Chapter 64

The screen of Delilah’s smartphone was soon flooded with information about the BrainSpark Nationals. With a chuckle, Delilah thought to herself that her daughter’s competition seemed quite the buzz, popping up with so many explanations at just one search.

But her smile slowly solidified into a frown. Hadn’t her daughter described it as a dull competition with no cash prizet What was all this about city–level preliminaries, provincial competitions, national and even international tiers? And with Riverdale’s top high schools collaborating with the Education Association no less? How could this be called a dull competition?

A guaranteed admission spot to the prestigious Prestige College? It might not be a cash prize, but it certainly held more clout, didn’t it?

Delilah was bewildered, beginning to suspect that the competition she found online was not the same one her daughter had been talking about. So, she reopened the browser and searched again.

The BrainSpark Nationals were divided into several tiers, starting with city–level preliminaries, moving on to province. then national, and finally the top five students nationally would represent the country in the international contest.

This competition wasn’t confined to a single subject, making the difficulty quite substantial. After all, students who specialized in sciences tended to be weaker in the humanities, and vice versa.

the city preliminaries, there was a preliminary exam set by the provincial Education Association.

all senior students who had registered would be

in the senior year, and aside from the three students from Mirabella’s Advanced Class, nearly every other class from the Prodigy Class to the regular class had five to eight candidates each.

came around quickly.

and Mirabella, holding the test number

number of participants, so they were split into two different rooms, with Mirabella assigned to the second. Her two male classmates from

room. She’s the campus queen, a straight–A student and a budding pop star, so naturally drew the gaze of many

were boys, with the proportion of girls being less than one–third. Coincidentally, in the second examination room,

spinning a pencil in her hand. When Summer walked in, Mirabella didn’t even glance up, as

quintessential girl–next–door in the eyes of her male peers – polsed, graceful, and a stark contrast to

do you think is prettier, the campus queen or the new girl?” one student whispered to another.

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