A Snow Biscuit
Chapter 252 Chen Yuan's Score, Holy Son's Crisis
That was, he could feel the beauty of formulas.
He was already able to comprehend the Dao of mathematics and physics.
But could he master the 'physics' part of it as quickly as he mastered mathematics?
Well, today was the day!
Friday morning.
The combined science paper was handed out.
His fingertip brushed over the smooth answer sheet, unfolding the lengthy paper. Chen Yuan took a light breath before reading the questions.
The aroma of malt.
This was the Seven Schools Joint Examination paper, very smooth.
Last time, Chen Yuan's combined science score was 230. He scored 78 out of 90 in biology, 77 in chemistry, and 75 out of 110 in physics.
For a top student in the grade, a combined science score like that was a disaster.
And the problem lay in physics.
For the past two weeks, his biology and chemistry studies had been normal, without too much extra effort. Only physics had received more attention than mathematics and English, second only to Xin Yu's panties.
Well then, let's test the increase in power brought about by hard training!
Chen Yuan had his own way of tackling the combined science paper: start with all the multiple-choice questions, working through them in order.
Although the multiple-choice questions accounted for less than half of the total, they were the most important foundation for all subjects.
If you wanted to get a high score, you couldn't afford to mess up the multiple-choice questions.
A total of 126 points, 21 questions in all, 6 points per question.
At the top of the paper were the atomic masses that might be needed for the exam.
After a quick glance, Chen Yuan started reading the first question.
A biology multiple-choice question.
There is a close relationship between the structure and function of the biomembrane. Which of the following statements is incorrect?
After looking at this kind of question, Chen Yuan could feel the difficulty level of this exam.
At least in biology, it was moderate.
Easy enough.
Biology could be said to be an assassin in the sciences. It required more memorization than even geography in the humanities. There were very few calculation problems, and the amount of calculation was small.
And so, Chen Yuan swept through the six biology multiple-choice questions in just five minutes.
Too easy, that was biology.
Next, chemistry.
Chen Yuan also spent only ten minutes completing the remaining seven questions.
Except for a few questions that he wasn't too sure about, he could say that the rest were all within range.
He had to admit that he wasn't bad at these two subjects to begin with. And with the progress bar to assist him, he was even more at ease.
78 points in biochemistry in less than fifteen minutes.
Then, Chen Yuan encountered physics.
A total of eight questions, the last three being multiple-select. The first question tested concepts and was relatively simple. Chen Yuan remembered it clearly.
But the further he went, the more difficult it became, especially the second-to-last multiple-select question. To choose the correct options, he needed to calculate all four different options below.
AC was definitely correct.
But he couldn't calculate d, which was a bit difficult.
If he only chose AC, he could get half the points, which was three points.
But if he chose ACd, and d was wrong, then he wouldn't get any points for this question.
This involved a difficult choice, like a TV quiz show: do you choose to take the prize money, or do you continue to challenge?
If the challenge was successful, the prize money would be doubled. If the challenge was unsuccessful, he wouldn't get a single cent.
Did he want three points, or should he calculate d as well, for six points?
But this question was a bit difficult to calculate, and might take about five to six minutes, and he might not even be able to calculate it.
Because this was precisely the part of the knowledge that Chen Yuan was lacking in.
Got it.
I'll fill in ACd, and then use the progress bar to check.
So, Chen Yuan wrote ACd behind the question on the upper right of the paper.
I would have chosen this anyway, I'm just verifying it, this shouldn't count as cheating...
Then what is cheating?
Suddenly, Chen Yuan was stunned.
He realized that when faced with some difficult and obscure questions, he wanted to seek help from outside the arena.
But this was just an ordinary joint exam.
It was meaningless to deceive himself at this time.
It was just a test to check his own strength.
Unlike the previous math competition.
Besides, he had already built up the momentum, made it so exciting. Those opponents were all trying their best to improve by one or two points. If he directly used the super-brain to solve the questions during the exam, even if he got the top score, this exam would not bring him any pleasure.
After all, there was a real sense of accomplishment when conquering these beautiful problems in the examination hall.
So, Chen Yuan very simply chose AC for this question.
That's right, his current ability was not enough to get every point. His weakness was still very obvious.
Skills were very important for Chen Yuan at this moment.
After all, his idea was only to rush into the first examination hall, not to become the saintly child of Eleventh High School in one battle.
If there was time after finishing these questions, he would come back and verify this d option carefully.
Okay, relax.
It's just the Seven Schools Joint Examination.
Super-brain, you sit down for me!
Then, Chen Yuan continued to gallop across this paper.
About the last five minutes, he filled in all the questions on the answer sheet.
But he didn't plan to verify that multiple-choice question in these five minutes.
After all, it was only worth three points.
What he could do was to check whether the answer sheet was filled in the wrong place.
And those biology and some chemistry questions that relied entirely on memorization, he would carefully confirm again.
The bell rang.
The 150-minute combined science exam was over.
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Language Arts Grade Level.
Language Arts was the first subject to be completed, so the time for grading the papers was particularly long. From noon yesterday to this morning, all the Language Arts teachers were working hard to rewrite the papers.
Finally, during the lunch break, only a large part of the compositions remained.
Each teacher was responsible for grading at least one hundred compositions.
They had the afternoon to grade the compositions in their hands, and then work a little overtime to add up all the Language Arts scores.
And the task of counting the scores and entering the rankings would be handled by the teacher specifically responsible for this on Saturday.
Of course, today they could calculate the scores of some top students first and enter them into the document.
The criteria for top students were the top three exam halls.
Liu Fang didn't know which exam hall's compositions she was grading, but she could feel that the level of this exam hall was good, probably around fourth or fifth place.
Until, after seeing a certain composition, she probably knew which exam hall she was grading.
This handwriting, plus this style, was clearly Chen Yuan's.
Because there was limited time for grading papers, she would look at each composition for a maximum of two minutes, and only good ones would be looked at for four or five minutes. She would read the whole thing and give a score after a little thought.
"Even Sparrows Aspire to Fly High"
If a bird that has never flown high knew from the beginning that it was a sparrow, would it still flap its wings desperately?
As an argumentative essay, the beginning didn't express a point of view, but instead raised a particularly interesting question, directly capturing the emotion of the graders.
Just like the last time he wrote something like "My Eyes Can See the Future," he used very extreme methods, almost telling the graders not to pan for gold in the shit, that this was gold.
Then, you give me a read.
And so, Liu Fang read it all.
It took four minutes.
Sure enough, it was a perfect argumentative essay, except that the handwriting was a little bit poor.
Regarding this essay, most students' entry points were that sparrows should recognize their own shortcomings and be content with mediocrity. Or, using sparrows and eagles to refer to ordinary people and rich people, they indicated that the innate gap could not be erased, and only by working hard could they fly to higher skies and become better people.
These were all correct, and writing like this could also get a high score.
There were also those with Chen Yuan's angle.
But very few people wrote about a change in mindset in an argumentative essay.
In the material, the sparrow had been working hard to fly high, wanting to become the highest bird. But when it looked up after reaching the highest point, it realized that its end point was not even as good as other people's starting points.
Only Chen Yuan wrote about such a transformation.
The examples he used were okay, and he also had the blessing of writing skills.
He was talking about someone around him. Old Wang used to be the district's table tennis champion, invincible at the grassroots level. He confidently participated in the national competition, and then in the first round, he was defeated 4:0 and sent home.
Old Wang was very frustrated, because he thought he was a genius, but he found that the person who defeated him was just a seventeen-year-old boy.
Most people at this time might be discouraged and want to work hard and fight again.
But Old Wang was different. He voluntarily gave up the opportunity to become a professional player and no longer participated in competitions. But in the community, he was more active, playing against all kinds of people. Every time he convinced others, he would smile and call himself - I used to be a champion.
Old Wang was a sparrow.
Before encountering eagles, he had never seen what an eagle was like.
Eagles were geniuses who could easily defeat him even with ten years less training time.
And this sparrow, after realizing that he was not an eagle, not only accepted it happily, but could also smile and say, I am the most powerful sparrow.
So, what are you mentally consuming?
Sparrows can also fly high.
"Teacher Wu, come and take a look." Liu Fang handed the paper to Wu Wensen, the head of the Language Arts grade level.
Generally, high scores that were not stable would be evaluated by more than two graders.
After all, this was the Seven Schools Joint Examination, so they had to respect it a little.
"Let me see."
Wu Wensen took the paper, looked at it, and nodded with a smile. He said with considerable satisfaction, "Compared to those excellent but monotonous eight-legged essays that can't be given a low score, this kind of composition is indeed comfortable to read. The key is that the writing is too good, which adds a lot of points. I think it can get the second-highest score, 55."
When the Xia Hai Seven Schools took the joint exam, they shared the grading criteria.
A perfect composition, if they felt it could get a perfect score, they would give it 57.
If they felt it was excellent, they would give it 52.
And if they felt it was particularly good, but not good enough for a perfect score, it would be the second-highest score, 55.
"Teacher Wu, can I just calculate the score for this paper?" Liu Fang said.
"What, is it your student?" Wu Wensen asked curiously.
"It's Chen Yuan."
Upon hearing this name, the other teachers were attracted to the attention.
They all knew that there was a student who had not studied at all before. For some reason, he suddenly started studying hard. Then he improved by one hundred points, and then he got first place in the provincial mathematics competition, not a national player.
Everyone liked to watch the fun.
Especially people like this who had a lot of program effects just by being there.
Liu Fang hadn't paid so much attention to Chen Yuan before, but after all, his other subjects were now frighteningly high, and if her Language Arts score was the only one that wasn't good, then she would be too embarrassed.
Last time, he relied on a 57-point composition to pull his Language Arts score to 112.
This time it was even 2 points lower than last time, wouldn't it not reach 110?
With this uneasy mood, Liu Fang began to add points.
Then, the more she added, the more she smiled.
Until she added up the last reading comprehension, which Chen Yuan was not good at, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
And, she was even happier than when she graded her own class's classmate's score of 130.
121.
Chen Yuan had entered the excellent level in this subject!
………
In the afternoon, while the last English exam was in progress. The Mathematics Grade Level was rushing to grade the papers.
Similarly, today they could calculate everyone's scores, but they couldn't count the totals. They could only enter the scores of the top three exam halls first and report them to He Hongtao.
After the two-hour English exam time ended, the Mathematics Grade Level also calculated the scores of all the students in the school.
Then, count the scores of the top three exam halls.
At this time, Lao Mo walked to Teacher Xu Yicheng's side, and then politely asked, "The third exam hall is here, right?"
"Yes, Teacher Mo, are you asking about Tang Siwen? She did well this time, 139."
Hearing this, Lao Mo was in a pretty good mood.
That was a good performance.
After all, the two last questions this time were a bit difficult. A score of 139 meant that Tang Siwen had at least done part of the difficult questions, and her level was worthy of recognition.
"Who graded the first exam hall this time?" Teacher Pan Sun asked.
"Teacher Pan, it's me." Zhang Liang raised his hand and said.
"How many perfect scores were there this time?" Pan Sun asked curiously.
"Being able to get a perfect score on this kind of question shows that the student really has the hard skills." Xu Yicheng also did the paper when he had nothing to do yesterday. Although he also got a perfect score, he wrote it with great difficulty.
If a special-grade teacher was still like this, then the students didn't need to be mentioned.
"Let me see." Zhang Liang flipped through it and said, "Sun Bai, who is number one on the exam number, got a perfect score."
Sun Bai was a classmate in Xu Yicheng's class. After hearing this, he behaved calmly. After all, he was still the class teacher, so he said with a particularly patterned manner, "I'm relieved about his mathematics. Whether he can continue to stabilize first place still depends on English."
"His goal is not first place, it's seven hundred points, right?" a teacher joked.
"700 points is too difficult." Teacher Xu Yicheng waved his hand and said, "The score for the last session of Hua Qing's admission in Hai Dong was 689. I only hope that he can stabilize above 690 on a good paper."
The number of people who are admitted to Hua Qing Ji Bei from Eleventh High School every year is about three, or fluctuates between two and four.
Generally, there is one liberal arts student, and two to three science students.
"If his raw score is 690, it's stable." a teacher said, "After all, he already has ten points of extra credit, and he also participated in the national competition."
"Other top students are aiming to get into Hua Qing Ji Bei, Sun Bai is going to win the top scorer for our school."
"Our school hasn't won the top scorer in ten years... That's too difficult, haha." Teacher Xu Yicheng was still in that humble attitude.
But in reality, he was more eager than anyone for Sun Bai to be firmly in the top three in this joint exam ranking.
Sun Bai was no worse than the students from the Second High School outside the school.
The gap with the First and Fourth High Schools was not as big as imagined.
"Then, there are also 7th, 13th, and 28th." Zhang Liang calculated and said, "There are a total of four perfect scores in the first exam hall."
"Then there are probably only five or six in the whole school." Pan Sun said based on experience.
The students in the second exam hall of Eleventh High School were already far behind the students in the front.
At this time, Zhang Bin, the head of the entire grade level, came and said to everyone, "Everyone, please work a little overtime today to count the scores of the top three exam halls, and then send them to me."
After speaking, he also inspected the progress, and looked at which teachers had not finished grading besides the top three exam halls.
The teachers also began to work busily.
Although Lao Mo was not grading the papers in the first exam hall, he also had two exam halls in his hands, so he volunteered to work overtime to enter the scores.
Not being the first to leave after work was his creed.
"Yo, there's a perfect score in the fourth exam hall."
At this time, a teacher grading the fourth exam hall suddenly said in surprise.
"Who is it?" Zhang Liang asked curiously.
After he asked, Xu Yicheng and Pan Sun, who didn't even look, directly said in unison, "It's Chen Yuan."
"Hehehe." The teacher smiled and didn't keep them in suspense. "It's really Chen Yuan."
"That's the first place in the provincial competition, how can he not get a perfect score? This kind of paper is far worse than the provincial competition." Xu Yicheng knew how awesome Chen Yuan was, so there was only praise in his words.
At this time, Teacher Pan Sun also said in a trendy tone, "Others can get a perfect score because they can only get a perfect score. Chen Yuan gets a perfect score at that level because the score has a perfect score as the upper limit."
Mathematics is something that is strong if the hard power is strong, there is no doubt about it.
Since everyone tried the paper that Chen Yuan wrote in the provincial competition last time, they knew how powerful this guy was.
The teachers who did the same paper as him couldn't possibly not understand this.
Everyone was praising him so much, Lao Mo just smiled, and then said in the same tone as Xu Yicheng, "I'm relieved about his mathematics, but what about that Language Arts and combined science."
After saying this, Teacher Xu Yicheng gradually felt a sense of pressure.
Although his Sun Bai had been dominating the school for a long time.
But Chen Yuan was still rushing forward as a dark horse.
If he continued to rush like this, the throne of the number one student in Eleventh High School might not be very stable.
"Okay. Everyone, continue to work hard. I'm going to report to Principal He."
"Leader Zhang, have a good trip."
And so, Zhang Bin went directly to He Hongtao's office and knocked on the door.
"Please come in." He Hongtao's voice came.
Then, Zhang Bin went into the office and stood next to He Hongtao.
"Teacher Zhang, please sit down." He Hongtao said with a smile.
Zhang Bin sat down and said, "I looked at the progress. Language Arts is all finished grading, and the total score for the top three exam halls is estimated to be a few points good. Mathematics is basically finished grading, and the total score for the top three exam halls is still twenty minutes away. For combined science and English, I'll ask the teachers to finish grading Sun Bai's first."
"Yes, the only expectation today is Sun Bai."
"This is someone who can easily get into Hua Qing Ji Da with just his raw score."
After Zhang Bin finished speaking, he smiled and deliberately whetted his appetite, saying, "There is also someone you're paying attention to, Principal He, and I know his score."
"Ah? Is it the top student in liberal arts?" He Hongtao asked.
"No."
"Are you talking about Chen Yuan?" He Hongtao tentatively asked.
"How can you not pay attention to this person, Principal He? I don't believe that." Zhang Bin said jokingly.
"Then what's his score? I'm really a little curious."
"Perfect score in mathematics."
"That's good. Although it's expected, it's an improvement over last time, which means the total score can be raised again." He Hongtao smiled, very happy.
"Then would you like to have him graded out today and calculate his score?" Zhang Bin asked for instructions.
"Wouldn't that be too much trouble for the teachers..."
"It's just a paper, it's okay."
"Okay, then count Chen Yuan's score as well."
Generally speaking, only the first place, and especially the first place in science, had such treatment. And now, Chen Yuan was specially added, which was enough to show He Hongtao's level of attention.
And so, Zhang Bin sent the message down.
After a while, the scores from the top three exam halls for Language Arts and the top three exam halls for Mathematics were sent to Zhang Bin's mobile phone.
Zhang Bin clicked it open and handed it to He Hongtao.
After studying it carefully, He Hongtao nodded with some relief and said, "Mathematics 150, Language Arts 133, it looks like Sun Bai is going to rush to seven hundred."
If it was seven hundred, then it would only be about seventeen or eight points less than the top students from the First and Fourth High Schools.
Although Chen Yuan had a promising future, Sun Bai had already been trained.
As the saintly child now, he was the entire hope of Eleventh High School.
After a while, English and combined science, Sun Bai's scores were also sent over.
Combined Science: 280
English: 136
"150 plus 133 plus 280, plus 136..." After calculating, He Hongtao gritted his teeth, clenched his fist, and said very regrettably, "699, just one point short, just one point short!"
"Although it's a bit of a pity, it's really amazing!" Zhang Bin nodded with recognition, quite appreciative.
The probability of Eleventh High School producing a top scorer was once in a few decades.
Getting a raw score of seven hundred was once in several sessions.
Counting the extra points to seven hundred was not every year.
Not to mention anything else, this Sun Bai had the opportunity to break through the upper limit while maintaining the lower limit.
"It's a pity, but it's also very powerful." He Hongtao said this, but he was actually a little frustrated.
This Seven Schools Joint Examination could reflect the problem very well.
Although it was only 18 points behind the top scorer from the previous session, there was still plenty of time, but it was basically impossible to go up.
Because Sun Bai had maintained this score for a long, long time.
Whether a student who studies hard has the potential to be a top scorer can be seen in the second year of high school.
The student who scored the top score 13 years ago had an entrance score that was in the top ten in the city, and his city-wide unified exam was also firmly in the top three, and he had been number one before.
A person with the appearance of a champion has already shown extraordinary strength in the training match.
Obviously, his current score couldn't even get into the top ten in the city, so how could he talk about the appearance of a champion?
And this year's senior high school class has a maximum raw score of only 695 points.
Relying on these students, it was estimated that they would not be able to produce a top scorer in the next two years and revive the peak glory of Eleventh High School.
Just then, Chen Yuan's score was sent over.
First, English!
139.
Even higher than Sun Bai!
And Language Arts had already been sent out before.
"121 plus 139 plus 150, that's..." After calculating, He Hongtao revealed a surprised look, "410, only combined science is left."
"This rate of progress is really scary!"
While Zhang Bin was shocked, he also said a little pessimistically, "But his combined science is not very good, it was only 230 last time. In such a short period of time, it is estimated that he will not be able to add much."
"After all, the monthly exam has not passed for long, and he has to take too much time to make up for the mathematics for the competition. Being able to add ten points is already about the same."
"Adding ten points is also six hundred and fifty."
While the two were estimating, Chen Yuan's combined science score was also sent over.
The moment he saw it, He Hongtao's pupils were shocked.
"God, 251 points! Adding 410, that's... 661 points!"
Seeing Chen Yuan's score, He Hongtao was more shocked than knowing that Sun Bai had scored nearly seven hundred points, and he stood up directly.
"Moreover, this score has to be added to 10 points, because he has the extra credit for the college entrance examination, which is 671 points!" Suddenly, Zhang Bin thought of something.
Pomelo.
Zhang Jianjun from Fourth High School liked to compare students to pomelos.
A student who can get into Hua Qing Ji Da is a pomelo.
In the previous session, the pomelo line was 689 and 690.
And Chen Yuan, including the extra points, was only 18 points away from that line!
Less than 20 points away, and he could go to the most top-notch university in China!
You have to know that four months ago, he was 504 points.
Then, in just two and a half months, less than three months, he improved by 111 points.
Just like losing weight, the initial base is large, so the weight will drop quickly.
But now that he had already stepped into the 600-point range, he had fiercely improved by 46 points, nearly fifty points, in a month's time, and completely became a top student in Eleventh High School.
This score would be a strong and powerful top student in any high school.
Moreover, he still had those ten points of extra credit.
"Chen Yuan has improved by 49 points this time. The gap between him and Sun Bai is 38 points. The gap between the two has gone from nearly two hundred to less than forty!"
He Hongtao suddenly realized that he had invested in a monster.
Looking at Zhang Bin, the head of the grade level, He Hongtao was particularly excited, as if he had found real gold: "Two more times, and his competitors will not be in this small Eleventh High School!"
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A little sleepy, I'm going to sleep today.
(End of this chapter)