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“System crash,” he whispered, as if saying it louder would trigger a pandemic. “You’ll have to migrate to the backup station.”

Then it died. Not a blackout; the tablet simply froze, trapping a half-dotted alternative ‘C’ in a digital purgatory. The screen became a perfect, indifferent blue.

She looked at the clock. Forty-five minutes left. Forty-five minutes to answer thirty-three questions on a machine that sounded like a coffee grinder. prova digital vunesp/escola

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.

Outside, a delivery truck honked. Inside, the professor’s dress shoes squeaked on the linoleum. Luíza’s original tablet, still blue and catatonic, lay on her old desk like a dead fish. “System crash,” he whispered, as if saying it

The silence in the auditorium was not the peaceful kind. It was the tense, held-breath silence of twenty-three students staring into the glowing abyss of their exam tablets. The clock on the wall, a relic from the pre-digital era, ticked a slow, judgmental rhythm: pro-va, pro-va, pro-va.

But then, something shifted. The pressure of the tragedy—the unfairness of it all—burned away her fear. She was no longer racing; she was surviving. She read Machado’s lines again, not as a student cramming for a grade, but as a person. She saw the irony not as a test item, but as a joke about human vanity. The screen became a perfect, indifferent blue

But at question seventeen—a tricky one about Machado de Assis's irony—her screen flickered.