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When the third round of the entrance examinations ended, the staff emerged alongside the young students, carrying a long ranking list.
The Royal Academy's admissions system was exceedingly bizarre. First, the only way to enroll was to take part in all three rounds of entrance examinations; there were no other admission channels. Second, the three rounds were scored and ranked separately, with the number of admitted students also fixed separately. In other words, if you only barely ranked high enough in the first round, then even if every candidate in the second and third rounds scored perfectly, it would not affect your admission.
There were plenty of cases where talented students crowded into the same round of exams, causing many geniuses to fail while average students luckily got in because competition was less intense on another day.
Many people questioned the fairness of this admissions system, but even after decades, it remained unchanged. Some said it was meant to cultivate students' competitive spirit and make them realize that the entrance examinations were already the beginning of a battle of wits.
How to coordinate with talented students and take the exams in different batches, how to obtain information about other students' examination dates, how to use intimidation to stop other students from taking the exam on the same day... Every year, during the month before the Royal Academy's entrance examinations, the scheming among students and the rumor-filled intelligence war were even more entertaining than the nobles' gossip.
Others, however, said it was merely the first dean's peculiar sense of humor mixed with a little kindness—a way to make students understand the reality that "life is unpredictable" early on, while giving those lucky ordinary students a chance to enter the Royal Academy and change their lives.
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