Just a Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor

"As the name suggests, the so-called exam-oriented education is all the study and effort we have made this year to prepare for the O.W.L.s exam at the end of the semester."

"Of course, it is undeniable that everyone's family environment is different. For some people, this exam will determine whether he has a place in the magical world in the future, but for others, what is on the O.W.L.s certificate? They don't need to care about a few O's and E's."

"So before the test-oriented education program is launched, those of you who don't care about your O.W.L.s scores can apply to me, and then you have the right not to participate in all the teaching of test-oriented content."

"But as long as you are determined to participate, you are not allowed to drop out before the O.W.L.s exam is over. So if there are people who have not made up their minds, I suggest not to participate in the mentality of giving it a try. At that time, even if you take Professor Dumbledore Please come here, and the schoolwork that should be completed cannot be missed either."

Sherlock's warning before class was very clear, which made all the students below nervous.

Their first four years at Hogwarts weren't much of a struggle.

In this castle, only the seven professors of the main courses can be said to be working hard, and the students' hard work is completely unqualified to compare with them.

So the relaxed study atmosphere also made them subconsciously ignore the next O.W.L.s exam.

The new students in the fifth grade subconsciously thought that this exam was not much different from the normal final exam.

It was only until the end of the semester that some of them realized the importance of the O.W.L.s.

The O.W.L.s (General) and N.E.W.T. (Ultimate) exams, both of which are equivalent to the diploma of a wizarding graduate.

Because the number of wizards themselves is not large, all employment pressures are not too great, and there is basically no meaningless involution.

The diploma examination does not implement a system of elimination, but a system of grading.

Take the O.W.L.s exam as an example, as long as students take the exam, certificates will be issued for the twelve subjects of the exam.

It's just that there are good and bad grades on the certificate.

In the magic world, even if the employment pressure is not high, it can be well-paid and high-status occupations, and not any wizard can be a wizard.

For example, the civil servants of the Ministry of Magic and the specially hired curse breakers of Gringotts all have high requirements for the grades of O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T. (For example, Bill, the eldest of the Weasleys, got 12 Os in the O.W.L.s exam, and joined the spell-breaker in Gringotts, Egypt)

Under normal circumstances, due to the relaxed learning atmosphere advocated in the history of the West, coupled with the lack of competition pressure itself, even after graduation with poor grades, you can live in the magic world.

If there are no other forms of education intervening, students will not be under too much pressure in school. After all, everyone relaxes together, and the exam depends on their talents and who is interested in magic learning.

But in fact, this is not the case.

According to the recent days of Sherlock's arrival at Hogwarts, a survey of general wizarding rank exams in recent years found.

Most of the people who can get good grades in O.W.L.s are students whose parents are wizards. In the parlance of the magic world, they are children of pure-blood families.

They have an innate magical education environment, and they have been rooted in the magical world for a long time. Parents who know the rules of wizarding society will also put pressure on these people to require them to do well on the O.W.L.s exam.

As a result, pure-blood families themselves are better than children from Muggle families in family education, resulting in much better diplomas than them in exams.

After entering the magic society, they occupy the upper-level positions, and then provide better and better education to their next generation,

This forms a cycle.

And these students from ordinary Muggle parents must have clear cognition, as well as self-discipline and self-learning ability.

Or have a great interest in magic learning, and it is possible to surpass those pure-blooded family students who are better than them in the beginning. (Hermione, for example, but even Hermione got only 9 O's on the O.W.L.s she gave up on two O.W.L.s that she only took 10 of, compared to Weasley's Bill Percy's 12 O's. There are some gaps.)

This is also a common phenomenon in the Western education world. Even in the magic world, even if there is only Hogwarts in the entire UK, there is still not much change. (Or rather, Rowling's ideas about education were influenced by this when she was writing.)

Before Sherlock came to Hogwarts, he discovered this phenomenon from the relevant books in the original master study.

Therefore, the teaching plan for the senior grades was planned from the beginning.

The exam-oriented education only needs to arrange the class content around the exam, which temporarily covers up his understanding of advanced spells.

At the same time, it can make the competition of the senior students in the level examination, at least a little fair in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

This is also a small obsession of Sherlock, who was admitted to an institution of higher learning through exam-oriented education in his previous life.

In education, he always hoped that it should be fairer.

Sherlock was giving the following students plenty of time to choose, but none of them raised their hands to say they didn't care about the O.W.L.s.

The more wizarding students are, the more they know the importance of grades, and the Muggle-born children are turning 16 this term.

They have already realized that they will graduate from Hogwarts in just two years, and it is also time to plan ahead for the future.

After confirming that no one objected, Sherlock nodded slightly, and then handed down the parchment he had placed on the podium at first.

"Then from this class, our test-oriented education plan will officially start."

"First of all, we have to conduct a classroom test, let me know what level you are in the theoretical method of knowledge related to black magic creatures."

Exams are required in the first class at the beginning of the school year, which is something that the fifth-grade students have never experienced.

And their next life in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class will definitely not be as easy as it used to be.

By studying the past O.W.L.s exam questions for the Ministry of Magic, Sherlock has been planning and sorting out a set of test materials, and began to write test papers similar to "Five-Year College Entrance Examination Three-Year Simulation" to implement the sea of ​​questions tactics.

In short, in the first week at Hogwarts, Sherlock decided on different teaching methods for the lower grades and the upper grades.

Now that he is a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Sherlock is also doing his best to teach the students in this castle the most effective way while ensuring his own safety.

At least it can be worthy of these students, isn't that "Professor Forrest"?