Whitaker Scarlett explained further: “You can’t just go to County East High School; you have to take an exam in a few days. Only if you pass can you transfer in; if you fail, you definitely can’t take the college entrance exam next year.”
Even if she passed, she still needed to continue her business. Whitaker Scarlett couldn’t just abandon her business and let her uncle support her and her mother, and also pay for her education. How would she negotiate with County East High School? It seemed she needed not only to pass the 350-point junior college line but also to score higher for County East High School to agree to her conditions.
When Whitaker Scarlett said she might not pass, Elizabeth became anxious:
“She definitely can! Let Mom go sell eels these few days, and you stay home and study!”
If she really could go to university, even if it wasn’t a top university in Washington like Whitaker Rosalie , even if it was just a junior college, after graduation, the state would assign her a job, and Elizabeth wouldn’t worry! Self-employed individuals earned a lot, but nothing was as respectable and stable as a government job.
Whitaker Scarlett shook her head, “Things haven’t been settled in the city yet. No need to rush these few days. I’ll flip through these books first.”
If she didn’t pass the County East High School’s transfer exam in a few days, she would focus on reviewing for a few months and take the exam again before the next year’s preliminary exam. Whitaker Scarlett was very determined. Elizabeth couldn’t argue with her, and even William urged her to study quickly.
Carson was meticulous in his work and had borrowed a complete set of textbooks from the first to the third year of high school for her. Whitaker Scarlett flipped through the textbooks, slowly recalling some memories related to the 1984 college entrance examination. She thought she had forgotten everything, but perhaps it was an added effect of being reborn, or perhaps Whitaker Scarlett’s body was in excellent condition, but she actually remembered some things.
Although Whitaker Scarlett took the college entrance examination in 1995, she had heard of the 1984 college entrance examination—the math exam next year was the most difficult, hellish exam in history. Years later, the internet was filled with legends about it. It was said that the average math score for the national college entrance examination in 1984 was only in the twenties, and many students left the examination room feeling dizzy and hopeless, crying, and some students with poor psychological quality directly gave up the remaining subjects.
After the math exam, many seats in the examination room were empty!
The 1984 math paper directly became the later math competition textbook, but in the 1980s, students didn’t even know the concept of “math competition.”
Whitaker Scarlett’s heart pounded.
When they analyzed past exam papers, the 1984 math paper was skipped because the teachers thought it was of little value; such a difficult paper wouldn’t appear again. But Whitaker Scarlett had done that paper. Her first score was particularly low. She was stubborn and unwilling to give up; she wouldn’t stop until she understood all the knowledge points on the paper. She did that paper several times, but the exam paper from her 1995 college entrance examination was something she had no impression of—the first multiple-choice question was about sets; she even remembered the specific numbers and answers.
Whitaker Scarlett didn’t know if it was right, but she quickly wrote it down in her notebook.
“The relationship between the set x = 2n + 1π, where n is an integer, and the set y = 4k + 1π, where k is an integer, is…”
Could she really remember it?
Whitaker Scarlett thought she was seeing ghosts.
She didn’t need to remember much. The full score for math was 120; if she could score over 90, she would probably beat most students nationwide.
Whitaker Scarlett studied until midnight, organizing the math and English subjects from the first to the third year of high school by chapter. She had forgotten most of the things to memorize in English, but for math, which relied on understanding, she only needed to re-master the formulas, and it was faster to pick it up than English.
Whitaker Scarlett had another advantage that others didn’t have: she was good at English. As an executive of a multinational corporation, she had many overseas businesses. Whitaker Scarlett wanted to be an elite, and regardless of anything else, she had put in a lot of effort in English. Science students now had to take one more subject than liberal arts students: English and math were both 120 points, English, physics, chemistry, and politics were 100 points each, and biology was 50 points, totaling 690 points. Whitaker Scarlett needed to score 350 points for County East High School to allow her to transfer in.
