Chapter 87 Goals planned in advance
From this point of view, it is good for Qiao Yu to leave first.
Lan Jie was really afraid. Qiao Yu was also in the car. The expressions on everyone's faces when they heard that this year's questions were difficult would hit the little remaining confidence of these children.
After all, he was a guy who was confident that he could get perfect scores after coming out.
Except for Zhang Luo, everyone in the car has no chance at all. Everyone else can participate again next year, and it’s not yet time to completely lose confidence.
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The driver started the car.
The atmosphere in the car was a bit dull, and several people did not even discuss this year's test questions.
This makes Lan Jie feel a little worried. Even if Zhang Luo has no chance to participate in the competition in the future, he will still have to study hard for a year when he goes back. After all, there is still a more important exam waiting for him, the college entrance examination. It is not a good thing to completely lose confidence at this time.
While I was thinking about how to encourage everyone, the phone rang.
Lan Jie glanced at it and saw that it was from Principal Zhang.
When the call came at this time, of course Lan Jie knew what he wanted to ask. After the call was answered, the first sentence he said was: "Everyone is out, right? How did you do in the exam this time?"
This is the first time that Zhang Tiejun is so concerned about the school's Olympiad results.
The league is held every year on the second Sunday in September, and the next day is Monday. The principal could have waited until the working day to find out more about the situation. Anyway, generally speaking, he didn't have any special surprises to bring to the principal.
In fact, Tieyi Middle School didn’t have much hope in setting up competition classes. That is to say, everyone else has it, so we can’t live without it. Even if the quality of students is not as good as other schools, we still have to give interested students a chance.
It really cannot be said that Tieyi Middle School has no pursuit. Just go to the Xingnan Mathematical Society and download a list of the first and second prizes of the Mathematical Olympiad competition announced by the Xingnan Division in previous years and you will understand.
At first glance, in the school column, almost all of them are the names of the four famous schools in Star City.
Occasionally, there are several key middle schools in the counties and cities below Xingnan.
Even one of the weaker middle schools among the four prestigious schools rarely appears on the list.
The number of schools starting to receive third prizes has just begun to increase. But many are still key middle schools in the counties and cities below, and only one or two ordinary colleges and universities in star cities can be seen occasionally interspersed among them.
I can only say that mathematics requires too much talent.
Those with mathematical talents are basically accepted by prestigious schools in advance, and it is difficult for them to live outside.
So there is no doubt that although Principal Zhang asked on the phone, "How are your grades?" In fact, the only one who cared was Qiao Yu.
So Lan Jie took a look at the situation in the car and did not directly answer Principal Zhang's words. Instead, he replied: "We are in the car. Let me chat on WeChat."
"Oh, I understand."
After saying that, the other person hung up the phone, and Lan Jie opened WeChat and quickly edited a message.
“Other candidates this year reported that the test questions in the first test were more difficult, and everyone was not in a good mood. However, Qiao Yu thought the questions were very simple, and there would be no problem in entering the national competition.”
“Oh, okay. By the way, I remember that the competition list is usually announced in mid-to-late October. Right?"
"Yes, but sometimes it will be postponed until early November, but it will definitely be announced before the winter camp starts."
"Do you think it is necessary now. Just prepare a separate study room for Qiao Yu?”
"Okay, there is no point in him continuing to attend class. I'm afraid he will slack off if he stays at home every day. It is a good idea to prepare a separate study room. In addition, it is best to have a computer in the study room and connect to the Internet. He is doing this now Many things require the cooperation of a computer."
"I understand, you are busy."
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Putting down the phone, Lan Jie clapped his hands and said. : "Okay, everyone cheer up. ! The questions in the first test this time are the same for candidates across the province. Maybe the cutoff for provincial three will be lower than in previous years. Don’t be discouraged.
I have always told you that when studying mathematics, don’t just think about how many points you will get in the competition. The most important thing is to stimulate your interest in mathematics. When you get to college, you will find that the mathematics you study in high school is the same as what you need to study in college. Mathematics is not the same thing at all.
At that time, what will keep you going is not how many problems you can solve, but your interest that will not be easily wiped out.
Do you understand? ”
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On another bus that was traveling on the opposite route to Tieyi Middle School, Li Xiaoyun, the Olympiad coach from the High School Affiliated to Normal University, was sitting in the last row and was also following. Other students were discussing the topic of this Olympiad.
There was no way. There were too many students from the attached middle school to participate in the Mathematical Olympiad. For this reason, the school specially chartered a bus with a capacity of 56 people to accommodate everyone. Next.
The large number of people also makes it impossible for the head coach who leads the team to get even the rain and dew.
At this time, the people crowded around Li Xiaoyun were the strongest children in the usual competition class. As for other children, there are other leading teachers in charge.
Of course, unlike Tieyi Middle School, the focus of discussion among the top students in the attached middle school was still on the second test.
After all, even if you can get full marks on the first try, it will only be at the level of three provinces at most. If you want to securely enter the national competition, you have to be at least one of the top 30 in the province to be safe. After all, it still depends on how you answer the questions in the second test.
In particular, Xingnan is a province that is major in first-class mathematics competitions. The advantage is that the National Mathematical Society allocates more national competition places to Xingnan Province every year, but it also means that the competition among various schools is more intense. Just like the college entrance examination, it may be a small difference of a few points that determines whether you can enter the provincial team and participate in the national competition.
For this year’s candidates in Xingnan Province, there is an even more cruel situation.
Since the year before last, the level of mathematics competitions in Xingnan Province has actually shown an overall downward trend. In particular, the proportion of people selected for the national mathematics training team has dropped significantly. So will the Chinese Mathematical Society still be there this year? As in previous years, there is a question mark over the number of places allocated to Xingnan Province.
There is nothing we can do about this.
Firstly, the strong foundation plan replaced independent enrollment, making the competition less attractive to Xingnan candidates.
After all, top universities such as Huaqing and Yanbei, as well as second-tier universities such as Shuangdan, Yuda, and Linjiao, do not have many enrollment quotas in Xingnan Province every year.
Secondly, the income level of Xingnan Province cannot retain very high-quality coaches. The economically developed coastal areas of China are really willing to spend a lot of money to poach nationally renowned senior international gold medal coaches from all over the country.
Just like Li Xiaoyun of the Affiliated High School, he was originally just a teacher in the competition class, but eight coaches of the Affiliated High School have been poached over the years, so he stepped up.
“Well, this question mainly tests the modular sum operation of negative numbers. It is a very classic maximum value problem. When you do it, in addition to using the recursion method, it is best to use the combination of numbers and shapes. , understand the position of complex numbers on the complex plane, Offset the projections on the real axis and the imaginary axis, and the result will come out. Well, the answer 0 should be correct..."
There was not much time in the car, and Li Xiaoyun had just seen the test questions, and some of them were still there. If you want to think about it, you can only give a rough idea at most.
As we were almost arriving at school, everyone began to discuss the difficulty of this competition. Except for Coach Li, everyone felt that the test questions in this year’s competition would be higher than those in previous years. Someone said dullly: "By the way, I met Qiao Yu from Tieyi Middle School today. He said that this year’s questions are very simple and there is no problem in getting full marks.”
One sentence made the originally lively discussion atmosphere suddenly cool down.
Even Coach Li didn't know what to say for a moment. He stared at the classmate who was speaking and asked, "Xiao Xiaozhuo, did that Qiao Yu really say that?"
"Yes. Ah, he also said that he expected to be tied for first place because the question was too simple and he was not sure if anyone else could get full marks." Xiao Xiaozhuo emphasized.
"Ahem, okay, although there are very few players who can get full marks in the league, it is not unheard of. It is normal for people like them to find the questions simple. Don't let these talents interfere with everyone's confidence. No matter how strong Qiao Yu is, he is only one person. The number of participating countries in Xingnan Province is at least limited. There are more than 30, so don’t think too much.
Many of you will definitely have the opportunity to participate in the national competition. You have to train hard when you go back. The results in the finals don’t mean anything. Your grades will determine whether you can join the national training team," Li Xiaoyun encouraged.
It's not good to meet anyone, it's that weird kid.
The outside world may not know it yet, but at least the coaches in Star City Mathematical Olympiad have spread the word that Qiao Yu's performance in the finals of Little Libaba was indeed dominant. Although the mathematics competition organized by Little Libaba is completely different from the Olympiad, the things tested are also completely different.
But if you are talented in mathematics, you will know everything about many things.
I just couldn't help but murmur in my heart that it was really a waste of resources for such a student to be snatched away by Tie Yizhong.
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While others were still talking about Qiao Yu, he was already full.
It can only be said that Changjun is indeed one of the most prestigious schools in China. Even the small restaurant in front of the school that makes fried rice is more delicious than the small restaurant in front of Tieyi Middle School, and it can be eaten by two people. The full meal only cost 18 yuan.
This probably means that the canteens of Huaqing and Yanbei universities are more delicious and cheaper than the canteens of ordinary universities. Maybe outstanding people from all walks of life will unconsciously gather next to famous schools?
After eating and drinking, Qiao Yu began to think wildly. After all, he wouldn't need to think about things later.
It was nothing more than being dragged around the pedestrian street by Xia Keke.
In Qiao Yu's opinion, Ke Ke has been like this since he was a child. He likes shopping, but he doesn't necessarily have to buy things. He just looks around and will be very satisfied and happy.
"Do you want to drink milk tea?"
"If you don't drink it, you will gain weight."
"Then why did you drag me here?"
"Look at the two people lining up there, the one wearing a white top and the one wearing a green skirt."
"What's wrong?"
"They are my senior and senior sister at Changjun. They are both sophomores in high school. They must be in love." Xia Keke said mysteriously.
Qiao Yu glanced again, and then asked in shock: "Xia Keke, did you come to Changjun to study, or are you a gossip? You have only been here for a week, and you already know everything about someone's relationship? Are you still a sophomore in high school? Isn’t this a grade change?”
Xia Keke turned around and glared at Qiao Yu angrily. He glanced at it and said: "What do you know? I signed up for the music club and participated in the club activity for the first time the day before yesterday. The senior and the senior sister are both seniors in our club. I also just suddenly saw them dating together, okay? .""Oh..."
Qiao Yu nodded, accepted the explanation, and then naturally pulled Xia Keke away, still muttering: "So, you can't have contact with such seniors and sisters. High school is a time for studying. Time is What should I do if my grades are all used for dating?
You wait two years and wait until one of your seniors has passed the exam in Nanshui Province and the other has passed the exam in Beijiang Province. You will regret it after six or seven hours.”
“Can’t you hope for someone else’s good? Maybe someone else is Huaqing or Yanbei?”
"This is the most vicious curse of yours. If this happens, then one of your seniors will have his life ruined."
"..."
In this way, the two of them wandered on the street and bickered until they had digested their lunch. Qiao Yu took Xia Keke to McDonald's to eat two burgers, and then sent Xia Keke back to school before taking a taxi. go home.
As soon as he walked in, Qiao Xi asked, "How is Keke adapting to high school?"
While walking around with Xia Keke in the afternoon, he had already called Qiao Xi to report. situation.
“No, as a qualified mother, on this day, you shouldn’t first ask me how I did in the exam?”
Qiao Xi gave Qiao Yu a strange look and asked. Said: "Why should I give you the opportunity to bluster in front of me?"
It seemed to make sense, Qiao Yu could only answer dully: "What's wrong with Keke? The fried rice outside the school is cheaper and more delicious than the one downstairs."
"Oh, then That's fine. Don't be too discouraged, you just chose the wrong path. In fact, Tie Yizhong is not bad, at least it's close to home," Qiao Xi said lazily.
"I'm discouraged? Have you figured out the situation? Changjun's principal wants to cry and beg me to come to school, but I'm just too lazy to go." Qiao Yu said with his eyes widened.
"Haha... Just because you are good at both birth and education, the principal's eyes are swollen from crying, right?" Qiao Xi said disdainfully.
“Forget it, I won’t tell you.” Qiao Yu was too lazy to care about Qiao Xi, who had not found a good TV to watch and only focused on beating him. He returned to his room and turned on the computer.
There's no point in arguing with women. He's almost finished studying the paper recently, and Qiao Yu feels that he has enough ability to complete his first paper independently.
The title is ready-made "SolutionMethodsforDiophantineEquationsBasedonSpecialStructures".
The abstract and keywords are almost ready.
The next step is to introduce his problem-solving method in a more universal way.
Qiao Yu felt that it was not too difficult.
But when he started to write, Qiao Yu realized that he seemed to think too simply.
For example, the terminology of the paper is more particular. Qiao Yu pointed it out and compared it with other papers, but he always felt that something was wrong.
Just like this, he kept deleting, deleting, and revising. He stayed up until ten o'clock in the evening, and Qiao Yu only produced a summary and introduction.
However, after reading it through, Qiao Yu still felt that it was perfect.
The only problem now seems to be that going to school every day is such a waste of time.
He plans to finish writing his first paper before going to the national competition. After all, according to Lao Xue, the competition king has nothing to do with serious academia, and its recognition is almost non-existent.
So he can't have any preferential treatment.
Even if Lao Xue is willing to sign as the corresponding author, the most he can do is talk to the editors of a few domestic journals and decide to publish in the leading foreign journals. Lao Xue's name is actually not easy to use. Therefore, Qiao Yu needs to be prepared that the review time may be relatively long.
Three or five months is the most basic, and half a year is not impossible.
This is not even targeting the recognized top one percent journals, such as the four well-known top mathematics journals.
It is normal for newcomers to deal with editors and reviewers repeatedly, review, revise, re-review, re-revise...it takes one, two or even several years.
Of course these are not the most exaggerated.
If you follow what Lao Xue said, sometimes reviewers will deliberately block the manuscripts of newcomers.
The review opinions given have various hints and even some can be said to be explicit. The reviewer's paper must be added to the cited documents of the paper in order to pass the review.
In order to minimize this risk and prevent him from having to discuss mentor issues with Huaqing and Yanbei, the paper has not yet been published, so Qiao Yu felt that he had to plan ahead.
What Lao Xue means is that it will be OK if he can complete the thesis before New Year's Day next year.
However, Qiao Yu felt that if he didn't have to go to class, he might be able to complete the first draft in early October. In this way, if the manuscript is handed over to Lao Xue for review and correction, maybe it will be submitted in November, and there will be much more time for error.
Especially if he can finish the paper in early October, he can make full use of the seven-day National Day holiday to discuss writing techniques for mathematical papers with Lao Xue. Qiao Yu believes that writing a complete paper is equivalent to having practical experience, and he can have targeted discussions with Lao Xue, and naturally gain greater gains.
As a person who believes that knowledge should be paid for, someone is willing to provide him with completely free and high-quality learning resources, so he must take advantage of it.
Going to school as usual the next day, Qiao Yu was thinking about when to go to Principal Zhang and talk about allowing him to go home and study on his own. Just after morning reading, his head teacher, Teacher Tang, came to him first.
"Qiao Yu, Principal Zhang just called and asked you to go to the principal's office."
"Oh, thank you, Teacher Tang."
"Well, hurry up and go."
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“Report, Principal Zhang.”
"Hey, Qiao Yu, since when have you been so polite? Come in quickly. I haven't heard anyone shout a report for a long time. You don't have to shout when you come here from now on."
Seeing Qiao Yu walk into the office, Zhang Tiejun smiled and joked, subconsciously thinking of his time as a teacher in Xingcheng No. 6 Middle School.
Children at that time were just like Qiao Yu now. When looking for a teacher, they would honestly shout a report in front of the office door.
This took Zhang Tiejun's evaluation of some teachers in the junior high school to a new level.
Look, although Qiao Yu has been in the worst class in the third grade of junior high school for more than a year, he still has the courtesy he should have. This shows that teachers have a very thorough understanding of the nature of education.
After all, Zhang Tiejun has always believed that there can be many reasons for poor teaching performance, and he can continue to learn and improve. But if a teacher cannot teach well, there is really no need for such a teacher to work on the front line of teaching.
"Okay, Principal Zhang, what do you want from me? About yesterday's Olympiad?"
"Well, Teacher Lan already reported to me about your Olympiad yesterday. "You're very confident, Teacher Lan said, you think you're sure to win the first place," Zhang Tiejun said with a smile.
"This is indeed true. If I can't get the first place, it will be unless the paper is corrected wrongly." Qiao Yu emphasized seriously.
It was not because he wanted to show off his superiority in front of the principal, but mainly because he had to fight for the perks of being able to study at home.
After all, the future has been planned, and he can work more efficiently at home.
"Okay, Teacher Lan believes in you, and I have nothing to disbelieve in. I asked you to come because of your actual situation. There is no point in continuing to study in the class. So I fulfilled my previous promise, There is a special study room for you in the school. Let me take you to see it."
"Oh, okay." This treatment really surprised Qiao Yu. Holding it back in his stomach, he followed Zhang Tiejun out of the office.
What he didn't expect was that the study room prepared for him by the school was in this administrative building.
It is a room of 14 or 5 square meters on the third floor. It has obviously been cleaned recently and the windows are bright and clean. There was a table and stools inside, and a laptop on the table.
If anyone else comes, it's standing room only.
No, there is a water dispenser next to the window on the other side of the room, with a bucket full of water on it.
"Is it okay here? This computer is the highest-configuration computer uniformly equipped by the school, and the network has been configured for you. I asked Teacher Lan to check it. Anyway, it is definitely enough for writing papers. Normally when you come to school, just study by yourself here, if you want to exercise Just go to the playground downstairs to exercise.
Oh, by the way, there is a notebook in the drawer with Director Fan’s phone number written on it. If the network is not good or the water is out, you can just call that number. Someone will take care of it.”
Qiao Yu was naturally satisfied.
The school is much quieter than the family area, and generally no one will disturb you. The weather is quite hot in September, so you can even save money on air-conditioning electricity bills.
The environment was so good that Qiao Yu felt a little embarrassed.
"Thank you, Principal Zhang, but in fact, I study at home the same way."
"Haha, don't think about it. When you come to school every day, at least there is a check-in record at the school gate. If you are at home , Teacher Lan is afraid that you can't help but run to the Internet cafe every day!" After saying that, Zhang Tiejun raised his hand habitually and patted Qiao Yu on the shoulder.
Okay, now Qiao Yu doesn't feel ashamed at all.
He didn't know why Principal Zhang liked to pat people on the shoulder so much. Anyway, whenever he met the principal recently, he would always find an opportunity to pat him. As we all know, the age of fifteen is when a boy grows. Being patted on the shoulder for a long time may affect his future height.
Forget it, this temporary office will be regarded as compensation from the school, and he will not care about Lao Zhang next to him. Anyway, he mainly relies on his brains, so it doesn't matter if he is one or two centimeters shorter.
"I can study here today, right?"
"Yes, you will go back to the classroom later to move your personal belongings, and you can study here by yourself from now on."
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