Chapter 399 Today is Different from the Past

Mu Zhengguang was looking through the "Friends of Admissions" while Xu was checking the county's report cards.

Since entering high school, Xu has only seen a handful of her junior high school classmates. On this form, she saw their names again.

I was ranked fourth in the school in the junior high school entrance examination. If I were still compared with my original classmates in the college entrance examination, would my ranking change?

Changed. Ranking dropped!

I used to be ranked fourth, but now I am ranked fifth. The top three students in the high school entrance exam are still ahead of me, but the order is different. This time, there is one more person ahead of me.

I don’t seem to have any impression of this person. What was his ranking in the high school entrance examination?

Xu opened her Moments and checked the updates for July 2019. That summer, she took a picture of her report card at the school gate. It was a piece of red paper with 99 names and 99 scores written in gold.

That person was only ranked tenth in the school in the junior high school entrance examination, and the corresponding county ranking was about 622. But in the college entrance examination, he was third in the school, with points, and th in the county!

Three years later, his scores have improved dramatically, especially in math. His math score is 142! For someone like him, he shouldn't have to guess the score for the last multiple-choice question in math, right? But I can't. Both Mu Zhengguang and I guessed the answers.

Three years ago, the top student in the school scored 15 points higher than me. Three years later, the top student in the school scored 35 points higher than me.

How did they get such high scores? In junior high school, they looked so plain and their grades were higher than mine, but only slightly higher. But in the college entrance examination, some of them scored 274 points in comprehensive science, 142 points in math, and 141 points in foreign languages!
Forget it, thinking about this matter is meaningless. They have improved, and I have improved too, but the extent of improvement is not that great. I definitely did not rank among the top 100 in the county in the junior high school entrance examination, but I ranked 85th in the county in the college entrance examination. Mu Zhengguang has also improved a lot. He ranked about 200th in the junior high school entrance examination and 145th in the college entrance examination.

Our talents have limited us to this point. Higher scores are reserved for them. We have left others behind before, and now we also experience this feeling. This is normal, reasonable, and fair. There is nothing strange about it.

Compared with my junior high school classmates, my ranking became fifth in the school, and Mu Zhengguang ranked sixth in the school.

Of the four people in front, one person went from 80th to th. One person has always been very stable, and his ranking has always been in the top in the county. There are two people who have improved from the top to the top in the county, and have improved to nd and th respectively.

Xu looked at the scores and felt a little sad: I still feel a little unwilling! Why have they made such great progress, but I haven't?

Xu looked up their names one by one on the college entrance examination transcript according to the ranking on the red paper.

The lowest ranked person among the top ten in the school was ranked 607th in the county. This person's ranking in the high school entrance examination must not be that bad. Because he was not the last among the ten, but the seventh.

The person who ranks highest from eleventh to twentieth in the school has a college entrance examination score of 562, ranking nd in the county.

Looking further, among the 549st to th students in the school, the highest ranked student had a college entrance examination score of , ranking th in the county.

"Xiao Mu, do you still remember which students ranked ahead of us during the high school entrance exam?"

"I remember. Aren't they those three people? Xia Changqi, Liu Qinhui, and Zhang Tanghua." During the three years of junior high school, these three people had been his classmates, and all three were boys, and they had all had a good chat with him.

"This time, the three of them are ahead of us. Xia Changqi was ranked first before, but now he is fourth. Because there is another person who is ahead of us."

When Mu Zhengguang was in junior high school, his ranking was not very stable. Although he never fell out of the top ten, he always fluctuated between the second and tenth. In the high school entrance examination, he was fifth in the school, which was already an extraordinary performance, but this extraordinary performance did not mean much. With a lower score, he could still be admitted to Pinglin Senior High School. With a higher score, he still could not go to the best class in high school. Mu Zhengguang thought about the people who ranked behind him. Among those people, some could get full marks in physics, and some could get full marks in chemistry. It is possible for these people to transform themselves into the top 100 in the county in the college entrance examination.

"Is it Ye Yifan or Yuan Hejing?"

"No. It was Yu Weiran, the tenth in the whole school that year."

"I don't remember. I haven't noticed this person. What is his ranking this time?"

"Forty-seventh in the county."

Xia Changqi was the top student in the school during the high school entrance exam. Mu Zhengguang saw this person when he looked through the transcript and remembered his ranking. During the college entrance exam, he ranked 65th in the county, not as good as "second in the school" or "third in the school", nor as good as the student Xu just mentioned.

When did everyone's ranking change? Maybe it was when the students were just divided into arts and sciences, maybe it was when they were just in their second year of high school, maybe it was in their third year of high school, or maybe it was only this year that some people's scores showed signs of improvement.

Unconsciously, things changed, and strange, unexpected results gradually took shape. My grades, Xu's grades, my relationship with Xu, and even our lives, everyone's lives, were all undergoing such changes.

When I face classmates who I don’t have a good relationship with, I don’t expect them to have a miserable life, but when I face classmates who I have a good relationship with, I sincerely hope that they can have a good life. However, how can the future be like people imagine?

In the report card, I saw that people with whom I had a bad relationship were ranked at the top, and I also saw that people with whom I had a good relationship were not ranked. Of course, some people with whom I had a bad relationship were not ranked, and some people with whom I had a good relationship were ranked at the top, but so what? There are really very few things that humans can decide.

"Sister, are you a little sad?"

"Ah? You heard it." Xu felt strange. There should be no sadness in her tone. Why could little classmate Mu Zhengguang come to such a conclusion?

"I didn't hear it, I guessed."

Sister Xu checked the college entrance examination results, ranked her junior high school classmates, and also looked at their junior high school grades. She did these things, on the one hand, because she missed these people, and on the other hand, she took grades very seriously. When she found that her ranking had dropped, she must have felt regretful. Such a truth is not difficult to guess.

"You guessed right, I'm a little sad. Their scores are far higher than ours." Xu Neng could look at Mu Zhengguang's scores fairly and not compare his scores with others, but she couldn't look at her own scores fairly.

"It's such an insignificant score, it doesn't matter who gets it higher or lower. On the day of our dinner, I told Song Qixin that I estimated his score to be 600, but he only got 584. I didn't want to get a higher score than him."

"You're more generous than I am. If I were you, I wouldn't necessarily think so."

"Our ranking is definitely higher than it was in the high school entrance exam. Whether other people's scores are high or low is their business, and has nothing to do with us. In these three years, we not only got scores, but also..."

Xu Huanxin smiled and said, "I have grown up and gained your love. We are not behind others, and they are not ahead of us."

"Yes, we have gained a lot in the past three years. The scores are only a small part of it and are not the most important."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)