The nicest thing about graduation, Bea thinks, is that in the brief window after breakfast and before the flames burn through, most of the mals are migrating down to the graduation hall. So it's possible to let one's guard down slightly more than usual and not feel too bad about it. And if you go two to a room instead of separately to wait for the cleansing to finish... it's not like curfew's being enforced.
The spirit of wiggle is eternal; it will remain until times are better.
And they do, in fact, survive at least as long as it takes for their assignments to be graded.
Looks like a mixture of Bs and Cs - though they got an A+ and a special commendation in their Sanskrit class, for the Golden Sutras. (Alchemy and shop final assignments are both pass/ fail, and their projects work and don't try to kill them, so they seem to have passed.)
(Lu's already getting ideas for using that stupid finicky loop mechanism to tie together some of her knives, or maybe for communications between their future golden enclaves... They each got a different version of the idea, too, and Lu's is for an overly complicated gardening planter thing (too big for a dorm room, but maybe can be shrunk down) and El's for a 'this would be cool if we didn't have, you know, phones' relay between typewriters (too overcomplicated to be very useful in the school) (though maybe Jialin can improve on both for their not-enclave), so it's a flexible system.)
Technically these aren't final class grades nor rankings, but they can calculate their final grades off of these - class rankings and all will be posted after field day, which is also after remedial work has been turned in. (Luckily, they don't have any remedial work to do.)
Neither of them is going for valedictorian, so grades don't really matter. What they learned and how they employ it is the key thing- which means El is most pleased about the special commendation in Sanskrit.
It's hopefully a good sign that they're on the right track with all the finicky translations.