At this time.
Third Year Class A.
Quite a few people were gathered around Ayanokouji.
They really had no concept in their minds and still planned to listen to the opinions of Ayanokouji and the others.
"Looking at it for now, the key to this exam still lies in how to hide our class's theme."
Horikita Suzune hurried forward and said.
In terms of pure strength, Horikita Suzune indeed had it, at least much stronger than Sotomura, Ike Kanji, and others.
But no one around responded, though they didn't dare say much either.
The main reason lay in.
Ayanokouji's style of treating everyone equally.
Even an idiot knew that the best hope of graduating from Class A right now was to follow Ayanokouji's arrangements.
And Ayanokouji himself.
Regardless of the other person's personality or character, as long as it was a proposal with value, he would adopt it.
Therefore.
Although the people around still isolated Horikita Suzune, they didn't dare openly oppose Ayanokouji.
Fortunately.
"Indeed..."
Hirata still nodded like a good person and echoed:
"But speaking of themes, as expected, one only thinks of written tests and physical fitness tests. How should things like rationality and obedience be interviewed? And how should the five interviewers be decided?"
Overly ridiculous interview questions will be rejected by the school.
For example.
Running a hundred kilometers within thirty minutes, and so on.
This kind of exam question, which most people cannot complete, would definitely not pass, unless there are hidden evaluation criteria.
For example, if the theme is perseverance.
Then, based on normal performance, reaching a certain number of kilometers counts as passing. Everything is the subjective judgment of the judging panel.
However.
The five interviewers are even more important.
Having talented people like Ayanokouji, Horikita Suzune, and Hirata serve as interviewers would likely allow them to induce and suppress the opponent in various ways.
But correspondingly.
It would lead to a decline in the quality of the other group responsible for participating in interviews, making it difficult to obtain high scores in the interviews set by other classes.
To put it simply.
Placing the main force on the interviewer side.
Is considered more focused on defense, intended to suppress the opponent's score.
Placing the main force on the interviewee side.
Is considered more focused on offense, intended to obtain higher scores through excellent performance.
Whether to go for offense or defense depends on individual perspectives.
In short.
This is an exam where interviewers and interviewees play against each other.
Even without Ayanokouji, the current Hirata, Horikita Suzune, and others could find the key points of the exam.
However.
Smart people like Ayanokouji can think of even more.
The exam lasts for three days.
At that time, interviewees will be shuffled into three batches by drawing lots, with about forty-five people participating in the interviews of four classes each day.
The content of the interviews will surely be exchanged.
Daily accumulated interpersonal relationships will become key; this is slightly unfavorable for the current Class A.
Therefore.
Hiding one's own class's theme.
Avoiding being detected by other classes will be exceptionally important.
Otherwise.
If the essence of the theme is detected.
On the second day of interviews, everyone might be able to perform excellently.
This requires creating questions related to the theme while mixing in some questions completely unrelated to the theme to confuse the audience.
And the more questions unrelated to the theme there are.
The higher the opponent's score will be.
How to make a trade-off in between requires self-reflection.
Of course, the interview in one's own class will definitely be easier and the score higher, but this is the same for everyone.
Secondly, there is investigating the other classes' themes.
As long as one can see through the theme of another class, they can target it in the following two days to achieve a higher score.
However, the interview order needs to be decided by drawing lots.
Even if someone with outstanding insight is placed in the applicant group, drawing lots for the latter two days wouldn't have much meaning.
The key to victory still lies in the interviewer group.
Next is the judging panel.
Although it is a twelve-person judging panel composed of homeroom teachers from each class.
The possibility of inside manipulation is very low.
However.
The people on the judging panel are all school teachers.
For each interview site to have twelve teachers selected as judges, 48 people are required.
Even if there is no inside manipulation.
Every teacher will have their own biases.
After all, they are just teachers, definitely not professional HR.
For example.
Like a gym teacher.
Most likely, they will lean towards giving high scores in physical fitness tests. The same goes for school nurses, Chinese teachers, science teachers, and so on.
Utilizing the composition of the judging panel and playing to their preferences will become key.
Moreover.
The school has not announced the detailed composition of the judging panel.
It's completely unclear whether they are randomly selected or if the same twelve judges are waiting at a certain interview site.
Then.
This will likely become one of the keys to passing this exam.
A company will conduct internal checks on interviewees; naturally, teachers are clear about every student in front of them.
But to pass the interview smoothly.
Interviewees will naturally conduct in-depth investigations into their desired companies.
This is probably.
Exactly what the school wants them to do.
To put it simply.
The key to the exam lies in three points.
First, hiding one's own class's theme.
Second, whether one can see through the themes of other classes in the shortest time and utilize that knowledge in the next two days.
Third, how to adapt to the tendencies of the judging panel.
"There are still a few days left, no need to be in such a hurry."
Ayanokouji looked up expressionlessly at the people around him.
"For these few days, it's best to use the internet more to understand some relevant knowledge about interviews. As for the theme, we can decide on it later."
"Understood, these few days I will focus on researching videos related to interviews."
Sotomura and others nodded seriously and asked somewhat concernedly:
"I wonder what the themes of the other classes are?"
"Hmm..."
Hearing this, Hirata thought carefully and said:
"For Katsuragi's class, it's probably academic ability. For Ryuuen's class, physical fitness is their class's strength. For Ichinose and the others, it feels more likely they will test things like unity or compassion."
"But an individual's interview time is only ten minutes; I really don't know how unity can be tested?"
In these final days.
They were still willing to work hard, but were more inclined to scout the themes of other classes to take shortcuts.
By inference.
They weren't without clues regarding the themes that other classes might choose.
"Everyone, I have another idea."
Ayanokouji stood up and said plainly:
"Today I'll go back and research interview questions thoroughly. From tomorrow, we'll start mock interviews. What do you all think?"
"Sure..."
Hirata and the others didn't have any objections.
Compared to scouting the themes of other classes, Ayanokouji was more inclined to improve their own standards.
As long as he could.
Train everyone to perfection during these few days.
Although it was unlikely, pretending was still possible.
As long as the scope he considered was wide enough.
He could just incorporate all possible questions into his thinking and then teach those things to Sotomura and the others.
He didn't need Sotomura and the others to be very strong.
He only needed to disguise them to look outstanding.
As for the rest.
He would then investigate the judging panels of several classes from Chabashira Sae, and by simulating interview scenarios targeted at the judging panels, the scores wouldn't be low.
However.
Ayanokouji always felt something was not quite right.
In this exam.
The impact of individual strength had been suppressed to an extremely low level.
Class points were reset to zero a short while ago, and now such an exam appeared; the traces of being influenced by someone were too obvious.
But.
Such exams had appeared before.
During the third-year uninhabited island test.
It was also a battle of unity, and Ayanokouji similarly defeated other classes with his individual strength.
In the final analysis.
Strength is everything.
It's just that Ayanokouji felt something was off.
As long as he could calculate all possibilities and guard against all schemes, it would be impossible to lose.