I returned home promptly as the academy announced the end of the semester and the start of the holidays.
I felt weird because, even back on Earth, there are always exams before holidays but in the third year and this year, there are no exams for semesters but a final exam would be conducted at the end of the year. This would continue to the fifth year but the year-end exam would become the graduation exam in the fifth year.
Though I felt weird, it didn't bother me much as I used to suck at exams. These were the times when I would pull my hair if I could remember an answer to the questions.
Though exams were supposed to check the quality of a student, they were too burdensome in my opinion. They cause a lot of depression in many of the children but it was something we can't get rid of.
Exams are important, otherwise, how would one check the progress of their civilization?