Half an Hour to Complete

Chen Zhao felt a surge of nervousness; this was his first formal exam since gaining his high intelligence. Would his brain actually be able to perform?

Logically, it should be fine, but anyone who has been to school knows that many things you think you've learned can suddenly vanish from your mind the moment you step into the exam hall!

The test papers were distributed quickly, and Chen Zhao began by writing his name.

He looked at the questions.

Chen Zhao didn't start writing immediately; instead, he quickly scanned the entire paper to gauge the question types and difficulty.

In twenty-some seconds, he had finished looking over the paper.

Chen Zhao was delighted.

This paper... was ridiculously easy!

They were all child's play!

A perfect score was in the bag!

Chen Zhao lowered his head and began working. He pushed the scratch paper aside; he didn't need it, as mental calculation was more than enough!

The first multiple-choice question was finished in one second.

The first five multiple-choice questions took fifteen seconds.

All twelve multiple-choice questions were finished in one minute and thirty seconds!

Because the students in this exam hall were all at the bottom of the rankings, many of them were feeling lazy and didn't want to work after receiving their papers. A few who actually wanted to try were struggling with calculations on their scratch paper, having just finished the first question and wondering if they had gotten it right.

Meanwhile, Chen Zhao had already finished all the multiple-choice questions and started on the fill-in-the-blanks!

The gap! A chasm-like difference in speed!

The next four fill-in-the-blank questions were more difficult, and it took Chen Zhao a full three minutes to solve them.

Four minutes and thirty seconds into the exam, and the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank sections were completely finished!

Chen Zhao's heart was pounding, his face flushed with excitement. This felt amazing! It was such an incredible rush! While others were still struggling to think through the first few questions, he had already reached the application problems!

There was only one application problem on the first page, and as Chen Zhao scanned it, he was overjoyed!

He had seen this question before; it was on the bottom right of page 101 in the 63 Exercise Collection, a mock exam question from a certain year in Ganzhou!

Chen Zhao still remembered the steps and the answer to the entire problem, so he didn't even need to think or calculate. His pen flew across the paper, lines of steps pouring out from the tip. In just three minutes, the entire problem was written out, and it matched the standard answer steps published in the 63 answer key perfectly! Chen Zhao dared to guarantee that even if a god came down, they wouldn't be able to find a single point to deduct!

Less than eight minutes into the exam, the entire first page of the paper was finished!

Chen Zhao was trembling with excitement. Having been a student for so many years, every exam had been a struggle of scratching his head and burning with anxiety, trying his best to calculate as fast as he could, only to have the bell ring before he could finish, leaving him in total despair. But now, with the super-high intelligence provided by the system, the exam was actually this simple!

Can you believe doing half a test paper in eight minutes?

These questions were as easy as drinking water!

The second page consisted entirely of long-form problems, which would obviously take longer.

The teacher who wrote the paper seemed lazy, having clearly scavenged questions from elsewhere, as the first three long-form problems were all original questions he had seen in the 63 collection. They were all mock exam questions from various cities or original questions from the National College Entrance Exam of previous years. Chen Zhao had already done all the exercises in the 63 collection and had looked over the answers to the long-form problems, and with his super-strong, photographic memory, he started writing the moment he saw them without a hint of hesitation. Each problem took only a few minutes, his speed entirely dependent on the number of steps required.

The next few long-form problems started to get interesting; they weren't questions he had seen before, likely adapted by the teacher from other sources.

Chen Zhao had to engage his brain to solve them himself.

At first, Chen Zhao felt a tiny bit of nervousness. The teachers who wrote the school's exams were old hands with decades of teaching experience, well-versed in the tricks of the trade, and might have thrown in some bizarre or obscure questions. He wasn't entirely sure he could solve them on the spot.

However, after just fifteen minutes, Chen Zhao had finished the very last long-form problem.

The anticipated obscure or strange questions never appeared; they were all quite simple. A glance, four or five seconds of contemplation, and he had a very clear path to the solution. Then, while writing out the steps, he could calculate the answer in his head simultaneously. Each long-form problem took only a few minutes to finish, feeling incredibly smooth.

The entire paper, completely finished!!

Chen Zhao looked up at the clock hanging on the classroom wall. The exam started at eight o'clock, and it was now eight-thirty-one, meaning he had finished a two-hour math exam in just half an hour!

Furthermore, not only was it filled out completely, but he could ensure every answer was correct! Some of the long-form steps even matched the standard answers perfectly!

Chen Zhao spent another ten minutes checking the entire paper to ensure no mistakes were made.

He hadn't forgotten the promise he made to Ding Xiaoqiao and Zhong Feng before the exam started, so he tore his scratch paper in two and began copying the answers onto them.

Once both sets of answers were copied, Chen Zhao peeked sneakily at the proctor at the front of the classroom.

Good heavens, the proctor was dozing off at his desk!

After all, this was the last exam hall, where the students' grades were all disastrous, so the teacher didn't really want to bother with them.

If they wanted to cheat off each other, let them; even if you added all their scores together, they would barely pass. A bunch of losers pecking at each other, copying back and forth, would still result in pathetic scores. So, there was no need to manage them at all.

Thus, Chen Zhao openly passed the two sets of answers out, one to Ding Xiaoqiao and one to Zhong Feng.

Ding Xiaoqiao and Zhong Feng were both surprised when they received the answer sheets. Both of them had thought the whole thing was a joke, and they hadn't expected Chen Zhao to be so straightforward and actually get the answers for them.

Moreover, these answer sheets were densely packed with writing, including the steps for many of the long-form problems?

What was going on?

Could it be that Chen Zhao actually knew how to do them all?

That was impossible; knowing one or two questions would be one thing, but if he knew the entire math paper, he wouldn't have ended up in the last exam hall!!

Ding Xiaoqiao and Zhong Feng hesitated for a moment, then gritted their teeth and decided to start copying Chen Zhao's answers. After all, they couldn't solve many questions on their own, so they might as well copy his. Perhaps Chen Zhao actually knew a few of the questions.

After Chen Zhao finished transmitting the answers, he quickly felt incredibly bored. There was still an hour and a half left before the exam ended, so what should he do? He couldn't just sit there in his seat for ninety minutes, could he? If he did that, he would probably fall asleep before the papers were even collected.

He decided to hand in his paper early and go have some fun!

Chen Zhao raised his hand and called out, "Teacher? Teacher?"

The proctor, who had been dozing off at the desk, slowly lifted his head, frowning with sleepy eyes. "Student, do you have a question?"

"Can I hand in my paper and leave now?" Chen Zhao asked cautiously.

The examinees in the entire classroom were stunned, turning their heads to look at Chen Zhao as if they thought he were an oddity or an alien.

"If you've finished everything, you may hand in your paper and leave," the proctor said benevolently.