Go back to the year of the high school entrance examination

During the period from the end of the second class to running exercises, Ji Shi has been enjoying the attention of his classmates.

It’s the time when the monthly exam scores are issued, and almost every class is discussing the results of the subjects that have already been passed. When I went downstairs, the students I knew in each class hooked up and talked with each other:

"What's the highest score in English in your class? 103 points?"

"Our physics teacher was so angry that the Mediterranean Sea reflected light. This time the physics was really smashed."

"Math 149 is so high? Which one?"

"That's the one, the thin one, the one with his hands in his pockets, called Ji Shi. His grades were mediocre before, but he suddenly started to change this semester."

Ji Shi could vaguely hear voices talking about him, not only from his own class, but also from other classes.

He was not used to this kind of gaze, and he kept his head down throughout the running session.

"Don't be shy!" Zeng Tairan put his arm on Ji Shi's shoulder, "Look up."

In fact, such a thing that a certain class got the first place in the exam has no effect on the lives of ordinary students. Only the top students in each class will pay attention to it a little bit. After returning to the classroom, they will enter their familiar environment. The very "special" emotions that I had a lot of gradually dissipated.

He's just a normal guy, he's 100% sure of that.

In the last class, Teacher Qi hadn't finished the entire math test paper before he talked about the part of filling in the blanks. This time the test paper was a bit difficult, and his speed of lecturing the questions was slower than usual.

After the exercise, several people surrounded Ji Shi's table.

"I didn't understand what Mr. Qi said on question 7, Ji Shi, can you teach me again?"

"14 questions, please."

Ji Shi only glanced at the question, and then scribbled the steps to solve the problem on the draft paper. He didn't explain the question fast, but the steps were written clearly, and he didn't worry that others might not understand.

"That's what it means! I couldn't think of it in the examination room."

"It's hard to think in the exam room." Zeng Tairan sighed, "If I can think of it, I can get 140."

……

The next class is English. According to the usual practice, we still have to hand out test papers and talk about the test papers today. This time the English test papers are not too difficult. Before the teacher entered the classroom, everyone had a mournful expression.

"I hope the teacher will stop scolding us for the sake of our pity." Zeng Tairan supported the table with both hands, "after cursing all morning, the classroom is not a classroom at all, it is a purgatory on earth!"

Ji Shi's mood has completely calmed down here.

How to put it, before the scores came out, he felt that he did not do well in every subject, but now that he has at least one subject of mathematics as a foundation, he feels much more at ease.

Even if he failed all the other four exams, at least he is not bad at math!

With such a mood, he watched indifferently as the English teacher brought a stack of test papers into the classroom, and then slammed them on the podium.

The classroom was so quiet that a pindrop could be heard.

"Ms. Li seems to be going crazy." Zeng Tairan covered his mouth with his hand and whispered in Ji Shi's ear.

Ji Shi nodded very slightly.

"I won't talk about other questions. Some words in the multiple-choice questions are required to be memorized. Why did you choose the wrong one?" Teacher Li frowned, looking sharply at the classroom.

She is a young teacher, not much older than the students in the third class of high school, and she always gets along well with the students. After all, the young teacher is too fierce to be hated by the students, and even if she is fierce, it is difficult for her to be as effective as the old teacher at any age. majesty.

"Who can tell me, have we learned the word approach? Is applyto a fixed collocation?"

After she finished asking a sentence, the classroom fell into a stagnation for a full minute. Everyone was watching, but no one spoke. Noisy.

"No one answered, I'll call the roll, Chen Cong, what does approach mean?"

Chen Cong stood up nervously, opened his mouth for a long time, but didn't speak, he looked around, someone lip-synced to him, and someone flipped through the book to remind him how many pages the word was in the textbook, but it was too late .

"Sit down."

Teacher Li took a deep breath, and Ji Shi felt that she was really angry this time.

"I don't ask you to take the full score, and I didn't say that each of you should get 110. This test paper is difficult, but the teachers in our English teaching and research group think that the difficulty is mainly set in the listening comprehension, and the other questions are not beyond the outline. Read It is understandable for you to make mistakes in understanding and cloze, but why is the correct rate of the simplest multiple-choice questions not good?"

"Okay, let's report the scores now." Teacher Li said with a straight face, "I didn't report the scores before. I heard that the teachers in other classes reported the scores on the spot. It turned out that they did better than us in this exam. We The highest score is better than others."

"Chen Cong, 66 points."

There was a burst of discussion at [email protected][email protected] in the back row of the classroom.

"Ms. Li is already a blockbuster if she doesn't sing, she actually started reporting from the lowest score..."

Now everyone understands the reason why the English teacher called Chen Cong up to answer the question just now. Chen Cong's score is probably the bottom one in their class.

In a school like Z Middle School, there are still relatively few students who fail a course, because Suzhou Province has eliminated students since the middle school entrance examination. Like the township junior high school that Ji Shi attended before, there were a total of about 500 students in the whole grade. There are only 3 to 40 in Z, and this is because their entrance score in Z has been lowered. In previous years, only about 10 people could pass the exam.

The students who failed to pass the Z middle school were scattered in several township high schools below Z county. However, the number of students enrolled in the township high schools is also limited each year, and the remaining large group of students who failed to pass the exam did not go to general high schools.

After the annual admission line of Z Middle School is set, there are still some quotas for school-choice students. School-choice students pay 2 yuan to enter the school, but even school-choice students are generally more than 10 points lower than the admission line. Low Z will not be charged.

In other words, even if a student is good at partial subjects, it is not so easy to fail, especially in basic subjects such as English, where every point is deducted, and it is even more difficult to fail.

In their class, only Chen Cong failed this time, and the few students who usually scored lower in English were stable, all above the passing line.

The English teacher was probably really annoyed by them this time, maybe he didn't plan to teach this class, and kept reporting the grades.

When the students with more than 90 points in the test were registered, the teacher's face looked a little better.

According to her, the students in her class with scores above 90 are similar to other classes, but the number of students with scores below 80 is too large, which pulls down the average score of the entire class.

Yao Meng scored 105 in the English test this time, which is already a very high score, because when Ji Shi was just doing exercises, he heard other class members talking, saying that the first time in the class was 103 this time.

Yao Meng went up to collect the test papers and came back, specifically looking in Ji Shi's direction.

Because the teacher reported the scores in order, almost all the names of other students in the class have been read, only Ji Shi's name has not been read, which means that Ji Shi's English score in this test is also higher than his. high.

When Zeng Tairan poked Ji lightly with his little finger.

Ji Shi was calm on the surface, but he was actually a little nervous.

"Ji Shi, 109 points, come up and get the test paper."

When Ji Shi's name was mentioned, Teacher Li showed a smile on his face, and she patted Ji Shi's shoulder lightly: "As far as I know, this score is the first in the grade, and no one in the intensive science class took the test." over you."

"Wow!"

There was a burst of exclamation in the class.

In the eyes of many people, Ji Shi's score of 149 in Mathematics is already against the sky. As a result, he got the first place in the grade as soon as he came up with English.

The students in Z middle school all know that there is always a gap between the intensive class and the ordinary class. The first grade in a single subject is always taken in turns by Class 1 and Class 2. Not to mention, even the two partial languages ​​of Chinese and English Subjects, on the whole, the number of times the two science intensive classes took the first place was the most.

"Ji Shi, you are too awesome!"

"No. [-] in the school!"

When Ji Shi returned to his seat, he was almost treated like a hero, and the whole class was watching him enthusiastically.

Although the score difference in English is not as big as that in mathematics, it is irrefutable that the first is the first.

"What happened to Ji Shi?"

In the last monthly exam, everyone thought that his score was strong enough, but this time it was even more exaggerated. Not to mention the fourth grade in mathematics, he even rushed to the first grade in English.

Ji Shi is now a bit biased in physics and chemistry, but seeing his physics results this time, no one else can make a definite conclusion-last time physics was not difficult, Ji Shi only took 84 in the test, the difficulty of the paper this time It was recognized by the whole class, and as a result, his score also entered the top 50% of the class, and the result of being 25th in the class was not too bad.

Everyone around us has examples of mediocre grades and sudden jumps up at a certain stage, but the progress during the period is still a bit beyond common sense.

How did he do it?

The English test paper last time was simple, and he may not be able to get a score of 110 if he is lucky, but this time's score of 109 is definitely a manifestation of his strength.

"Do you want to be so scary?" Looking at Ji Shijie's test paper, Zeng Tairan looked envious, "How did you get it? You didn't deduct points for cloze and reading comprehension?"

Ji Shi turned over the test paper and saw that there were really not many points deducted for cloze and reading comprehension. Some of the options he was not sure about in the examination room were answered correctly, and some were wrong, but the overall correct rate was not bad.

Ji Shi's test paper was mainly about listening well, and he didn't deduct a single point.

The difficulty of this English test is mainly in the listening comprehension. The listening comprehension is all over your head. You have to think about it before filling in the answers. There is almost no option to choose the answer at once. It's a 5-point deduction.

Ji Shi mainly did a lot of jobs that required English after graduation. For him, the listening test in high school was not too difficult, and his speaking speed was not too fast.

Good listening skills are also a big advantage in the English test. Generally speaking, points will be deducted more or less for listening skills. This has nothing to do with the basics.

Ji Shi was a little drifting again.

He felt that posting the results was a process that kept him drifting. Even if he suppressed his excitement and tried not to drift so much, he still couldn't help but be very happy.

Is this bearable?

First grade!

Among the more than 1600 students in the whole grade of Z Middle School, he got the first place in the exam!

The feeling of being number one is different from being number four. Ji Shi was also very excited when he knew he was number four in mathematics, but there were still three people in front of him after all.

The first is the feeling of climbing to the top, not only the first in the class, but also surpassing so many people.

Throughout the three years of high school, he has never taken the first place in any test in any subject, and this is the first time.

Ji Shi would even shout if he could.

He was in a chaotic and excited state throughout the English class. He felt that he was withdrawn from the class and his mind was drifting outside. This state did not recover until the end of the class. Many people in the class came to his class Congratulate him at the table, Ji Shi tried his best not to look so happy.

But still couldn't help being happy.

"Ji Shi, before going to work in the afternoon, go to the teaching and research group of the third year of high school." The English teacher put away his things and suddenly reminded Ji Shi.

"Okay, teacher."

His excitement lasted until the fourth class.

Ji Shi almost forgot that the fourth quarter was chemistry class, until the old donkey appeared in the classroom with a cold face, Ji Shi was shocked.

He even forgot about the chemistry that his papers were poorly done.

——Until the atmosphere in the class woke him up.

The old donkey simply threw the chemistry test paper on the podium, did not say the opening remarks, and did not tell them how the test results were, and directly picked up the chalk and wrote two questions on the blackboard.

There was one on the left and one on the right of the blackboard, and he called two students to go up and do the questions.

Everyone was a little confused by the operation of the old donkey. The atmosphere in the classroom was several times more dull than in English class. No one dared to speak, but no one knew what the old donkey was going to do.

Everyone secretly winked at each other.

"What's the matter?" Zeng Tairan gestured to Ji Shi with his eyes.

Ji Shi shook his head, he didn't know either.

The two questions that the old donkey posed on the blackboard were not difficult, and he would do them even in Ji Shi. The two students who went up to do the questions naturally solved them.

"The chemical reaction between these two questions, one corresponds to the third question of the multiple-choice question, and the other corresponds to the final big question. They are the two questions with the lowest correct rate in this exam. You all know it."

The old man spoke in a very light tone, but it was very harsh to everyone's ears.

They were used to the old donkey's stormy way of admonishing people. He was suddenly so light and light, and everyone was very uncomfortable and nervous, always thinking that he would make some big moves in the next second.

But the old donkey stopped unexpectedly, did not make any big moves, and did not put on the appearance of training others.

He just said—

"Some people can listen to some words when I say them once, and others can't listen to them if I say them a hundred times. What does it matter to me if you do well in the exam? I won't lose a penny of salary. When you go to university in the future , I went out, do I still expect you to come and see me, an old fellow?"

When I was a student, it was easy to be dismissive of what the teacher said, but only after graduation did I realize that everything the teacher said was a wise saying, and their good or bad grades have little to do with the teacher in essence, it is theirs. The future is not the teacher's.

Judging from Ji Shi's experience, after graduating from high school for more than ten years, he only passed by his alma mater once, and that time was because he had dinner with his high school classmates, and the two of them really had nowhere to go, so they walked by the gate of the high school.

After graduating from high school, he seemed to have only seen this high school classmate.

No matter how many times you can see the circle of friends of your classmates on WeChat, and no matter how many times you confirm that the other party is doing well now, seeing those will make people feel strange—they were so close once, but they will not be so close in the future. No different from strangers.

When I was a student, the time was calculated on a daily basis, but after graduation, it became a yearly calculation.

Ji Shi was deeply touched by this.

……

The old donkey only said one sentence and didn't say anything more. He scanned the whole classroom: "In this exam, there are no students who scored 110 in our class. There are still some students in the whole grade. Please remember this."

"Zhou Weile, 109 points, next time you review the questions carefully, you misunderstood all the questions in one question, so you didn't get a single point."

Zhou Weile went up to get the test papers. He was first in chemistry and physics this time, but the second place in chemistry was not Yao Meng, but a girl in the class. Yao Meng's chemistry score this time came third.

Of course, they all scored 100 points.

The reason why Yao Meng is ranked first or second in their class every time he takes the exam is because his grades in all subjects are very stable, there are no such partial subjects, he may not be the first in every subject, but every subject except Chinese is basically the same. They are all top five in their class, and his Chinese scores are not bad.