12

The afternoon school bell rang. Two lines of translucent notifications flashed before Rajesh Kumar's eyes.

[You have listened to the class for 150 minutes. You have received 1,500 experience value points. You have 3,829 experience value points remaining in the Experience Pool.]

[You have read for 20 minutes. You have received 20 experience value points. You have 3,849 experience value points remaining in the Experience Pool.]

Rajesh Kumar resolutely suppressed the urge to open his interface. When he was upgrading the proficiency level of his Senior High School Knowledge skill the day before, he fainted as he was overwhelmed by the gush of knowledge. He wasted a lesson as a result of that.

Therefore, he was prepared to upgrade only after he got home at night. By that time, even if he fainted, he would treat it as sleep and he won't waste his classroom hours.

"Compared to listening in class, the experience value points gained from reading seemed insignificant. I can't waste a minute in class." Looking at the amount of experience value points gained from listening in class and reading, Rajesh Kumar sighed in his heart and once again firmly resolved to pay attention in class.

After Rajesh Kumar finished sighing, he quickly ran towards the canteen. "If this continues, I might be nicknamed Good-For-Nothing."

"I have to quickly upgrade the level of my Student profession. After the Professions Shop has been activated, I'll immediately take up a profession that can increase my stamina." After his Intelligence Stats increased, his food consumption increased, and he was especially hungry. His stomach was rumbling now.

At six in the evening, Rajesh Kumar walked into Shanti High School's information classroom to take the exam.

Master Sharma stood on the podium with a stack of test papers in his hand and announced the rules.

"Everyone knows the ground rules of an exam, so I won't reiterate it."

"There are surveillance cameras in this classroom. Don't take any chances."

"The exam time is one hour."

"It's so difficult." The test paper was handed to an examinee. Someone exclaimed after flipping through it.

They originally thought that the exam was only in the C language, but after the test papers were distributed, they realized that it was not the case at all.

The hardware principles of computers, basic operations of computers, and even assembly languages were all covered in the test paper.

Rahul Verma also flipped through the exam paper immediately.

It was very difficult!

However, it was good that it was difficult. Only then could he widen the gap between him and the others!

At the thought of this, Rahul Verma was not nervous at all. Instead, he smiled confidently.

To him, the test paper was very difficult, but to the other students, this test paper was even more difficult.

Originally, he wanted to see Rajesh Kumar's reaction after receiving the test paper.

But Rajesh Kumar's position happened to be behind him, and there was another person in between. He turned his head back to look, and there was no way he couldn't see Rajesh Kumar's current expression.

However, Rahul Verma imagined that Rajesh Kumar must be having a hard time.

Rajesh Kumar's face was calm as he slowly wrote his name on the test paper before looking at the contents.

Reading the questions from beginning to end, all the answers to all the questions had already appeared in Rajesh Kumar's mind.

He picked up a pen and started to answer the questions without thinking.

Master Sharma was originally standing on the podium to supervise the examination. When he saw that the others were still scratching their ears and frowning in deep thought, Rajesh Kumar had already started to answer the questions on the test paper with apparent ease. He couldn't help but feel curious.

With his hands behind his back, he strolled over behind Rajesh Kumar and looked at his test paper.

At this moment, he saw that Rajesh Kumar didn't even read or think about the questions. He very quickly wrote down the answers to the multiple choice questions, at a speed of almost a question every second.

It seemed like he was randomly choosing answers based on his intuition!

Master Sharma frowned and was about to say, "You can't carve rotten wood."

At this moment, Rajesh Kumar had already moved on to the fill-in-the-blank section. He was still scribbling as fast as lightning. He filled in the blanks without having to think.

Master Sharma casually took a glance and was taken aback.

The answers Rajesh Kumar filled in were correct!

Master Sharma looked at the ten fill-in-the-blank questions one by one. They were all correct!

Rajesh Kumar moved on to the comprehensive questions right after.

Rajesh Kumar didn't even need to think as he quickly wrote down the answers.

The step-by-step process, the answer, and even the format of the code were especially accurate and impeccable.

Master Sharma was stunned.

The thought of cheating flashed through Master Sharma's mind, but he instantly rejected it.

This was because ever since the test paper was printed, it had never left his hands. It couldn't be leaked.

"I didn't expect this kid to be so talented at programming despite doing so badly in his studies!" Master Sharma's impression of Rajesh Kumar instantly changed.

However, because Rajesh Kumar answered the questions so easily and quickly, Master Sharma muttered to himself doubtfully, "Could it be that the questions I set this time were too simple?"

"It's not about the difficulty of the questions, it's about this kid! This kid is very good at computers." Master Sharma looked around and finally relaxed when he saw the other students frowning and thinking hard.

Rajesh Kumar finished answering all the questions and checked the test paper. After confirming that there were no mistakes, he said, "I should be able to get full marks!"

He looked up at the clock and saw that there were still forty minutes until the end of the exam.

Rajesh Kumar didn't want to waste the remaining 40 minutes. That was 40 experience value points.

Even going out to chat with Priya Patel was a better option than sitting here.

Therefore, Rajesh Kumar raised his hand and looked at Master Sharma. "Teacher, can we hand in the paper in advance?"

"No problem!" Master Sharma picked up Rajesh Kumar's paper and brought it to the podium. He flipped through it with a serious expression.

Multiple choice questions, all correct!

...

Fill-in-the-blank questions are all correct!

Comprehensive questions, all correct!

Master Sharma kept a straight face, but he was a little shocked in his heart. "Rajesh Kumar's theoretical knowledge is too solid. It's even more solid than Rahul Verma!"

When Rajesh Kumar handed in his paper, most people felt that it was because he didn't know how to do questions and thus chose not to waste time by handing it in.

Rahul Verma raised his head and glanced at Rajesh Kumar who was walking out. There was contempt in his eyes and a sneer on his face. "And here I am wondering how good he was. Seems like he wasn't any good!"

At the entrance of the computer classroom, many students were reading and waiting for the exam to end.

Priya Patel and Meena Sharma were among them. The two of them were chatting, and they looked like especially good friends.

Seeing Rajesh Kumar stride out, Priya Patel asked with concern, "Why are you so fast? It's only been 20 minutes and you're already out?"

"The test paper was relatively easy, and I was especially lucky. They're all questions I've seen in books. I barely need to think to solve them all." Rajesh Kumar had a smile on his face.

Meena Sharma pursed her lips as she stood at the side, not believing a single word Rajesh Kumar said.

Easy? Impossible!

...

Rahul Verma studied Master Sharma's question-setting method.

Ever since Master Sharma took over the management of this competition, every year's exam questions had been randomly selected from past year's questions of the Junior Informatics Programming Competition.

The Junior Informatics Programming Competition was notoriously difficult!

How could it be easy?

Rajesh Kumar was bragging!