It rained continuously during the two-day final exams, so much so that the lights had to be kept on in the exam hall during the day.
In the second year of high school, students are divided into Arts and Science classes, so the exam subjects and seating arrangements were based on this division.
In Zhao Meimei's class, over ten students chose the Arts class, and during the exams, they were placed on different floors. The rest were split 50/50 and allocated into two classes. Seats were arranged by interspersing the highest and lowest scorers in an attempt to avoid any predictable seating pattern, which was further randomized deliberately.
As a result, Zhao Meimei ended up in the second half of the exam room, with Zhang Zhao sitting across the aisle to her left.
