
The exam proctor, a man with a tie so tight it looked like a tourniquet, shuffled over. He clicked the power button. Nothing. He tried the reset sequence. Nothing. He looked at Luísa with the grave expression of a doctor delivering bad news.
The silence in the auditorium was not the peaceful kind. It was the tense, held-breath silence of twenty-three students staring into the glowing abyss of their exam tablets. The clock on the wall, a relic from the pre-digital era, ticked a slow, judgmental rhythm: pro-va, pro-va, pro-va.
: Typically lasting 3 hours and 30 minutes (with up to 1 hour extra for students with special needs).
The exam proctor, a man with a tie so tight it looked like a tourniquet, shuffled over. He clicked the power button. Nothing. He tried the reset sequence. Nothing. He looked at Luísa with the grave expression of a doctor delivering bad news.
The silence in the auditorium was not the peaceful kind. It was the tense, held-breath silence of twenty-three students staring into the glowing abyss of their exam tablets. The clock on the wall, a relic from the pre-digital era, ticked a slow, judgmental rhythm: pro-va, pro-va, pro-va.
: Typically lasting 3 hours and 30 minutes (with up to 1 hour extra for students with special needs).