Another summer vacation season had arrived. The scorching heat made everyone especially irritable.
Only in air-conditioned places could you feel the rare coolness of summer.
For Biewen, it was just another scorching summer.
But for Mo Xiaoxue and her classmates, who had just finished their high school entrance exams, this scorching summer marked their graduation season.
Moving from middle school to high school—even within the same county, or even the same school—getting assigned to the same class was no easy feat.
Unless both students had excellent grades and agreed to attend the same school.
Huo County had six high schools.
There was the top-ranked No. 1 High School, with the strongest teaching staff; Wenfeng, the only private high school; and a well-known vocational school. The remaining three were local high schools with relatively small student populations.
Of the six schools, the vocational school had the most students.
According to the rules, half of all students taking the high school entrance exams had to attend vocational school. Only the other half, the top-performing students, could go to No. 1 High School, a private school, or a regular high school.
At eight thirty in the morning, accompanied by their parents, the ninth-grade students arrived at school early to fill out a preliminary version of their applications.
The official application period started tomorrow, and students would fill out their choices online.
To prevent careless students from making mistakes on their applications, the school held a meeting for parents and students in the large auditorium above the cafeteria. The main purpose was to explain how to fill out the applications and go over the relevant points to keep in mind.
Despite the school's careful preparations, every year some students still made mistakes on their applications because of one oversight or another. Those unlucky enough