Chronicle of the 70s
Chapter 130 - 127 College Entrance Exam Second Update

Chapter 130: 127 College Entrance Exam Second Update

Until July, Mr. Deng repeatedly mentioned the news, which then spread widely about the restoration of the college entrance examination.

And on August 4, Mr. Deng personally convened a meeting with scientists, professors, and educational departments from all over the country in the auditorium, during which he decided to restore the college entrance examination system that had been interrupted for ten years.

In September, the Ministry of Education conveyed this news nationwide.

Suddenly, it was earth-shattering, both sent-down youths and factory workers were boiling with excitement.

The state rapidly issued a series of college entrance examination selection criteria.

The college entrance examination was scheduled for December, yet most people only received this news in October, leaving them only fifty days until the examination.

Li Xianglu and Qin Xi had already hand-copied a lot of revision materials and mailed them to high schools in several nearby counties, this was all they could do.

Qu Yeyu had already convinced her aunt’s family; she wanted to go to college, so she took all the exam papers prepared by Li Xianglu when she returned.

Later, in the course of several conversations, Li Xianglu learned that Qu Yeyu promised her aunt to give her entire salary for three years after getting a job, as well as the wedding presents.

In fact, considering it wasn’t too much, to have a chance at education outweighed the monetary costs, but the prerequisite was that her aunt wasn’t too greedy, satisfied with what she had.

Li Xianglu had nearly finished her revision, just memorizing some quotations and modern poems that Qin Xi pointed out, which were from the period of the "Gang of Four," for some reason she always felt Qin Xi was up to something, as the topics he indicated seemed to bear particular significance, Li Xianglu felt that these might be the exam questions, but could they really know the questions beforehand?

As the weather turned colder, the whole production team was anxious, reformed send-down youth were frantically revising in the cave, as if missing this opportunity would lead to lifelong regret.

However, Li Xianglu was quite calm, as there would be college entrance exams in the future, commonly called the bleak July.

Before the December college entrance exam, Grandpa Li moved everyone to the county town.

The examination hall was located in the county’s high school, staying there made it much more convenient to attend the exams.

This time, Li Dafu was even more attentive; after Mr. Li was brought back in April, he had discussed with Li Dafu the potential restoration of the college entrance exam, and had Li Dafu’s youngest son copy a set of test papers. Unexpectedly, in September, the college entrance exam was indeed restored, providing an advantage to his own son who started revising half a year earlier, as well as benefiting Liu Aidang’s nephews, for which Li Dafu was immensely grateful to Mr. Li.

After returning to the city, they first went to the registration site, and surprisingly, a small county city also had several hundred candidates.

The next day, the entrance of the county school had the candidates’ examination rooms and admission ticket numbers posted, Li Xianglu and Qin Xi picked up their admission forms, stamped with the principal’s seal, and left.

The examination dates were set for December 23 and 24, two subjects per day totaling four subjects.

Li Xianglu was now reassured, as long as the dates were set. Before the exam, Qin Xi stopped running errands and stayed home supervising Qin Zhen on solving problems.

Li Xianglu would cook meals when the time came, after eating she would read or memorize some materials arranged by Qin Xi.

Time flew, and December 23 eventually arrived.

The exam started at eight o’clock; by seven o’clock, the county school was already surrounded by people, braving the severe cold and excitedly waiting at the gate.

They needed to enter the examination hall at seven thirty, Li Xianglu and her group arrived at seven forty. Qin Xi beside her instructed, "Don’t be nervous, the questions shouldn’t be too difficult."

Li Xianglu looked up at Qin Xi, who appeared so composed as if he was not the one taking the exam but rather accompanying a child to one.

The two were not in the same examination room, but they were facing each other, having checked the place the day before. Meanwhile, Qin Zhen was in a classroom further back.

In October, the document from the Ministry of Education precisely defined, dividing into arts and sciences, the liberal arts subjects included political language, math, history, and geography.

The science subjects were: political language, math, physics and chemistry, with an additional foreign language test for those who applied for foreign language majors.

Li Xianglu was planning to apply for a finance major, so she would be taking science subjects, and thankfully, not needing to take the foreign language exam.

Originally, Li Xianglu wanted to study foreign languages, but after several deliberations by Qin Xi, she felt finance wasn’t bad either, to find a job in the financial sector sounded good, but then she wondered if Qin Xi was intentionally steering her that way.

But she was already revising according to this major, changing to liberal arts now was too late.

Upon entering the examination hall and finding their seats, as there were many candidates, two people shared one table, but to prevent cheating, they were staggered, for instance, when one side started math, the other would do liberal arts language.

Li Xianglu held a cloth bag made by Qu Yeyu, inside were a fountain pen and an eraser among other study materials.

There were three invigilators, Li Xianglu didn’t pay attention, just bowed her head looking at her admission ticket and household register, which were required for the exam; those without a household register needed to bring a proof document.

The first bell rang, the teachers started distributing the papers and reminded everyone not to start writing until after the second bell.

Li Xianglu didn’t start writing but used her eyes to browse the questions on the paper, surprised to find that the essay accounted for seventy points, no wonder Qin Xi had her and Qin Zhen memorize several essays which were flamboyantly worded and all praised the motherland, and now they were indeed useful.

As the second bell rang, just as Li Xianglu was about to start writing, she heard a male voice: "This student, bring your admission ticket here."

Li Xianglu was startled, why were they checking now, hadn’t it been checked already?

Li Xianglu picked up the admission ticket from the desk and looked up only to see a familiar face, teacher Wang Aijun, an old acquaintance.

Wang Aijun, acting completely unacquainted, frowned at Li Xianglu’s admission ticket, then checked the household register and comparing it to his own list, solemnly said to another invigilator beside him, "Mr. Li, look, this student isn’t on the list."

Li Xianglu’s heart tightened; why only find out now, by the time it was sorted out, there would be no point in her taking the exam!

The other invigilator also looked over, unable to find Li Xianglu’s name for quite some time, regretfully said: "Student, I’m sorry, according to the regulations, you can’t take the exam for now, we need to check it first."

Li Xianglu wasn’t having any of it, coldly retorted: "So is my admission ticket fake now?"

The teacher picked up the admission ticket: "This is indeed real."

Li Xianglu frowned: "Then if it’s real, why won’t you let me take the exam, just because your handwritten list doesn’t have my name on it?"

Suddenly surrounding discussions erupted, everyone knew the importance of this high school exam, once you leave, it might be hard to come back in, especially how could there be issues during the exam time.

PS: I’m going to eat a beef noodle, will be back soon.

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