The school regulations stated that if you take part in the school competition, you can get class points, but an out of school competition, one at a higher-level, didn't qualify. This kind of thing only happened once a year, so the school didn't have it as part of the rule book.
If a student won a prize at the Mathematical Olympiad, the school would reward him or her, but the reward just didn't include class points.
Molly was going crazy. Wasn't it more interesting for Sophia to get the Mathematical Olympiad prize and the attention of prestigious universities than class points?
Class points were just a school management system. If a class's points were high, they were higher in the school's weekly list. It was just a school-wide distinction and didn't have much importance.
It didn't even begin to compare with the Olympiad awards at all.
Sophia sighed, "Our class was deducted one point because of me last time. I haven't yet had a chance to make it up."
