Prologue- The Test

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Dear Bea,

          I have been wanting to tell you ever since I was accepted about where I have been and what I have been doing, but I am prohibited from doing exactly that. I don't like being away from you and dad. I wish I could even visit you guys sometime, but I can also not do that. The most I can do right now is send you letters. I hope you and dad the best.

                                                                                                                                                                   Sincerely, Sydney

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     It has now been the 70th anniversary since the government ordered all school districts to make students take an undescribable test to enter somewhere no one has ever known about. The reason why it is undescribable is because there aren't reasonable math, English, or science questions. It had abnormal questions, that nobody can explain. No one knows for sure where it is, what it is, and why it exists , but there has been rumors about what it might be. Some include it being a school where smarter than average students were sent, or they kidnapped children to do experiments. Some rumors were more realistic than others. 

     When you are in third grade, it is a necessary action for all students to take the "Eligibility Portion" of the test. If you get a 95% or higher, you have the option to take the "Novice Portion" of the test which is available when you first go into 7th grade after you joined a magnet school. There is also a rare possibility to get 100%. If you do, you are able to take the Novice portion right away, even before the correct grade. Then, if you get a 100% you are accepted into whatever it could be.

     So many people are afraid of this, because after you do get a 100% in the test you are taken to a place that no one knows of. Its like Area 51, people have theories on what it might be but it has never yet been confirmed on what  it could be. When you are taken, there is no sign of you on any records in the school district and nobody can contact you. Despite this, many families somehow do not miss or care for their missing family member. That is another reason of how so many people are scared of passing the test. It always seems like their family member didn't care about them or where they had gone. It seemed too strange to everyone who wasn't involved.

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