Chapter 74 - Pairings

After their discussion, many students from class 1B gathering info from their senpai about the shuffle paper exam.

Some of them asking their senpais at their club and some of them gathering the info from senpais close to them, like what Ryou did.

He talks about the shuffle paper exam to the senpais in his study group, of course, their senpai tells him gladly, he is the one who helps them in their study after all.

"So, Kazuki-senpai. Can you tell me about the paper shuffle exam?" he said to one of his upperclassmen.

Kazuki Muto is one of Ryou's senpai who join his study group, his average score actually not really bad, around 64, but he decides to try Ryou's study group and in his next exam, his average score jumped to 70. This is why he continued his study group with Ryou.

After Ryou asked the question, he tells him what he knows about the exam and Ryou listen to him carefully.

And from the information they gathered, the conclusion about the pair is, the highest grade will be paired with the lowest grade, the second-highest grade will be paired with the second-lowest grade, and so on.

Honami: "At least with this information we can calculate the pair in our class."

Ryuji: "Yeah, that's mean Yume-chan will be paired with Ryou."

Honami: "Aren't you glad Ryou? To be paired with a cute girl~"

Ryou: "What? You jealous Honami?"

Honami blushed from his counter attack.

Ringo: "Ahheeemmm... now, let's write the estimation of pairings in our class."

Fumino: "I'm surprised our 3 lowest scorers in the class are girls."

Ryuji: "What do you mean with that? Do you think us boys will always lose when it comes to academic? Hmm..."

Ryou: "Don't talk like that Fumino-chan. We boys will teach you a lesson if we heard you said something like that." He said while grinning towards Fumino."

They write down the estimation of pairs in their class for the next shuffle paper exam.

The students with differences in academic ability must be paired up as much as possible.

The next day, the time of the quizzes arrived.

Chie started the class with an announcement about our target, "The class you had nominated to attack for the final exams, Class A, was approved as it did not conflict with the choices from any other classes. That means you guys will facing them in this shuffle paper exam. Really, how big is your ambition to make me get the bonuses? Ehehe~"

'That's not what you should say to your student!' her students retort her in their mind.

What can be seen from this, is that Class A's nomination was decided by Sakayanagi. She is the only one with this kind of mind, while Katsuragi would have nominated Class D, which would have given them the highest chances of winning. It can also be predicted that the overall influence of Katsuragi is declining since his last failure in the previous exam.

Chie: "Now my beloved students, good luck on your quiz. The quiz is started, now!"

They flip the paper and looking at their quiz, 'Even a junior highschooler could answer this easily.' Ryou thought.

The quizzes ended smoothly without any problems.

The results were announced after the 4th period the next day.

Pairing system, problem creation, and inter-class competition aside, it may be a wonderful thing that the overall rule for this special examination is so simple.

Chie: "Then, I will announce the pairings for this semester's final exams."

The results of yesterday's quiz were posted and it went as follows:

Noyamano Ringo - Masaki Hotaru,

Ichinose Honami - Mirai Aoi,

Kanzaki Ryuji - Yamai Io,

Furuhashi Fumino - Amikura Mako,

... and so on. The result of the pairings was almost like they thought, it was scarily accurate.

Ryou look at Yume's direction and nodded at her, which she replied with shyly waving her hand.

After homeroom class ended, as usual, Honami takes her role as a class rep.

Honami: "In order to raise the class average score, we will increase the intensity of our study group until the final exam. The time for the study group will be announced by tutors after the tutors meeting. Any question?"

Sho: "In our last study group, we act as individuals. But now we're paired, what if the pair is in a different group study?"

Ryou: "The pair with different group study can shuffle with other people with different group study, so the pair will be together in the group study."

Ringo: "I have a suggestion, what if this time the study group instead of 5 teams will be formed into 3 teams, the group members will be more than before but it easier to control the members and the lessons they will learn."

Ryou: "Then, anybody has a problem to study with many people?"

"As long as we're not noisy and don't disturb our concentration, I'm okay with that."

"Yeah me too..."

"I agree with Noyamano-san, since with more members we could compare each other works."

Honami: "It's decided then, we will announce the group members tomorrow."

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A/N: Oh, i thought it's Friday already.