Back In Time For Imperial Examination Chapter 163

The number of candidates for the Five Classics varies. The original texts of the Book of Rites and the Spring and Autumn Annals are longer than the original texts and annotations of the Book of Songs and the Book of Documents, so naturally there are fewer candidates. The Book of Songs has the three advantages of "few words", "simple", and "only one book of annotations", so the number of candidates who study it is the largest among the Five Classics. The candidates in this room alone account for more than a quarter of all the candidates, and the pressure of marking the papers is also the greatest among the five rooms.

On September 11, the seven classics essays were just transcribed, and on the 12th, the second round of imperial edicts and memorials was held; on the 15th, the second round of essays was transcribed, and the third round of policy essays was coming. On the 25th, the draft list would be determined, and on the 29th, the official list would be announced. On average, the two examiners would have to review more than 500 papers and 3,000 to 4,000 essays within 15 days, and the number of words in their comments on each essay would not be less than 20...

After the papers have been graded, they have to be sent to the chief examiner and deputy chief examiner for review, and then ranked together with the supervisors and supervising officials, and the papers have to be opened and listed... There is not much time left for them to look at the papers!

Although the papers were copied, the outer curtain officials had already eliminated the papers with unqualified text, inappropriate taboos, excessive erasures, and lack of drafts, so the number of papers sent in had decreased a lot, Liang and Zhang still did not dare to waste time, and like the other students, they studied until midnight with candles.

These three examinations were not for the examinees, but for the examiners. They were so exhausted that they could not tell the good from the bad. Therefore, among the three examinations, the examiners only paid close attention to the first one. The most serious part of the first one was the first part, "A villain is not good when he is idle."