Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 126 - 83 The National High School Mathematics Competition is Here_4

Chapter 126: Chapter 83 The National High School Mathematics Competition is Here_4

Qiao Yu froze for a moment, then suddenly became really annoyed!

See, this wasn’t something he asked for! It was clearly this little woman wanting to call him that herself, he was completely passive!

Too bad there’s no evidence!

If that girl doesn’t admit it, no one can testify for him!

He gloomily returned to his school team, and Ma Yufei’s expression towards him changed again.

With a tone full of envy: "God Qiao, is that your girlfriend?"

"Remove the word ’girl’! First rule of class discipline, no early romance! We’re just purely friends!" Qiao Yu seriously explained.

"Ah? Haha..."

"Alright, stop messing around, we’re about to line up for the exam, everyone focus! Qiao Yu, come over here, stand at the front." Unable to take it anymore, Lan Jie loudly intervened.

But after Qiao Yu stood next to him, Lan Jie still used a knowing tone to quietly say: "Qiao Yu."

"Hmm?"

"That girl Changjun is quite nice."

"Teacher Lan, let me explain..."

"No need to explain, listen to me first. Sigh..."

Lan Jie sighed, and with the deep tone of someone who’s been through it, said: "When you go to Yanbei Mathematics Institute or Yanbei Genius Class, or places like Huaqing Yao Class, you’ll realize that throughout the year, you hardly see any girls around you. If a class averages two, that’s already something to be thankful for. You hardly see female professors, so cherish it."

Qiao Yu stayed silent, that tone seemed to have a story behind it...

...

There’s not much to say about the exam.

During the first test, after the paper was handed down, Qiao Yu glanced through it, finding the questions were frighteningly simple.

Lan Jie had told them that the first test wouldn’t be too difficult, but Qiao Yu truly didn’t expect it to be this easy.

The only challenge was probably that there were no multiple-choice questions.

There were only eight fill-in-the-blanks questions, and three big problems.

Each fill-in-the-blank question was eight points, totaling 64 points, the first big problem was 16 points, and the next two were 20 points each, totaling 56 points, with a total score of 120, just like the mid-term.

It’s a test focused on details, nothing much to say.

Having recently lost points on details in life, Qiao Yu slowed down, writing out every detail clearly for each question, yet still only took an hour to finish the paper.

Truly, Qiao Yu felt doing this paper was like tackling qualification questions on the Algebra Number Theory small house forum, not an issue of difficulty, but purely a matter of weaving problem-solving routines and little tricks together to make the questions excessively complex.

So after finishing the questions, Qiao Yu was too lazy to look over them again, and with the second test ahead, he didn’t feel like handing in the paper early, so he quietly lay down on the desk to rest his eyes.

Competitions aren’t like the college entrance exam, the proctor won’t interfere. As long as there’s no rule-breaking, naturally no one cares what Qiao Yu does.

Twenty minutes later, the second test began.

There were only four big problems, the first two worth forty points each, the latter two worth fifty each, totaling 180 points.

The difficulty Qiao Yu couldn’t bother to evaluate, he could only marvel at how the test reveals the omnipresence of handling life’s details. It’s all about the use of various techniques and routines, compared to the ideas in those math tomes, it’s like answering brain teasers...

Yes, recently focusing mainly on research papers, Qiao Yu even felt that this kind of exam design lost the inherent beauty of mathematics.

It’s only in the papers Old Xue chose for him that he truly felt that math is a beautiful art, those elegant yet not ostentatious theorem proofs attract him more. As for this type of competition...

Mm, participating this once is enough.

Even if someone offers money next time, he’d be too lazy to join, unless they offer so much that he can’t refuse!