Chapter 76.1
Chapter 76 Part 1
The high school physics competition schedule was very tight every year, and there was only one month between the preliminary round, the semi-final round and the final round.
In light of the fact that the second year physics competition class students surpassed the third year, there was a discussion among the school leaders and they asked the students not to participate in any ordinary courses. They were to just focus on the competition like the third years.
This time, not many people complained. Even the Three Foolish Men obediently obeyed the arrangements.
After listening to Qi Lele’s concerns that day, Zhang Man asked about the points lost in the preliminaries during class.
Sure enough, many people said that during the exam, they understood most of the problems. However, they did not allot their time well and did not have time to do it, or they were deep in thought about the problems. Everyone expressed their opinions that the problems were doable.
Zhang Man returned to her seat and began to think about how they should train this month.
When she was a high school teacher, she encountered situations like this many times. Some students obviously performed well in exercises and homework, but they couldn’t perform well when it came to the exam. Mental wellness was one aspect, but a large part of the reason was that the usual training was not rigid enough. The time and amount of questions were not systematically practiced, and like this the students were very unfamiliar with the exam.
After thinking for a while, she went to Liu Zhijun. She told him her suggestions, and got Liu Zhijun’s approval.
After that, in the evening self-study every other day, the training changed from doing the questions by yourself to a three hour time limited test. It had the same questions as the semi-finals, and the total score available was 200 points.
After three hours, the answers would be graded, and the test papers had to be corrected by the respective student so that the test taker would immediately know how they were doing on the exam.
When Liu Zhijun announced this training, the small black room immediately complained. Of course, these cowardly protests were ultimately ineffective under his ruthless eyes.
As soon as Liu Zhijun walked away, the Three Foolish Men immediately started cursing.
Chen Jun held his head high and cried out, “Fuck, what’s the matter with Old Liu? It’s torture to take a test every other day for three hours, isn’t it? I can’t believe it, Old Liu must have had his head caught at the door.”
Cao Zhixue also wanted to complain, “That’s right! Let us live a little! Old Liu must have been scolded by his wife at home these past few days, and he is using us to let out his anger.”
Zhang Man sat with a guilty conscience, and began to brush up on questions in silence.
Although this method was straightforward and crude, it was definitely effective based on her years of teaching experience.
In order to improve test scores from an exam-oriented education, maximizing one’s ability during the exam was equally as important as truly understanding the key points.
As she had expected though, this method was very effective.
The students were in a rush at the beginning, but by the end of September, they were able to arrange the time they needed for each question, and their scores were getting higher and higher.
Finally, at the beginning of October of this year, after another National Day parade, the semi-finals for the competition was held in J City, the provincial capital.
The semi-finals was divided into two parts: the theoretical test and the experimental test. The experimental test was after the theoretical test. Not every candidate who participated in the semi-finals had to take the experimental test. After the results of the theoretical test come out, each province would choose their top-ranking candidates for the experimental tests. The first, second and third prizes would be selected based on the total scores of the written test and the experimental part.
The number of first place prizes in each province was about 50, and the candidates with the highest scores from the province’s physics team were allowed to participate in the national final in November.
The morning before, a lot of students from the first and second years from their school in N City who had passed the preliminary round got on a bus the school had rented. They were led by Liu Zhijun and Teacher Zhou, the teacher in charge of the third year physics competition class. They went to J City to participate in the semi-finals.
Zhang Man originally wanted to sit with Qi Lele, but as soon as Qi Lele got on the bus, she sat with another girl in their class. That girl was not from the physics class, and Zhang Man didn’t know her. Qi Lele gave her a wink after sitting down, and Zhang Man knew what she meant. She had no choice but to stand in front of the bus and wait for the youth so that they could ride together.
They got on the bus last, and there were only seats left in the last row of the bus. After they sat down, some students who were third years or from the ordinary classes looked back frequently, with a little gossip in their eyes.
This couple was now the most famous couple in the school. Not only are they good looking, they were both in the physics competitions and had high IQs. They were simply famous in the school.
At first, Zhang Man smiled back kindly, but the more times she did, the more uncomfortable she felt. She lowered her head in embarrassment. Then, her hand was grabbed.
“Man Man, do you want to sit by the window?”
Zhang Man looked up, and the youth’s eyes were concerned.
He could always know what she was thinking.
She felt warmth in her heart. She nodded quickly and changed seats with him. She sat by the window and he sat near the aisle. The tall figure blocked most of her view.
Thus, the students in the rows in front of them would look back and only see the boss’s face.
Perhaps his eyes were too cold since after they looked a few times, they could only sit obediently without looking back.
Zhang Man breathed a sigh of relief. She sat with her schoolbag in her arms, and gradually began to feel sleepy.
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