After binding the loving mother system, I was so bad

The parents waiting outside the examination room were looking around absentmindedly.

The county examination consists of five sessions, which is equivalent to taking the exam for five consecutive days, and this is only the first day.

In order to ensure that every candidate can perform to their best level, Baichuan Academy distributed pens, ink, paper and inkstone to the students.

The large-scale purchase of this set of pens, ink, paper and inkstone cost two taels of silver for each set, which means over a hundred taels for 50 students.

Such a large investment shows how much importance Baichuan Academy attaches to this exam.

Whether one can be successfully admitted as a scholar depends not only on one's own level but also on the quota.

This is equivalent to the admission rate commonly mentioned in later generations.

Obviously, Old Man Geng also had some knowledge about this scientific examination: "I wonder how many people will enter the examination hall this year?"

Old man Geng looked at the endless queue of candidates and the crowded parents outside who had almost nowhere to stay, and he couldn't help feeling worried.

Lumei's heart almost jumped out of her throat. Other families only had one candidate, but her family had three! And they were the three most unreliable ones.

"Probably a few thousand people."

Kyoto is a big city with a population of over a million, and it places great emphasis on literature over military studies. An ordinary county or city would only have two or three hundred candidates, but Kyoto would have at least a thousand.

Old man Geng gasped. Is this the legendary "thousands of troops crossing a single-plank bridge"?! The competition is too fierce!

Because there were so many candidates, a hundred soldiers were transferred from the camp outside the capital to maintain order in the examination room.

Soon, Censor Jiang and Lord Li also squeezed into the gathering place of Baichuan Academy.

Censor Jiang straightened his wrinkled sleeves and said calmly, "This exam is expected to be more difficult. In order to avoid cheating, Grand Tutor Tong temporarily replaced the exam papers."

After saying this, Censor Jiang glanced at Gu Nanxi with an ambiguous look.

Gu Nanxi was at a loss. Could it be that this matter was also related to her?

Lord Li kindly reminded: "The real test papers and mock papers of Baichuan Academy have attracted much attention. Although they were studying in seclusion, the test papers were still leaked. It is said that the chief examiner was so frightened after seeing the mock papers that he broke into a cold sweat."

Old man Geng also understood what Lord Li said.

Old man Geng slapped his thigh and said regretfully: "How did it get out and be seen by the examiner?"

Lord Li also felt sorry.

He himself passed the imperial examination, so he naturally knew how difficult it was.

If you want to be absolutely safe, you have to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics and their annotations by heart.

For the subject of Mo Yi, if you are testing on a small sutra, you need to memorize 100,000 characters. If you are testing on a large sutra, you need to memorize 200,000 or 300,000 characters!

In addition, you must use it flexibly, follow the exam format, and write the article with neat handwriting and a clear structure.

But with the mock test, it’s different!

The range of hundreds of thousands of words can be reduced to tens of millions of words! You can also do special exercises!

Chen Yixuan's father, Lord Chen, was sweating profusely from being squeezed so hard that he took out his waist fan and fanned himself continuously.

"A tree that stands out in the forest is likely to be destroyed by the wind. With such a big commotion at Baichuan Academy, there will certainly be thousands of eyes watching."

Before he could think straight, Lord Chen regretted what he had said and hurriedly tried to make amends: "Madam Hou, I don't mean to say anything bad about you. I mean, the world is always jealous of talented people, so there will always be some setbacks."

Lord Li glared at him unhappily and said, "How do you know that the children won't succeed this time? Pay attention to the prize and stop talking nonsense."

Mr. Chen closed his mouth and changed the subject: "The environment of this examination room is really bad. It is short and narrow, only half the width of a person. There is only a table, a stool, and a few candles. I don't know if the children can adapt to it."

Censor Jiang: "Baichuan Academy simulated the examination environment ten days ago and conducted several mock exams."

This is the advantage of hiring an experienced teacher. The imperial examination tests not only knowledge but also physical fitness.

Gu Nanxi understood what was going on after listening to their conversation. It turned out that the mock test paper was too accurate, which attracted the examiner's attention, so the test paper was temporarily replaced.

However, Baichuan Academy focuses on the predicted test papers rather than the mock papers!

Inside the examination room, although most of the students of Baichuan Academy were entering the examination room for the first time, when they saw the familiar examination environment, their originally restless hearts instantly calmed down.

Su Xuanming sat in the narrow room, waiting for the examiner to hand out the test papers.

There is a lot of content in this exam paper, a total of twenty pages, in addition to ten draft papers.

The person handing out the curlers also took a closer look at Su Xuanming, examining him with a hint of curiosity in his eyes.

The examiners at the top focused on observing the candidates from Baichuan Academy.

These candidates have different temperaments. Some look honest and simple, some look shrewd, some are upright gentlemen, some are mean like Su Yunting, and there are even girls!

But what they have in common is that these people have clear eyes and are confident!

The examiners were whispering.

"Do they think they can pass this county exam with just a mock exam?"

"The plan was discovered by Grand Tutor Tong, who temporarily switched the test papers! This time, we were caught off guard! No matter how many schemes Madam Yongchang has, she has no time to turn the tide!"

"Humph! Reality will teach Madam Yongchang a lesson!"

The first exam content is to post scriptures.

Posting scriptures means picking out a page or a line from the Four Books and Five Classics at random, and printing it on the test paper to do fill-in-the-blank and dictation questions. Under normal circumstances, the questions at this stage of the county examination will not be too obscure, and as long as you are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, you can generally pass.

but!

Isn’t this the question set by Grand Tutor Tong himself?

When the examiner opened the test paper, he couldn't help but sigh.

"What came out was a reverse pull!"

Because the Jinshi exam also requires copying sutras, but the number of successful candidates is extremely small, with an average extremely low pass rate of only about 2%, so the examiners will try to come up with difficult questions during the Jinshi exam, and generally they will use the method of "daoba".

Reverse extraction means picking the last line of a paragraph, which has only a few words in total. If you remove three words, there may be only one or two words left. It seems to have no meaning at all and is extremely difficult.

The examiner pondered for a while, then asked his colleague uncertainly: "Is this test about the content of the Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals?"

"Exactly!"

The Gongyang Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals has a total of more than 40,000 words!

This is undoubtedly an advanced math problem given to first grade primary school students.

Sure enough, there was a cry of grief in the examination room. Some students with a bad mentality were so nervous that they vomited, which caused a chain reaction.

This is what a hellish start is like!

The question that should have been an easy one instantly turned into a heavy hammer that broke the psychological defense line!

Some candidates left the examination room angrily with despair in their eyes.

Some candidates filled in the questions with the mentality that "the questions are so difficult, I can't do it and no one else can do it, so I can't leave it blank".

Among the crowd of gloomy candidates, the candidates from Baichuan Academy were particularly different.

They write with great ease, without having to think at all.

The examiner was curious and walked over to them and took a look. Could it be that they wrote it randomly? Even if it was me, I would have to think hard for a while before I could figure out the source of this question!