Study System: I'm a 38-Year-Old Student-Chapter 77 - 70: Old Shen, Potential Qingbei Candidate!
"Shen Yixiao, 71 points!"
While handing out the test papers, Sun Xing continued reading out the students’ scores.
When he announced Shen Yixiao’s score, there was a slight commotion in the classroom.
Everyone was aware of the bet between father and son!
In the English vocabulary competition, Shen Yixiao got a "Double Kill" from his dad!
The father-son duo clashed again in this mock exam.
The students originally favored Shen Yixiao, as the vocabulary contest didn’t prove much.
Memorizing words isn’t very technical; with enough effort and time, anyone could achieve Shen Qiushan’s level.
But a mock exam is different, as it tests six subjects, challenging overall skills.
No matter how good Shen Qiushan was at English, the maximum was still 150 points.
The full score is 750 points!
A middle-aged man like Shen Qiushan couldn’t excel in every subject, right?
With this in mind, the students naturally leaned more towards Shen Yixiao.
The "war report" from the ninth exam room during the day somewhat confirmed the students’ suspicions, as Old Shen turned in his math paper more than half an hour early.
Clearly, he didn’t know many of the questions!
However, reality slapped them in the face.
Shen Qiushan scored 121 points, while Shen Yixiao only got 71!
Given the difficulty of this mock exam, Shen Yixiao’s 71 points were actually performing normally.
But his dad was just too fierce!
In math alone, he was ahead by 50 points!
With his head down, Shen Yixiao returned to his seat. He had estimated that he would at least be ahead of his dad by 30 to 40 points in math.
In that scenario, even if his dad scored higher in English, the combined scores of the two subjects would be about equal.
For the remaining subjects, he was confident he would easily outperform his dad.
Overall, his mock exam total score would definitely surpass his dad’s!
Then his dad would switch to Class 2 of the third year to accompany Shen Yanran.
He would regain his freedom.
The script was perfect!
However, just as expected, the unexpected happened...
He fell behind his dad by 50 points in math!
If he lagged by another 40 to 50 points in English, that would be a gap of about 100 points for the two subjects.
He started with a 100-point pit he had dug for himself.
Shen Yixiao was really worried whether he could fill that pit in the remaining tests.
If his mock exam total score wasn’t higher than his dad’s,
he would become famous in school once again!
Senior year office.
Today, teachers were collectively working overtime to grade papers.
The mock exam results were a comprehensive assessment of the students, so the school attached great importance to them.
The office was very quiet, with almost only the sound of flipping papers.
A female teacher with short hair suddenly exclaimed, "Teacher Chen, Old Shen from your class got a full score on the English test!"
Hearing the words "Old Shen," the teachers grading papers all raised their heads.
"Full score?"
"Let me see!"
Zhao Jinpeng, the head of the senior English teaching group, stood up and walked over to the short-haired female teacher.
Chen Xiangyu quickly joined them; she was, of course, very concerned about Shen Qiushan’s results. However, there were too many papers, and she couldn’t specifically pull out his paper. She had to wait for someone to grade it.
"Vice Principal Lin already saw Old Shen’s English paper in the exam room."
Zhang Xia also came over, muttering, "Old Shen even had lunch with Vice Principal Lin today. I wonder what the relationship between the two is."
"Could they be dating?"
The short-haired female teacher said with a gossipy face.
"No way!"
Zhang Xia subconsciously frowned. She had considered the idea but dismissed it immediately.
Because their conditions didn’t match at all!
Upon hearing the short-haired lady’s guess, Chen Xiangyu’s eyebrows raised slightly. News of Shen Qiushan having lunch with Lin Xiamo in the cafeteria had long spread amongst the faculty.
The fact that these two seemingly unrelated people could share a meal was something no one expected.
"Principal Lin has such a strong background and qualifications. How can you think that way? They’re probably just acquaintances."
Zhao Jinpeng said, flipping through the papers, "Alright, stop the gossip. Old Shen’s full score is the first English full score, right? Now there’s a story to motivate those kids. If Old Shen at this age can score full marks, what excuse do those kids have not to try?"
"Old Shen also did pretty well in Chinese, 129 points."
At this moment, a middle-aged male teacher suddenly spoke up. He had just calculated the score for Shen Qiushan’s Chinese paper.
"The Chinese score is that high!"
"Let me see!"
Zhang Xia hurried over to pick up the paper. In the afternoon, all the exam rooms changed invigilators. Zhang Xia was transferred to the eleventh exam room and couldn’t continue in the same room as Shen Qiushan, so she didn’t see his answers on the Chinese paper.
"Teacher Zhang, you seem very concerned about Old Shen!"
The short-haired female teacher teased with a grin.
"No way!"
Zhang Xia quickly denied it, "I’m just curious how he scored so high in Chinese."
Although she said so, Zhang Xia’s expression was clearly a bit unnatural, as if her secret had been exposed.
Observing from the side, Chen Xiangyu lightly furrowed her brows. She didn’t expect her old flame to be so popular. He hadn’t been at the school for long, yet there were already rumors about him with Vice Principal Lin Xiamo and Zhang Xia.
She didn’t take Zhang Xia seriously at all. She knew her old flame, Shen Qiushan. Zhang Xia was nowhere near her in appearance or figure, so she had no chance.
But the beautiful and aloof Vice Principal Lin was a different story.
That woman had all-around superior conditions that crushed hers, just like she crushed Zhang Xia.
Chen Xiangyu prided herself on understanding men. A superbly qualified, beautiful, influential woman like Lin Xiamo—if she showed the slightest interest, no man could resist.
Not even her old flame, Shen Qiushan!
Yet, looking from another angle, Vice Principal Lin had no apparent reason to be interested in her old flame.
Their conditions were just too far apart.
Unless Vice Principal Lin had a thing for mature older men or had taken a liking to his card-playing skills.
But there’s a paradox there—how would she know about his card skills without trying?
I never talked about it with anyone...
Forget it, I’ll ask him tonight during the tutoring session.
While Chen Xiangyu was brainstorming, Zhao Jinpeng remarked, "Old Shen’s total for math, Chinese, and English is precisely 400 points!"
"If you just look at these three subjects, he could even enter the Celestial Pride Class!"
When he said that, the other teachers also realized.
"Not just entering the Celestial Pride Class, with 400 points in the three major subjects, he could apply for Qingbei!"
"That’s true! Last year, the humanities cutoff for Qingbei was 668 and 659 points. With Old Shen scoring 400 points in the three major subjects, he would only need an average of 90 points in the other three subjects to apply for Qingbei!"
"Does this mean we have another Qingbei candidate in our school???"
The teachers faced each other, initially just impressed by Shen Qiushan’s high scores in the three major subjects. As they calculated, they realized not only were his scores high, but they made him eligible for Qingbei.
"Quick, get Old Shen’s politics, history, and geography papers out!"
"Let’s see how he did!"
