Chapter 62 [Second update]
This is quite rare. I don't know how Jiang Ning is doing in the competition class. Her grades in the class have not dropped, but have steadily improved. So she should still focus her main energy on the class's academic performance rather than the competition class.
This is a choice that many students will make.
Some students who originally had very good grades saw their grades drop after being selected into the competition class. They also did not achieve very good results in the competition and were unable to be admitted. This was very detrimental to their college entrance examination scores. Therefore, some people, even if they were selected into the competition class, still focused on their own grades and did not put too much energy into the competition class.
If the test results of the competition class are not ideal, you will naturally be eliminated.
The teachers felt that Jiang Ning was probably in the same situation. They couldn't say whether Jiang Ning's approach was right or wrong. They even felt that Jiang Ning's choice was the right one. After all, competitions were only for a few people. If it really affected their usual academic performance, it would not be worth it.
But as teachers, they are not in a position to say this to students. After all, the school needs students to participate in competitions and to achieve good results.
At this time, Jiang Ning had been in the competition class for a month. The school's monthly exam was over, and the competition class teacher was also ready to find out how the students had learned during this period.
During evening self-study, the competition class teacher did not teach the class, but gave them a test paper to do.
Because time is limited, we just do as much as we can: “It doesn’t matter if you can’t finish it, just hand it in to me after class.”
Teacher Ji from the competition class smiled like a sunny boy and said with a smile.
But the students in the competition class felt their scalps tighten. After receiving the test papers, some of them wailed on the spot.
It’s too difficult!
Teacher Ji divided the test paper into several parts, distributed them to groups one by one, and asked them to pass them to the back. Soon, the whole competition class was filled with the sound of students taking the exam quietly.
Teacher Ji looked at the time and called a less busy teacher to invigilate their class, while he went to teach another high school chemistry competition class.
Originally this was not his class time, but he was taking an exam, so he switched time with the teacher of another class.
As soon as the get out of class is over, the invigilator will collect the papers. He is also a young teacher, and an alumnus of the same school as Teacher Ji. He was also recruited to teach the competition class.
Only the students who were participating in the math competition packed up their things and went back to the classroom after the exam, but most of the students had two or three jobs. For example, Jiang Ning did well in math, physics and chemistry in the midterm exam, so the teachers of the three courses recommended Jiang Ning to their respective competition classes.
Generally, those who are good at mathematics will also do well in physics and chemistry.
The invigilator collected the test papers one by one, put them back on the podium, and asked the students, "Does anyone need to go to the bathroom?" Seeing that the students did not say anything, he smiled and said, "No? If not, we will continue the exam."
Immediately, a student stood up and said, "Yes, yes, teacher, I'm going to the bathroom!"
The men's and women's toilets in the office building and teaching building where the teachers are located are located on both sides respectively, so as not to interfere with each other. The men's and women's toilets in the office building are together, but there are no lights on and the corridor is very dark.
These boys and girls went to the bathroom together and then ran back quickly.
While the invigilator was going to the restroom, the test papers had already been distributed. Everyone returned to their seats and could take the exam directly. Some students who did not leave their seats had already taken the time to start writing.
When others saw this, they also felt a sense of urgency that others had more time than they did, and they also hurriedly lowered their heads to take the exam.
"How was the exam this time?" Teacher Ji asked the invigilator with a smile, "Has anyone finished writing?"
The two young teachers are not married yet and live in a single apartment prepared for them by the school.
The single apartment is not big, with one bedroom and one living room. The bedroom is inside and there is a small living room outside. There is a desk, a chair, and a row of bookshelves on the wall, which are full of books.
The invigilator lived next door to him and held the test paper in his hand.
While he was invigilating their chemistry exam, he was already grading math competition papers. Because the questions were difficult and they only had 45 minutes, they simply could not finish them, so he graded them very quickly.
The invigilator said, "How can you finish so many questions in such a short time? Even for us, it was not easy to finish a test paper in such a short time."
Teacher Ji smiled and said, "It's not that difficult. This paper is not difficult. It's just to test what they have learned during this period." He smiled and said, "It's probably only a little harder for Jiang Ning. She joined our class later and didn't learn the previous ones. For this exam, I also added some of the previous ones. Otherwise, you will forget the previous ones after learning the later ones."
His words were mild, but what he said was not mild at all.
The invigilator handed the remaining papers to Teacher Ji, as well as the Chemistry papers that had not yet been graded: "It's not finished yet, you can grade the rest yourself. I took a quick look and found that none of them were finished."
Teacher Ji took it and said with a smile, "Thank you."
"Why are you being polite? Help me invigilate the exam next time."
It is very common for them to supervise each other's exams.
Teacher Ji took the test papers back to mark, and Teacher Wang was still in a good mood.
When he saw Jiang Ning in class, he asked with a smile: "How is the competition class going? Are you used to the pace of the competition class? It doesn't matter if you can't adapt. Just focus on your class's grades when the time comes."
In Teacher Wang’s opinion, what does competition classes have to do with students in their parallel classes? Those are the tasks of the experimental class and the spearhead class. They are parallel classes, so they just need to concentrate on studying.
What kind of competition is this?
There are no great results in the competitions every year, which just wastes students' studies.
Jiang Ning smiled and nodded to Teacher Wang.
Teacher Wang really likes students like Jiang Ning. She has the demeanor of a great general and is very steady. Sometimes she doesn't even look like a 15 or 16-year-old student. She looks like...
Teacher Wang looked at Jiang Ning happily again before starting the class.
The classmates in the class didn’t know Jiang Ning’s grade ranking, but they could see Jiang Ning’s class ranking.
After each monthly exam, the teacher would make a table of the class rankings and post it on the wall next to the blackboard, so that students would have a clear understanding of whether their grades were declining or improving each time.
In this month's exam ranking, Jiang Ning was several dozen points higher than the second place in their class.
Unexpectedly, He Xiaofang, whose performance had clearly improved in the last midterm exam, did poorly in math again this time and was criticized by the math teacher.
Other students may not remember the math teacher so clearly, but they remember He Xiaofang very clearly.
This made He Xiaofang very depressed. When she went to the cafeteria to eat, she was listless and kept her head down, following behind Xu Xiuli and Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning was not a fool, so how could she not notice her depression? She prepared the dishes and put them on the table, and asked He Xiaofang and Xu Xiuli to help her. "I'm going to take a meal to my grandfather, and I'll be back soon."
After saying that, she went to the water room, got some hot water, and brought it to Grandpa Jiang along with the rice bowl.
Grandpa Jiang’s shop was right at the school gate, very close. Jiang Ning ran back and forth and came back in less than ten minutes. He came back with the rice bowl and continued eating.
After eating braised pork for such a long time, Jiang Ning did not cook the meat today, but replaced it with fish fillets.
The fish pieces are made from big silver carp cut into pieces, coated with flour and fried. They cost 5 taels each and are very fragrant.
Many students who are unwilling to spend eight taels of meal tickets on braised pork will choose five taels of meal tickets and get a piece of fish.
But the taste of fish is not as fragrant as that of meat.
The three of them ate in silence until they finished. When they went to wash the rice bowl together, Jiang Ning and He Xiaofang stood together and said to her, "If you have any questions about the exam, you can ask me."
He Xiaofang's tears fell into the sink.
She felt so stupid.
For the same question, Jiang Ning and Xu Xiuli only needed to explain it once. Even if she understood it at the time, she would not be able to answer it again during the exam if the teacher changed the way of asking questions.
And the more you learn, the harder it becomes.
She cried and asked Jiang Ning: "My grades in junior high school were obviously good, why can't I keep up in high school? Is it true that girls are not as good as boys in high school? Am I really no longer good enough in high school?"
Jiang Ning gave her a handkerchief, washed it under running water, and handed it to He Xiaofang.
He Xiaofang wiped her tears, lowered her head and followed Jiang Ning upstairs.
She felt a little embarrassed. She was obviously older than Jiang Ning, but when it came to Jiang Ning, she relied on Jiang Ning more. She knew that Jiang Ning was more like a sister in tolerating and encouraging her.
But apart from asking Jiang Ning for help, she didn't know who else to talk to.
Jiang Ning just listened to her quietly.
After she finished speaking, he pointed at himself and Xu Xiuli and asked her, "Look at the two of us, which one is not as good as the boys in high school? I scored 59 points higher than the class monitor in this exam."
The class monitor is a tall and strong male student, who ranked second in the total score of their class.
He Xiaofang thought of the gap between Jiang Ning and the second place in the class, and burst out laughing again, nodding vigorously with a smile.
"That's right. Look at Xiu Li again. Most of the class is made up of boys. How many of them have passed her in the exam?"
Xu Xiuli always ranks among the top five in the class in every exam and her grades are very stable. What's more, she is not biased towards any subject. Whether it is mathematics, physics, chemistry, Chinese, English, politics or history, her grades are very average.
He Xiaofang said a little embarrassedly: "People always told me that girls are no good in high school, and I really thought that girls are no good in high school. In addition, I really had a hard time studying in high school, and the pressure was so great."
"Didn't you make great progress last time? This shows that you are capable of learning, but you may not have found the right method." Jiang Ning's voice was very gentle, gentle and firm, making people want to convince her.
He Xiaofang lowered her head. She knew very well that the reason she made great progress in the last math test was because Jiang Ning had been helping her and explaining the questions to her.
Sometimes the teacher spoke too fast and she couldn't understand. Jiang Ning would break it down and explain it to her, and then she would understand.
But she can't always ask Jiang Ning to explain the questions to her.
Jiang Ning is now in a competition class and has to help out in the store on weekends. I am so busy that I don’t have time to teach her. She was also embarrassed to keep disturbing Jiang Ning.
She wants to drop out of school.
"Ningning." She lowered her head and held Jiang Ning's hand: "Thank you for staying with me for some time. I..."
Her eyes were red. "I had just graduated from junior high school when someone came to my house to propose marriage. My dad wanted to arrange a marriage for me, but my second sister disagreed and insisted that I go to school. I was admitted to No. 1 Middle School, and she said she would sell everything she had to let me go there." He Xiaofang fell into self-doubt: "But I am really tired of studying. I don't know if I can get into university. If I can't, I will be sorry for the tuition paid by my second sister..."
Other students went home on Saturdays and Sundays, but she didn't dare to go home.
On the one hand, the room of the three sisters is now occupied by her eldest sister and her little nephew. On the other hand, she is afraid that if she goes back, her father will ask her to get engaged to that guy. What if that guy doesn't let her go to school?
Every day she was worried and anxious, fearing that she would not be able to get into university and feel sorry for her second sister's efforts for her. She was also afraid that if she went home, she would be like her eldest sister, marrying and having children early, and then being driven back by her in-laws and being criticized by others.
She wanted to drop out of school, but she didn't dare to.
Jiang Ning waited quietly for her to finish. In fact, He Xiaofang's situation was very common in rural areas. She had seen too many 'He Xiaofangs' during her working years. It was not until after the millennium, when Jiang Ning started working, that she met a girl whose family had already engaged her before she graduated from junior high school and planned to get her married as soon as she graduated.
The little girl was also ignorant. Everyone around her said that the man would treat her well, so she listened shyly to the arrangements made by her family and prepared to get married quietly.
She said: "In the second year of high school, you can choose between arts and science. You can choose the arts that you are good at, so that you can have more time and energy to improve your grades in math and English."
They are not worried about English as Mr. Wang, their head teacher, is quite good at teaching English. After most of the semester, He Xiaofang, who used to be just a mute learner of English, now dares to speak. Even though she still stutters and has a heavy accent, the fact that she can speak and dares to speak is a great improvement.
Besides, they are from this place, so who says that English doesn’t have a local accent?
Jiang Ning's accent in her previous life was even heavier than theirs. After all, the Shuibu Town dialect was the most local dialect among all the local dialects, and was considered so rustic by the local people in Wucheng.
"If you are worried about your grades and whether you can get into university, you can take a look at the Teachers College in our city. After the division into arts and science, with your grades, you can still get into the Teachers College. After graduation, it would be best if you are guaranteed a job. If not, you can work hard to get a regular job, which will also be considered as escaping from your original circle of life." Her voice was gentle and calm, just like every girl she had encouraged at work over the years: "Otherwise, do you want to go back to your original world and repeat the lives of so many girls that your parents and you have seen since childhood?"
He Xiaofang thought of the girls in her village who got married and had children at the age of 17 or 18, and who visited neighbors at a very young age with their babies in their arms. She shuddered and shook her head, saying, "I don't want it."
"Yes, if you don't want it, then try hard in another direction, keep going and don't look back!" She held He Xiaofang's hand.
The confusion and hesitation in He Xiaofang's heart dissipated unconsciously, and she smiled and said, "Ningning, thank you."
She didn't know why she told Jiang Ning what she was thinking. Perhaps her animal-like intuition told her that Jiang Ning would be willing to listen.
After reviewing for most of the semester, Jiang Ning is now much more comfortable with studying math, physics and chemistry.
During the lunch break, she took the opportunity to explain the topic to He Xiaofang. Xu Xiuli saw it and came over to listen.
Although she had good grades in all subjects, she was still far behind Jiang Ning, who was nearly 60 points higher than the second place in the class. Although she understood a lot of what Jiang Ning explained to He Xiaofang, after listening to Jiang Ning again, she felt as if her thoughts were suddenly opened up.
While they were explaining the problem, everyone in the dormitory who was taking a lunch break, chatting, or reading, gathered around and listened to Jiang Ning's soothing and gentle voice. She explained the problem in great detail, step by step, and asked He Xiaofang softly from time to time: "Do you understand?"
If any of them have taken the class taught by Teacher Xia from No. 1 Middle School, they would find that Jiang Ning and Teacher Xia are very similar in the way they teach in class. Even their facial expressions and the tone of voice when they ask "Do you understand?" are very similar.
At that time, Teacher Xia pulled her out of the dark quagmire little by little, gently and firmly.
No one spoke in the dormitory. Only occasionally when Jiang Ning asked "Do you understand?", those who didn't understand would ask about what they didn't understand, and Jiang Ning would continue to explain to them until they understood.
In the staff apartment, Teacher Ji got his meal, but instead of eating in the cafeteria, he went back to his own single dormitory, where his girlfriend also came.
He and his girlfriend were college classmates and they had a very good relationship. When they graduated, his girlfriend was assigned to be a teacher in Wuzhong, and he followed his girlfriend to Wucheng. It happened that No. 1 Middle School was looking for a teacher for the competition class, so his schoolmate recommended him to the principal of No. 1 Middle School, and that's how he came to No. 1 Middle School.
Although he and his girlfriend do not teach in the same school, they live next door to each other and are close to each other. His girlfriend sometimes comes to his dormitory and eats with him.
The dishes cooked by the chef of No. 1 Middle School are more delicious.
When he came back from getting food, his girlfriend was sitting at his desk, helping him mark his papers.
He opened the folding table and said with a smile: "Leave it alone, I'll finish reviewing it in a moment."
His girlfriend taught physics at Wuzhong and also taught the physics competition class for the first grade of high school. Although she was a physics teacher, she was also good at math and chemistry. After marking a few test papers, she looked up and smiled and teased, "Ah Wei, the results of your competition class at No. 1 Middle School are pretty good?"
Ji Jianwei smiled modestly: "It's just so-so." He took a chair and put it in front of the table, "Come and eat."
Upon hearing this, his girlfriend smiled and put down the test paper she had just graded.
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