Cruise Ship Special Test

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The **Cruise Ship Special Test** (船 (せん) 上 (じょう) 試 (し) 験 (けん) , *Senjō Shiken*) is the second and final summer special exam administered by the faculty and staff of Advanced Nurturing High School at their special cruise ship, Speranza. It mainly aims to assess and hone the ability of freshman students to think critically, analyze the situation at hand and resolve the given problem. The ability to work creatively with imagination and work determinedly towards resolving the problem, such traits will also become vital for this task. This test happened three days right after the Deserted Island Special Test and spanned for about four days including a day to rest.
Unlike the light novel and manga adaptation, the anime adaptation uses a different grouping method for this exam.

## Guidelines

### Rules

* The exam starts at 8:00 AM on the first day.
	+ An email will be sent to all groups of the fact that the VIP students were already chosen.
* The exam itself will mostly take place between 1:00 PM and 9:00 PM.
	+ Students are free to act as they wish during the day.
* For about an hour each day, twice, groups will need to gather together and discuss.
	+ Content of the talk will be left up to the discretion of each group.
* At the end of the exam, the VIP students of other groups must be identified.
	+ This will be done between 9:30 PM and 10:00 PM.
	+ Only one answer can be submitted by each group.
	+ The answers must be sent to faculty members through a certain address that will be provided to mobile phones.
* The VIP student cannot be the one to send the answers.
* The identity of the VIP student of the group you are assigned must only be sent.
	+ Any other answer will be marked as invalid.
* Details of the results of the exam will be mailed to students by 11:00 PM on the final day.

### Possible End Results

1. Share the identity of the VIP and clear the exam together as one.
	* If the answers of the VIP student as well as the other group members are all correct, they will all receive private points (including members other than the VIP student themselves).
2. Answer incorrectly and the group loses but the VIP still receives points.
	* If there are incorrect answers or unanswered questions by people other than the VIP student, only the VIP student will receive 500,000 private points.
3. A traitor uncovers the identity of the VIP.
	* In the case that someone other than the VIP answers the question before waiting for the allocated time and answers correctly, the class the answerer belongs to will receive 50 class points each and the answerer themselves will receive 500,000 private points for themselves.
	* On the other hand, classes whose VIP have been identified will receive a penalty of -50 class points for their whole class. Once this has been achieved, the test will be over for the group.
		+ However, if a member that belongs to the class of the VIP answers correctly, the previous result will be made invalid and the examination for that group will continue.
4. The traitor disregards the judgment of the VIP.
	* In the case that someone other than the VIP answers the question before waiting for the allocated time and answers incorrectly, the class the answerer belongs to will receive a penalty of -50 class points each but the VIP will still receive 500,000 private points. The class which the VIP belongs to obtains 50 class points.
	* If the answer is given incorrectly, the group's exam will end.
		+ However, if a member belonging to the class of the VIP is the one who answered incorrectly, the answer will be considered invalid and will not be accepted.

### Administrators

The roles of the administrators in this exam are the following:

* To ensure a balanced and fair grouping of all students
* To ensure that the violence doesn't take place during the entire exam period
* To administer points accordingly

## Participants

Freshman students are divided into 12 groups (9 groups having 13 participants while 3 groups having 14) representing the twelve symbolic Chinese zodiac signs. The VIP is determined by a logical rule: When the surnames of the group members are arranged in the Kana phonetic chart, the VIP has the same order of the animal they were assigned to in the Chinese zodiac.

Out of 160 first-year students, A-Class's Arisu Sakayanagi was the only absentee from the test, due to poor health condition.

### Cow Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

### Rabbit Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

### Dragon Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

### Horse Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

### Monkey Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

### Rooster Group

  **Note:**     - *VIP*,     - *Regular Member*,     - *Traitor*

## Exam Proper

* *Day 3 was scheduled as a Rest day where students were free to day as they wish for a day. No discussion were held during that day.*

## Changes Made for Adaptation

* The Zodiac exam was changed into the Planetary exam, and instead of being grouped into 12 Chinese Zodiacs, students were divided into 8 planets.
	+ This was done in part because the number of students in each class was reduced from 40 to 25 during the adaptation of the first season.
* The number of students in each group, with the exception of the rabbit group, was altered for the Anime Adaptation.
	+ The Rabbit group, on the other hand, kept all of its members in the Anime adaption as the Mars group.
* The Group equivalents were:
	+ Dragon : Earth
	+ Rabbit : Mars
	+ Monkey : Saturn
* There was no changes in the class points results.

## References

1. ↑ *You-Zitsu* Light Novel — Light Novel Volume 5