If this student had just been fooling around, they wouldn't have bothered doing well in the preliminary exams. Why would they waste their chances now that they had come this far?
The gossiping students unanimously dismissed the possibility that it was just a good-for-nothing examinee.
Even if one found the questions too difficult, they would have racked their brains up to the last minute instead of turning their paper in early.
"It's true. A close friend of mine was sitting right next to that girl. They say she answered the questions with alarming speed. She finished the entire exam and left no item blank."
"Was she just guessing the answers, perhaps?"
"No way! Don't you know that she got full marks during the preliminaries? The first in over a decade! Why would she mess up the final exams? She's probably going for gold this time. I had to say, she's quite a genius."
"What?!" they exclaimed in unison.
