Chapter 31: A Night with a Knight
The students of the first academy are supposed to be the best of the best, elites among elites, and geniuses who are meant to carry on the dreams of their predecessors to the next generations.
It’s safe to say that even in a general context, everyone here is no simple person in terms of personal ability. This becomes evident when the last student in the ranking is only a handful of grades behind the first-ranked student.
This created an atmosphere that would make most people crumble from pressure. The academy adopted a system of grouping the grades of its students together to create what can be considered a criterion of success for each year, meaning that as long as the majority of the students had their grades between certain scores (100 and 98 for example), anyone who scores less than them by a large migraine fails the exam and gets demoted to the Second Royal Academy for good, where they will be judged by its lower standards, and of course graduate with its lesser diploma from there.
And since most students pick different subjects to study even in the same year, the overall ranking depends on the average score in all subjects. As all exams get graded by 100 points, all the grades are added together and then divided by the number of exams taken for each student.
Other than the overall ranking, there is another ranking for every subject on its own but the big overall competition is what attracts most attention either way.
Back to a certain Vivian, she was going back and forth the next day with a textbook in her hand, crossing a score of students who kept following her with their gazes and chattering among themselves.
"Have you heard? She has signed up for all ten exams."
"Crazy!"
"You guys believe that?"
"I never really thought she would come back after what happened with Lady Matilda."
"Well, I guess she is back trying to attract attention."