
This... this is fraud! WHERE IS THE UNBIASED EVALUATION?

I think you mean "evaluator," not elevator. But think about this in a different perspective: If you know all of the answers on a test and you don't want to stand out, you will answer some questions and leave the others blank. While the teacher is most likely aware of your abilities and knows you have more to show, the teacher would have to give a grade based on what the test showed. The teacher wouldn't be able to give you an A if you didn't provide enough answers to give you an A-grade (meaning 90-100).
So I disagree with the biased part of your comment. I think the teacher did give an unbiased grade because Note didn't give all of the "answers" to receive an A-grade. It would be biased if he got an A-grade without showing his full capabilities. Now, if the next chapter says otherwise, I will admit that I am wrong. However, at this point in time, the evaluator seems to have made the correct evaluation for the skills Note showed.

I'm not saying that you shouldn't have opinions. I was just saying I didn't agree with you.
But I see your points. However, I didn't say he "needed" to show his capabilities to get full points. What I was saying was that the adventurer's guild wanted Note to show his full capabilities, just like a university would want you to do if they were going to accept you into it.

There seem to be a few things that your totally forgetting or just out right ignoring. First off because he can tell Arthur is strong he knows that he was holding out, and even so that is not what he was assuming. His assumption was that Art did so on purpose in order to be conspicuous or something of that sort and plus when the match ended he didn't out right assume it was so but asked if that was the case and to that Arthur did not say that he was wrong, he nodded in affirmation. Second, in fantasy stories with settings similar to these in normal situations people who take rank test ARE expected to give their all, do their best, and most do exactly that because they want the best rank they can possibly get, the higher the better, people that want a lower rank than what they are capable of and purposely hold back during testing is actually out of the norm. Arthur even thought to himself in the story "He keeps pushing me to force more of my cards." That shows that not only did the evaluator acknowledge that Art deserved a higher rank he also acknowledged the fact that he might not want one. So you saying "You don't evaluate someone with the "ASSUMPTION" that they didn't go full out and even if he did, if the results show that he deserves better grade, YOU GIVE BETTER GRADE no matter if he wants to stand out or not" is wrong, as is saying "Arthur showed at least an A level of fighting and even the crowd would agree that it was outstanding and deserving higher than B" because he did make mistakes while they were fighting like tripping over his own feet and letting hits get past his defenses, and aside from that none of the people in the crowd were saying anything about how he deserved a higher rank they were all simply commentating on how extreme the fight was and how he got as high as B rank.
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