After eating, Kamuro quickly made an excuse to leave, leaving Kamio Tatsuya still a little dazed.
What was that all about?
Just as he was lost in thought, his phone buzzed.
Kamio Tatsuya opened it to find an unread message.
[Are you going to the library this afternoon?]
It was from Kamuro.
[Not this afternoon. I'll go to the library again tomorrow morning.]
[See you tomorrow then.]
Looking at the message on his phone, Kamio Tatsuya brushed away his earlier confusion, and his mood instantly brightened.
The next day, Kamio Tatsuya took the subjects he planned to review and went to his usual spot in the library.
"Morning, Masumi."
Hearing the other person suddenly call her by her first name, Kamuro showed her trademark disgusted expression.
"Why did you call me by my name right away?"
"If you don't like it, I can go back to the way it was."
Kamio Tatsuya said with a grin.
Kamuro Masumi glared at him and then sat down next to Kamio Tatsuya.
There are five basic subjects in Japanese high school: Japanese language, math, English, social studies, and science.
The midterm exams cover these five subjects as well.
And the subject Kamio Tatsuya was preparing to review today was history. The Japanese history subject is different from the one back home; it's not a large subject, but rather a small subject within the larger subject of social studies.
However, Kamio Tatsuya really didn't know much about Japanese history.
He hadn't encountered it in his previous life, and he hadn't studied it well in this life, so it immediately became an obstacle for Kamio Tatsuya to pass.
To be honest, he didn't want to study this stuff at all.
What's so good about studying trash Japanese history, especially modern history after the 20th century? It's all made up.
"Are you going to study history today?"
Kamuro leaned over to take a look at the textbook Kamio Tatsuya had taken out.
"Yeah, it's the subject I'm worst at."
"I have a practice test that Sakayanagi put together. Do you want to try it?"
Kamuro Masumi took out a sheet of A4 paper from her bag and handed it over.
"Then I won't hold back."
Kamuro, you're really my angel!
Kamio Tatsuya didn't doubt Sakayanagi's academic ability. After all, her physical abilities were already at the bottom. If her academic ability wasn't good either, then why would she be in Class A?
However, after getting the test, Kamio Tatsuya's brow furrowed.
"What's wrong?"
"Did Sakayanagi really put this test together?"
"You don't doubt me, do you?"
Kamuro snatched the test back, looking annoyed.
"That's not what I mean. It's just that the questions on this test... don't seem to be in the exam's scope?" Kamio Tatsuya looked confused.
He wasn't doubting that Kamuro was tricking him; he was afraid that Sakayanagi was manipulating things behind the scenes.
Could she have guessed that Kamuro would show me this test?
"Are you kidding me?" Kamuro also picked up the test and looked at it. "No, it's this part."
As she said that, she also took out her textbook, flipped to the table of contents, and marked the scope of the exam.
However... the exam scope she marked didn't match the exam scope Kamio Tatsuya knew at all.
"You're not... kidding, are you?"
"I didn't zone out during class."
Kamuro Masumi was a little unhappy.
If what Kamuro said was true, then that meant that one person's exam scope was wrong. If neither Kamio Tatsuya nor Kamuro Masumi was mistaken, then that meant the teacher was mistaken.
Kamio Tatsuya immediately took out his phone and started typing a message.
[Could you tell me what the scope of the history exam is for the upcoming midterm?]
Then, he sent this message to two people.
One was Horikita Suzune from Class D, and the other was Shiina Hiyori from Class C.
Before long, he immediately received replies.
Okay, no need to make a call.
However, when he saw the two people's replies, his face immediately turned grim.
Because the exam scope that Horikita Suzune replied with was the same as what Kamio Tatsuya knew, while the exam scope that Shiina Hiyori replied with was the same as what Kamuro had marked.
The tests used for the first-year exams must be the same, so that confirmed it: that Chabashira Sae definitely marked the wrong exam scope for Class D.
Moreover, it was definitely intentional!
As a teacher, and not a new one, how could she make such a basic mistake?
But why?
Kamio Tatsuya tried hard to recall every word Chabashira Sae had said, and then he quickly found the answer.
On May 1st, the day it was explained that failing the midterm exams would result in expulsion, Chabashira Sae said something very strange.
"I believe there will be a way to avoid failing and get through the exam."
Normally, for students, the way to get through the exam is to study hard and then rely on your ability to get a score above the passing line.
So at this time, the teacher should have the students study hard and strive to pass, right?
But she said something about a way to get through the exam.
Moreover, the previous quizzes also hinted at something – those last three questions were completely beyond the scope of the material.
And Kamio Tatsuya always believed that the purpose of the questions on the test was to allow students to answer them.
So the answer was already very clear: the purpose of this midterm exam was not to test the students' learning outcomes at all, but to test whether the students could find a way to pass the exam.
Kamio Tatsuya thought of a plot from a manga he had once read.
The first written test in the Naruto Chunin Exams gave some questions that the genin couldn't answer at all, and the purpose was actually to test the ninjas' information gathering abilities.
The more Kamio Tatsuya thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was correct.
Otherwise, students like Sudou would have no need to be admitted to the school in the first place.
Learning is a gradual process, and from the revelation of the school's rules to the midterm exams, there were only twenty short days.
In such a short period of time, it would be too difficult to help a student who can only score in the teens to pass successfully, no matter how you think about it.
If you think about it that way, then it's like that information gathering exam: there must be someone in the school who holds the correct answers.
In that case, the answer is very clear.
Since there are no answers for the first-year students, then the answers are in the hands of the upperclassmen, namely the test questions they received when they entered the school last year.
In other words, there is a possibility that last year, or even the year before that, the upperclassmen took the same first semester midterm exams and entrance exams as the quizzes.
Of course, the same goes for today.
That being the case, the way to pass the exam is to get that test.
No matter how difficult the questions, as long as you have the answers beforehand, they become much easier.
Is that what you want, Chabashira Sae!!!
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