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Hard Exam occurs in college. It mentions in the plot that she's in college ( you can't get any clearer than that). In the USA, to retain a scholarship, you have to keep passing exams, all the way through college. It's not just one exam in High School, and it lasts for the whole 3-4 years, you have to maintain a very high standard throughout college to qualify for one. And if you drop below that standard, you lose it. Which is why Anna is so focussed on studying in the short novels.The timelines for the original short novels are defs screwy especially with the mix ups of school, college and university with the uniforms and the look of characters in play.
IMHO it feels like the time lines based from the story plots:
Hard Exam (Last Year of School) Anna 18 {The exam is important for her to get the scholarship to Uni/College}
Hard Exam 2 (Last Year of School contd.)
Christmas Gift (2nd/3rd yr Uni / College) {To keep the scholarship}
Old Church (Last yr Uni / College) {Willing to get naughty due to the above experiences/interactions already}
Anna's First Time, which occurs prior to Hard Exam ( for obvious reasons) is set during Summer Recess. It states clearly she's already turned 18 ( well it actually says she's of legal age, but because some US states define that as 18, we can assume that's what the Dev means). That means she must have finished High School, because if she was going into her final year in High School, she could only be 17 during Summer Recess. Because the earliest you can turn 18, and be a High School Senior, is during September. The only way Anna could be 18 during Summer Recess, and about to enter her final year in High School, would be if she'd failed, and been held back a year. That obviously is not the case with Anna, because she wouldn't have a scholarship.
Also, at the very start of Chapter 1, it states that Anna and Andrew met in college ( not in High School ). So if Hard Exam was set during High School, how could she know Andrew? Also in Hard Exam 2, it states that Andrew is a Senior and Anna is a year lower than him. If they were in High School, then Hard Exam couldn't be set during Anna's Senior Year. Which would mean that Anna wouldn't be of legal age in Anna's First Time. The only way any of it makes sense, is if Hard Exam is set in College.
The thing that really confuses people, is Anna wearing a uniform. Because that doesn't happen at college. There is literally nowhere in the world, that makes college students wear uniforms. I've no idea why Deep decided to have Anna and her fellow college students wear uniforms, unless it was for the fetish value? Logically, it doesn't make any sense. But everything else points to all the short novels from Hard Exam onwards being set in college.
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