The first question was written smoothly, well, it was just written silently. What Jia Huan needed to think about was how to correct a few wrong words.
Not long after, Jia Huan wrote the first question on the scratch paper. After some pretentious revision, I copied it neatly on the test paper.
The first question that went extremely smoothly made Jia Huan feel determined. The second and third questions that followed were like divine help, and his thoughts surged, and he soon had an idea.
The next step is to carve it out carefully on the draft paper and revise and polish it carefully.
It took most of a day to answer all three questions.
Next, there are questions for the second round. What needs to be written in this round is four poems about classics and meanings.
As usual, among these four questions, there are no questions that Jia Huan is familiar with.
However, for the first exam, the first question accounts for the highest proportion.
As for the first question, Jia Huan was absolutely confident. Therefore, Jia Huan's answers to these four questions on the meaning of scriptures were also smooth.
After all the answers were answered, the sky gradually became dark.
Many candidates began to light candles and stay up late to write papers.
For Jia Huan, there is no need. He has already answered all the questions and is still very satisfied with the answers.
However, he was not allowed to leave the examination room today. Next, Jia Huan began to eat, use the toilet, and then rest.
Next, Jia Huan lay down in the narrow examination room and slept happily.
Because there is not much pressure in the exam, Jia Huan's psychological quality has always been very good, and the quality of this sleep was still very good.
On the morning of the tenth day of the lunar month, trumpets were fired and music was played around six o'clock, and the examiner announced the end of the exam.
Candidates will submit the text and draft of their answers written in regular script to the court hall at the venue, and each county will handle them separately.
After submitting your answer sheet to the examiner, you can get a bamboo exit permit called "Zhao De Jian". Pack your luggage and wait until a certain number of people have gathered before forming a team and opening the door to leave the examination room.
Every time an answer sheet is received, the respondent will check it for any irregularities.
Violations of rules are called "posting violations", such as overstepping (skipping a page to answer), blanking (all white paper), missing words (leaving a few boxes unfilled), dirty paper (dirty candles or oil lamps), Fill-in (cutting and splicing the answer sheet to correct typos), etc.
After the examiner discovers the illegal posting, he should immediately report it to the supervising officer and publicize the candidate's name outside the venue, so that he will not be allowed to participate in subsequent examinations.
The provincial examination time is very tight because there are so many candidates.
After the first exam is completed, candidates will not be able to appear on the 10th day of August, and they will have to enter the exam room again on August 11th. Because the second exam starts on August 12th, candidates need to enter the venue one day in advance.
After leaving the examination room, Jia Huan felt that his whole body was dizzy.
After leaving the examination room, Jia Huan rented a carriage and went straight to Zhao Mansion. After returning to Zhao's Mansion, I took a quick bath and then had a delicious meal. Only then did I feel that most of the fatigue in my body was gone.
Then, after a day's rest, you can only continue to enter the examination room and start the second examination.
The process is basically the same as the first one, but the exam content is different.
In the second session, the questions are about one of the Five Classics, and one of the imperial edicts, judgments, expressions, and imperial edicts. The argumentative essay is required to be more than 300 words.
The second exam was more focused on official document writing, and the only scripture question was the Five Classics.
While Jia Huan was in the Imperial College, he had read a large number of imperial edicts, judgments, reports, and imperial edicts. His photographic memory was a great help to him.
After writing a topic from the Five Classics, the remaining edicts, judgments, expressions, and imperial edicts can be written easily and easily.
Then as usual, you have to sleep in the examination room for one night, and you are not allowed to hand in your papers until the next morning.
Well, after coming out, the time has come to August 13th.
The third session of the provincial examination starts on August 15th, and you need to enter the venue one day in advance, that is, on the 14th.
I can only have one day off again. I have to say that this schedule is really too hellish.
It is a great devastation to the physical and mental health of candidates.
Jia Huan was furious. If he became a high official one day, he would have to reform this extremely inhumane examination process.
On the 13th, he rested at home for a day. On the 14th, Jia Huan entered the examination room with great difficulty.
The third test question is Five Ways of Current Affairs Policy, which is to express opinions or opinions on current affairs and government affairs at that time based on the theory of Confucian classics.
In fact, the place where the imperial examination can really reflect the political ability of candidates is the third examination.
Whether you have practical ability can be seen by passing this exam.
Pure scriptures and meanings cannot reveal a person’s practical ability.
However, what is helpless is that the final score of the provincial examination is still determined by the score of the first Jingyi test. The proportion of the third exam is less than 20%.
In this policy exam, it is very important to understand the examiner's preferences.
For example, if a policy question is about official administration.
The examiner believes that officials should keep themselves clean. If you write according to this idea, you will definitely win the favor of the examiner.
On the contrary, if you write about the most important ability of an official, no matter how well you write, you will not get the best score in front of the examiner.
In fact, both views are correct, and it is difficult to say which one is better.
Therefore, it is crucial to know the examiner's preferences in advance.
As for Jia Huan, he had read the collected works of Fan Gong beforehand.
The five topics of policy theory can be seen in Fan Gong's collection of papers, and his political tendencies can be seen.
Therefore, policy arguments are not difficult to write.
What is rare is how to develop arguments and arguments perfectly.
And this is not difficult for Jia Huan, who has the bonus of future generations' thinking.
Therefore, the third exam was not too difficult for Jia Huan.
On September 16, Jia Huan walked out of the examination room, feeling a little dazed.
Although the process of answering the questions went very smoothly, he was always in a tense state of mind and under great pressure, which made his condition look very bad.
Returning to Zhao Mansion, he took a bath. This time Jia Huan didn't even eat, he just lay down on the bed and fell asleep.
This time, I slept straight into the night before waking up.
After waking up, my head was still a little groggy.
The two girls, Qingwen and Jixiang, had brought the food up early.
Qingwen couldn't help but ask: "Third Master, how did you do in this exam?"
Xiao Jixiang said proudly: "Sister Qingwen, do you still need to ask? The third master will definitely come back with the top score."
Hearing this, Jia Huan couldn't help but laugh and said: "Don't say this kind of thing when you go out, lest you make people laugh."
"This is the provincial examination. Even if you are ranked first in high school, you will only be ranked first. When you take the national examination in March next year, you will be ranked first in high school. You will only be ranked first in the provincial examination. If you are ranked first in the palace examination, you will be ranked number one!"
Ji Xiang chuckled and said, "Then Third Master is definitely Jieyuan!"
(End of chapter)
