Life in the second year arrived as scheduled.
After advancing to the second year, all the students had officially become Class One Soul Engineers. Their numbers had dropped by a full third compared to the first year.
From this point onward, although the class structure still existed, its role had become negligible, mainly serving to facilitate management and the announcement of various matters.
This was because from the second through fifth years, there were no longer any group courses organized by class. Instead, an entirely new teaching method was adopted: rotating large lectures.
So-called rotating large lectures meant that the academy arranged for teachers to divide important subjects into different modules, schedule them, and then lecture on them in rotation.
Every weekend, the academy would publish the course schedules for each grade for the following week. Students could choose and arrange them according to their own needs and schedules. They could attend whatever subjects they wanted at whatever time slots they chose, and the academy did not interfere in any way.
If they had anything they did not understand and needed to ask a teacher about, the academy had designated instructors for answering questions in every grade. Teaching instructors and question-answering instructors rotated periodically, and students could seek them out at any time.
When Yan Hongchen first saw this system, he could not help sighing inwardly. It reminded him of higher education in his previous life, but the students here had even more freedom. Everything depended on self-discipline.
At first, he had still been a good student, dutifully attending every class he thought would be useful.
Later on, he began selectively skipping classes, choosing only what he truly needed and arranging the rest of his time himself.
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