The Story of How a Middle School Graduate Reached a Deviation Score of 80 in One Year

I finished filing the tax return for one family member. Once you decode the system, it's surprisingly simple.
I think I'll write some more today.

This is about King's study achievements.

Originally, King didn't like studying; he was a child who preferred playing outside with friends, focusing on video games at home, or burying himself in fairy tales and manga.
In the first place, he thought it was natural to get a 100 on tests without even studying, and he thought it was tacky to ask friends about their test scores.

Even that King couldn't get 100s once he became a middle schooler. That makes sense; there's no way someone who calculates even the multiplication table every time could get a perfect score in middle school math.
Even so, King had absolutely no interest in the value or meaning of studying, so he spent his time avoiding it.

That's how King fell behind, and by the time high school entrance exams came around, he could only get into a school where you just had to write your name to pass.
When I heard rumors about that high school from friends, it sounded pretty rough. I didn't want to go, so I just brushed it off, thinking being a middle school graduate was fine.

After that, I was obsessed with video games and worked as a part-timer at McDonald's as a middle school graduate.

One day, I suppose it was common sense to that person, but I was mocked and looked down upon with the comment, 'That's why you're just a middle school graduate!'
To be honest, it felt terrible, and more than anything, I was determined to prove them wrong.

As a result of that determination, King decided to study like his life depended on it.

Starting from the multiplication table, then factorization, basic knowledge of science and social studies, and everything else.
As I progressed with my studies, it started to become somewhat fun.
It was the feeling that learning things you didn't know is fun.

Since I had no goal, I aimed for the Certificate for Students Achieving the Proficiency Level of Upper Secondary School Graduates and read past exams, but I still couldn't understand them at all. However, as I continued, I became so absorbed that I forgot about the passage of time, eating, and even going to the bathroom.

I bought some decent reference books for self-study and kept at it. As a result, I earned the high school equivalency certificate three months after I started studying.
King, who had come to enjoy studying itself, decided to go to university.

I judged that university entrance exams would be difficult to handle through self-study alone, so I took a test at a major prep school and was assigned to a certain class.
I made a few friends there. Everyone was a graduate of a high school considered extremely difficult to get into in the local area.

At the prep school, I was taught by various teachers and worked to fill in the weaknesses that were difficult to cover through self-study.

My deviation score went up rapidly. Eventually, I reached a point where my name appeared in the top national rankings for mock exams.
King especially liked world history, so I was able to take first place in that. In terms of deviation score, it was over 80.

What I thought at that time was that you don't know your limits until you try.

For reference, my study time was about 15 hours a day for 365 days, totaling about 5,000 hours.