Chapter 380 Protracted War and War of Attrition
As long as you don’t leave the examination room, you can answer questions one level after another. In other words, as long as you leave the examination room, even if you go to the bathroom, it will be considered the end of the exam. This inhumane rule was issued by Principal Dippet, because he values the nature and quality of students' persistence more. However, some people calculated that it takes up to 18 hours to finish the three grades. As long as you have some preparations, most of them can still stick to it.
However, all the students and teachers did not expect anyone to try to get to the end of the exam. "No one can learn so much in three months, and it is even less likely to last for that long." Principal Dippet thought so, and said so: "Who would think that the ones in front of me will definitely pass the exam? Then he would be arrogant and constantly challenge the next grade?"
But this is how Zhao Mai planned it.
Just like the time in the Druid community, Zhao Mai knew that the more outstanding he performed, the more he would be valued. And this opportunity was rare, and all questions were written tests. In other words, the ordinary wizard exam and the ultimate wizard exam would also be written tests. Normally, they were half looking at the written test scores and half looking at the practical scores. Only in later generations, when the pedantic and vicious Dolores Umbridge was briefly appointed as the principal of Hogwarts, the exam was a full written test. Zhao Mai still had no good way to solve the problem of spell chanting, so this written test was a rare opportunity for him to pass the wizard exam.
If he can pass the ordinary level wizard exam, he will be qualified as a "wizard". He will not be subject to any restrictions when buying and selling things in the wizarding world, and he will be able to "deal" with the Gringott better. Zhao Mai has few wizard gold coins, and his plan to make money requires his wizard status. It is better to pass the ultimate wizard level exam to become a complete free man, but the bottom line must be at least the fifth-grade ordinary level wizard exam.
So, use whatever you want!
Except for the arithmetic (divination) class, Zhao Mai was like copying books directly in other exams. The quill was whispering in his hand, and almost stopped. This surprised Principal Dippet and couldn't help but pay more attention. "Why is it so fast?" He had doubts in his heart, but no matter how he looked at it, he could not see that Zhao Mai was cheating. In the arithmetic exam, Zhao Mai did calculate one question at a time, and there was a derivation process, and it was not that he knew the answer and wrote it up directly.
His understanding of this group of students was basically only about name, gender and age. Mike, Tolkien and Ado listened more. On the one hand, Professor Dumbledore was fighting for policies around them, and on the other hand, the Ministry of Magic reported. In fact, the Ministry of Magic hoped to keep these people out because they were likely "Muggle sympathizers", that is, they would sacrifice the security of the wizard world for the benefit of Muggle and were troublemakers. However, what Professor Dumbledore said was correct. The Ministry of Magic could not have a hint, and the school would do it. If the Ministry of Magic really wanted to do something, they could directly issue orders or send Aurors (the elite wizard of the Ministry of Magic who captured the black wizard) to come.
However, in Principal Dippet's mind, it is a good thing to be less trouble when these people are not students. However, after seeing Zhao Mai's answering speed, this feeling has changed. He began to feel that the people who can make Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic pay special attention must be extraordinary, and such people will eventually shine. If he finds that he was expelled from the school because of false things, wouldn't it mean that his vision and wisdom are extremely problematic?
Six hours later, Zhao Mai started to do third-grade papers. He was not the fastest one, because he answered every question, and did not selectively skip some questions like some people. At this time, Xiaohua encountered some trouble: due to limited endurance, she could not possess her for too long each time, and then she needed to rest, which shortened the time she could answer the questions. In addition, the order of questions on each person's papers was different, and the order of the answers was different, which led to the lower the possibility that she would peek at other people's papers to find answers.
So she flew to the front row to find Zhao Mai.
"Huh?" Principal Dippet's eyebrows frowned. He clearly felt a slight fluctuation of energy, but he couldn't find the source. When he picked up the wand, Xiaohua had already flew back and hid in Ado's body.
A magical light swept across all the candidates and found nothing. Principal Dippet thought for a while and thought he had just had an illusion. However, not finding the problem was a good result. He continued to pay attention to Zhao Mai's examination progress.
Everyone will answer the third grade questions, and then according to their feelings, some people will not continue to answer. All the cram students do not have elders of wizards, and before they arrived at Hogwarts, they had the same level. It was not easy to be able to complete all the courses for three years in less than four months, of course, to make up for the enlightenment part. Therefore, people began to leave the examination room one after another, and every time they went out, Dumbledore would come to the door to congratulate them. In his opinion, students who could stand the test were all good.
The students who left the examination room all went to solve their personal problems first, and then returned together to discuss the exam situation. Although everyone was competing for quotas, the incident of attacks on the cram school a while ago and the experience of co-tutoring also united everyone.
A small number of people have completed the fourth grade questions and their bodies are almost unable to hold on. Hunger, thirst, sleepiness and the feeling of wanting to go to the bathroom have been mixed together, which greatly reduces their concentration ability. Moreover, the questions on the papers will run around, and the black text and pictures often turn into lively villains. Only by grasping one of them can one of them stabilize one question. However, after starting to answer, other questions will still run around, which will make the dizzy feeling even worse.
Tolkien also used the spiritual memory crystal, but his total amount of supernatural powers was insufficient and the number of them could be maintained was very small. To be on the safe side, he only prepared some questions for all and some of the third grade and fourth grade. So when he started answering the "Ordinary Wizard Exam Questions" for the fifth grade, many of them were guessing the answers. He shook his head and decided not to endure the torture and handed in the paper and left. He saw Ado in the passage outside. The giant had already come out for a while and took a basket of food to share with everyone. There was obviously someone taking the exam inside, but it had become a tea party outside. Even the teacher felt that it was actually a benefit not to go in and invigilate the exam.
After all, the invigilator will have to stay as long as the candidates stay. Even if they can eat and drink water, they cannot leave and go to the toilet.
In fact, Principal Dipet was even more painful than people outside imagined. Zhao Mai answered the questions meticulously, and it seemed that there was no problem with his mental and physical condition, but after eighteen hours, the principal began to get hungry. As soon as he took out a piece of biscuit, Zhao Mai glared over, with the obvious meaning in his eyes, "You should eat it, you can get half of the meeting, otherwise he would say that he would affect the candidates and interfere with the order of the examination room." Principal Dipet hesitated for a while, put away the biscuits, and continued to drink his tea.
Milk and honey were added to the tea, and the hunger the more you wanted to drink it, and then the more stressed you were in. When Zhao Mai lowered his head and wrote the fifth grade questions, Principal Dipet no longer dared to drink water. By the 26th hour, when Zhao Mai finished the fifth grade test, Principal Dipet kept changing positions and clamping his legs, and he was almost unable to hold on.
"Mr. Principal, please trouble you for the sixth grade test." Zhao Mai also looked a little tired, but he was only mentally and could not see any problems in his body, so he could still sit steadily.
"You still have to continue answering questions? Look, you are the only one left, and the possibility of you staying is already extremely high. Don't be so tired, okay?"
"I'm OK," Zhao Mai said: "Anyway, I'm the only one left, and I have no goals to copy. If you're tired, go and have a rest first. I can take the exam alone."
"How can that be? I'm the principal of the invigilator." Dippet smiled bitterly and handed him the sixth grade question. He found that he had no other choice than to continue to insist on invigilator.
The tea party in the corridor outside was over, and only Professor Binz (he was a ghost), Ador and the reserve grain. Dumbledore went back for a while and rushed back at this time. "Have you finished the exam yet?" he asked Professor Binz.
"It's already the sixth grade question, and his answering speed has hardly decreased." Professor Bins rubbed his hands hard and exclaimed from the bottom of his heart: "It's amazing! I see how he looks, the possibility of passing the sixth grade is very high. Do you think he can finish the exam directly and pass all the courses?"
Chapter completed!