Back at her seat, Fu Ying looked at her test paper: 80 points. The score looked decent at first glance. But upon closer inspection of the mistakes, even simple dialogue questions had been answered wrong, and the composition was full of grammatical errors, spelling mistakes, and chaotic logic.
Fu Ying hadn't been chosen as the English class representative back then because her English grades were good. It was simply because the top students had already taken on the role for other subjects, and since she happened to be the class monitor, she took this one on as well. In fact, looking back at her school days, Fu Ying's English grades had always been quite poor, and she had been rather insecure about it.
Fu Ying had bounced around elementary schools in her hometown, only coming to Guangdong Province for middle school, which meant she had never taken English classes before. But in Guangdong Province, English classes started in the third grade, or even in kindergarten in some places. As a result, the middle school teachers no longer bothered to specifically teach basic phonetic symbols or the twenty-six letters. Fu Ying had stumbled through her English classes in a haze, completely unable to keep up. It wasn't until the third year of middle school, when a new English teacher—who was also their homeroom teacher—took over, that Fu Ying bought some reference books and started studying English seriously with her guidance.
Chapter 20