The exam started in the afternoon. As Sophia was completing her paper, she calculated how many points she would have to drop in order to avoid being put in the advanced class. For French, a composition usually wouldn't get a full score and so she could deduct ten points, plus she could get some subjunctives wrong and lose a few marks there. She wanted to get a max of 110 points.
Then she considered how much points she should get in other subjects. She didn't want to get a low grade, and she just didn't want to be in the advanced class.
Math… how about one hundred and thirty points? She wrote it down.
Ms. Acheson was invigilating. Walking past Sophia, she saw the number she wrote on the paper and immediately understood what she meant.
