It’s an Academic Fact That Rankers Are Model Students – Chapter 129

Chapter 129: Test Prep Tip: Create the Same Environment as the Exam (3)

Kyung-il glances at Kyung-joon’s test sheet again.

He looks for the school name.

‘Hanseong High? Gyeonggi Science High? Maybe Gyeonggibuk Science High. Seoul Science High is too much…… What?’

Kyung-il’s eyes widen.

The school written on the test sheet wasn’t a science high school, a gifted high school, or any private high school.

‘Cheongshin High School?’

A school he’s never heard of.

In his ten times as a test proctor, he’d never seen that school name.

‘Maybe a private high school? I’ve never heard of it……’

First, Kyung-il returned to the chief proctor’s seat.

After confirming that the assistant proctor had returned, he searched for the school on his smartphone.

Cheongshin High School was clearly a general high school.

‘Wow, a general high school student already studying at the 3rd or 4th year of university level? He must’ve had a lot of private education.’

Otherwise, there’s no way he’d know the knowledge from quantum mechanics and relativity.

At least he must have heard various stories through private education.

‘But looking at his clothes, it doesn’t seem like he’s from a wealthy family……’

The kids who came to this test center had a characteristic.

They all had zero fashion sense and were tacky, but if you looked closely, they were all wearing good brands.

But the clothes Kyung-joon was wearing weren’t like that.

It wasn’t like they were shabby or anything, but the label on his clothes was a bit strange.

‘Adidas…it’s Adadis……?’

This was the first time Kyung-il had seen a counterfeit in his life!

A kid wearing these clothes received university-level private education?

It was impossible.

‘How much does it cost just for university-level tutoring?’

At least several times more expensive than general high school tutoring.

Even for Olympiad tutoring, it’s common to pay around 100,000 won per hour.

But the fact that he didn’t receive any of this tutoring means……

‘He studied all the way here by himself? Wow, that’s amazing.’

Studying from a general high school to the university level without private education……

Whether it was talent or effort, he must have worked really hard.

Or maybe he truly enjoys studying.

Anyway.

Seeing a kid like this made him want to cheer him on, beyond jealousy or inferiority.

Truly talented and hardworking people inspire those who see them to wish them well.

‘Huh.’

Thinking that he had seen something good for the first time in a while, Kyung-il picked up a piece of chalk.

Tap, tap.

He wrote down the question number in large letters on the blackboard.

『Question 23, Statement 3』

“Just a quick announcement. I’m going to modify question 23, statement 3, like this.”

And so, Kyung-il modified the question based on what Kyung-joon had pointed out earlier.

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After the Physics Certification Test.

Chemistry Certification Test time after lunch.

A different proctor than before asked Kyung-joon for confirmation again.

“Are you sure you don’t need to review any further?”

“Yes, I’ve reviewed it enough.”

The morning Physics Certification Test was over, and it was now time for the Chemistry Certification Test.

However, only 30 minutes had passed since the test began.

Although it was possible to leave the exam room from this point on, there were usually no students who left this early.

‘Besides, this kid…… He’s right in front of me, so I’ve been watching him for a while, and he’s had his pencil down for about 10 minutes……’

About 20 minutes had passed since the exam started.

At that time, Kyung-joon had already finished marking his OMR sheet.

‘Wait, you mean he solved all the problems in 20 minutes and spent 10 minutes reviewing?’

It might be possible for the CSAT Chemistry test, but this was a university-level general chemistry exam.

Especially the concentration-related problems had quite complicated calculations.

Even he, the proctor, took more than an hour to solve them all.

But he finished everything in 30 minutes, including review?

It didn’t make sense.

‘Tsk, is he a kid who was dragged here by his parents?’

There had been kids who left early like this before.

But it wasn’t because they had finished solving everything, but because there was nothing more they could solve.

Maybe this kid was similar, scribbling a bit, randomly guessing the rest, and trying to leave early.

“Alright. Please hand in your test paper and OMR card and you are free to leave. Good work.”

“Okay.”

Kyung-joon did as the proctor said and walked out of the exam room.

The proctor then chuckled and checked his test paper.

‘Let’s see how much he’s solved.’

Since the assistant proctor was enough to monitor for cheating, it was okay to take a quick look.

The Chemistry Certification Test chief proctor skimmed through the first page of the test paper.

‘First of all, it seems like he got most of the first page right. Well, it wouldn’t make sense if he couldn’t even solve the first page. He’s supposed to be from a specialized high school.’

He was mistaking Kyung-joon for a student from a specialized high school.

Slide.

He turned to the next page.

Except for a few scattered numbers, only the answers were marked.

‘As expected. He scribbled a bit and ended up guessing. Well, the calculations start getting messy from here.’

As expected, he was just a student who wanted to guess roughly and leave quickly.

As he was about to close the test paper, thinking that……

‘Huh……? Wait a minute.’

He felt something off.

From question 6 on the upper left to question 20 on the lower right.

Almost all of them were complicated calculation problems.

Glancing at the other students, their test papers were completely covered in writing.

Full of numbers and formulas.

But this student, Kyung-joon’s, test paper was so clean except for a few lines of formulas.

The reason why this was even more surprising was……

‘…What, are they all correct?’

These were the problems that had been reviewed several times under the professor’s instructions.

He had memorized the answers long ago.

But how come the answers he was looking at now perfectly matched the answers in his head……?

‘Is it the same for the rest?’

He turned to the next page with wide eyes.

From question 21 to 30.

This was the section where you couldn’t solve everything within the time limit without an understanding of the problem and even better calculation ability than before.

Especially since this section was full of formula derivations, not just simple numerical calculations like before, the difficulty of calculation increased even further.

‘H, Here too, everything is correct……’

He wasn’t guessing.

There was no way he could have guessed all the questions correctly up to this point.

But on the other hand, it was hard to say that he had solved them all.

Because there were hardly any traces of him solving them.

‘No way…… The calculations must have been incredibly tough, but is this really it? In just three lines?’

The solution for each problem was only three lines long.

The first line was the equation that pierced through the problem.

The second line was the development of that equation.

And the last was the answer.

With just three lines, this student perfectly solved all the problems.

‘Then you mean he did all the intermediate calculations in his head? Don’t tell me he cheated……? No…… Cheating is out of the question.’

There was no room to suspect cheating.

He was the first one to finish the test and leave.

In other words, he was the gold medalist.

If there had been any cheating, it would mean that the test paper had been leaked beforehand……

Rather than such an absurd thought, this was much more convincing.

‘Monster……’

What kind of high school student was he?

The Chemistry Certification Test proctor checked the school written on the test paper and OMR card.

It said:

『Cheongshin High School』

Not a science high school, a gifted high school, an autonomous private high school, or an international high school.

Just an ordinary general high school.

‘……He really was a monster.’

A general high school student who was in no way inferior to any specialized high school student.

No, far from being inferior, he might even be overwhelmingly superior.

That’s why Kyung-joon seemed even more like a monster.

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Kyung-joon fiddled with the KakaoPage app on his smartphone and thought.

“I think I’ve spent more time reading web novels than taking the test, haven’t I?”

He finished the Chemistry Certification Test in 30 minutes, and the morning Physics Certification Test was also completed within an hour.

He spent the rest of the time after the test and during lunch break reading web novels on his smartphone.

Although they say that studying for a bit before taking the test is quite effective, unfortunately, Kyung-joon couldn’t do that.

That’s because all the books were in the game.

The only books he had in reality were textbooks he received from school and a few workbooks.

And it wasn’t just the books.

Teemo, Dimensional Study Room, Study Villa, and all the other things related to studying were all in the game.

It really made him wonder why he even bothered studying in reality.

Because of this, he felt a huge gap between the game and reality, which caused him some difficulties in the past.

You see, in the game, time flew by quickly in the Dimensional Study Room, and thanks to the Study Villa buff, his studying ability itself was boosted.

His concentration became better, his calculation ability became much more accurate, and his heightened creativity prevented him from missing parts he had overlooked before.

His memory, as the name suggests, allowed him to remember things for a longer time, and his tenacity made his will to study even stronger.

Of course, this was all in the game.

It was impossible in reality.

The gap was only natural.

“……But there was no problem today.”

This was a feeling he had been getting lately.

He felt that the gap between reality and the game was gradually narrowing.

“Especially during the chemistry test just now……”

Even Kyung-joon himself was surprised.

At first, he didn’t even notice because it felt exactly the same as when he was solving problems in the Study Villa.

But.

The moment he finished solving everything and looked back at the calculation formula, which was only three lines long, he realized.

━Huh? Did I calculate this well?

Just a few months ago, he would have definitely written down and calculated everything by hand.

But this time, it was over in just three lines?

‘It was the same during the physics test……’

Thinking back to the Physics Certification Test a few hours ago, the memory was like the middle of space.

His body, the desk, the mechanical pencil, and the test paper.

A pure white space with nothing but these.

And naturally, Kyung-joon was solving problems there.

He kept solving problems without even feeling the flow of time.

And the moment he put down his pencil.

All the problems in front of him were solved, and all that was left was to fill out the OMR sheet.

“That time, it was definitely that.”

Kyung-joon knew this feeling better than anyone else.

The state he would sometimes enter when deeply immersed in the game.

It was the feeling of reaching a Trance.

“It was the same when I grilled the steak last time.”

There was no other way to conclude this.

Yes, it felt like everything he experienced in the game……

“It seems to be affecting reality?”

The things he experienced in the game were affecting his real body!

No virtual reality game had ever done that.

Just because you’re good at using a sword in a game, it doesn’t mean you’ll be good at kendo in reality.

The World was the same.

No matter how realistic it was, there was no way to bring the swordsmanship skills learned in the game to reality.

But Kyung-joon was different now.

It was as if the knowledge he studied in the game remained in his head.

The feeling of learning and studying something in the game was ingrained in his body.

This wasn’t a bad thing.

Come to think of it, it couldn’t get any better than this.

But……

‘……What exactly is The World, no, Infinite Knowledge Seeker, created by the Seolha Group?’

It was a mystery he couldn’t help but think about.

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