Before long, this round of exams ended.
The papers were graded uniformly by Da Xue'er, the advanced Artifact Spirit. She could process them in batches within an extremely short time, and the admission cutoffs for every academy would be announced directly on the public screen. Thus, after finishing their exams, no one left. Instead, they waited patiently inside the examination hall, ready to collect their results.
After a round of tallying and verification, the results were distributed to the examinees.
Once they stepped outside and checked the cutoff scores for each academy, they would know whether they had graduated and whether they had been admitted to any academy.
The students who had received their results filed out through the various passages in perfect order.
"Big Sister Lici, Big Sister Lici, I'm over here!" Lan Wan'er bounced up and down as she spotted Wang Lici, who had finished her exam. She grabbed her arm and asked anxiously, "Big Sister, how much did you score this time?"
"Four hundred and thirty-one points total!" Wang Lici said with a vexed expression. "The college entrance exam gets harder every year. I even scored four hundred and sixty on the mock exams."
"I'll check the graduation line."
Lan Wan'er stood on tiptoe and peered at the public screen. A few breaths later, she exclaimed excitedly, "Big Sister Lici, the graduation line this time is four hundred and twenty-nine! Congratulations, Big Sister—you finally graduated!"
"Graduated?" Wang Lici felt dizzy and disoriented, as though everything were unreal.
It had been far, far too difficult!
For so many years, she had been buried in an ocean of questions day after day, grinding through exercises until she had gone numb. Heaven knew how she had endured these thirty years.
Most terrifyingly, aside from the first few years, she had