Chapter 246 The college entrance examination officially begins!
The procedures for the academy examination and the provincial examination are basically the same. The academy examination has two sessions, the first is the main test and the second is the re-examination.
It takes a total of three days, and you need to stay in the examination room, which means you need to spend the night in the examination room.
You can't take the exam on the same day like the provincial exam and then go home to sleep at night.
So I prepared a lot of things this time, such as towels, spare clothes, mosquito and snake repellent, heatstroke prevention medicine, etc.
Sun Shan and Zheng Hongwen were ready early in the morning under the guidance of Master Xiao Hong, Huang Zhiyuan, Qin Shaofeng and others.
With the third cannon shot, Sun Shan and others had already gathered outside the examination room.
This inspection was particularly strict. Two inspectors searched the students one in front and one behind. It was said that if they were found carrying reference books or gold and silver, they would be immediately charged, and the external inspectors would be rewarded.
Sun Shan clearly felt that the inspector was searching particularly carefully and was particularly excited.
Candidates are required to take off their outer clothes, leaving only their inner clothes, and then be searched from head to toe, leaving no place untouched.
Sun Shan suspected that they hoped to find the smuggled items so that they could get a bonus.
A single search was not enough. After passing through the ceremonial gate and entering the examination room, groups of twenty people stood in front of the prefect and were searched again by the inspector.
This search was more thorough than the first one, especially in front of the prefect. The inspectors did not dare to be careless and were more proactive in searching every candidate thoroughly, and only let them go after searching them three times.
Sun Shan felt very uncomfortable during the search, but luckily he was just a young boy, so he could be searched.
The older ones, especially the veteran students, were searched so laboriously that they became angry and felt insulted before they even entered the venue.
After the second search, Sun Shan and others came to the governor.
Sun Shan also saw their examiner Wei Yuanxi for the first time.
He was about forty years old, of medium build and slightly thin, with a fierce look on his face. At first glance, he looked like a very serious and old-fashioned person.
Sun Shan quickly looked away to avoid meeting the academician's gaze, for fear of leaving a bad impression on him.
The student will have his identity confirmed by the stipend officer in front of the provincial education commissioner, and then submit the statement to the clerk next to him in exchange for the answer sheet.
Sun Shan and his four companions formed a partnership and found a guarantor through Scholar Hong. This time the premium was as high as 5 taels, which was much higher than the county and prefectural exams.
Sun Shan thought that if he passed the examination and became a student, he would be able to live a worry-free life by collecting insurance premiums.
Of course, there are risks in doing so, but risks come with benefits, so people will choose to act as guarantors for others.
After exchanging the answer sheet, the clerk will assign the student a seat in the examination room and record it on the form on the answer sheet.
After receiving the answer sheet, the students must take their seats without hesitation.
As for the seats of the students, they are arranged randomly and not announced in advance like the county and prefectural examinations.
The seats in the examination room are divided into east and west sides, arranged according to the order of the Thousand Character Classic, and seats in the same column are identified by numbers.
The tablet Sun Shan got was inscribed with "东日字四士", which means the fourteenth seat in the east column with the character "日" on it.
Sun Shan frowned: "You know I'm from Guangnan Province, but you still assigned me number 14. Number 14 means dead, stubborn, and dead."
Sun Shan said he was very superstitious.
You do not need to write your classmates' names on the answer sheet for the college examination. Just write your seat number when submitting it. Therefore, you must check the seat and name after reviewing the answers.
There is a sticker on the answer sheet for filling in your name, which is called a "floating ticket" or "floating paper". There are three seals at the junction of the sticker and the cover.
Candidates should peel off the floating ticket and keep it for themselves and only submit the answer sheet with the number written on it.
The reason for doing this is that when the results are released in the future, the candidates can use the float to prove that they are themselves and prevent others from claiming the results falsely.
Floating tickets must be kept well. If they are lost, the consequences will be serious.
Sun Shan didn't think any more about it, nor did he have time to think about it. After getting his seat number, he had to immediately follow the examination staff to the designated location.
Sun Shan didn't know where to turn. Only after the staff told him that he had arrived did he carefully look at the surrounding environment.
What the hell!
He was actually assigned a bad number!
The stuffiness in his chest immediately turned into a huge stuffiness, and Sun Shan felt like he was living a life worse than death.
The so-called stinky trumpet might be tolerable in winter, but it is August, the hottest time of the year.
You can imagine how this feels.
Sun Shan wanted to find people with the same interests as him, but if he didn't, he could still comfort himself by finding people who were as unlucky as him.
Now that I've found it, I feel even more desperate.
Because the toilet was next to the wall and he was next to the toilet, he was the only one with the toilet on the east side.
Sun Shan felt a tightness in his chest, which immediately turned into a very tightness in his chest.
At this time, the candidate next door was also led in by the staff. When he saw the toilet, his face immediately fell. When he saw Sun Shan, he became a little more energetic.
There is no harm without comparison, and there is no happiness without comparison.
The candidate sitting next to Sun Shan felt that he was very lucky, as he was only one room away from the toilet.
Sun Shan sat in the cell with an expressionless face, feeling deeply powerless.
There is no longer the glory and high spirits of ranking fourth in the provincial examination.
He felt uncomfortable after being exposed to the sun and having traveled a long distance to the provincial capital. He felt even more uncomfortable when he received the test number "fourteen". The fact that the examination room was next to the toilet made him feel even more stuffy in his chest.
There was a short bed in the narrow examination room, without even a mat on it, made of logs.
There was a neatly folded blanket next to it. Sun Shan smelled it and found it had a disgusting smell, so he quickly threw it aside.
Sun Shan sat woodenly in the examination room. The only consolation was that he was rather short and thin, so he could move freely in the examination room. When he slept, he did not have to curl up like the tall people, but only had to curl up one-third of his body.
I sorted out my thoughts and shook my head. Now that I'm here, I shouldn't think too much and just keep doing what I should do.
According to the college examination experience of Master Xiao Hong and others, the room must be tidied before entering the examination room, and it must be wiped clean to prevent the test paper from being contaminated.
Also, place the kettle and other things properly, and don't panic and spill the water to avoid contaminating the test paper.
Also, you must be careful when using candles and make sure to extinguish them before going to bed. Burning the test paper is a minor matter, but burning a person into a piglet is a matter of life and death.
Sun Shan made a mint-scented mask temporarily and used it halfway through the exam.
It's okay now that we have just entered, the toilet has obviously been cleaned.
Sun Shan didn't dare to think too much about the feeling of waiting.
I was already feeling dizzy and my chest was stuffy, and when I thought about it, I felt even more dizzy and my chest was stuffy.
Sun Shan tidied up the examination room. He had to tidy it up because he would be staying here for three days.
The small room carries heavy hope.
After finishing my work, there was no sound of people moving around. I looked at the sky outside. It was the darkness of the night before dawn.
There was a toilet on Sun Shan’s right, an examination room on his left, a wall behind him, and a wall in front of him. If he looked sideways he could see a row of examination rooms.
That is to say, his location is in a remote corner, and there is often a toilet in a remote corner.
After waiting for a while, a few bells rang suddenly, and then a ray of light appeared in the sky.
Sun Shan took a deep breath and exhaled deeply.
The college entrance examination has officially begun!
It is said that the examination hall looks like this, I don't know if it is true or not, but this Gongyuan
A distant view of the Imperial Examination Hall in Beijing taken by a British photographer