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The school held the exams as scheduled, with an additional English exam for the finance major, using the foreign language department’s paper. However, the teacher also said that scoring forty points would be considered up to standard, after all, they do not need to read and speak fluently, knowing some basics would be enough.
But for students from a country that hasn’t had college entrance exams in ten years, this is a difficult task, especially for someone like Ma Lingling who has never come into contact with English. It was almost overwhelming for her; she knew pinyin, but she never imagined that one day pinyin would appear before her with a different pronunciation and combination.
There are quite a few like Ma Lingling, their approach to learning English is to forcibly memorize it, using pinyin or Chinese characters to transcribe the sounds, then repeatedly read and memorize to ensure they can at least cope with this one exam.
The placement test was much harder than the college entrance exam, covering mathematics, physics, chemistry, English, politics, history, and geography, divided according to the major studied.
Li Xianglu and her peers were studying finance, but most were science students, although there were also arts students who got in. However, the school only allowed the science subjects to be tested, which made many students shout unfair and unreasonable, and some even reported the situation to the school.
The school, now operating for the first time in ten years, was very cautious and discussed such matters, concluding that the subjects one was admitted for would be the ones tested, to first establish a baseline before class assignment.
Li Xianglu didn’t perform well in math, physics, and chemistry, having reviewed so many problems in vain, but thankfully, the placement test came in handy.
In early May, the weather was comfortably warm, and sitting in the classroom was neither cold nor hot, especially cozy. She finished the last English paper in one hour.
It was simple, with thirty percent memorization questions, thirty percent translation, twenty percent comprehension and analytical questions, and the last ten percent was an essay, the topic was your view on learning English.
Li Xianglu wrote a classic and well-known proposition by Wei Hai, which is: "Learn from the barbarians to control the barbarians."
This proposition expressed a brilliant patriotic thought, and Li Xianglu believed this view should score high marks.