Although her act of bravery and winning the provincial competition happened last semester, it did not prevent all the students in the school from having a deep impression of the name Shen Qingqing.
Before long, all the students from grades one to four who were taking the exam on the first floor of the teaching building knew that Shen Qingqing, a first-grader, was skipping a grade to take the final exam and would be in third grade next semester!
In a small village like this, if someone can win an award in a provincial competition, people might say that the person is smart and good at studying. But if someone skips a grade, people will only have one word in mind: genius.
For an average smart person who does well in school, there might be jealousy, but when that person reaches the level that can be called a genius, all that remains is admiration.
Throughout the entire math exam, Shen Qingqing was forced to constantly receive stares from all directions below the podium.
Compared to writing a lot of words and spending a lot of time on a Chinese exam, a math exam only requires writing a few numbers to complete.
After quickly finishing her math exam under the watchful eyes of the examiners, Shen Qingqing once again begged the proctor to let her hand in her paper and leave early.
Because of the competition last semester, all the teachers in the office already knew Shen Qingqing, so even if this proctor had never met Shen Qingqing, he had already heard about her achievements from other teachers.
Teachers always give special treatment to students who do well in their studies. This proctor didn't hesitate at all and waved his hand to let Shen Qingqing leave.
The students who watched Shen Qingqing leave the examination room in less than fifteen minutes were all shocked as they stared at her receding figure.
The proctor banged on the podium: "What are you looking at? Hurry up and write! If you can write as fast and accurately as others, you can leave first."
Hearing this, the students quickly looked away and continued to work hard.
However, after leaving the classroom, Shen Qingqing did not go home. Instead, she went up the stairs next to the first-grade classroom to the second floor and went to the teachers' office.
All grades were taking their final exams, and there weren't many teachers left in the office. Chen Zesong was in charge of the Chinese exams, but it was currently the math exam time, so he happened to be in the office.
Shen Qingqing peeked inside and carefully knocked on the door. Immediately, a teacher looked up at her.
When Chen Zesong saw that it was Shen Qingqing, he put down his pen, which he was grading, and got up to walk towards her. "Qingqing? Weren't you taking an exam?"
Shen Qingqing smiled and said, "I've finished my exam."
"Teacher, may I ask if I can do the third-grade test paper?"
Chen Zesong looked at her with considerable surprise: "You want to skip a grade and go to fourth grade?"
It was no secret among the teachers that Shen Qingqing was learning English on her own.
Shen Qingqing chuckled twice and admitted, "Yes, I think the second-grade test is easy, and the third-grade test should be easy too."
Chen Zesong didn't expect Shen Qingqing to take such a big step, skipping two levels.
"Is that okay? I'll do the math test first. If I have to write an essay in Chinese, I might not have enough time. I'll take the Chinese and English tests together this afternoon." Shen Qingqing looked at him expectantly.
The teacher and student didn't hide their conversation from the other teachers in the office. The third-grade homeroom teacher, who was also a Chinese teacher, put down her red pen when she heard Shen Qingqing say this, leaned back, and said to Shen Qingqing and her student, "Zesong, let her try if she wants to. We have extra test papers anyway."
Even the third-grade homeroom teacher said that, and Shen Qingqing was still staring at him expectantly, so what else could Chen Zesong say?
"Go find a place to sit first, I'll go get you a math test paper from the third grade."
"Okay," Shen Qingqing replied obediently.
Then I was led by the third-grade homeroom teacher to sit at the coffee table.
The teachers' desks were covered with materials, test papers, and reference books. Since Shen Qingqing wanted to take the exam, how could they let her sit on the teachers' desks?
After Chen Zesong explained his reason for taking the test paper to the third-grade math teacher, the teacher asked him to switch classes.
He took a new final exam paper and went upstairs.
Upon entering the office, I saw Shen Qingqing sitting next to the coffee table, fiddling with her pencil case.
"Qingqing, I heard you want to skip to fourth grade?" The third-grade math teacher walked up to Shen Qingqing with a test paper and handed it to her.
Shen Qingqing looked up, took the test paper, and said "Hello, teacher" before answering the third-grade math teacher's question: "I just wanted to try it out. I'll only know if I can succeed if I try."
She didn't give a definitive answer, even though she knew she would definitely succeed.
"Okay, then you do it. I'll sit here and watch you do it." The third-grade math teacher looked at Shen Qingqing with great curiosity and sat down in the chair opposite her.
Shen Qingqing nodded and said "okay," not paying attention to the gaze of her third-grade math teacher. Although her elementary school memories were distant, in Shen Qingqing's heart, all ten teachers from first to sixth grade were people she was very close to. She only felt uncomfortable with the gazes of strangers, not those she was close to.
She took a ballpoint pen out of her pencil case and started working on the problems.
In first and second grade, students write with pencils, but in third grade, they are required to use ballpoint pens or gel pens.
The third-grade math teacher raised an eyebrow when she saw that she had done it without any prompting.
The third-grade math exam lasted one and a half hours. From the time Shen Qingqing finished the second-grade test to the time she started writing the third-grade test, there was still a little over an hour left.
Thanks to the workbooks Shen Qingqing has been working through this semester, she is now able to skillfully output the corresponding solutions to these problems as if they were flowing smoothly.
By practicing a lot of questions, you'll be able to extract the framework structure of the corresponding knowledge points and know which answer to use for which type of question.
Mathematics is the most honest subject in the world; if you know it, you know it; if you don't, you don't. There are no ambiguous answers.
In less than fifteen minutes, Shen Qingqing finished the third-grade final math exam.
As she put down her pen, her third-grade math teacher, sitting opposite her, exclaimed in surprise, "You're done?"
Shen Qingqing nodded naturally: "Yes, it's all done."
The third-grade math teacher simply snatched her test paper, turned around, pulled a red pen from the pen holder on the desk behind her, and began grading the paper on the spot.
The test paper was set by the city, but he had done it in advance. He knew the answer to every question by heart and could tell right from wrong at a glance.
The grading was completed in less than three minutes, and the paper received a perfect score!
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