The three exchanged a glance and, in perfect tacit understanding, stepped into Gorilla School.
At the entrance to the first classroom, they looked inside and saw that the originally tightly packed desks had been evenly spread out, two meters apart. Many gorillas and monkeys were bent over their desks, writing furiously, while two elderly Red-haired Gorillas stood at the front and back of the room, hands clasped behind their backs as their eyes swept back and forth.
It was obviously an exam!
Liu Li'an hurried over and greeted them in a low voice. "Teacher Zhao, Teacher Ding, Teacher Ji!"
"You're making the rounds and invigilating?" Zhao Yiyi asked curiously. "What are they taking today? The Monthly Exam?"
"No, the Gaokao!" Liu Li'an said.
The three were stunned and exchanged questioning looks.
"The Experiment Building will be put into use on Saturday, so we need to select those who can go in and conduct experiments. Letting gorillas and monkeys with insufficient knowledge go in would simply waste experimental materials." Liu Li'an explained quietly, "So I organized this Gaokao to assess everyone, see how large the gap is between them and human examinees, and select candidates based on their scores."
"Where did you get the questions?" Ding Yangze asked curiously. "Did you use papers from previous years?"
"That definitely wouldn't work. It's not as if they lack internet access. The examinees would all look up the previous years' answers online beforehand." Liu Li'an explained, "I contacted several past Test Question Setters online and had them create questions at the normal Gaokao difficulty. I bought the papers for a hundred-odd thousand."
"Chinese isn't tested. Knowing how to read is enough; whether they can recite ancient poems from memory won't affect their ability to operate a microscope. English isn't tested either. Its greatest use