Chapter 89 Ends

I don’t know if the organizers deliberately arranged these activities to wear down people’s will, but Zhang Wei felt that he was here for tourism rather than competition.

After a few days of visits, the opening ceremony of the competition officially began.

It was during the rehearsal the day before the competition that Zhang Wei saw all the players from Country A. She estimated that at least two-thirds of them were Asian. Zhang Wei was the youngest and smallest among them, so the team leader asked her to stand at the front when entering the venue.

After a series of stages, the competition finally began. When Zhang Wei saw the questions, he knew that the difficulty was much higher than last time. However, the scope of the questions remained the same, so it should be difficult to get a high score.

The multiple-choice questions are easy to deal with, as there are always ways to reason forward and backward. However, the short-answer questions are not so easy. For example, the type that requires considering thresholds for different situations is the type that gives Zhang Wei a headache. Sometimes it is inevitable that he does not consider things comprehensively enough. In the end, he spends a lot of effort to finish it in a perfunctory manner. Anyway, it is probably not as good as last time.

This competition was quite efficient. After just one day's break, all the test papers were corrected and the results were announced. Finally, there was the award ceremony and closing ceremony.

As expected, the Chinese team dominated both individual and team awards. Wang Jiawei and tarsier Chen Tao were among them, and they are indeed mathematical geniuses.

Zhang Wei also saw the girl from Gangcheng. She was indeed from the Gangcheng team. Except for one boy who won a silver medal, all the others in their team won bronze medals.

As expected, Zhang Wei won the bronze medal and missed the next IJMO competition.

She still felt a little regretful, but after thinking about it, she realized that there was still a chance. She couldn't become a genius, but she could only narrow the gap between her and a genius.

What was surprising was Paris, who actually won the silver medal this time. I had known that he would have won the bronze medal in the competition in Country A.

The moment they heard the result, both Zhang Wei and he jumped up happily. It was really a surprise, and Zhang Wei was also proud of it.

She always thought that Paris was very smart and could always find unique ways to solve difficult problems. The reason he didn't do well in the exam before was that he didn't learn enough mathematics knowledge. Once he finished learning what he needed to learn, he would immediately surpass others.

Take Zhang Wei as an example. The scope of this competition is the same as last time, but Paris has made so much progress in a short period of time, which shows his potential.

The head coach of Team A was a female university teacher. They were not very familiar with each other. After learning Paris' age, she immediately came over and asked him if he would like to join the training camp she organized to prepare for next year's competition.

To Zhang Wei's surprise, she was also invited. The coach said that she had seen her problem-solving process and felt that she was very fast and had mature problem-solving methods and had great potential. She gave them her business card and asked them to contact her after they returned.

You have to know that Zhang Wei and Paris have not received any special competition training from professional teachers, so it is really great that they can achieve such results.

Neither Mr. Ethan nor Mr. Morrie provided them with guidance for the competition, while the other contestants from Tifield Middle School had their own dedicated competition instructors.

Zhang Wei and Paris are still primary school students and cannot participate in the middle school competition course training unless they hire private tutors.

After learning this, Zhang Wei finally gained some confidence, so they returned to New York City happily.

Whether participating in a baseball game or a math competition, it is a brand new experience for Zhang Wei, which prevents her from being complacent because of a little bit of advantage.

At the same time, she saw a wider world and met all kinds of people who are young, have dreams and abilities. Only now did she understand what a great man once said: "This world is yours."

Zhang Wei’s current goal is to enter the IJMO competition before graduating from elementary school, and the rest will come later.

Fortunately, as time went by, she gradually adapted to studying and living in Country A. Daily homework was no longer a problem for her to worry about. Whether it was English, Spanish, social sciences or sports, she was finally able to take the lead among a group of primary school students.

So she could put her mind at ease and concentrate on studying for the Mathematical Olympiad. During this period, Zhang Wei also kept in touch with Wang Jiawei, Tarsier and others. One of them entered the junior class ahead of schedule, and the other was admitted directly to Peking University and Tsinghua University.

They also sent her the materials they had used in previous competitions, which made Zhang Wei very grateful. She also sent them the original books they wanted and told them that as long as the books were published on the foreign market, they could find them, after all, Zhang Wei's book coupons had not been used up yet.

Moreover, although they did not run the second-hand bookstore themselves later, they entrusted it to the people of Ryan Company, and the traffic increased a lot. They now collect books from various universities, and the types and levels of books are much higher, which is also a very good source of books.

Although her dividends from Ryan's company's website are still used to pay back the money Charles donated to her, Zhang Wei and others at the second-hand bookstore can get tens of thousands of dollars in profits every year. It can be said that she no longer has to worry about her daily financial needs. Although she didn't need it before, she is not worried now that she has money in her hands.

Paris was admitted to the middle school that Mr. Lin had chosen as he wished. The school was still in New York City, but his contact with Zhang Wei and others did not decrease, because in front of outsiders, he was still the same introverted boy as before. However, in the past two years, as he grew older and more capable, he gradually developed a cold aura.

When Zhang Wei received the invitation letter to the IJMO International Primary and Secondary School Olympiad in her last year of elementary school, Paris had already represented Country A in the IMO International Olympiad as the youngest member of the team.

Professor Madison played an indispensable role in this. She was the team leader who took a liking to Paris at the Singapore promotion match.

After Mr. Lin knew about this, he brought Paris to visit. Zhang Wei was very impressed by his communication skills. In the end, Paris became Professor Madison's last disciple. People like Zhang Wei could only take classes with other promising students whom she thought were good.

Fortunately, Paris would occasionally give her some private lessons. Emma originally wanted to hire a private tutor for her, but Zhang Wei felt that she was more clear about her problems. With Teacher Morrie and Professor Madison, as well as the help of her friends, her external conditions were not bad either.

She knew that the main problem was her own and that she still had to continue her thinking training, so she continued to follow the pace arranged by Teacher Mori and made progress on both sides. Finally, she achieved results this year, participated in G8, and got the admission ticket to IJMO, thus achieving her goal.

But it's a bit regrettable that she is about to graduate from elementary school and has decided to go to the UK to study in middle school with Namier, continuing the Wilson family tradition.