Chapter 8: Maths Test. (1/2)
The trip to the maths class was ultimately uneventful Arthur's friends had asked him about the hospital incident, to which he could only respond with vague answers due to confidentiality agree to spread the word that he was alame capsule Arthur decided to just call it a lab accident, not even bothering to give a hint as to what kind
Making their way inside the classroom, they found that the desks had been spaced apart ahead of ti was on the desks besides sheets of paper Arthur assumed to be the exam papers
Arthur walked around until he found the exae bold letters He took a seat and made sure his equip to class
When the class had filled up and people got settled, the teacher began infor the exam participants of the rules, " and if you just so happen to finish early, please raise your hand to have your exam marked, when you receive your result you're free to leave for an early break Noe're all ready, turn to the first page, your tiun, the several sounds of paper being flipped had alan looking at the first question, reading it within his head He couldn't help but laugh, it was year eleven maths, but even still it see the questions one after the other without requiring e was done just under five s he would have learnt in the previous years, easy things like graphs, fractions, calculating the radius and diameter of circles, etc They slowly raressed
Arthur was previously worried about the exa, but it was all relatively simple maths However this train of confidence suddenly stopped when he encountered a string of nue said to "Solve this using the Quadratic Equation"
Arthur sheepishly scratched his head while staring at the nuh he would never have the opportunity to use it, at least not in the next thirty-two years, Arthur had remembered the sentence he was force to learn in his final year, and what he would be forced to learn again next year He began reciting it within his head, and then used it to answer the probleative b, plus or minus, the square root of b squared minus 4ac, over 2a I think'
All of the questions after the quadratic equation page were about as easy as the first couple of pages, it seemed that the majority of everyone's tie Arthur continued filling out questions until he ran out, roughly twenty
Arthur raised his hand, as previously instructed, and the teacher approached him, "How can I help you Arthur?"
"I've completed the exam, please mark it" These words from Arthur had taken the teacher by surprise, while Arthur was one of his top students, he never expected him to finish this fast
"Are you sure? Please check that you haven't accidentallythere as Arthur flipped through the exaes, all of the questions seemed to have been answered
"Very well, I'll mark it, please stay seated" The teacher took the exa a seat He appeared to be staring at the answer sheet quite intently, to which Arthur worried that maybe he should have taken his time to not appear suspicious, he didn't want to be accused of cheating, although he did show his working out on the exam, whereas other students may solely be reliant on the calculator
The teacher finished hisand walked back over to Arthur, he sees very carefully, as Arthur feared, he was probably going to be accused of cheating
The teacher took a spare piece of paper and began writing a maths question out, when he was done, he placed the paper in front of Arthur, it was another quadratic formula question "Please answer this question for hed, it couldn't be helped, he was suspicious Arthur grabbed his pencil oncethe problee to his teacher, "Is this correct?"