The Chinese language exam paper has a standard answering time of 120 minutes, that is, two hours. Because it includes an 800-word essay, this two-hour answering time is tight for most students. In fact, every time there's an exam, many students are still only halfway through their essay when the end-of-exam bell rings.
Not to mention that this time, with the hardest Chinese exam paper in history and its increased difficulty, time feels even more pressing. In the classroom, all students, upon receiving the paper and realizing its difficulty, didn't dare to waste even a moment. Many were sweating profusely, struggling to answer each question one by one.
Even some students, in the process of answering, decisively made sacrifices. Some questions that were too hard and impossible to solve were left blank for the moment, as they jumped straight to the essay at the end, planning to finish the high-scoring essay first and, if time permitted, to go back to the unanswered questions.
