Classroom of the Elite, Starting with a Zero, I'm Just Going to Lay Flat Since I Know the Plot

The current test assesses the written exams everyone has already taken, and the upcoming midterm exam will also be based on the previous year's papers.

Therefore, perhaps Chabashira-sensei is trying to convey this very message.

Furthermore, she deliberately withheld the detailed information regarding the exam's scoring, just waiting for someone who has seen through everything to come and find her.

It could be said that in the original story, the teacher of Class A is upright, the teacher of Class B is lazy but still provides necessary notifications and even passes on a bit of intelligence about Class D to the students, the teacher of Class C protects her students regardless of right or wrong, and the teacher of Class D seems like a slacker.

But looking at it now, Chabashira-sensei is the most persistent one of them all.

Yet, no matter how she sets the stage, it is useless, because in the original story, the students of Class D obtained the test papers bought by the protagonist, but Sudo still ended up failing by one point, and even after paying to pass, the class only ended up receiving a reward of 87 class evaluation points.

What does that explain?

It explains that even if you are given the test papers, the exact same test papers, the students of this class are still unable to get a perfect score or even a baseline of 90 points or above.

It's hopeless.

So, this class is simply beyond saving.

However, although the class is hopeless, it is still possible to scrape together some living expenses from this exam.

"Accompany me somewhere after school." Nakano Yuu glanced toward Kushida-san in front of him, then said to Horikita Suzune.

"?"

Horikita seemed a bit confused, but she quickly reacted—could it be another employment?

"It's not about hiring you today, but rather there's something we need to handle together. Although the meat on a mosquito is small, it's still meat, so we have to gather it."

Even though she didn't quite understand, Horikita still realized that this person seemed to be looking to make money.

But for this exam, if you want to make money, can you actually get it?

It is, after all, just a written exam.

Consequently, after school, Horikita Suzune quickly followed behind Nakano Yuu, and the two left the classroom together.

However, there were still quite a few students in the classroom, and Kushida-san's gaze followed Nakano-kun and Horikita-san.

"Kikyou-chan?" Her close friend Wang Meiyu noticed that Kushida-san's gaze seemed somewhat vacant.

"Horikita-san and Nakano-kun have such a good relationship." Kushida-san exclaimed, as if casually.

"I suppose so, though Nakano-kun didn't have much presence before. I suddenly feel like he's actually quite handsome. His looks aren't inferior to Hirata-kun's." Wang Meiyu-san said. "And his grades in the class group are also amazing."

"..." Kushida.

Kushida did not respond at this moment.

[Senior Kushida's heart seems a bit lost.] The voice of the junior, Amasawa, appeared in Kushida's mind.

Indeed.

In front of the junior Amasawa, Kushida-san is as if she has no secrets at all. Nothing can be hidden; after all, the other person is inside your body, and everything will be perceived.

This feeling is not pleasant.

However.

"So, what will happen to me in this midterm exam?"

What Kushida-san cares about most is her own situation.

If it were before, she would have focused on Horikita Suzune first, worrying that the other party would expose her dark history from middle school, but now, having learned from the bad junior that the person who truly threatens her is Nakano Yuu.

Nakano-kun.

Nakano-san.

So, Nakano Yuu, since you are clearly with Horikita Suzune now, why don't you just get Horikita pregnant and have her drop out? Why do you have to use such excessive methods on her?

Or is it that you are so damn insatiable that you want both of them?

Kushida-san's mood was complicated.

Chapter 027: The Solution to Pass is Acquired!

On the other side, Horikita Suzune had already followed Nakano-kun to the school cafeteria.

It is now the time after school, and while some students choose to head to club activities, more are "home-club" students, and because it is almost dinner time, many students also choose to go to the shopping street.

The shopping street is very lively.

From large dance halls and KTVs to all kinds of shops, bakeries, pastry shops, supermarkets, milk tea shops, cafes, as well as shopping malls, movie theaters, bathhouses, and so on, everything is available.

From this point of view, the school's facilities are actually quite good.

Although it restricts students from staying at school, it also provides quite complete configurations.

However.

Nakano Yuu chose to head to the school cafeteria.

And he chose the first floor. Aside from convenience, the first floor has the most free meals, which is the school's relief window.

Nakano Yuu did not wait long before he quickly found an upperclassman who had picked up a bland, watery vegetable set meal.

The other person was sitting in a chair, and although the set meal had been obtained, he had a look of despair on his face; it was probably not only unappetizing but also lacking in any oil or substance, as if he were eating fodder.

"Are you planning to approach students who are struggling academically?" Horikita Suzune, walking beside him, suddenly asked.

?

No.

Nakano Yuu turned his head to look at Horikita Suzune. Did this girl actually have such keen intuition?

Yes. Nakano Yuu was currently on his way to approach a senior student.

And for this kind of social interaction, there was actually a more suitable candidate, such as Kushida Kikyou.

But today, Kushida gave him a strange feeling, so he chose to swap her out.

That was why he had brought Horikita Suzune along, but looking at her now, it seemed the girl's intelligence was actually online today.

"Yes," Nakano Yuu said. "To deal with this upcoming special exam, I've decided to approach a senior student and try to scrape together some points. Though, it depends on whether the seniors are taking the same written exam as we are."

To be precise, it was a matter of whether the seniors were also being tested on old exam papers.

Chabashira's actions had revealed some intelligence; the first-years were being tested on old papers, but it was hard to say for the upperclassmen. After all, the school existed to cultivate students, so the special exams for each batch could potentially be different.

However, there were exceptions. If everyone was being tested on old papers, then only the first-years would be left in the dark, while for the seniors, it would be a chance to relax.

They would only need to find their own seniors to buy the questions, pass the exam smoothly, and walk away with 100 class evaluation points for free.

In a way, that could be considered a benefit provided by the school.

But for Nakano Yuu, if all three grades were taking the same exam and all were based on old papers, he might be able to stumble upon an unexpected windfall.

Therefore, he had to confirm this information, which was why he was approaching a senior.

Only.

"Why did you say I was looking for students who are struggling academically?" Nakano Yuu was a bit bothered by Horikita's earlier remark.

"You said you wanted to get some points," Horikita Suzune replied. "And tutoring those students who are struggling is one way to earn a tutoring fee."

?

No, is that what you were thinking?

Did you not realize that the students we are looking at right now are seniors? Do you intend to tutor the seniors?

You haven't even reached the level of the curriculum they are studying yet.

However, opening a tutoring service might be a way to make some money, and it was indeed one of the ways top students could earn extra cash.

But this school didn't just test simple written exams, and the underachievers were mostly gathered in the lower classes. The students in the lower classes had no money, and Horikita couldn't keep up with the curriculum of the upper classes, so her idea was destined to fail halfway through.

"Since you've come to this school, you have to adapt to it, not use your old way of thinking," Nakano Yuu said. "For example, this midterm exam. How do you think we should prepare for it?"

Since it was a written exam, the natural thought was to study hard, review according to the syllabus provided by the teachers, and then take the test.

That was normal thinking.

But Horikita had already suffered for it.

"What do you mean?" She lifted her head slightly, looking at him with a focused gaze.

"I obtained some intelligence," Nakano Yuu said. "The exam is based on old papers. Just like the test we took today, the exam consists of papers from the past."

"In other words, if we find a senior and buy the test papers they took when they were first-years, we can pass this exam," Nakano Yuu said.

Horikita Suzune's expression changed instantly.

Or rather, for her, having already learned from Nakano Yuu and the teacher about the school's special rules was shocking enough, but now, were the exams really this unexpected?

"You could have guessed it. The school started evaluating us in the first month of enrollment, and after the exam ended, they revealed the truth about this school to the students."

"So why would they reveal all that information in the second month?"

"Clearly, they want the students to apply it to the upcoming special exams. The school wants to cultivate talent, not bookworms who only know how to study. So the second special exam for freshmen is related to this. Knowing the unique nature of this school, how would students handle the school's exams, such as a written test?"

Nakano Yuu said.

This logic was very sound, and it left Horikita Suzune speechless.

Horikita was silent, or perhaps she had only just realized that her understanding of this school was still very shallow.

Only.

"How do you know so much?" Horikita Suzune looked over. Her eyes were beautiful, and her gaze was filled with a thirst for knowledge.

Although you are very beautiful right now, do you think I'll tell you just because you're giving me that look?

"That's a secret," Nakano Yuu said.

After all, he couldn't exactly say he had watched the anime.

And so, without much resistance, Nakano Yuu led Horikita Suzune to approach the senior student who was looking at her free vegetable set meal with a grim, bitter expression.

In the end, he paid 30,000 points in exchange for the test papers she had taken at this time last year.

For safety, the senior provided photos of the papers, so Nakano Yuu and the others still needed to turn them into hard copies.

That meant they had to head to a print shop in the shopping district.

Thus, the two spent another ten minutes arriving at the shopping district, finding a copy shop, and printing out the materials.

The contents of the materials included five subjects in total: mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and English.

They also matched the subjects they were about to be tested on.

The title on each of the test papers was also quite concerning.

[First-Year First Midterm Physics Exam]

Unfortunately, this senior's grades were average, only scoring in the fifties, and there were some errors where the correct answers had not been filled in. The senior also mentioned that although the test papers had been returned, the teachers had not gone over them, so she still didn't know how to solve the parts she had missed and needed to fill in the gaps herself.

However.

Horikita Suzune quickly scanned a mathematics test paper, and she discovered that the majority of the questions on it were within the scope of the syllabus provided by the teachers.

But there was also a portion that went beyond the syllabus and had not been taught yet.

Based on the ratio, it was roughly 70/30.

"To think there would be so much content beyond the syllabus," Horikita-san remarked.

With her academic ability, if she were to take the test as it was, she estimated she would only be able to score around 70 points, because she hadn't seen or studied the advanced content and would have to guess the answers randomly.

"If there were absolutely no content beyond the syllabus, then it would just be a normal exam. I just asked the senior, and their textbooks are the same version as ours, but this also confirms that purchasing past years' test papers from upperclassmen is the strategy to clear the exam and obtain the maximum 100 class evaluation points," Nakano Yuu said.

With that, the two of them walked out of the print shop together.

But at that moment, Katsuragi and Sakayanagi from Class A happened to be passing by.

Chapter 028: Sell to Those in Need!

Shopping District.