Top Student at Their Peak
Chapter 84 - 69 This Really Can’t Be Taught! (Vote for monthly ticket!)_4

Chapter 84: Chapter 69 This Really Can’t Be Taught! (Vote for monthly ticket!)_4

Who would have thought that this simple statement would leave Little Fatty on the other side stunned, and after a while, he hesitantly said, "Actually, Yu Wei never said you must get a gold medal or anything, he just said he hopes you choose the Number Theory track too, and then beat you. He never said such things, we can’t blame him, right?"

Yu Yongjun’s words made Qiao Yu come to his senses and he opened his mouth to say, "No, that... oh..."

But as soon as he said a few words, Qiao Yu immediately realized something was off.

Did these little brats who came to the finals not even think about getting a medal?

He totally got it wrong yesterday.

But then again, there are over 800 people in the finals this time.

And most of them are students from prestigious universities, a mixed bag, there might even be Ph.D. candidates among them.

A bunch of middle-schoolers setting their sights on gold medals was indeed a bit outrageous.

After all, these peers are different from him, they don’t even have a reason to necessarily get a gold medal.

So Qiao Yu chuckled: "I was just kidding, are you taking it seriously?"

Yu Yongjun scratched his head and laughed too: "That’s what I’m saying. Teacher Qu told me that she’s just bringing me here to gain some experience, no pressure at all. Making it to the finals was already an exceptional performance. If I can get one or two questions right in the finals, that’ll be a victory.

Besides, it’s rare for us middle school students to win medals, let alone a gold medal! Those are usually monopolized by prestigious universities like Yanbei University. If we can get an excellence award, we can brag about it for a whole year."

As expected, not a single one of them has any grand ambitions...

Qiao Yu glanced sideways at Lan Jie next to him.

He noticed that while his teacher looked calm, the corner of his mouth twitched as he was eating the dumplings, and he felt his earlier remarks were quite inappropriate, so he said generously, "You can’t say that, a soldier who doesn’t want to be a general isn’t a good soldier. You must have dreams. What if we perform well this year and can solve all the questions?"

"No, Boss, don’t you know? The professors who created the questions said the difficulty of the questions in the finals is directly benchmarked to the world’s top mathematics Ph.D. qualification exams. Are we these little Kalami risking our lives to solve them?

If we really had that level, couldn’t we just apply for Harvard, Massachusetts, or Princeton for a Ph.D. in Mathematics! Actually, I think the reason they gathered us all together for this test is to have us compete with people of the same age."

Yu Yongjun patiently explained and even looked specifically at Lan Jie, who was sitting across from Qiao Yu, silent.

That look seemed to blame the teacher for not telling the students such important information.

"It’s not that serious, not that serious, just do your best. Hurry and eat, don’t let it affect the competition later." Qiao Yu decided to end this conversation.

To be honest, Qiao Yu was quite confident now.

No matter how difficult the competition questions were, they couldn’t be harder than the equation he had solved, right?

If the questions are all at that level of difficulty and they only give eight hours, he’d just admit defeat!

But what Qiao Yu couldn’t have imagined was that Professor Xue, who had posted that question on the forum, and who was one of the specially invited reviewing experts for this competition, was also in this building having breakfast, just not on the same floor as them.

After breakfast, some people went back to their rooms for a short rest, but most people waited in the hall of the guest house.

At eight thirty, the staff promptly gathered everyone, and then they all went to the exam site together.

After once again explaining the competition rules, everyone was assigned a computer for their use during the exam, and what pleased Qiao Yu the most was that all the seats were partitioned to ensure the exam process would not be disturbed by anything.

Perfect!