We Agreed to Struggle Together, You Secretly Succeeded

Zhang Wanbang deliberately created a high-pressure atmosphere. During the actual college entrance examination, there wouldn't be just one teacher proctoring, and there would be cameras in the exam room. Students with poor psychological resilience would perform poorly; this kind of thing happened every year.

Not many students could appreciate Teacher Zhang's good intentions. They felt that the farther Zhang Wanbang was from them, the safer they would be.

Zhang Wanbang walked behind Li Bo and bent over to examine Li Bo's progress on the test.

Li Bo trembled, unable to even hold his ballpoint pen steady.

Zhang Wanbang shook his head and walked away. Li Bo's math scores were average, with no significant improvement.

Zhang Wanbang walked behind Chen Xiaoting and bent over to examine Chen Xiaoting's progress on the test.

Chen Xiaoting trembled so hard she almost dropped her sanitary pad.

Zhang Wanbang shook his head and walked away. Chen Xiaoting's math scores were below average, with no significant improvement.

Zhang Wanbang walked behind Xu Rui and bent over to examine Xu Rui's progress on the test.

Xu Rui was as steady as a mountain and did not tremble. His psychological resilience was strong. He chose C for all the multiple-choice questions, as he didn't know how to answer them anyway and was just guessing.

Zhang Wanbang's face darkened, about to erupt, but he held back. His students were guessing C under his nose. Ordinary people could hardly comprehend his complex feelings.

After several rounds, Zhang Wanbang finally found a student who gave him a little comfort: the math class representative, Huang Zikun.

After all, he was the math class representative. Huang Zikun's answering speed was relatively fast, and his initial estimated accuracy rate was high. Zhang Wanbang admired Huang Zikun, yet he couldn't solve an age-old puzzle: they were taught by the same teacher, so why was there such a huge gap between students? Was it the teacher's problem or the students' problem?

In this in-class test, Zhang Wanbang observed many students. He deliberately stood behind them to apply pressure and train their psychological resilience.

In reality, there were no surprises. Students with good math scores remained strong, while students with poor math scores regressed instead of improving. The trend of polarization was becoming increasingly obvious. This was not the outcome Zhang Wanbang wanted to see.

Zhang Wanbang naturally hoped to witness a scene of a hundred flowers blooming and his students flourishing everywhere, but he understood it was difficult.

An hour passed, and the math test for Class 2, Grade 2, was still ongoing.

Including the class time and break time, the duration of this in-class test was 2 hours, aligning with the college entrance examination.

As he walked, Zhang Wanbang passed by Shen Qi. He hadn't paid attention to Shen Qi initially, but a certain action of Shen Qi's made Zhang Wanbang stop in his tracks.

Everyone else was burying their heads in their work, nervously answering questions, but Shen Qi was not.

Shen Qi unfolded his test paper as if he were reading a newspaper, checking it leisurely.

Zhang Wanbang stood behind Shen Qi, entering observation mode.

"ABBCB...CDACA..." Zhang Wanbang quickly scanned Shen Qi's test paper. Shen Qi's answers to the multiple-choice questions were varied, cycling through A, B, C, and D.

Zhang Wanbang had personally created this test paper and understood it better than anyone.

Zhang Wanbang was surprised to discover that Shen Qi's multiple-choice answers seemed to be all correct!

Shen Qi flipped the paper to another page and continued checking. This page was filled with free-response and proof questions, densely packed with mathematical symbols.

Zhang Wanbang thought he was hallucinating. Statistically speaking, the probability of guessing all the multiple-choice questions correctly was 25% multiplied by 25%... all the way to the tenth 25%, which was a very small probability.

Although the probability of guessing 10 multiple-choice questions correctly in a row was small, it was mathematically possible. However, guessing 5 free-response and proof questions correctly in a row was almost impossible.

What was impossible happened with Shen Qi.

Zhang Wanbang judged at a glance that Shen Qi's five free-response and proof questions were all correct!

Only one hour had passed. Even Huang Zikun, the math class representative, had not finished all the questions, yet Shen Qi had completed the entire test with an outrageously high accuracy rate.

This test paper was from Zhang Wanbang himself, and its difficulty was considerable.

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. Short of cheating, there's no way Shen Qi could have completed the test in such a short time with a perfect score." Zhang Wanbang's heart was filled with doubt. He had hoped for a student to suddenly excel, but Shen Qi's sudden brilliance was too abrupt, exceeding the reasonable limits Zhang Wanbang could accept. Granted, Shen Qi had seemed more diligent recently, listening attentively in class, but one or two weeks couldn't bring about such a miraculous change. Even if there was progress, it should have been a gradual process.

"OK, I'm done checking. I'm handing in my paper." Shen Qi had long noticed Zhang Wanbang observing him from behind. He spread his test paper flat on the desk, stood up, and left the classroom. This was considered handing in his paper.

Zhang Wanbang picked up Shen Qi's test paper, returned to the podium, and carefully reviewed it, grading it on the spot.

"All multiple-choice questions correct!"

"All fill-in-the-blank questions correct!"

"All free-response questions correct!"

"All proof questions correct!"

"150, full marks!"

After grading Shen Qi's test paper, Zhang Wanbang was shocked. Shen Qi had scored a perfect 150!

Shen Qi, whose average math score was 67.5, had achieved a perfect score of 150 in an in-class math test in April.

Where there's smoke, there's fire.

Did Shen Qi cheat?

That seemed impossible too.

He was answering right under my nose. Who could he have copied from?

Besides, other students hadn't finished their papers. If anyone were to copy, it would be others copying Shen Qi.

Did he get the answers beforehand?

That was even more impossible, because the answers were all in my head, and I hadn't even printed them out.

Zhang Wanbang fell into deep thought. All objective signs indicated that Shen Qi had not cheated. Shen Qi had scored a perfect score, completing the test in just 1 hour, with speed, accuracy, and decisiveness.

"This is unscientific!" Zhang Wanbang couldn't explain the abnormal phenomenon, so he could only respect the facts. Could it be that my teaching was so good that it turned decay into magic?

Zhang Wanbang stayed up all night grading all the exams for the second year, class 2. Only five students scored above 120. This exam was indeed very difficult.

Shen Qi ranked first with 150 points.

Furthermore, Shen Qi was a full 20 points ahead of Huang Zikun, who ranked second with 130 points.

The next morning, in the second year, class 2 classroom, there was still some time before class.

"Hey, Shen Qi, you handed in your math exam yesterday afternoon very early." Xu Rui stood by Shen Qi's desk, chatting with him.

Shen Qi nodded, "Yes."

"Bullshit, I'm asking you, did you guess all the multiple-choice questions as C, just like me, and leave the rest blank?"

"No, I chose ABBCB, CDACA for the multiple-choice questions, and I filled in all the other questions."

"Shen Qi, you filled them in? What did you write, the multiplication table?" Xu Rui had done something similar before. During a math exam, he didn't know how to answer the free-response questions, so he wrote the multiplication table in the answer space. He thought that if he filled the paper, he might get some points for effort. In the end, Zhang Wanbang gave him 0 points and made him write a self-criticism to be read aloud in class. From then on, Xu Rui decided to be down-to-earth and leave questions blank if he couldn't answer them, never writing the multiplication table again.

"Xu Rui, do you think I'm as silly as you?" Shen Qi recalled Xu Rui's silly history and laughed. It was indeed hilarious.

After laughing, Shen Qi said, "I wrote that the cosine of the angle between the plane A-PD-B and the base is the negative square root of 3 divided by 3, the estimated value of δ is 0.09, and according to Vieta's formulas, it can be proven that the line p1p2 passes through a fixed point o. Also, the range of a is (-1, 1), and the equation of C is x squared plus y divided by 2 equals 1."

"What the hell are you talking about?" Xu Rui looked completely bewildered, but he vaguely felt that something was up and Shen Qi was causing trouble.

"What Shen Qi said are the correct answers to the five free-response questions and the proof question." Suddenly, someone interjected. It was Huang Zikun, the math class representative.

"What? Huang Zikun, are you kidding me?" Xu Rui looked at Huang Zikun, then at Shen Qi, looking incredulous. "So Shen Qi got everything right and handed in his paper an hour early?"

"For the first three free-response questions and the proof question, Shen Qi's answers were exactly the same as mine. The last two questions were too difficult, and I wasn't sure either, but I felt Shen Qi's answers were correct." Huang Zikun was also curious about Shen Qi. He asked Shen Qi, "Have you been practicing any secret techniques lately? How did you suddenly take off like this?"

"I've been studying very hard recently, listening attentively in class, and doing a lot of practice problems at home. I believe hard work pays off." Shen Qi said to Huang Zikun. It's true, I'm not lying. As for the system or anything, you wouldn't believe me even if I told you.

"Shen Qi, you're not human! You said we'd all struggle like dogs together, but you secretly became successful!" Xu Rui felt a deep sense of loss. His good brother Shen Qi, who had once sworn to struggle like a dog with him, had changed his ways and studied diligently. This made Xu Rui lose his direction. He felt that Shen Qi had betrayed him.