Most potion classes were still focused on theoretical knowledge. Practical content would not begin until roughly next semester. This semester's main goal was to familiarize students with the characteristics and traits of most basic extraordinary materials, which materials absolutely could not be fused together, which had excellent compatibility, and some relatively common basic formulas.
Simply put, nearly all of the first half of the semester's content required rote memorization to build a foundation. For Xu Zhi, that was far too easy.
A single extraordinary plant required memorizing a great deal of information: its appearance, characteristics, what effects could be achieved by combining it with certain materials, which materials it repelled, when it should be used, and in what dosage. Things that gave ordinary students headaches only required Xu Zhi to glance over them a few more times before she had them completely memorized.
Potion-making covered a wide range of subjects and required a great deal of memorization, but its exam scores made up a relatively small proportion of the overall grade. Naturally, the students were more absentminded in this class than in others.
The reason its score weighting was lower was because potion-making was not a talent every extraordinary individual possessed. They only needed to learn some basic knowledge and grasp certain "common sense." If a student was found to have talent in this area, they could then be specially trained. After all, potion-making was a field that represented money!
No student with talent in this area would refuse to delve deeper into it. Even extraordinary individuals... no, rather, precisely because they were extraordinary individuals, they needed money even more than ordinary people did!
So although it accounted for relatively fewer marks, potion-making had always been a popular course. Everyone wanted to see whether they possessed such talent, and they