Although it was already late at night, the lights in Arata's bedroom were still bright. A transcript with a grade of C was placed on Arata's desk, and the open notebook was filled with words of reluctance.

That night, Arata was destined to be unable to read any books. Even though the textbook was spread out in front of him, he could not read the meaning of the words on it.

"Why?"

"You have obviously worked so hard, so why have your grades declined? You could have gotten a B in the previous central examination, but why did it become a C now?"

The classification of Category C means that Arata has only a 40% chance of being admitted to Tokyo University. Considering that the score determination is based on normal distribution statistics, it also means that even within the C classification, Arata

His grades are still not very good. The conclusion is that his grades have indeed declined.

"But why did my grades steadily improve before when I had to film and play basketball, but now that I have devoted all my energy to reviewing, my grades have dropped?"

“I can’t figure it out, I can’t figure it out at all what is going on!”

Arata, who was puzzled, just sat at the desk, eager to find out the source of the problem.

As the atmosphere at night became quieter and quieter, the grievances and unwillingness in Arata's heart gradually subsided. Objectively speaking, there are actually reasons for the poor performance in the Chinese test. Although Arata's understanding of Chinese is considered to be

Mother tongue level, but the test is not equivalent to daily use.

However, if we put aside the interference of foreign language exams and think carefully about the decline in performance in other subjects, Arata feels that maybe he has encountered a bottleneck in his previous life's study.

“What is a learning bottleneck?”

The reason why Arata dares to challenge Tokyo University is that he also passed the college entrance examination and entered the university in his previous life. He already has the academic vision and knowledge path of the university, so he is naturally better than ordinary college students. Moreover, facts have proved that,

It was already the second time for him to learn this level of knowledge, and he could master it much faster than the average student.

Therefore, this is also the reason why he can quickly get the B judgment after working hard for a while.

However, now Arata's review has obviously reached the limit of his previous life. After all, in his previous life, Arata had never entered a top university.

"Ah, I have been working hard for so long, and I even turned down my job in the office. I am really unwilling to accept it!"

That night, Xintai sat at his desk and thought about it all night. Until dawn, he still didn't give himself a reasonable reason.

"Santa, come out to eat!"

"Mom, I don't want to eat, I want to go out for a walk!"

When Arata walked out of the room, he saw his mother standing outside the door with breakfast, but he just said something hastily, and then walked towards the door. Maybe he saw Arata's look a little strange,

Mother Junko didn't say much.

"ah!"

When Arata came outside, the fresh morning air immediately relieved his brain. While adjusting his breathing, he slowly ran forward along the street near his residence. In this way, he ran aimlessly to the station.

, and then got on the train to Shinjuku.

On the tram, Arata covered his face with his hood and stood alone in the corner of the tram. Maybe it was because it was the rush hour for work. The carriage was full of office workers in formal attire. The crowds of people were everywhere.

As the carriage swayed rhythmically, for some reason, Arata's mind thought of canned sardines.

"Canned sardines! Although no one wants to be a sardine, but... this is the fate of most office workers!"

The train kept shaking, and Arata was also thinking about his own things. Unknowingly, he saw the train arriving at Takadanobaba Station.

At this time, Arata heard the warning sound on the platform and hurriedly got out of the car. Then he walked out of the platform aimlessly and walked forward along the road in front of the station.

Maybe it was because Waseda University was nearby, but when Arata walked out of the station, he quickly saw several bookstores and chain tutoring institutions. Just when he passed by a branch of Suruga Juku, suddenly,

But I found several registration forms outside the door.

"Hey, if you want to take the mock exam, all you need to do is get a form at the door!"

Arata looked at the information rack placed at the entrance with some curiosity. Just when he stopped to get a registration form, suddenly, several people walked out of the cram school.

"Hey, I failed this exam again. It seems I won't be able to pass the Waseda exam!"

"That's right, I originally thought that choosing Chinese would be an advantage, but who knew there would be so many people signing up for the Chinese language course!"

…

These people spoke in Chinese. After Xintai heard this, he silently stopped and then stood aside.

"I've told you a long time ago not to think that the Chinese test will be so easy! You don't even look at it. How many of our international students choose English? Besides, there are also those test takers whose children have returned from abroad. They also mostly speak Chinese. What do you want me to say?

, the Chinese test is not as easy as English."

Suddenly hearing the conversation between these people, Xintai suddenly understood the problem in his mind.

"So it's like this. I just thought that choosing Chinese as the foreign language would save time for review, but I forgot that if I choose the Chinese language test, I would probably have to compete with my compatriots! Ah, I am really, no wonder? No wonder my Chinese is poor

Your grades will be greatly exceeded..."

Suddenly realizing what his problem was, Arata suddenly turned around and sped towards the station.

…

"Bang!"

An hour later, when Arata showed up at the Ito cram school again, Mr. Ito was shocked by his reckless behavior.

"Arata?"

"I understand what the problem is! Mr. Ito, I...I want to take the English test instead!"

"English? What are you talking about Arata?"

"Mr. Ito, I understand what's wrong with my Chinese scores. The candidates who choose Chinese are either Chinese or the children of returned countries who have lived in China for a long time. If I take the exam with these people, I will not have an advantage at all.

It’s like I went back to China to take the college entrance exam! I just figured it out

Regarding this question, in the last central examination, most of the candidates had poor scores and needed to improve their central examination scores. It didn’t matter if I did well in the examination. But this mock test was a competition with me at the same time.

I took the exam together, and there are too many geniuses who have not yet achieved satisfactory results. No wonder my ranking has declined!"
Chapter completed!