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My LuckiestExam Experience
What is going on, Wechat? It’s Chris here, comingat you with a brand-new audio log.
Today I wanna talk about something that happened tomyself during the National College Entrance Exam (NCEE). This is a true storyand it’s absolutely insane.
So, this was back in 08 when I was in grade 12, or gaosan. So back in high school, mystrongest subject was English, which I could easily rank within the top threeplaces in the entire school; however, my Chinese subject wasn’t as good. Infact, I was struggling on the verge of failing almost every time. If you wantedto pass, you had to get 90 out of 150. I would consider myself lucky if I couldget 95, because I wasn’t doing too well in the classical Chinese section andthe essay section, which accounted for huge points.
I’m pretty sure these two sections are still in theexam, so those of you who’re in high school can definitely relate to this.Anyway, so the classical Chinese section works like this: You get a shortpassage, which is in classical Chinese, of course, and you get fivemultiple-choice questions, which were worth 3 points each, so 15 points intotal. It’s a huge deal if you can get most of them correct. The passage isusually about a dude doing some stuff in his life, and I could never figure itout. So normally I could get maybe 3 out of 5 correct, if I was lucky I couldget 4, if I was unlucky then it might drop to 2.
So I wasn’t doing too well in this part of thetest. Fast forward to June 7th. It was the day of the actual exam. Igot my test paper. I sailed through the first few multiple-choice questionsbecause they were easy, and then I just stared at the classical Chinesepassage. I couldn’t understand it. In fact, I could only understand the firstsentence, which was about a guy’s name. I kept staring at it, still the samething. So I had to give up and move on to the next section.
After I did the next section, I came back to theclassical Chinese passage. Same thing, couldn’t understand whatsoever. So I movedon again. I did this for like three times, and then I had to write the essay.Like I said, this wasn’t my strong suit either. 2008 was the year when theterrible earthquake happened in Wenchuan, and everybody thought the essay wasgonna be about the earthquake, so everybody, including me, wrote and memorizedsentences and stories about the earthquake, because we thought they would beuseful for the essay. But, the essay prompt had nothing to do with theearthquake! It was about a teacher filling up an empty bottle with big rocks,small rocks, sand and, finally, water, and, at each step, he asks his class ifthe bottle is full, his class says yes but he can still fill in more stuff. Andthe essay asks you to write what you think is the moral of this story. My firstthought was “don’t drink water when you go to a buffet”. I forgot how I wroteit, but somehow I shoehorned the Wenchuan earthquake into the essay. The momentI finished my essay, I was like: I’m screwed. There’s no way this is notoff-topic.
So, at this point, there was only a couple ofminutes before I had to turn in the test paper. I went back to the classicalChinese passage, and I was like: Screw it. And then I circled five choices atrandom, and bubbled those choices on the Scantron. And that was it. I feltabsolutely hopeless.
But I remembered those choices I picked. After Igot out of the test center, I met up with my classmates and I asked them aboutthe passage and the choices. They didn’t remember them too well, but we had oneor two identical choices. So I thought, maybe my luck wasn’t too bad at all. SoI had faith in the exam again, which got me through the rest of the subjects.
A couple of days later, when all of the subjectswere over, the answer keys were made available online. I checked them out,extremely horrified, and to my biggest surprise, I got all of them correct. Halfa month later, the scores were out, and I got something like 112 out of 150,which wasn’t top-notch, but it was definitely my personal best. I still can’tbelieve that I got this lucky, especially with the super off-topic essay, whichthe test raters somehow thought was not off-topic.
Anyway, there you have it, my luckiest examexperience of all time. I hope you guys enjoyed it, and Wechat, we’ll see youlater.
National College Entrance Exam 高考
subject 科目
rank v. 排名
top three places 前三名
struggle on the verge of failing 挣扎在不及格边缘
classical Chinese 文言文
accounted for 占据
point 分
relate to 感同身受
multiple-choice question 选择题
figure it out 弄明白
fast forward to 快进至
sail through 顺利通过
strong suit 强项
essay prompt 题干
moral 寓意
buffet 自助餐
shoehorn sth into 强行把某物加入
the moment I finished my essay 刚写完作文的那一刻
I’m screwed 我完蛋了
off-topic 跑题的
at this point 此时
a couple of minutes 几分钟
turn in 提交
test paper 试卷
screw it 去他的
circle 选择
at random 随机
bubble 涂选
Scantron 机读卡
identical 一样的
get me through the rest of the subjects 帮助我通过剩余的科目
answer key 答案
top-notch 一流的
personal best 个人最佳
test rater 判卷人
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