At Zhi'an High School, in the office building, teachers for senior year subjects were busily calculating the final quality inspection scores.
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With a total of 750 points for the four subjects, generally speaking, scoring 500 points in the college entrance examination could secure admission to a second-tier university, while around 550 points was the approximate cutoff for a first-tier institution. Zhi'an High School, in the context of the entire Fujian Province, could only be considered an average school. Each year, the number of students who made it into first-tier universities was about two hundred, with around four hundred entering second-tier universities.
However, this time the difficulty of the quality inspection exam had greatly increased. When the total scores and rankings were compiled, the teachers discovered that the student in the two hundredth place had scored only 430 points—a full 70 points less than usual.
