[My Son's Story] Part 1: The 1st-Year High School Sundai National Mock Exam, and the Case of the Mother Who Already Feels Like Her Son Got Into His Dream School

📝Introduction: My First Sundai National Mock Exam

Even though he's only in his first year of high school, he took the train early in the morning to the designated Sundai school building.
A mock exam from morning until near evening for just three subjects? 😣
Around the evening, I got a message from my son saying, 'I'm going to karaoke with my friends and grabbing dinner before I head home~ 🎤😁'... Is this youth?!!

Part 1: What was the feeling like?

When I asked him how it went, he said, 'It was hard.'
Well, it is a mock exam... I figured 50% was probably the average, so I didn't think much more of it 😮‍💨
After looking it up online later, I found out that many students from prep schools with deviation scores over 70 take the Sundai National Mock Exam at this time in their first year, so I have a feeling it's going to be quite the battlefield 🤔⚗️

Part 2: Receiving the Results 😋🎈

I knew I could see the results online, but I decided to stay quiet until my son brought it up himself.
Besides, it was the day of my daughter's school parent-teacher conference, so my focus was a bit on that.
In the middle of all that, while I was cooking dinner, my son suddenly announced the results.

🧗Challenge School: D-Grade!!! (I was a bit surprised here! I thought this would be an E-Grade forever lol 🤣)
🏛️First Choice: W-w-w-wait, it's a B-Grade❗❗❗ (Cue the trumpets and confetti~ 🎉🎊🎇)
🏫Second Choice: A-Grade (Yay)
👾Last Resort: A-Grade (Naturally)
🍍Safety Private School: B-Grade (Wait, can this even be a safety school...? I'm worried 😒)

Conclusion: Just seeing a B-Grade was enough for this mother to be moved and feel like he'd already passed 🤣

A B-Grade.
For me, that was already a mental acceptance announcement.
The moment I saw the screen, the black and white text 'Congratulations on your acceptance' appeared in my mind, and cherry blossoms danced 🌸

I couldn't help but say to my son, 'If you're already getting a B-Grade here, even if you end up at a low-tier school, it's a wash. No, actually, you've got bragging rights for a lifetime! 🎊'The karaoke boy replied:

'No, it's only Japanese, Math, and English. I struggled with Science and Social Studies during high school entrance exams, so I only have a bad feeling about this 😒'

Stop with the logic. Let me dream for now. My brain is still being tossed in the air in celebration. 🎊