The next day.
Third Year Class A.
Chabashira Sae stood on the podium, watching the students below with a nostalgic and serious gaze.
"Quiet. You are about to graduate; tomorrow will be the final special exam. I believe everyone is prepared."
The people below were waiting in battle array.
Strength aside, they had at least gotten used to this school over these three years.
Even people like Sotomura.
Hoped to fight with all their might in this last exam to leave no regrets.
As for what they were fighting for.
Actually, most people didn't really know.
Wanting to rise to Class A.
This was simply following the school's requirements; everyone wants to rise to Class A, so I want to too.
Even if they couldn't graduate from Class A, it didn't actually have much impact on Sotomura and the others; it would just be a bit disappointing and a pity.
"That's fine."
Looking at the scene before her, Chabashira Sae also felt somewhat complicated.
Although she still wanted them to rise to Class A, it wasn't as intense as before.
Only now did she realize.
Although Horikita Suzune's approach was the complete opposite of hers.
It also had its problems.
Perhaps it wasn't because of the approach, but because people are inherently different.
Rather than saying she failed to guide them correctly, it would be better to say they should be taught according to their individual needs.
"This exam is titled the 'Theme Interview Exam'."
"Each class needs to decide on a theme as the exam content, then select 5 students to serve as interviewers to conduct interviews with students from other classes. The other students in the class will become interviewees, participating in the interviews set up by the other three classes."
Chabashira Sae operated the tablet computer.
The screen behind her also displayed the content; the five interviewers corresponded to the students of other classes.
"Teacher..."
Hirata Yousuke immediately sensed a problem.
"There are currently over a hundred students in the third year. If we are to conduct interviews for everyone, even if each person only takes three minutes, it will take quite a lot of time, right?"
Three minutes.
Was clearly the absolute minimum for an interview.
If a bit more time was spent, it would clearly be impossible to finish interviewing over a hundred people.
"Correct."
Chabashira Sae nodded.
"Therefore, the exam time is from the 20th to the 22nd, held over three days. Each day, one class is interviewed. Each interviewee's time must not exceed ten minutes. If it is a group interview, each interview segment must not exceed one hour."
"Um, Teacher..."
Sotomura and others were a bit confused: "Aren't interviews just answering a few questions? Also, what does 'theme' mean?"
The first reaction to an interview was always sitting opposite the interviewer, with both sides asking each other a few questions.
But in reality, the room for maneuvering in an interview was extremely large.
"What Sotomura mentioned is just a common interview. In society, there are countless modes of interviews for various companies."
Chabashira Sae explained seriously:
"Written tests, physical fitness tests, interviews, professional tests, and some excellent companies even conduct five to ten follow-up interviews."
"To get an excellent job, it could take several months from the interview to joining the company."
"Gulp..."
Sotomura and the others couldn't help but swallow their saliva; several months was a bit too ridiculous.
But having been enrolled for three years.
They knew this was just their own shallow experience.
But when it came to interviews, they really didn't have much of a concept, at most just a few simple sentences for a convenience store interview.
"As for the theme."
Chabashira Sae continued to explain:
"As mentioned just now, written tests, liberal arts, science, and physical fitness—these visible contents can all serve as themes."
"Even invisible concepts like unity, obedience, and compassion can be used as themes."
"These will require you to use your imagination."
"You need to design the exam content with the theme at its core, then submit the theme and matching question bank to the school. Twelve teachers from various subjects of the school will serve as judges to score the performance of each class's interviewers."
"Other topics related to the theme will follow a five-point scale, and exam content unrelated to the theme will follow a ten-point scale."
"Questions unrelated to the theme can be changed at will."
"The class with the highest comprehensive score will win first place."
For example.
Questions related to the theme.
Will be scored with a maximum of three points.
And questions unrelated to the theme will be scored with a maximum of ten points.
Even if a theme is decided.
The designed interview content doesn't necessarily need to be related to the theme.
For question types unrelated to the theme, flexibility will be very high.
Even during the exam, they can be changed at will.
However.
The higher the relevance between the interview content and the theme, the better.
In that case, even if the opponent performs excellently, the score won't be too high.
Only by being close to the theme.
Can the opponent's score be effectively suppressed.
How to choose depends entirely on the students themselves.
As for rewards.
Although rewards are written, they aren't actually important.
The class that wins first place will graduate from Class A.
"An interview exam, huh..."
Hondou and others felt somewhat sentimental.
For this school, the fact that the final exam tests how to interview is actually quite logical.
However.
This exam is highly subjective, judged entirely by the school.
After all, even if students were allowed to judge, they wouldn't be able to determine whether the opponent's interview performance was good or bad from a student's perspective.
Moreover.
The judging panel is composed of 12 homeroom teachers.
Even if someone favored a certain class, the impact caused is minimized, so there's no problem.
The rules explanation ended.
Hirata and others were even more confused.
It was understandable that the school seemed to want to improve their interview skills and increase students' employment opportunities through this exam.
But this exam.
Seemed simultaneously simple yet very difficult.
Simple.
Naturally because it was just an ordinary interview.
It just required selecting a theme, or more simply, according to one's own needs, examining whether the opponent possessed a certain trait.
From a company's perspective.
This should be considered natural and perfectly normal.
Standing from a company's perspective.
According to the company's needs, pick the applicants.
That's all.
The difficulty, however, was.
Despite being such a simple interview, no clear concept could be imagined in the mind.
For most people like Sotomura.
There were only a few sentences of dialogue in their minds, like what they saw on TV of someone interviewing for a McDonald's clerk.
But.
It didn't really matter.
"Ayanokouji-kun, what should we do?"
Sotomura and others walked up to Ayanokouji and asked.
Because... they had the omnipotent Ayanokouji