Rebirth of a Top Student's Handbook

Jiang Fei also remembered that Teacher Gong kept asking Mao Yating who the interviewer was that day. She thought the school was going to hold the teacher accountable! She didn't expect it to be a direct review of all the recommended students and students with special talents in the whole school.

As a high school graduate from a remote area, Jiang Fei knew all too well how difficult it was to get into a university in the capital.

Capital University only admits about 60 students from their province each year, and many students end up going to other schools just because of a difference of one point.

She was someone who beat more than 60 candidates in the province to finally get into the capital university, but after arriving at university, she was looked down upon by these students who were admitted through special programs or with special talents.

Although she never said anything, she was actually filled with resentment deep down. So when she heard that Teacher Gong had mobilized the school to review all the recommended students and students with special talents, she felt a sense of relief.

It wasn't that she was envious of those students who were admitted through special programs or with special talents, but rather that she only realized after entering university that some of them were truly unworthy of their reputation.

When she first enrolled, she was always full of admiration for students admitted through special programs or those with special talents. However, as time went on, she discovered that many of them were just average in ability and were simply exploiting loopholes in the system.

For example, Mao Yating's French is actually quite poor; she can't even read a French novel fluently.

Despite having only casually studied in high school, she dared to apply for admission to the Capital University's foreign language program through the guaranteed admission program, and was directly accepted.

As a student admitted through the English-based admission program, Feng Pinling only scored a little over 580 on the College English Test Band 4, which is a very ordinary score.

As a student who is not a foreign language major, she scored 620 points on the CET-4 (College English Test Band 4).

How could she possibly accept such a student with special talents or who was admitted through special recommendation?

Moreover, Jiang Fei only later learned why these people were able to apply for admission to the Capital University's foreign language program so easily.

It turns out that only students from 16 foreign language high schools nationwide are eligible to apply for admission to foreign language-related universities through the guaranteed admission program. Students from other high schools, no matter how good their foreign language skills are, are not eligible to apply for this pathway to higher education.

These 16 high schools only have tens of thousands of graduates each year, while key universities across the country recruit foreign language majors through guaranteed admission programs. The 39 985 universities alone recruit nearly 10,000 foreign language majors through guaranteed admission programs each year.

Jiang Fei could only lament the unfairness. These students, given the opportunity to enter one of those 16 foreign language high schools and whose grades weren't too bad, were practically guaranteed admission to prestigious universities. After all, it was said that most students from these schools went abroad after high school graduation, and the remaining students didn't even reach the enrollment quota for foreign language majors at universities!

Thinking about this, Jiang Fei asked curiously, "Were many people expelled?"

Actually, she felt that not many people had been expelled, after all, Feng Pinling, an English major who only scored 580 on the CET-4 (College English Test Band 4) and was admitted through the recommendation program, was still here.

"There are more than a hundred people!" Actually, Feng Pinling didn't know the exact number either, as the school had not released this number of people who had been expelled.

She guessed there were more than 100 people because when she came for a follow-up examination, her classmate added her to a follow-up examination group with nearly 2,000 people. It is said that there are two other such groups.

Many of the groups consist of families of three, and based on this number, it is estimated that there are more than 1500 students participating in the re-examination.

At that time, it seemed that more than 40 people in their group had been expelled from school, so Feng Pinling estimated that the number of students expelled from the three groups should be more than 100.

"So many!" Zhou Min and Jiang Fei were completely shocked.

It's important to know that Capital University, as the best university in the country, has always followed an elite education path, admitting only about 3000 students each year. Expelling more than 100 students at once is indeed quite a lot.

"Hmm!" Feng Pinling said, then opened her book and began to read. She was also quite frightened this time; if it weren't for her memories of her past life, she probably would have been expelled from school.

She dared not let her guard down at all; she couldn't be sure if something like this would happen again.

Actually, there was one more thing she hadn't told Zhou Min: the parents of the students who had been expelled from school in the group had organized themselves and were preparing to file a complaint against the school.

Feng Pinling really hoped that they could succeed in this matter, so that the school would stop making trouble for them on a whim. Of course, it would be even better if Teacher Gong could pay a price.

Because of this shocking news, Zhou Min couldn't sleep all noon, and was still a bit dazed when she went to class in the afternoon.

Zhou Min, belatedly realizing this, suddenly understood: wasn't she also a student admitted through the recommendation system? Why hadn't anyone reviewed her application?

Zhou Min took out her phone again and started scrolling through the chat history in her high school classmates' group chat at Capital University. She discovered that they had indeed discussed this matter during the winter break.

Just as Zhou Min was intently reading the group messages, she was suddenly called upon by the teacher: "Zhou Min, come up here and solve this problem."

This is a discrete mathematics class, and the students in the classroom are all from the Turing class. The teacher of this class is also the same teacher who taught them linear algebra last semester, so he knows Zhou Min.

Therefore, when I saw Zhou Min, who is usually very serious, slacking off and playing on her phone today, I deliberately gave her a lesson.

Zhou Min quickly put down her phone, walked to the podium, and started working on the problem. Fortunately, she knew how to do it, so she didn't embarrass herself too much.

However, Zhou Min dared not daydream during the subsequent classes. It wasn't until she returned to her dormitory after school that evening that she dared to pick up her phone and continue reading the group chat history.

I noticed that four people in my high school classmates' group had also received the retest notification, and then these people created a small group to chat about it.

Zhou Min glanced at the list and noticed a boy named Zhang Youxuan whom she felt she was closer to. She immediately opened his QQ account and started a private message: "Zhang Youxuan, did you take the school's retest during winter break?"

【Hmm.】 Zhang Youxuan replied quickly.

How did the exam go?

[It was a close call, but nothing serious happened.]

How did the others do on the exam?

Thankfully, it's all passed.

"That's good. I heard that more than 100 people were expelled, is that right?" Zhou Min couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she heard Zhang Youxuan say that.

[Pretty much, anyway, it's gotten quite serious. I heard that the expelled students and their parents are preparing to file a complaint against the school.]

Zhou Min sent a horrified emoji; she genuinely hadn't expected things to escalate to this extent.

[I heard about it too. A student in my class was expelled. He said the expelled students and their parents formed a small group chat and are planning how to file a complaint against the school!]

Was this assessment difficult? Which students were expelled?

[It was alright, somewhere between the difficulty of the college entrance exam and a competition, plus an additional test for special talents and an interview. Anyway, most students passed.]

[Do you know who participated in the retest?] Zhou Min still didn't understand why she wasn't notified of the retest when they were both admitted through the same recommendation system.

[These are the students who were admitted through the guaranteed admission program but weren't selected for the national training teams for the five major subject competitions, as well as some students with special talents who received significant score reductions for admission.]

But I didn't see that Zhu Da and Chen Sheng were notified of the retest either?

[They participated in the school's second selection process when they enrolled! They were admitted to the honors class! Students who participated in and passed the second selection process don't need to take a second test.]

.......

After Zhou Min finished talking with Zhang Youxuan and had a basic understanding of the whole situation, she still felt uneasy and sent a message to Teacher Gong: "Teacher Gong, I heard that the expelled students and their parents are preparing to file a complaint against our school!"