Power and Wealth - Chapter 8

Chapter 8
Administrative Aptitude Test is also known as AAT in short .





This was a test to evaluate the candidate’s potential abilities . There is a series of logic questions included in it . This test is different from IQ test and does not test the candidate’s knowledge . This test can determine the potential of the candidate’s abilities and suitability of being a Civil Servant . The candidate’s potential is built up over the years through their experiences and education .

The test was a closed book test, and there were about 135 multiple choice questions .

Morning, from 9 am to 11 am . The duration of the test was 2 hours .

Room 026 . The examiner had read out the rules and the things to note before the start of the test . The test papers and answer sheets were given out to the candidates . Dong Xuebing touched the question booklet and prayed in his heart . Please let this test be an easy one……

Dong Xuebing looked down at the questions and start to answer .

First question . Eh? I have done a similar problem from one of the reference books . Easy .

Second question . Huh? This question is also easy . It is similar to one of the questions from the Jiangnan Civil Servant test 3 years ago .

Third question . After thinking for about 10 seconds, Dong Xuebing shaded C on his answer sheet . This was another easy question .

Fourth question . Dong Xuebing chose B . Although he was not very confident, it should be the right answer .

The first 4 questions were not difficult, and Dong Xuebing felt more confident . He thought that this test was not as difficult as he expected . He carried on answering the questions . But from the sixth question, the difficulty of the test increases . Dong Xuebing could not answer question 6 to 10 . He could only guess the answers . When he reaches question 33 to 47, he was not even confident of guessing the answers .

This was a dangerous sign .

Dong Xuebing became more anxious as he tried answering the remaining questions .

The test was too hard . It was more complicated than last year’s papers .





The math questions were not very difficult, as Dong Xuebing had just graduated and he could still remember what he had learned . He was able to answer almost all the calculation questions . He was confident of getting most of these questions right . Language questions should also not be a problem . He should get most of it right . But the logic and general knowledge questions were too difficult . Dong Xuebing would be jumping with joy if he could get half of his answers right . As for the questions about data analysis, he was sure that he did not get a single answer right .

Shit . That’s it . He had flunked the test .

Dong Xuebing was cursing and swearing the person who had set these questions in his heart .

20 minutes passed .

40 minutes passed .

There was still 15 minutes left on the clock . Many candidates had put down their pencils . Some were in a daze staring at the ceiling . Some were scratching their head, and some were looking depressed . Everyone in the room has different expressions, but one thing in common, all of them does not seems to be confident of passing .


Dong Xuebing felt that he should not wait any longer . If not, he would not pass this test along with most of the candidates .

He took out his 2B pencil and start to mark out the questions that he was not confident and those he does not know the answers . He counted, and there were 45 questions . As for the remaining questions, he was 70% sure that he got those correct .

“Eh? What are you writing?” The middle-aged examiner walked over to Dong Xuebing .

Dong Xuebing looked at his watch and took a deep breath . Let’s start!

Looking at the answer sheet with all the markings, the examiner frowned and said: “You are not supposed to write on the answer sheet . The machine will not be able to detect your answers . Hurry and erase them . ”

Dong Xuebing did not reply and suddenly stood up from his chair . The examiner and the rest of the candidates were shocked . He immediately grabbed his answer sheet and push the examiner aside . He ran as fast as he could out of the room .

“WTF? What is he doing?”





“Who knows? Maybe he became crazy . ”

“Stop! You are still in the middle of your test!”

Everyone was shocked . They could not comprehend why that person suddenly run out of the room . Was he giving up on this test?

One of the examiners remained in room 026 to maintain order, and the other ran out to the corridor shouting . “Old Li, Old Zhang, help me catch that man . He is still holding on to the answer sheet . Don’t let him disturb the rest of the candidates . ”

Two examiners who were walking along the corridor were stunned . They have never encountered such a situation before .

As the examiner was shouting, Dong Xuebing had entered the third classroom . He kicked the door opened . Everyone in the room was staring at him in shock . Dong Xuebing did not say a thing, and he kicked a desk in front of him aside . He ran over to Xiao Dong and snatched his answer sheet . Xiao Dong was too shocked to say a thing . He was rooted in his seat .

Xiao Dong stuttered: “What are you doing?” He could not believe what he was seeing . Never in his wildest dreams, he had expected Dong Xuebing to “copy” his answers so openly .

Dong Xuebing said: “I had warned you to be careful with your answers before the test . ”

The examiners in this room were all females and were quite young . Both of them did not dare to stop Dong Xuebing after they saw him kicking open the door and snatching one candidate’s answer sheet . They were rooted to the ground and shouted: “Which room are you from? What are you doing? Put the answer sheet down!”

When Xiao Dong heard the examiners shouting, he reacted . He tried to snatch his answer sheet from Dong Xuebing: “Give it back to me . ”

Although Dong Xuebing was not someone with good physical fitness, he was still much stronger than Xiao Dong . He dodged Xiao Dong’s attempt and ran out . He jumped out of an opened window along the corridor into the garden outside and started running towards the school’s empty sports field . While running, he was looking at both answer sheets in his hand . He compared his answers with Xiao Dong and memorized the answers to those questions he marked .

ABBCADDDBCADAB……

Dong Xuebing had already used up 30 seconds from the time he ran out of his room to get Xiao Dong’s answers . He still has 30 seconds left .

There was still enough time .





“Stop there!”

“Stop running!”

A few workers and securities had caught up with him and had surrounded him .

Dong Xuebing ignored them and continued to recite the answers . ABBCADDDBCADAB……

“Catch him!”

Dong Xuebing felt an impact on his back, and the next moment, he was pinned down on the ground .

An examiner shouted from the back: “What is he doing? Disqualified him!”

Another person said while panting: “Call the police!”

Xiao Dong, who had also caught up asked: “Are my results still valid? He is the one who snatched my answer sheets . ”

Dong Xuebing who was pinned under the securities, ignored his pain and gritted his teeth to finish reading the last row of answers, before shouting: “Back!”

……

The surroundings were quiet .

This was room 026 . Everyone was doing their test, and no one was saying a word .

There was only the sound of pens and pencils scratching on paper .

Dong Xuebing felt some giddiness, and the next moment, he saw the balding examiner standing in front of him looking at his answer sheet . “You are not supposed to write on the answer sheet . The machine will not be able to detect your answers . Hurry and erase them . ”

Time had returned to one minute ago .

Dong Xuebing wiped his sweat with his heart still beating very fast: “Yes . ”

The Examiner looked at him and then walked away .

Dong Xuebing dare not to waste any more time . He immediately picks up his pencils and starts shading the answers . I must not forget the answers . I must remember the answers……

ABBCADDDBCADAB……

Since a week ago, Dong Xuebing had started training his memory . The training was for him to cheat in the test . Dong Xuebing was shading the answers as fast as he could . The first 20 answers were easy to remember . Most people were able to temporary remember about 20 something alphabets . But it becomes harder as the number increases . Dong Xuebing tried his best, and he was able to write down slightly more than 30 answers . He knew he was unable to remember the rest of the answers and he used some tricks to help .

For example, AACBA, he will remember it as AAAAA .

If the answers are ABAD, he will remember it as ABCD .

2 minutes later, Dong Xuebing had finished writing down all the answers he copied from Xiao Dong .

If Xiao Dong really had almost scored the full marks for last year’s National exams, then his scores for this year’s AAT should not be too far away . There should be at least 90% of him getting the answers right . That’s enough . With the rest of the answers which Dong Xuebing was confident, he should be getting a high score for this test .

Phwee……

Cheating…… Success!