Chapter 8: Half the test, the score is enough My deskmate Shen Qian smiled and looked directly at Lu Shan. Lu Shan frowned, not very willing. Yang Chuan, Zhang Yong and others have very poor grades. It doesn’t take much effort to teach such students. As long as the basics are improved, their grades will naturally improve. To put it politely, it means potential. To put it bluntly, if you get a lot of points, you can grab as many as you want. But Shen Qian can't do it. She has basically reached her limit in science. Going further is not a question of hard work, but a question of understanding and talent. She can't get many points! What’s the use of someone who can’t get points? Lu Shan looked disgusted. On the contrary, when Zhang Yong and others saw that there were girls joining, and they were the prettiest and best-performing girls in the class, they excitedly roared like little hungry wolves to welcome them. Shen Qian said, "I don't have much pocket money, but I can tutor you in English as a reward. You can't just stand still while others are making progress."
Lu Shan couldn't help but imitate Poincare and said in French English a catchphrase he learned from Harry Potter: "Muggles are unstoppable!" Shen Qian: "What did you say?" Lu Shan said: "After school, go home." Jiangzhou No. 1 Middle School offers on-campus boarding, and the conditions are pretty good. The four-person room has a separate bathroom with shower. However, Lu Shan did not choose to live on campus. Instead, he rode a second-hand blue single-bar Amini bicycle to and from the urban village four kilometers away every day. The single ride time is about 20 minutes, and it works regardless of the sun, rain or shine in spring, summer, autumn or winter. Not for anything else, just to save money. The accommodation fee for one semester at Jiangzhou No. 1200 Middle School is yuan. Lu Shan knew that his mother Lin Yan didn't like to measure value with money, but with food. She makes an average of 1200 cents per pound of vegetables, so she has to sell 6000 pounds of vegetables for yuan, which takes her one and a half months. After riding the bicycle for two kilometers out of the city, there were no street lights. The roads in the urban villages are narrow and bumpy. There are always puddles even if it doesn't rain. The smell of poultry manure and rotten stench fills your nose and lungs. Lu Shan also learned the tricks of riding a bicycle on this kind of road. He only needs to remember one thing - walk towards the moonlight, the bright ones are the pits. Of course this doesn't work on cloudy days... After winding through several alleys, Lu Shan arrived home - the second floor of the match factory’s family quarters built in the 70s. Father Lu Dehai rents a house for 200 yuan a month to support his son while he studies at university in Jiangzhou. There is no independent bathroom, but there are two public toilets in an external corridor, but fortunately there is an independent kitchen. No matter how hard life is, children should not suffer; no matter how poor, education should not be neglected. This is the philosophy of most traditional families, and the same is true for Lu Shan's family. Because she was afraid that her son would not have enough to eat at school, Lin Yan would cook every evening and wait for Lu Shan to come back for a snack.
Today Lu Shan wanted to eat spare ribs, so Lin Yan bought the best middle ribs and made braised spare ribs. Lin Yan was still busy in the kitchen. She would wait until Lu Shan finished his meal, washed up, and went to the dormitory to read before going to rest. After four o'clock the next morning, Lin Yan would go to the vegetable wholesale market to buy vegetables. She would go to the vegetable market at six in the morning to sell vegetables and would be busy until the afternoon before returning. My father, Lu Dehai, worked odd jobs in a spring factory five kilometers away. Rural people don’t have much education, it’s hard for them to find jobs, and it’s not easy for them to gain a foothold in the city. Lu Shan didn't eat many pieces of ribs. After saying hello to Lin Yan, he washed up and went back to the dormitory. "This child, he doesn't eat after I cook. He needs to eat more to replenish his body!" Lin Yan complained while carefully putting the ribs in the refrigerator. It was enough for her and Lu Dehai's meals tomorrow. Son, you must eat fresh food! Because he had almost exhausted all his energy in the Singularity Lab, Lu Shan simply reviewed the exercises for the CMO finals and then fell asleep. The first night after his rebirth was the most sound sleep he had had in decades. The next day, Lu Shan's study group was officially established. In addition to Zhang Yong and Yang Chuan, many underachieving students in the class joined in, and the total number of people exceeded ten. Zhang Yong, Yang Chuan and others were willing to give Lu Shan hard work money and take care of Lu Shan's three meals, and Lu Shan accepted them. Some classmates only wanted to get something for free, and Lu Shan was happy to do so. As long as you can gain points, Lu Shan will welcome you! Nothing is more important than points! In the study group, Lu Shan has established a good reputation for himself through nearly a week of explaining wrong questions and categorizing them for review - his explanations of wrong questions are clear and understandable, and his summary of knowledge points is detailed and easy to absorb, which is better than the teacher's! A week later, it was Saturday afternoon after school. Lu Shan was so tired that he gave the study group a holiday. He calculated that he could only earn about 4 points per day on average. However, he spent 2 credits almost every day to go to the Singularity Laboratory to work hard on questions, to learn from Poincare and ask for advice on CMO final review questions, and even to ask Poincare to help organize review materials for students who were lagging behind. So there are only a few points left at the end. [Remaining points: ] There is indeed no particularly good way to increase points before publishing an academic paper. Weekend, Bluebird Training Institute. Including Lu Shan, a total of 6 students took the qualifying examination for the CMO Winter Camp finals organized by the institution. Su Ming did not come, as he had already obtained the qualification to participate through the school. The question types of the qualifying examination are the same as those of the final examination, but the time is compressed into one day, four hours in the morning and four hours in the afternoon. There are 6 questions in total, covering four aspects: plane geometry, algebra, number theory and combinatorics. Each question is worth 21 points, and the full score is 126 points. Most students cannot finish these 6 questions. The difficulty and score lines vary from year to year. Taking last year as an example, the average score of students participating in the winter camp was around 67 points, the bronze medal score was 20 points, the silver medal score was 37 points, and the gold medal score was 63 points. The passing score for the national training team (the top 60 students winning gold medals) is approximately 90 points. The chances of getting full marks in each final are extremely small, and it is considered amazing if three or four people can do so. The average score is several tens of points higher than the bronze medal score line. From this score line, we can see that there is a huge gap between students of different qualities! Zou Yao said to the students: "The questions in this test were written by the teachers of the Bluebird National Mathematical Olympiad team with great effort. The difficulty is simpler than that of the CMO finals, but the question types are similar. Please do not reveal them to others after you finish them."
“We will determine admission based on the bronze medal scores of the CMO Winter Camp in the past few years, which is 20 points!” "Even if all six of you get 20 points on the test, Bluebird will find a way to cram you into the winter camp." Even though 20 points are not a lot, many students in today’s winter camp got 0 points in the final because they didn’t know any answers to any questions. Zou Yao looked at Lu Shan deliberately. Lu Shan had definitely never done the questions in today's exam. He didn't attend any training for a single day. If he could really score more than 20 points, it would mean that this kid is really qualified to get the exam for free! Zou Yao looked at the time and said, "The exam begins!" Lu Shan devoted himself to the exam. After Poincare's high-intensity training in the Singularity Laboratory, Lu Shan's actual training time should be more than 60 hours. If it is divided into four hours of intensive training classes every day, it would be 15 days of high-quality training. Although 15 days was not enough for Lu Shan to get full marks, it was very easy for him to pass the test. The sentence that Poincare said most often to Lu Shan was, "Mathematics is a kind of law. If you master this law, then all math problems are not difficult." When Lu Shan heard Poincare's words, the first sentence that popped into his mind was "Tao gave birth to one, one gave birth to two, and three gave birth to all things." Rules are actually a kind of "Tao". Lu Shan studied under Poincare and has not yet reached the level of enlightenment, but this is enough to deal with this kind of test. At twelve o'clock in the morning, the first round of exams ended. Lu Shan handed in his paper and told Zou Yao: "Teacher Zou, I have something to do this afternoon, so I won't be taking the exam." Zou Yao frowned, "Do you think the exam is difficult? Are you not going to take the afternoon exam?" Zou Yao felt that Lu Shan was not serious! How could you only take half of the exam? Unexpectedly, Lu Shan said, "You just said that if you get 20 points, you can get the qualification to enter the CMO Winter Camp. After I finish this round of exams this morning, my score should be enough." I beg you to read on and give me your recommendation votes!
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