"It's lagging, it's lagging!" Ning Mo frowned. "There must be too many people checking their scores!"
The Study Room was filled with the sounds of keyboards clacking and mice clicking. Several high school students were frantic with worry.
But the network was suffering severe lag. With probably several million people accessing it at once, the server was struggling to handle the load.
Song He thought for a moment, pulled out his phone, fiddled with it for a while, and then said, "Zhao Yiyi scored 127 in math, 670 overall, and ranked 1,173rd in the province!"
The restless Study Room fell silent for a moment. Zhao Yiyi rushed over to look at the screen of Song He's phone and let out a cry of surprise.
"We can't even log in with the computers. How did you check?" Ding Yangze asked in a daze.
"I have my ways. I can access the internal database," Song He said. "Give me your ID numbers, and I'll check for you! It'll be lightning-fast!"
Everyone crowded around Song He, scrambling to call out their ID numbers.
"Zhang Zhilei scored 135 in math, 655 overall, and ranked 2,974th in the province!"
"Ning Mo scored 133 in math, 650 overall, and ranked 3,845th in the province!"
"Ding Yangze scored 96 in math, 625 overall, and ranked 10,036th in the province!"
After their scores had been announced, no one in the room showed much emotion. They rushed back to the computers and hurriedly looked up the previous years' one-point percentile tables.
They did not even have much concept of what their provincial rankings meant. Judging only by their scores, they had done quite well. Although their results were not as high as in their usual mock exams, they were already much better than they had expected.
"Forget about Tsinghua