No, he was not at the front, mainly because by the time he'd arrived the seat next to Kurumi was already taken, so he decided to seat next to Keefer instead. He would've taken a seat next to Ellie...but a little bit of focusing was required for the class, no?

Either way, his hand was raised, "The Agrippan method and the Chaldean method. The first uses the Latin alphabet AND the number 9. The second excludes the number 9...and it's not the exact same lettering either." So, yeah, they were different, but the assignment of numbers to letters was pretty much the same.