The Chinese exam had a considerable number of questions. Chu Yu did the earlier questions flawlessly, but she hesitated several times before putting pen to paper for the essay.
The biggest fear in college entrance exam essays is not understanding the topic clearly and writing off-topic. If the essay goes off-topic, the Chinese score will not be high. Chu Yu was quite cautious. In this cautiousness, she wrote a bit too heavily. After finishing the Chinese essay, her wrist was a little sore.
I breathed a sigh of relief after checking it again to make sure there was nothing I regretted.
Chinese and English were Chu Yu's forte, so she had nothing to worry about and did them very well, until the next morning when she was faced with the legendary math test.
This exam paper is truly as difficult as it sounds. It lives up to its reputation as the most difficult math exam in history, and it has brought countless students to tears. It's said that after the math exam, the exam hall was almost half empty.
Chu Yu had been practicing math papers for a year and almost never encountered the same questions again. This was the level of difficulty required for a competition. Ordinary people wouldn't attempt such insanely difficult tests, and he didn't know what the teachers who created them were thinking.
Fortunately, Chu Yu was well-prepared. She prepared for the math exam according to the difficulty level of the competition. In addition, the test papers that Zhang Zhihe usually gave her were quite difficult. Chu Yu managed to do the questions fairly well and barely managed to do about 70-80% of them.
Use the remaining time to work on the more difficult questions.
She was so focused that the proctor paused for a moment as he passed by, not daring to stand there for too long, for fear of being reported for knowing the examinee. He only glanced at her a few times as he passed by.
The invigilator's surname is Zheng. He was transferred from another city. This is the case for all invigilators in the province this year. They are transferred between different cities and cannot have any immediate family members taking the college entrance examination.
Mr. Zheng had switched from being a math teacher to a physical education teacher due to poor health years ago, and hadn't taught a class for a long time. However, his math foundation was still there. When he opened the math test paper, he glanced at it, and with just that one glance, his heart sank.
It's too difficult! So difficult that even math teachers can't understand it.
After distributing the exam papers, Teacher Zheng glanced at the candidates with sympathy. Sure enough, some students handed in their papers within ten minutes of the start of the exam, and within half an hour, five students in the exam room were wiping away tears.
Most students buried themselves in the questions, their papers still blank. Apart from the five multiple-choice questions in the first section, they had no idea how to answer the other questions.
After ten years of hard study, this year's students are incredibly unlucky to get such an exam paper.
Teacher Zheng felt helpless and sympathetic, and was saddened for the students. Judging from the exam papers, most students scored below 40 points, and many scored 10 or 20 points. Could the average score of this year's math exam be 30 points?
Teacher Zheng was deeply suspicious.
Against this backdrop, the person rapidly writing on the exam paper naturally attracted everyone's attention.
The other students stared at her with envy, but the student remained oblivious, continuing to do her math with her head down.
"Report, I'd like a piece of draft paper." Chu Yu raised her hand.
Teacher Zheng quickly handed her the paper. The other candidates' draft papers were all blank, but Chu Yu had used up both sides. When Teacher Zheng approached her, he secretly stared at her. Goodness!
I've already solved the eighth question and am now working on the ninth.
Question 9 is an extra question and does not count towards the total score. In fact, it is not necessary to do it, but the girl is checking her calculations, which makes Teacher Zheng's heart flutter!
Goodness! I'll have more bragging material when I get back! While others get 20 or 30 points, there's this girl in the exam room who can even solve the bonus questions. She's also incredibly pretty and eye-catching. As long as she doesn't excel in any subject, she could at least be among the top students in the city.
Unfortunately, Teacher Zheng lives in another city and probably won't be able to find out about the girl's grades.
Chu Yu only completed half of the ninth major question. She wasn't stupid; for questions that didn't count for points, she would do them if she could, and there was no need to waste time on questions she couldn't.
After the math exam, students from Deyang surrounded Zhang Zhihe, even students from other classes followed him, asking which answer to which question on the test.
If one student said it was difficult, three or five could still manage, but when all the students came out with red eyes, Zhang Zhihe knew something was wrong.
He craned his neck to look around and saw Chu Yu emerge from inside with a blank expression. He jogged over and asked, "How's it going? Are you done?"
Chu Yu nodded, "I did it. This year's math exam was very difficult, and a lot of students cried. Teacher Zhang, you should be prepared."
Zhang Zhihe's heart skipped a beat. "That difficult?"
"I estimate that the average score will be around 30 points, which would be pretty good. Many of the questions are at the competition level. Before the exam, didn't Jiang Qilue's mother give the top students a set of practice papers? The difficulty of that paper is like comparing elementary school students to high school students compared to the college entrance exam. I think many students will give up on the math exam. We need to give the students some psychological support so that it won't affect the next exam."
Zhang Zhihe hadn't expected it to be this difficult. An average score of around 30? This was disastrous. But whether he did well or not didn't really matter. Math wouldn't differentiate scores much. The important thing was to adjust his mindset and move on to the next subject so he could make up for the lost points.
The other students were listening when Chu Yu spoke.
The students, who had been anxious, immediately quieted down.
"Chu Yu, is the average score really that low? I did the math, and I think I can only get around 30 points. I was even thinking of skipping the exam this afternoon and just retaking it."
"I'm not tall either, only around 30 or 40 points."
"I didn't finish a lot of the test either, and I cried so much that I soaked the test paper halfway through the exam."
"It's too difficult. I couldn't even understand the questions for questions eight and nine, let alone solve them. I feel like I wasted three years of math studies."
Chu Yu looked around at the students and gently comforted them:
"This math exam is enough to make any student faint. Don't feel bad about not doing well; everyone is in the same boat. The difficulty of the math exam is actually a good thing for us. It means that the math scores of students from top-performing cities are not much different from ours, which is especially beneficial for students with average or below-average grades. I'm sure many people will give up on the math exam or have a mental breakdown, affecting their next exam. This is an opportunity for us!"
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