallion pancakes with them.