Test Scores

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Test Scores are the system used to determine the order that orphans will be shipped out in.

Understanding and Analysis
Everyday, the orphans are required to take tests under the guise of "schooling" which will make them more academically/mentally inclined. When in fact, these tests are designed to determine their quality as livestock. These tests are given daily in order to polish the brains of the children. The shipping order of all the children is based on how high they score on the IQ test, with the lowest scoring child at each plantation being shipped out roughly once every two months.

Grace Field is regarded as the top Premium Farm with the hardest tests. The tests at Grace Field House mainly focus on mathematics, information analysis and problem solving. Problems are distributed according to age group and there are two types of tests for each age group and sixty questions per type or 120 questions in total per age group per test. This also means that each question must be worth 2.5 point as the highest score a child can receive on a test is 300. The tests are also timed. Each child is only given ten seconds to answer each question. If they fail to get their answer in on time, they lose points. Taking of tests starts at four years old, those who are below four years are playing in a nearby room. All the children (except those that scored full marks) are given homework, as shown in the extra pages of Volume 3 of the manga. If a child scores lower than 120, their shipment date will be hastened.

On the test score sheets which compile the test score data of all children over the age of four at each Plant, there are seven test score columns. Going left to right, the first column is Avg.1 which is the average test scores from the past 1/2 months. The second column is Avg.2 which is the average score since the child began taking tests at age four. The remaining five columns on the right show the daily test scores from the last five days. Shipping order is mostly decided from Avg.1.

The diagram below is the test score sheet of the Plant 3 orphans from October 8-12, 2045. It is organized from highest to lowest score.


 * Dagger glyph indicates the child did not reside at Plant 3 from October 8-12, 2045, but did at one point. The test scores listed for them are their last known scores.

Trivia

 * The children are not usually informed of what their score is unless they get a perfect score.
 * If there are 120 questions per age group (age 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) and the children get ten seconds to answer each question, then that means the children spend about 2.6 hours in total on the tests each day. This lines up with the approximate time dedicated to daily tests on the Grace Field House Time Schedule in Volume 3.
 * All of the children go through the entire test together starting with the tests for the youngest children (4 years old) and going up to the oldest children (11 years old) and everyone answers the same questions at the same time. The children are also required to answer all the questions on the test, even the ones that are not apart of their age group. This ensures that everyone is doing something at all times during the test and no one is just sitting around doing nothing while others work. However, they are most likely only graded for the questions that are apart of their age group.