Chapter 257
Sun Ming finally recovered from his shock. He swallowed hard and spoke with difficulty, "Shen... Student Shen, this final exam is very important. Do you want to check your answers again? It's still early, there's no need to hand in your paper so soon..."
He was really afraid that Shen Nanchu was blindly confident and would lose points due to carelessness.
However, Shen Nanchu shook her head, her attitude firm. "There's no need to check, Mr. Sun. I'm sure I've finished everything. Please give me the junior year final exam paper. I'll start writing that one now."
She wanted to take the junior year exam right after?!
Hearing Shen Nanchu's words, the surrounding students were so shocked that their jaws almost dropped!
A wave of uncontrollable exclamations and gasps echoed through the classroom.
She had finished this hellishly difficult freshman paper in half an hour, and now, without even catching her breath, she was going to directly challenge the junior paper which was several times harder?!
Was she even human?!
She was simply an exam machine!
Sun Ming looked into Shen Nanchu's calm but unquestionably determined eyes and knew that further persuasion would be useless.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the turbulent waves in his heart, and nodded. "Alright, wait a moment."
He turned and went back to the podium, took out the sealed junior year final exam paper, solemnly brought it to Shen Nanchu's seat, and took away the freshman paper she had just finished.
Shen Nanchu took the new exam paper, glanced at it briefly, and began to write.
Sun Ming picked up the freshman paper Shen Nanchu had handed in and stood by the podium to look at it carefully.
It would have been fine if he hadn't looked, but once he did, he was startled!
Good heavens!
Just from what he could see on the first page of multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions, the answers were neat and clear.
Sun Ming quickly did mental calculations to check a few difficult questions that had left a deep impression on him...
Surprisingly...
They were all correct!
Even the problem-solving steps were concise and clear, directly hitting the core!
Sun Ming's heart instantly began to pound wildly like a drum, and the hand holding the exam paper trembled slightly.
He couldn't wait to flip to the back and look at those highly comprehensive essay questions with complicated steps...
Shen Nanchu's answering process was well-organized, logically rigorous, and the answers were so standard that it looked as if they were copied straight from a textbook!
When he looked up again and saw Shen Nanchu in her seat, he was even more amazed.
Holding that junior year final exam paper, which was universally acknowledged as absurdly difficult, Shen Nanchu didn't pause or hesitate in the slightest. She still maintained that astonishing speed and concentration, writing rapidly.
Sun Ming was so excited he almost burst into tears of joy.
Now, he somewhat believed that Shen Nanchu might not have been bragging; she truly had the terrifying strength to skip grades!
This could no longer be described by the word "genius"; she was simply a monster!
However, after the wild joy, Sun Ming quickly calmed down.
This junior year final exam paper was indeed truly difficult. It was completely on a different level from the freshman one, much, much harder!
Many of the knowledge points inside even touched upon senior year content, and the question types were more flexible and tricky.
Although Shen Nanchu seemed to be writing fast, the final result would still depend on the graded score.
I hope... I hope she can at least pass!
Sun Ming prayed silently in his heart.
Shen Nanchu's freshman paper would definitely rank among the best.
If she could pass the junior year paper, then she would barely reach the passing mark for skipping grades.
Shen Nanchu had absolutely no idea what Sun Ming was thinking about her; she was rapidly solving the questions.
She didn't know which idiot came up with these questions, page after page, making her write an unknown number of words.
The questions weren't difficult.
The difficult part was the physical writing.
If it weren't to avoid the suffering of attending lectures in the future, she wouldn't even bother writing.
After writing extensively for a while...
Shen Nanchu finally handed in her paper an hour later.
Her hand was almost crippled from the effort.
However, compared to the other students, Shen Nanchu's speed was truly flying.
While everyone else hadn't even finished one exam paper, she had completed two.
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Sun Ming almost held his breath. With somewhat unsteady steps, he walked over and collected the densely written exam paper in front of Shen Nanchu.
He glanced down, and the neat and clear answer sheet assaulted his visual nerves once again.
"You... you can rest for a bit, or you can leave the examination room early."
Sun Ming's voice carried a trace of imperceptible trembling.
Shen Nanchu nodded faintly but did not leave.
She still had to wait for Pei Yunzhou to go back together.
She calmly took out a thick, non-major-related foreign language book from her satchel, leaned back against the chair, and began to read quietly.
This composure thoroughly numbed the students who witnessed it all.
Sun Ming didn't dare to delay. Clutching the two exam papers that still carried the scent of ink, he practically jogged out of the classroom.
As for the rest of the exam, he'd leave it to the other teachers to supervise!
He was busy right now!
"Director Yu! Director Yu!"
Sun Ming pushed open the door to the department head's office directly, his face flushed red with excitement.
Yu Hongbin was reviewing documents and was startled by Sun Ming's reckless behavior.
"Mr. Sun? What's the matter that has you in such a panic? Aren't you invigilating an exam?"
"She's finished! Shen Nanchu... that Shen Nanchu who wants to skip grades, she... she finished both exams!"
Sun Ming, panting heavily, placed the two exam papers on Yu Hongbin's desk.
"What? So fast?"
Yu Hongbin was also taken aback. He picked up his watch and checked the time. "The exam only started an hour and a half ago! Is she messing around? Were the questions too difficult, so she gave up?"
"No! Absolutely not!" Sun Ming excitedly pointed at the exam papers. "Director Yu, take a look! Look at her answers! I briefly looked at this freshman paper, and it seems all the multiple-choice and fill-in-the-blank questions are correct! The steps for the essay questions are also extremely standard!"
"As for this junior year paper... although I can't completely understand all of it, the problem-solving logic is definitely not just scribbled nonsense!"
Half-believing and half-doubting, Yu Hongbin picked up Shen Nanchu's freshman exam paper and looked at it carefully.
He came from a specialized background, and his academic level was far higher than Sun Ming's.
Upon looking, his expression gradually shifted from doubt to surprise, then from surprise to solemnity, and finally, it was completely replaced by shock.
He flipped through the pages rapidly, occasionally letting out exclamations like "Tsk" and "Brilliant."
"This... this is simply perfect! I know the difficulty of this exam paper; the teaching and research group deliberately raised the standard, yet she actually..."
Yu Hongbin abruptly raised his head, his eyes shining brightly.
"Quick! Find a few teachers from the relevant majors immediately and grade this right now! Grade it right here! I will supervise it personally!"
Yu Hongbin made a phone call right away, calling in three teachers with rich teaching experience and solid professional foundations, one of whom was Professor Wang, who had participated in setting the exam questions.
At the same time, he made an even more major decision—he directly called Principal Liang Guoming to report this special situation.
Principal Liang Guoming was originally in his office listening to other teachers report on their work progress. Upon hearing the news from Yu Hongbin, he abandoned the meeting entirely.
He directly shooed the other teachers away and dashed toward Yu Hongbin's office...