Chapter 61, Final exams.

The the school year was drawing to a close, however this didn't mean that anyone could relax, there was still one more exam that everyone had to do, this exam was the most important one, it would determine who would be progressing to their next year, who would be held back and who would be forced to leave Duel academy.

All over the school everyone was studding and revising all of their work, they all wanted to do their best, the library was overcrowded with students and some people was completely ignoring the beautiful weather in favour of staying in their room to reread their text books.

Bastion was taking the exam very seriously, perhaps even too seriously, he had spent the last two days in his room, he hadn't spoken to anyone and he only came out to get food or use the bathroom.

Some of the other Ra yellow students had tried to talk to Bastion and tell him that he should take a break, but he had refused to even acknowledge the knocks at his door.

Robin was in his room reading his notes on the Floowandereeze archetype, he had originally planned on doing his research in the library but after he had seen how many people was in there he had decided to grab the books that he needed and then went to his room to work in peace.

"Let's see, which cards would be effective against Floowandereeze" thought Robin, "I'd say that There can be only one, and Skill drain would work".

Alexis was over at the Obelisk blue girls dorm, she was in her room with Mindy and Jasmine looking over some of the most powerful floodgate cards, "Hey, which of these cards can I use to stop my opponent from using Monster reborn, Royal decree, Imperial order or Anti-spell fragrance" asked Mindy as she looked over one of her old papers.

"Imperial order obviously, it stops all spell cards" said Jasmine, "No, it's Anti-spell fragrance, Imperial order in currently banned so you can't use it" said Alexis without taking her eyes off of her notes.

Over at the Slifer dorm Syrus and Chumley was stressing over their exams as they tried to learn as much as possible as quickly as possible, Chumley know that he had to pass this exam he had already been held back twice, Syrus was worried sick that if he didn't do well in his exam he would be thrown out of Duel academy and embarrass him family.

Jaden however didn't seem to be worried at all about the exam, he hadn't bothered to revise any of his work and was instead building a card house with a pack of playing cards.

Syrus who had noticed Jaden's lack of studying decided that it was time to say something, "Jaden don't you think that you should be studying, the exam's only a couple of days away" he said.

"It'll be fine Sy" Jaden as he placed another card on his house, "But if you don't score high enough you could get kicked out" said Syrus, "Don't worry, I know enough about duelling" said Jaden cheerfully.

"You know about the practical side of duelling, but what about the written test, do you even know what Mystic mine does" said Syrus, "No, but why should I, I don't have that card in my deck" said Jaden.

Syrus sighed, it was clear that he wasn't going to get through to Jaden and he had his own work to do, as Syrus returned to his studying he just hoped that Jaden was able to pass the test.

Chazz was working harder then anyone else, he knew that if he did well enough on this test he could be moved into Obelisk blue, Chazz didn't mind Slifer red so much now that the dorm had been improved but her certainly would like to get away from Jaden's snoring.

Nothing changed over the next couple of days, everyone with the exception of Jaden continued to study, as the exam drew closer some students nerves began to get to them and they almost had a breakdown from the pressure.

The day of the test arrived, everyone was waiting outside of Dr Crowler's classroom waiting for Crowler to call them in, many of the students looked worried in was clear that the pressure was starting to get to them, there was only a few people who was calm.

The classroom door opened and Crowler stepped out with a serious expression on his face, "Ok class, as you now today is your final exam of the year, I expect you all to do your very best and to not disappoint me or this school" he said.

"As you all should know this test is divided into two parts, a written test and a practical test, first you will come into this room to begin your written test, then we will head down to the duelling arena for your practical, do you all understand" explained Crowler.

"Yes Dr Crowler" said the students, "Good now please enter the classroom" said Crowler as he stepped aside for them to enter.

Everyone entered the room and sat at their desks where there was a stack of papers filled with questions waiting for them.

"In this test you will have one and a half hours to answer all of these questions, and if I catch anyone trying to cheat I'll be sure that your thrown out of Duel academy before the end of the day, now begin" said Crowler as he started a timer.

Everyone picked up their pens and started on the papers, the questions started out fairly easy but the increased in difficulty the further into the paper that they got.

Robin was doing quiet well, "What type is Ghost ogre and snow rabbit, psychic, which of these three cards is banned, Card of safe return, how many ATK points does Fairy tail snow have, 1850" he thought as he read and answered the questions.

While Bastion did know most of the answers to these questions he was overthinking many of them and wasting time, "Lets see, which of these cards increases your LP, well considering that Rekindling special summons FIRE monsters from the graveyard and Neo the magic swordsmen is a normal monster the correct answer must be Cauldron of the old man" he thought answering one question in the time that it took others to answer three.

Despite his nerves Syrus was doing better then he thought, "Which of these cards is not a trap, Offerings to the doomed, how many DEF points does Meteor dragon have, I think it's 2000" he thought as he did his best on the test.

Thanks to his lack of studying Jaden was having a hard time on the test, "Is The calculator a monster, spell or trap card, well it sounds like a spell card, how many ATK points does Vanity's fiend have, 3000 maybe" thought Jaden getting more questions wrong then right.

Chazz was working hard on the test, he desperately wanted to leave the Slifer dorm, "Which of these is a LIGHT monster, D.D. warrior lady, which of these cards inflicts damage to your opponent's LP, Blazing mirror force" he thought.

Alexis was doing well on her test, "Which of these cards is a quick effect, Droll and lock bird, which of these cards can not be destroyed by card effects, Red-eyes dark dragoon" she thought keeping her cool under pressure.

After one and a half hours the timer beeped, "Times up, put down your pens and do not touch your papers" said Crowler in a demanding voice, "But I didn't get to answer all of the questions yet" said Bastion who had only made it three quarters of the way through his paper, "Well then you should have worked faster" said Crowler as he made his way around the room and collected everyone's papers.

Once all of the papers had been collected Crowler spoke to the class, "Now we shall head down to the duelling arena where you will take the practical part of the test" he said as he placed the papers in a neat pile on his desk.

The group followed Crowler out of the classroom and towards the arena, the whole group was silent, everyone was either too nerves or too busy thinking up strategies to talk, soon the group reached the duelling arena.

There was three people dressed in purple jackets waiting at the duelling arena, these three all had serious looks on their faces and duel disks strapped to their arms.

"These three have been hand picked by Mr Seto Kaiba himself to test your duelling abilities, now all of your names have been divided into three lists that have now been given to these three, when your name is called you will walk up and duel the one who called you, any questions" explained Crowler, no one said a word showing that they all understood, "Good" said Crowler.

One by one each student was called up and duelled one of the three, some students won easily while others had difficulty, there was even some who lost their duels.

The three opponents was all very good duellists and they each used a different deck, it was clear that they was here to truly test the students skills, the first of the three used a Zombie world deck, the second used a Mekk-knight deck and the third used a War rock deck.

Robin, Alexis and Jaden all won their duels by using Magic cylinder, Cyber prima and Elemental HERO thunder giant respectively, the three of them had defeated their opponents quickly and with little difficulty.

Chazz also defeated his opponent without any trouble, he had been duelling against the Zombie world deck and had finished the duel using Chthonian blast as Chazz left the arena he hoped that he had done enough to get out of the Slifer dorm.

Bastion also won his duel though not as easily as he had thought, at one point his opponent had gained an advantage with Mekk-knight spectrum supreme but Bastion had ultimately won with Water dragon cluster.

Syrus and Chumley both had some difficulty in their duels, however Syrus had managed to turn his duel around with Super vehicroid jumbo drill while Chumley had lost to Doomking balerdroch.

Eventually everyone had finished their duels and their exams, "Right then everyone your scores and papers will be sent away to be added up, you will all receive the results in a couple of weeks near the end of term, until then I suggest that you all enjoy the rest of this year" said Crowler to everyone.

All of the students walked away from the arena many of them was feeling nerves about how well they had done and was anxious to receive their results, soon they all started to separate into groups of friends to spend the remainder of the day hanging out and having fun.