i've tried to access the menu during class trial but i have never been able to. i've always used ctrl + shift + f1 to acces the menu and save previously but it doesn't work during the trail. i don't know if saving just isn't an option or if it's because i'm on laptop that i can't do it?

my game crashed during argument altercation and now i gotta redo the whole trail again, so i really wanna save in case that my game crashes again.

Try using the [1] key. It should be possible to save normally during a trial, outside the minigames.