At this moment, she was fully immersed in the Shengyuan of the second question. She felt as if she had no idea how many years had passed. It was as if she had gained a vacuum in the passing time. Countless times like stars were passing through her surroundings. , but she was still thinking and writing as usual.
And there are many candidates in a similar situation to her in the examination room.
The college examination continues, the candidates are still working hard, and the examiners have already seen the answers that have been constructed through hard work.
Different from county examinations and government examinations, there are requirements for the marking officer of the college examination papers. Generally speaking, only the examiner official can read them in person.
Of course, requirements are requirements and regulations are regulations. It is really easy for the examiners to read hundreds of examination papers in person...it is easy for the examiners to be equated with consumables.
Probably the imperial court also considered this issue. After all, no matter how easy it is to obtain talents, it is not such a waste of money. Therefore, the imperial court favored the examiners to invite knowledgeable and honest people to come and mark the examination papers. Of course, these examiners must be thousands of miles away from the examination place. Only those with a bachelor's degree are allowed. After all, it is necessary to ensure that the marking officer has no interest relationship with the candidates, so as to prevent candidates from trying every means to make the exam more fair.
Of course, these were the rules before this imperial examination. Since the beginning of this imperial examination, the marking requirements have been changed. In the first session, all members wrote silently. For the debate questions in the second session, the Ministry of Rites required The examiner shall read it carefully.
The key to this requirement lies in the word "Xi", which also means that although the invited marking officer can still be responsible for marking, the examiner must also read the articles of all the students in the examination room one by one, and cannot divide the work with other examiners. .
This means that no matter how many examiners there are, the total number of papers they need to read is the same.
Of course, although the grading work is tight and the tasks are heavy, it doesn't matter. The examiners responsible for grading are not ordinary people. As elites who have withstood several assessments, they have also developed the ability to read articles with just a glance.
In other words, whether an article can get a high score can be roughly understood by scanning the beginning, structure, and end of the article.
This skill of the examiners greatly increases the speed of grading and at the same time greatly reduces the number of gradings.
Many times, out of thousands of test papers, only one tenth is worthy of careful reading and analysis.
From thousands of test papers to hundreds of test papers, what has been reduced is not only the zero before the decimal point, but also the emotional burden on the examiners.
The examiner only needs to ensure that the top 100 people are ranked, and the work of who to admit and not admit among the remaining people, and the ranking of the people after the 100th place, will naturally be distributed to the invited bachelors.
One hundred test papers sounds like a lot, but the time given for grading the papers in the college examination is very generous. On average, I read a dozen test papers every day, so it is not a problem.
Of course, since the Yan Dynasty, in order to ensure the fairness of the examination, the examiner's marking scope also included the students who failed the examination, mainly to see whether their examination papers were really unqualified, so as to prevent the examiners and marking officers from assisting in fraud.
As mentioned here, the examiners mainly focus on two types of examination papers with very different levels, one at the beginning and the other at the end. Naturally, they are prone to sometimes being amazed and sometimes laughing.
For example, Chen Wen and Yan Xuezheng, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, are in such a mood at the moment.
As mentioned earlier, due to space reasons, the examination rooms are set up in many places, and the desk leaders of the county examinations and government examinations are basically concentrated in the Shuntianfu Yamen examination room.
This is preferential treatment for outstanding students, but it does not mean that all the examination rooms of Shuntian Mansion are filled with outstanding students.
In view of the two assessments of the county examination and the government examination, there are a lot of admission places, especially the county examination. As long as there is no negligence, it is basically possible to achieve the achievement of all candidates. Therefore, students who mix themselves into the college examination candidates and persist until now, basically speaking , their basic skills are solid, and they are able to master the five classics and four book questions that are incomparable in difficulty with the provincial examination. They may be a little numb when it comes to political questions.
Of course, candidates are not afraid of numb claws, but they are afraid of letting themselves go and talking big.
Even if they are well-informed officials such as Chen Wen and Yan Xuezheng, they sometimes have to shock the candidates' imagination and dare to write and speak.
Chen Wenhe talks about politics: It’s very strange. How did a candidate who answered the political questions in such a fresh and unique style become qualified for the children’s examination through the selection process? !
Speaking of this, I need to say one more thing. Due to the change of exam questions this time, the five-question exam paper must be put away by the examiner after each answer. After checking the names, they will be stacked up in random order. Put it in front of the reviewing officer.
If the examinee does not want to continue after answering the three questions required on the examination paper, he or she can go to the resting place in the examination room for a while, wait until the examination room door opens, and appear with other candidates.
Other candidates who want to continue answering can continue writing until the paper is handed in.
This requirement was originally considered for the marking officers, allowing them to mark the papers in advance during the boring and long examination process to reduce their workload later.
But now, the governor Chen Wen doesn't really want to accept this favor.
In his opinion, this request did not do much good except making him angry in advance.
Just like this, he smiled angrily at an exam paper.
The exam question asked about the importance of defending the city, but this man came up with the idea of having a storyteller make up jokes for the enemy on the city tower, and said that "it will make them laugh and it will be difficult to succeed"!
After Chen Wen read this sentence, the image really came to his mind: "The enemy is about to attack the city, and the sound of storytelling on the city is heard; the laughter is broken, and it is difficult to make a picture of people." The morale dances with the flag, but the flag wavers and disappears; looking outside the city from a distance, thousands of troops are laughing and it is hard to describe. ] scene.
The moment this scene appeared before his eyes, Chen Wen was frightened!
There are only a few figures in this sentence, and the picture floats when you see them!
"It's so ridiculous!" Chen Wen gritted his teeth and signed a stamp of demotion.
Still unwilling to accept this, I thought about it and wrote, "Imagine it wildly instead of practicing it realistically. Those who are not convinced can sometimes go to the battlefield for a personal test. Those who come back will be well-spoken to the examiner."
Translated, this sentence means, "Boy, I am asking you to let go of your imagination, not to dance based on the actual situation! If you are not convinced, find a chance to go to the front line and try it! Your method works well, and it allows you to come back alive. Examiner, I lose!”
This shows how angry this paper made him.
Probably because his mood swings were too great, he attracted the attention of Yan Xuezheng, who had read a lot of test papers and was about to drink tea to calm down his shock.
Hearing Chen Wen's complaint, Yan Xuezheng said that he was incompetent: "If Mr. Chen is so angry that he can't help himself, you should read these answer sheets."
He casually handed over several test papers for review and said with a smile: "In these papers, someone proposed to cast an iron sheet on the edge of the enemy's siege wall and burn it red with charcoal, so that the enemy who climbed up could not touch it and could not touch it. Climb the city.”
"..." Chen Wen was dumbfounded and murmured, "Where does this talent come from?"
