Chapter 777: Chapter 279: A Perfect Graduation Defense
The first contact among the three women passed calmly, without any waves or wind.
A few days after the birthday, it was time for the graduation defense.
In today’s era, the graduation defense at the Finance College is quite lenient, to the point that the defense panel consists of the professional course instructors from their own class, and there’s no need for avoidance.
Unlike later times, when many universities would adopt a mentor avoidance system, shuffling the entire major and randomly assigning defense instructors.
Half a month before the thesis defense, the graduation thesis approved and signed with comments by the mentor, in three copies along with outlines and drafts, was handed over to the defense committee. The main defense teacher, after carefully reading the thesis, prepares the questions to be asked.
The main defense teacher usually proposes three questions, and moreover, students get ten minutes to prepare independently before answering, making it almost like an open-book exam.
Thanks to these inherently advantageous lenient defense conditions, it’s rare for prospective graduates not to receive their diplomas, even someone as laid-back as Zeng Kaiping can smoothly pass the defense.
As for Zhejiang University, it’s much stricter, with defense mentors avoiding their own students, and requiring students to answer immediately without any preparation time.
So, you could muddle through at the Finance College, but not at Zhejiang University.
The Finance Management Class 1 graduation defense was spread over two days. Su Zelin was scheduled for the first morning session, along with Zeng Kaiping and Hou Yongjin also defending that morning in room 302, while in 501 it was Luo Xi and Nanaz, the pair of plastic sisters.
Among the five, Luo Xi was the first on the first day.
Less than fifteen minutes later, the class flower left the multimedia classroom where the defense was held.
"Ah Xi, how did it go?"
As soon as the class flower appeared, many people waiting outside for their defense gathered around, mostly those with average grades or academic slackers.
For example, Zeng Kaiping and Nanaz were among them.
Those who went in for the defense first could also give those who went later an idea of what to expect.
"Oh, it was so simple!"
Luo Xi beamed: "Once inside, as the mentor said, start by spending a few minutes stating the title of the paper and the reason for choosing the topic, introducing the main points, arguments, and writing experiences of the paper. Then the main defense teacher asked three questions, other teachers from the defense panel asked a few random questions as well, but they were easy, essentially content from the paper, nothing difficult, you guys really don’t need to worry!"
"How many questions did the defense panel teachers ask?"
The energetic guy hurriedly asked, his main concern was about this.
The main three questions from the defense teacher were already leaked, but he was worried about the random questions from the other defense panel teachers, which gave him a headache.
Luo Xi thought for a moment: "Seemed like five!"
"That many?"
Zeng Kaiping’s face instantly turned into a bitter gourd.
Of course, he hoped the fewer, the better.
"Ah Ping, actually those questions are really easy too. As long as you grasped the thesis, you should have no problem answering them."
Luo Xi comforted him.
"The problem is that I haven’t grasped it!"
The energetic guy felt very troubled.
He had mostly pieced together his graduation thesis and asked the dorm’s top student for guidance to finalize it, just rote memorization to deal with the main defense teacher was fine, but random questions were tricky.
"Ah Ping, don’t worry. Ah Xi was asked four random questions, so you might at most get one, or even none."
Su Zelin chuckled.
"Why?"
Everyone was puzzled.
Su Zelin said calmly: "Because Ah Xi has good grades and wrote a good graduation thesis, those four random questions were meant to add extra points by the defense panel mentors, like bonus questions, answering them well can improve the thesis score. But as for your situation, the mentors won’t add extra questions or may not ask them altogether. However, as long as you handle the main three questions well, you’ll pass the defense."
Everyone suddenly understood.
In other words, if the defense panel teachers knew you were an academic slacker, they didn’t expect your thesis to score high; posing more random questions was meaningless and might embarrass the student, so the number of such questions differs from the top students.
"That’s great!"
Zeng Kaiping was very happy.
His goal was to get his diploma, not for his thesis to be outstanding.
One by one, prospective graduates entered the multimedia classroom and left with smiles.
Su Zelin had already experienced it in his previous life, the Finance College’s graduation defense was quite lenient.
Moreover, in this life, the class and academic style of Finance Management Class 1 was much better compared to the previous life, there were few academic slackers like Zeng Kaiping, and even the energetic guy attended classes regularly, no one disrespected the mentors, so the mentors didn’t intend to give anyone a hard time.
Finally, it was Zeng Kaiping’s turn, and before the energetic guy entered, Su Zelin reminded him: "Ah Ping, remember, when introducing yourself to the defense panel mentors, be graceful in your demeanor, stay calm, smile, and be polite. Make sure not to show any signs of nervousness, anxiety, or agitation. In short, remember this word—confidence, tell yourself, I am a top student!"
"Got it, Third Brother!"
Zeng Kaiping nodded solemnly, taking a deep breath.
"I’m a top student, I’m a top student, I’m a top student..."
Self-hypnotizing himself silently, the energetic guy stepped into the multimedia classroom.
Ten minutes later, he came out again, almost spending less time than everyone else on the defense.
The expression on Zeng Kaiping’s face was like that of developing in Hed Village, and his family got dozens of houses.
Everyone immediately knew the result.
He gave a thumbs up to Su Zelin: "Third Brother is indeed Third Brother, Su Banxian predicts things like a deity; none of the other defense panel teachers asked a single random question!"