She nodded. He gave her a thumbs up. She didn’t know if she had passed. She didn’t know if her answers had been saved correctly during those first, frantic minutes of the crash.
When the final timer buzzed, Luísa submitted her exam. The screen displayed a calm, green checkmark: Prova enviada com sucesso. prova digital vunesp/escola
For Luísa, the VUNESP digital exam had begun like a promise. No more smudged answer sheets, no more lost time filling in tiny bubbles. She had trained for this. Her entire third year of high school had been a countdown to this moment: the gateway to university. She nodded
She clicked ‘C’. Then ‘D’ for the next. Then ‘A’. She didn’t know if her answers had been
The old computer did not crash. It did not flicker. It chugged along with a stubborn, loyal hum, as if to say: I am slow, but I am here.