Chapter 202 – Episode 202. Scholarship Selection Test
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The test site for mock exams was within a 10-minute walk after taking the subway from the gosichon and getting off the train.
It is a high school that is vacant on weekends like a normal test site, and it is a place that has been negotiated with the school so that the academy can take a mock test like a real exam.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
I got off the subway and walked to the test center.
It wasn’t difficult to find the way to the test site.
Just like the way we went to the festival place during Christmas, on the way to the exam center, I just had to follow where the people were heading all at once, wearing high school student-style clothes and carrying bags.
Come to think of it, the time for the Christmas festival is already far away.
Has it been more than two weeks… It was pretty fun.
After that, I was only studying.
It’s already the second week of January.
The problem-solving class at a large academy that I took for two months in November and December has also ended.
And it has become the 2nd week of January.
The study is ongoing.
It seems that having a study helps keep the habit of waking up in the morning more.
In the case of today, when mock exams, which can be called scholarship selection contests, are held, there is no study because it is Sunday.
Still, because of the habit of waking up early every day, my eyes automatically opened.
The weather on Sunday was fine, and although it was a bit chilly during the day as the season was seasonal, it was relatively warm compared to the night.
I thought as I walked towards the exam hall.
‘It’s the best even if it’s a 3rd grade scholarship student.’
Taking a test like a real test is one of the reasons I decided to take a mock test.
Of course that’s good too, but I had another reason besides that.
It was because of the reward based on the ranking.
Rewards were provided to some test-takers according to their ranking among the number of people taking the mock exam.
The announcement about the mock exam reward was as follows.
◆ 1st Place: Individual seats for scholarship students, 2-month ticket for final lecture, 1 million won scholarship
◆ 2nd ~ 5th Place: Individual seating for scholarship students, 2-month ticket for final lecture, 500,000 won scholarship
◆ 6th ~ 10th place: individual seats for scholarship students
It is like this.
1st place is a 1st class scholarship student.
2nd to 5th are Grade 2 scholarship students.
The 6th to 10th ranks are the 3rd grade scholarship students.
There is a reduction in reading room expenses and academy expenses, as well as scholarship benefits.
In the case of the 2-month final lecture ticket, it is an online lecture ticket, so it is possible to take classes regardless of the progress of the academy.
The reason why the academy makes this kind of event is because the academy has to attract the highest ranks to their academy.
People are often enticed by other people’s success stories.
If we provide various benefits to the top students and attract them to the academy, there is a high probability that they will become the top students and become the face of the academy on the fluttering placard.
For an academy, top students are the source of advertising effectiveness.
In that case, the children of the lower ranks or beginners will be able to see the success story and be led.
In my case, my grades in last year’s test were good enough that I was eliminated with only one point difference on average from the cut-off, but I’ve been studying all this time.
Alcohol and women, their temptations abound in this high school town.
So I could say that I had studied properly for about 4 months since I started around October, so I was going to take a mock test this time.
Not only can you save on reading room expenses and academy expenses, but you can also receive a scholarship as a test taker.
Among them, what I am aiming for is a 3rd grade scholarship student who is ranked 6th to 10th.
Money is earned by working.
You can also take classes at private academies with the money you earn by working.
However, individual seats for scholarship students can be seen as a kind of prize that is not for sale.
So, I thought that it would be nice to be a first or second grade scholarship student, but I thought that even being a grade 3 scholarship student who could secure a seat for each student would be enough to satisfy me.
Whether the purpose is practical training, scholarships, academy lectures, or seats, of course there is competition.
This time, the total number of people who took the mock test at the large academy I went to is less than 300, looking at the current state of the test.
As long as they come to take the mock exam, they are like me, but they are confident enough in their skills, so they spend money and come to take the exam as if it were a real experience.
It may not be easier to get to the top than the real test.
Even if the 300 people who were selected as the elite were not that many, it was a bit difficult to be certain that I would definitely be able to rise to the top.
Still, I moved forward thinking that if I could solve the problem as cool as I had studied, I would have no regrets even if I didn’t become a scholarship student.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
As I was walking, I heard someone calling me.
“Jinhyuk~!”
Looking back, it was Eunhee noona.
Next to him was Yoon Kyung-do, who was walking along with Eun-ui’s older sister.
Eunhee noona and Yoongyeong seemed to have become very close since they went to the academy together in the morning after the study.
I stopped on my way when I saw Eunhee noona and Yoongyeong.
“Uh, noona~, how are you?”
After I stopped, Eun’s sister and Yun-kyung caught up with me, and the three of us started walking together.
Eunhee noona said.
“Are you also taking this mock exam?”
“Ah, yes.”
Yoon-kyung, who was next to me, also spoke to me in a bright tone.
“If I knew you were taking the test, I would have come with you~ Oppa, aren’t you getting first place in this exam?”
Haha, honestly, it’s difficult to get first place, ah, Yoon Kyung-ah. Speaking of words.”
“Yes?”
As I walked with them, I spoke to both Eunhee and Yunkyung.
“If one of the three of us comes in first place, would you like to give all the study members a warm Americano set at McMorning in the morning on study day?”
When I spoke, they answered.
“Hoho, it would be really nice if we came in first place.”
“Would that be fun?”
We all burned with enthusiasm.
Especially when the test is not so long away as it is now, everyone seems to have more willpower to try harder.
The way there was enjoyable.
On the way to the exam hall with them, there was nothing to be bored with because there were many of them together, and it seemed that we could come together on the way back.
Like that, the three of us, Eunhee, Eunhee, and Yoongyeong, went to the test center while talking.
When I arrived at the school, which is the test site for mock exams where scholarship students were selected, there were separate exam halls for each exam number on the glass that went into the front of the school.
I parted with them near the stairway because the test floor was different from the rest of the group.
Then I went to the classroom where I was taking the test.
When I arrived at the classroom, there was still some time before the exam started.
Although the exam is not yet in progress, everyone is quietly looking at the books they have brought, so I quietly open and close the door.
When I entered the classroom where I was going to take the exam, I felt the atmosphere of a school because it was originally used as an ordinary school.
These desks were originally supposed to be where students used to study every day.
I was a bit sentimental when I thought that there was a time like that too.
When I actually went to school, it was a place where the class time went on infinitely, but after passing, I felt a little bit like what it would have been like if I had tried my best at that time.
The school was not that new, nor was it that old.
I consulted the test number on the blackboard and walked towards my assigned seat.
I sat down on a chair, hung up my bag, put down my writing utensils and books for civil service exams, and looked at them for a while.
I was able to concentrate well, probably because I was used to the desk because it resembled the shape I used when I was in school.
The people who sat in the other seats also did things to organize their studies quietly, without moving, in their respective seats.
As a result, the supervisors opened the door and came in.
Since professors who are instructors at civil service academies are unlikely to supervise mock exams, I wondered if they might be the staff in the counseling room.
The first class supervisor was a man in his mid-to-late 30s, with a slightly tousled hair and a flattened nose, a slightly smiling face, and a neat outfit that overall gave the impression of an ordinary office worker.
He placed a round wall clock at the bottom of the center of the blackboard in front of it so that everyone could freely check the time at any time.
Then he wrote down the schedule of exam time in large letters on the blackboard.
After writing everything down, he spoke.
“Those who need to go to the bathroom, go now!”
As he spoke, many people got up to go to the bathroom.
I stayed to look at the book a little more.
To be honest, I still think that I am not fully equipped with my skills enough to take this mock test.
The reason is that I worked part-time and played for half a year from April, and it was from October that I resumed my studies in order to study properly, so it has been about three months now.
Of course, I was in the top ranks among the dropouts to the point that I fell by an average of 1 point in last year’s exam, and it was a short time if it was short for about 3 months, but it was a short time to study, so I had to study for a long time during that time. In terms of that, I also have skills.
However, I thought that I was still not at the completion stage, and I also wanted to perfect my skills in more detail during the remaining two or three months.
However, the purpose of taking this mock test was to test my real-life similar experience and challenge myself with the thought of trying to get a scholarship student’s individual seat.
Oh, there were other reasons besides the reason that wanting to have a private seat is not for sale.
It was because of the concentration problem recently.
Now that I don’t go to private academies, because there are study classes, even if I wake up early in the morning, I can organize my free study time all day, so I felt that learning was getting more difficult little by little.
When I went to private academies, I still took most of the academy classes on weekdays, reviewed the contents of the classes at night, and then studied at my own pace on the weekends, or subtracted the review progress I couldn’t complete on weekdays.
However, after the problem-solving class was over, the time for me to create a study schedule by myself continued all day without end.
In October, though, since I had been studying again for the first time in a while, I was very motivated, so I worked pretty hard during the time before attending the academy.
However, now that I have listened to all the advanced lectures, such as problem-solving classes in November and December, and have understood them to some extent, I felt like I was becoming a bit conceited in my heart without realizing it.
I wanted to control that arrogance a bit.
However, you cannot listen to lectures until right before the exam to control your pride.
It seems that it is more effective to study on my own for two or three months before the exam than to listen to lectures.
If so, to improve learning efficiency without taking lectures, I thought it would be good to study while changing the environment a little.
It is to write a strategy to increase learning efficiency by giving changes to the gradual decline of concentration.
He is willing to go to the self-study room, which is open to the public free of charge, by changing numbers, and to register for the reading room.
And I think that individual seating for academy scholarship students is also a good place to pursue that change.
The fact that senior Hyojin, whom she met at her high school a while ago, went to her cafe to study her, also contains such a principle.
Since studying in the same place can cause mannerism, it seemed that it could be seen as using the method of changing place learning to combat it.
So I wanted to make good use of this opportunity.
In order to secure individual seats for academy scholarship students, I had a strong desire to get a high score in this mock test, which was like a contest in a way.
I decided to concentrate as much as I could while solving the problem, even though I wasn’t yet at the stage where my skills were perfected.
‘Let’s practice like a real game.’
With that in mind, I read the civil service preparation book before the exam time started, and after the exam bell rang, I received the exam paper and solved the problem.
