"The range is between 200 and 300 points, five people!"
"The range is from 100 to 200, 246 people!"
"The score ranges from zero to one hundred, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-nine people!"
During the continuous statistics and reporting, Lu Sanlang, who had returned to Jiuzhangtang with full energy before his wedding leave was over, could not help but laugh. He gave orders without hesitation: "Sort the intervals from 200 to 300 immediately. The remaining two intervals will be re-filed in intervals of ten points. Then we will see whether we should continue to subdivide and sort!"
It sounds like a heavy burden for fifty or sixty students of Jiuzhang Hall to correct thousands of papers with mathematics questions. However, there were more than a thousand blank papers with only the questions written on them, more than a thousand papers with scribblings, and about a few hundred papers with some steps barely calculated, and most of them were wrong. In the end, only fifty-six people gave the correct answers.
Of the fifty-six, only thirty gave answers, but there was only one answer, and it was unknown whether he guessed it or he had read the original question in "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art" and happened to remember the answer. Of the remaining twenty-six, ten people cleverly calculated the answer using the exhaustive method, and only sixteen reluctantly gave the calculation process.
Among the sixteen, seven people's calculations were completely incomprehensible, and only nine people could really understand them. When the total scores of the three questions were calculated, only five of the nine people scored between 200 and 300. Although not all of these five people got the full score of 100 on this math problem, most of them scored above 80 or 90 points.
So the students of Jiuzhang Hall secretly laughed at the students of the Imperial College for being good-for-nothings in mathematics, but at the same time, while sorting the papers, they discussed with great interest the good or bad results of those students on the other two questions.
Lu Sanlang hurried to the public hall to see Zhang Shou, but as soon as he entered the door, he found his father and Liu Zhiyuan were also there. After greeting each of them, he explained the preliminary statistical results with a smile, and then presented the test paper of the first place with three questions.
Zhang Shou took a quick look and had an idea in his mind: "The first-place student in the Ruler Hall of the Imperial College scored 223 points, including 80 points for the math test, because the answer was correct but the calculation was a bit too complicated. He also scored 80 points for the essay, which was really well written and impeccable. As for the agronomy test, it was a long and eloquent article emphasizing the importance of canals and water conservancy. Principal Yue gave him 63 points, with some integers and some decimals. It's really interesting."
Lu Wan and Liu Zhiyuan hadn't had time to take a closer look at it, but after hearing what Zhang Shou said, they couldn't help but shake their heads. Especially when Lu Wan heard Lu Wan say that those who scored above 100 were rare, he couldn't help but sigh.
"According to what King Jiangdu said before, these five people are probably the only ones who are barely qualified. But the number of places given to the six halls of the Imperial College seems to be more than just this few, right? If we follow the old custom and only post the rankings of these five people, there might be some commotion in the Imperial College. But if all the scores and rankings are posted this time, people should be able to shut up."