Vox Mentis

You're not an idiot, they aren't running a charity here. The entire point of this 'school', 'training' and these 'exams' is to give you the skills to do something for whoever's behind it, something that presumably involves all this persuasion you've been doing. You doubt whatever tasks they have for the 'applicant' that makes it through will be completed by sitting around doing nothing.

"I'm going to engage in two more days of laughably childish methods of "convincing" him to leave. After which point, I'm packing my things on the off-chance he peels himself off that couch to check on me, and I'd like you to tell him he's won. Put him in a nice limousine heading to the Graduates Ball or whatever, and give him a one-way trip to the airport instead.

I don't exactly have any way to bribe you, seeing as you've got power over me as a student or whatever, other than the offer of netting a proactive graduate who bothers to try over someone who'll be constantly relying on everyone else to do their work for them."

"Look, Jane," you say, taking a seat, "we both know you want motivated individuals at this school. I'm here to tell you that I'm motivated. I'm a girl who likes to get things done. Buddy out there, he's not like that. He literally just told me he doesn't care, and he's not going to try. So let me ask you this, Jane: Is that the sort of person you want to have studying in your Academy? I know I wouldn't. I have been trying my fucking hardest here, and this... this kid is just going to ride it out? No fucking way."

Jane's lip twitches.

"So here's my plan. I'm going to screw around for two more days poking him while he just sits there, and then I'm going to pack my things. I want you to tell him he's won. And then I want you to have your driver put him in a limo and fly him out to Hellscape, New Mexico. Or wherever you send the factory rejects."

There's silence. Then Jane speaks. "Well, Ms. Jackson, you certainly make a case for yourself. We are, of course, aware of your competition's behavior. We accept your terms, providing you make it through the next two days."

That was easier than you'd expected.

We should establish what is and is not a valid manner of persuasion for this particular test. Don't want to get in trouble for breaking rules.
Violence, for example, can be very persuasive. And it would feel really good to beat up that jerk.

"Well, uh, great. And just so I'm clear, are there any invalid forms of persuasion here? Like... violence, for example?"

"All forms of persuasion are valid at one time or another. Your challenge is to use the right form at the right time to exert the appropriate pressure on your mark."

That sounds fair.

You have two days. How would you like them to play out?