It's just a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Chapter 29 Deserving the title of professor
"As the name suggests, the so-called exam-oriented education is all the study and hard work we have done this year, all for the OWLs exam at the end of the semester."

"Of course, it is undeniable that everyone's family environment is different. For some people, this exam determines whether he will have a foothold in the future magic world, but for others, whether there is a place on the OWLs certificate They don't need to care about a few Os and a few Es."

"So before the test-oriented education program is launched, those of you who don't care about your OWLs scores can apply to me, and you have the right not to participate in all the teaching of test-oriented content after that."

"But as long as you are sure to participate, you are not allowed to quit before the end of the OWLs exam. So if there are people who have not made up their minds, I suggest not to join in with the mentality of giving it a try. At that time, you will be the ones who have taught Professor Dumbledore Please come here, and you can't miss the homework that should be completed."

Sherlock's warning before the class was very clear, which also made all the students below nervous.

Their first four years at Hogwarts hadn't been too hard.

In this castle, only the professors of the seven main courses can be said to be working hard. The fatigue of the students studying is completely unqualified to compare with them.

Therefore, the relaxed learning atmosphere also made them subconsciously ignore the next OWLs exam.

Newly enrolled in the fifth grade, they subconsciously thought that this exam was not much different from the normal final exam.

Only when the end of the semester is approaching can some of them realize the importance of OWLs.

OWLs (ordinary) exams and NEWT (ultimate) exams, in which grades are equivalent to a diploma for a graduate of the wizarding world.

Because the wizard population itself is not large, all employment pressure is not too great, and there is basically no meaningless introversion.

The diploma examination is not an elimination system, but a grade system.

Taking the OWLs exam as an example, as long as students take the exam, the twelve subjects of the exam will be issued with certificates.

It's just that the grades on the certificate are good and bad.

In the magic world, even if the employment pressure is not high, but the salary is good and the social status is high, not all wizards can be employed.

For example, the civil servants of the Ministry of Magic and the special spell-breakers of Gringotts all have high requirements for the results of OWLs and NEWT. (For example, Bill, the eldest of the Weasley family, got 12 O in the OWLs exam, and joined the spellbreaker of Gringotts in Egypt)
Under normal circumstances, due to the relaxed learning atmosphere advocated by the West throughout history, coupled with the low pressure of competition, one can earn a living in the magic world after graduation with poor grades.

If there is no other form of education to intervene, students will not have too much pressure in school. After all, everyone relaxes together, and the exam depends on their talents and who is interested in learning magic.

But in reality, this is not the case.

According to Sherlock's days at Hogwarts, a survey of common wizarding ranks in recent years has found.

Most of the people who can get good grades in OWLs are their parents who are wizard students. In the wizarding world, they are children of pure-blood families.

They have an innate magical education environment, and have been rooted in the wizarding world for a long time. Parents who know the rules of wizarding society will also put pressure on these people, requiring them to perform well in the OWLs exam.

Therefore, pure-blood families are superior to children from Muggle families in terms of family education, and they are also much better than them in exam diplomas.

After entering the magical society, they occupy upper-level positions based on this, and then provide better and better education to their next generation, thus forming a cycle.

And these students from Muggle families with ordinary parents must have a clear understanding, as well as self-discipline and self-learning ability.

Or if they have a great interest in learning magic, it is possible to surpass those pure-blood family students who are better than them at the beginning. (For example Hermione, but even Hermione, when she gave up two OWLs that only took 10, she only got 9 O's, which is still slightly compared to the 12 O's of Weasley's Bill Percy There are some gaps.)
This is also a common phenomenon in Western education circles. Even in the wizarding world, even if Hogwarts is the only magic school in the whole of the UK, there is still not much change. (Or Rowling's thinking about education was also influenced by this when she was writing.)
Before Sherlock came to Hogwarts, he discovered this phenomenon from the relevant books and materials in the original owner's study.

So the teaching plan for the senior grades was planned by him from the beginning.

Exam-oriented education only needs to arrange the class content around the exam, which temporarily covers up his lack of understanding of advanced spells.

At the same time, it can make the competition between the senior students in the grade test, at least a little bit fairer in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

This is also a little obsession of Sherlock who was admitted to a higher education institution through exam-oriented education in his previous life.

He always hoped that education should be more fair.

Sherlock was giving the students below enough time to choose, but none of them raised their hands and said they didn't care about the OWLs exam.

The more wizarding the students, the more they know the importance of the grade exam, and those Muggle-born children will be 16 years old at the beginning of this semester.

They have already realized that they will graduate from Hogwarts in just two years, and they should plan their way out in advance.

After making sure that no one raised any objections, Sherlock nodded slightly, and then handed out the parchment he had put on the podium at first.

"Then from this class, our exam-oriented education program will officially start."

"First of all, we are going to conduct a classroom test. Let me find out what level you are in in terms of the theory and method of knowledge related to black magic creatures."

There is an exam in the first class of school, which is something that the fifth grade students have never experienced.

And their subsequent study and life in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class will certainly not be as easy as before.

By studying the habits of the Ministry of Magic in previous years' OWLs exams, Sherlock is already planning to sort out a set of test materials, and has begun to write test papers similar to the "Five-Year College Entrance Examination and Three-Year Simulation", implementing a sea of ​​questions tactic.

In short, in the first week of coming to Hogwarts, Sherlock decided on different teaching methods for the lower grades and the upper grades.

Now that he has served as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts, Sherlock also tried his best to teach the students in the castle the most effective way under the premise of ensuring his own safety.

At least he can be worthy of these students, isn't he called "Professor Forrest"?
　There are a lot of explanations in this chapter, and it can be regarded as a deep dive into the hidden social rules behind the world of Harry Potter. Of course, some people will definitely say that part of the reason why Hermione didn't get 12 o's was because of the defense professor that year. Umbridge was the reason, but Muggle homeschoolers like Hermione were rare indeed.

　　If anyone has a different understanding of this, or thinks there is something unreasonable in my statement, you can also raise it here.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)