They would then read the prepared text from the podium. Students were often bored, and either slept or read unrelated material. If a teacher were relatively serious, at exam time the students would spend all night reading the lectures in order to muddle through. Students would ask the less rigorous teachers to tell them the exam questions, or at least to limit the scope of the exam.
等到學期、學年或畢業的考試時，要是教書認真的老師，學生就連夜閱讀講義，把考試應付過去；遇到稍微通融的老師，就要求老師把題目告訴他們，或者告訴他們出題的範圍。