However, students were free to choose which courses to take. Members of the same group could attend together, and students from different groups could also participate together. However, if they were not from the same group, the number of participants was limited, with a minimum of five people required.
In other words, no one could go it alone. Even those who wanted to act independently had to gather four students from their own group to go with them.
The program would last three and a half days, followed by group-based assessments over the final two and a half days.
To enter the assessment phase, each student needed to collect seven course check-ins.
Each course lasted seventy minutes, meaning they had to formally attend at least 490 minutes, or eight hours, of classes.
Seeing this, Hachiman noticed that the materials they had been given contained something like a bubble tea shop stamp card. It had been divided into numerous squares, presumably for instructors to stamp.
There were also several notes written on it.
1. Students who attended ten courses would each receive 5,000 Private Points.
2. The top twenty students with the highest number of course attendances would receive a certain amount of Private Points.
In other words, aside from the group-based exam rankings, diligently attending classes now came with rewards as well.
That was a pleasant surprise the school had not mentioned beforehand.
For students from classes that lacked money but still worked hard to participate, it was practically a windfall.
"Being outstanding does not necessarily guarantee victory, especially under these circumstances."
On the bus for Second-year Class A, Majima-sensei said this.
The students below understood.
This exam involved many events, but only twenty would ultimately be selected. Although the range was still broad, the most important thing in a