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This time Legal was actually willing to talk to Amanda and take her seriously. They wanted to see further progress but they were considering proving incentive for her to choose Legal over Audit. Her Reporting Audit Division examiner wanted to pressure her into comiting to take the division if she passed both again, but she resisted. She respected her dad, but she felt in a way that she would accomplish more if she made it in Legal division. She faced a more difficult challenge, barely passing the qualifying exam, and then making it as a Legal Examiner? She still had to decide what way she wanted to go.
If she could pass both Divisions in χ2
Examinee 2, Legal Division Exam 1
Part 1 Hypothetical Study Q&A
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Year 91 Day 132
Failed 2 legal exams, I've still got a perfect record in auditing as Examiner 2. Vanessa has moved onto Examiner 4. We had a little celebration for her as she is being assigned to more senior housing. Good luck Vanessa!
This means we'll have a new girl in our group soon.
Year 91 Day 162
Legal is getting better. Dropped my first Auditing exam in χ2 . Chandra is a new Examinee attempting 3 divisions: Governance, Medical and Science, Now that I've been at it a while, doing 5 seems impossible and 3 is too much.
Year 91 Day 198
Went through a not great streak, now I have 4 Legal exam fails, and 2 auditing fails. Georgia and I noticed we should be moving up to Examinee 3 at the same time. She's on track to move forward, finally! Good for her.
Year 91 Day 246
Slipping on my Legal exams with 7 fails now. Only a few weeks away from Advancing though. Unfortunately, Chandra had burnout with the 3 divisions, and then had some behavioral problems and got too many fails. She's back to Twelfth Form now. I really do feel for her.
Year 91 Day 282
On to Examinee 3. Georgia made it a bit before me because I had a few extra fails. Ended with 44 - 13 overall, 22 - 8 in Legal, 22 - 5 in Auditing.
In Examinee 3, there are some significant changes. The work load is established based on 1 division as the standard. On the plus side, that means I don't have to pass both, but on the otherhand, if I want to pursue both, I'm increasing my work quite a bit.
She would have to Pass 49 exams in each division without failed 37 times, that's 5 more passes, same number of allowed fails, and she has to take that many legal or auditing exams.
Social Gathering - day 283 (rest)
"Auditing is considered a joke by other Examiners. They say it could be done by a technician. Why wouldn't I try for any other division. Legal is hard, and the case studies are agonizing sometimes, but it's a respectable Examiner division," she was saying.
"I think you are overthinking this. We all need audits, Amanda. Do the thing. Follow your father's footsteps, there's nothing wrong with that. Do you really care about or like Legal?" Georgia said.
"Some times. Mostly I'm just stubborn I guess."
"Do auditing. You'll do so much better without two divisions in your head," she said.
Call Dad
"Hi Dad. I know I haven't talked in a while, but I made Examinee 3, and I'm dropping Legal," she said.
"Slow down, why are you dropping legal?" he said.
"Examinee 3 is paced for one Division. I've struggled my way to get this far in Legal. I think I'm just better in Auditing, so I figured it was time to drop the other, so I don't burn myself out."
"You are doing awesome, Amanda. You are surrounded by the best so you may forget it, but you are. I respect your decision, but just make sure it's what you really want.
I've got 6 months to go, and it's going to be a hard fight on my end as well. I'm making Emeritus! Wish me luck."
"You've got this dad!"
"You too, kiddo."
Selection Ceremony
"I have to say, we are excited to see what you can do," the local Auditing division chief told her.
"It was a hard decision but I had to focus now that I'm moving on."
"We appreciate an Auditor will some Legal background.
"We are offering eligibility for your own separate home conditional on reaching Examinee 4. Your renumeration classification will be upgraded to X effective immediately. Also, you may be unaware, but there is tracking behind the scenes based on your progression which determines the kind of initial placements you will receive if you make it to Intern Examiner. So keep it up, we'd love to see you fly!"
Year 91, Day 330: Started 11 and 3. Not as good as I wanted, but of course the material continues to get more advanced, and the sims are more full-featured replicas of real historical situations. Question and Answer and investigate the Auditable situation are the most common.
Year 91, Holidays: Dad's coming up, but i spent the first two days of the holiday and exploring the city with Georgia for the first time since I've been here. Her engineer brain meant she couldn't help but tell me about how everything around the city was made. I told her about the audits that happened to various construction projects. We decided to shut up about our studies while on holiday.
Dad came to the city with a dispensation for a family home rental for the duration of the holiday. We sat and talked about holidays and I actually had a productive conversation about his auditing work.
Dad said they would never assign a parent as a younger Examinee's senior report. Dad got us tickets to the Examiner Holiday Black-Tie. Had to buy a dress, but I had plenty of credits that weren't being spent, and now I was making even more after the agreement with Auditing division.
"You'll spend a to if you have kids someday, so save up now," Dad said.
I was only 16, I wasn't thinking about that anytime soon. It took a while to turn off study brain, but finally, just in time for the big party, I was able to just relax and not think about exams.
I had barely heard from Sue. Her family might have been at the party, I thought.
Only a few people remembered dad, since most Examiner's lived in Bay City, and he did, but as Amanda stuck to his side, they did get into conversations with examiners he had roomed with.
When she saw Sue with her family, she realized the stark difference in background. She was the second generation born into the Examiner stratum. Her grandfather had risen from Technician stratum to become an examiner, but they didn't have a large number of cousins and relatives who were also examiners.
Dad said most of the family had ostracised grandpa. Rising to Examiner stratum was leaving behind his family's ways and life, like snubbing his nose at them. Grandpa's relatives probably thought that way.
Sue was in the middle of a crowd which could only be family by the way they defied the normal courtesy between two unrelated people. There was much teasing and joking, and some of Sue's family turned as looked as they approached.
An older gentleman turned to them. His green robes and ring on his finger told her that he was one of the few Delta rank Examiners. Leaders of the examiners themselves, there were only 200 of them. Team Chiefs, Division Chiefs and Stratum Chiefs. The man in front of them was likely a Team chief. Those of the highest achievement in all society gathered with their own contemporaries.
Their rank symbols were the only in all society without numbers in them: Ϫ, ﷺ and ﴾﴿.
"Examinee Mercer, my granddaughter has spoken a bit of you, and this is your father?"
"Sam Mercer sir," dad said.
"Welcome to the Examiner family, let me introduce you," Sue's grandpa said.
"Sue, of course, is at Examiner 3, still continuing with Governance, Controller and Stratum Support. We are hoping for her success in becoming one of the few Governance Examiners of our family. We started mostly with a lot of Controllers and Stratum Support division examiners, but now we are working throughout all of the Examiner's life.
James here is a new Intern Examiner in Medicine. Interns face a tough path in Medicine, but he'll get through it.
My brother Roger is a Tenured Examiner in Controller division, and I lead a team in Stratum Support. We are all over, but it's good to get to know new families. You've achieved quite a lot for a first generation Examiner."
Dad responded quickly to that, "Actually my father was the first to become an Examiner. He was an Electronics technician who ended up doing well in Auditing, when he became Examiner."
Sue was barely herself with all that family around, but on the last day of the holidays they met up for an afternoon.
"It's nice to have a big family, but still it's nice to be yourself. The Mercer family still gets to define who they are. There's so many expectations, being a moderno."
"Is everyone going to expect we are all Auditors, I don't want to discourage any future Mercers from going a different route. I wish I could have passed the Computing preliminary."
"You'll be a great auditor. Don't worry, if your Dad remarries, or you rank up enough to get child vouchers, your family will grow, and eventually there will be Mercers in many divisions."
"Good luck making it in Governance. I just want to make it, period. It won't be too bad, focusing on just the one division."
"Examinee 3 is harder.
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