Rebirth begins with studying hard

Chapter 50 The College Entrance Examination is Here

Sun Bo has always felt that there is a reason why studying is useless. After all, many successful people do not have high levels of education, and there is no necessary connection between success and learning.

Many of the articles he read were written in this way.

I never expected that all the people whose names I could name were college students, some of whom were even graduates of prestigious universities.

This somewhat overturned his preconceived notions.

After realizing that studying and getting into a university seemed quite important, his initial impatience with learning gradually dissipated.

Adding to this, what he didn't even realize deep down was that his complaints were mostly just frustration stemming from the immense pressure and intensity of his studies.

Complaining can be a way to vent frustration.

After venting, I felt much better.

"That's true."

"Going to university is indeed quite important."

Seeing that Sun Bo seemed to have figured things out and hadn't fallen into the trap of thinking that studying was useless, Lu Jie felt relieved.

The period from the second semester of the second year of high school to the first semester of the third year is actually a very important accumulation period.

The accumulation of knowledge and experience during this period forms the foundation for learning and improvement in the second semester of senior year.

As long as grades continue to improve, then the positive cycle of learning motivation can be restored.

If you give up halfway through, and like in my previous life, don't continue studying after the college entrance exam, or only get into a very ordinary junior college, then it would be a real pity.

He felt that as long as Sun Bo persisted, getting into a university would not be a problem.

Even if it's a third-tier university, it's still a bachelor's degree.

I was admitted to a four-year university in 10 years and graduated in 14 years.

At that time, a bachelor's degree was still considered competitive. Finding a good job required personal effort and opportunity, but finding a job with a few thousand yuan and some development potential was not difficult. Even a third-tier bachelor's degree was not as cheap as it was later when there was a surge in the value of higher education.

For Sun Bo, a reliable job with a promising future and decent living conditions is enough.

After all, the demolition is imminent, and as a second-generation beneficiary of the demolition compensation, Sun Bo will be flush with cash from now on.

Sun Bo chuckled sheepishly as he spoke:

"However, I would prefer to attend the same university as Shu Panpan."

"That way I can be with her at university too."

Lu Jie asked curiously, "Which university does Shu Panpan want to go to?"

Sun Bo immediately replied, "Jinling University."

"She said if she couldn't get into Jinling University, she would go to Jinling Institute of Technology; she just wanted to go to university in Jinling."

"We made a promise to go to university in Nanjing together."

Lu Jie couldn't help but give him a strange look.

Before anything was even set in stone, they had already agreed to go to university in Nanjing?

However, this can be considered a source of motivation for learning. In high school, anything that helps with learning is worth encouraging.

He then chimed in, "The progress is quite fast!"

"I wish you success in winning her heart soon, and that you can go to Nanjing together."

Sun Bo chuckled again, as if he were going to Nanjing University with Shu Panpan tomorrow.

......

The weather is getting warmer again, and the second most important exam in high school, after the college entrance exam, is coming.

The Senior High School Academic Proficiency Test, also known as the "High School Entrance Examination".

At this time, the 10-year college entrance examination reform plan had been announced, and the previous enrollment model of separating arts and sciences was still continued.

However, the results of the high school graduation exam should also be considered.

We don't look at the total score, only the grade.

There are twelve courses in total: Chinese, Mathematics, Foreign Languages, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Politics, History, Geography, Physical Education, General Studies, and Computer Science.

Each university has its own requirements, specifying how many A's are needed to meet the application criteria.

However, as long as your grades in the second year of high school aren't too bad or your subject performance isn't too unbalanced, you can generally meet the requirement for A grades, since A grades are based on the top 25%.

At that time, the undergraduate admission rate in Anhui Province was not even 25%.

For most people, the high school entrance exam is just a formality.

There was nothing thrilling about it, and because there were no age rankings or any awards or competitions, the tense atmosphere was not as great as that of the final exams.

After the high school entrance exam, Lu Jie got A's in all subjects except English, Politics, and History, where he only got B's.

Because the high school entrance exam and the end-of-term exam overlapped, No. 12 Middle School did not schedule any final exams.

After the high school entrance exam, the school gave the second-year students a week off and then arranged make-up classes during the summer vacation.

In Feicheng in 09, there were very few schools offering summer tutoring, and only graduating classes about to enter their senior year of high school were arranged for such tutoring.

Once students officially enter their senior year, even the relatively laid-back No. 12 Middle School begins to intensify its academic efforts.

Evening self-study sessions no longer end before 10 p.m., and some teachers have started using this time to explain test papers to students.

Students who couldn't handle the academic pressure gradually fell behind and started to give up, but those who persevered gradually reaped the rewards, showing significant progress in the mock exams at the end of the first semester of their senior year.

According to the city-wide mock exam rankings, Lu Jie's score reached the threshold for admission to a top-tier university. Although there was still some distance between him and his target universities, such as Hefei University of Technology or Anhui University, it was no longer as hopeless as it was in his first year of high school.

Sun Bo's grades were close to the threshold for a third-tier university. If he persisted and made some more progress, he would have a good chance of getting into a second-tier university, which greatly encouraged him.

Zhong Muqing's results were the most unexpected. She ranked second in her grade at No. 12 Middle School, only a few points lower than the first place, and had already reached the score line for some 211 universities.

"With your grades, you could definitely get into Tsinghua or Peking University as a top-level athlete!" Lu Jie couldn't help but exclaim after the mock exam scores came out.

With the qualifications of a national first-class athlete, as long as one can reach the first-tier university admission line, one can easily get into any of the top universities in the country.

If you don't reach the first-tier university admission line, but you do reach the undergraduate admission line, you can get into most top universities, but they will also have to consider your physical education performance.

"Not necessarily," Zhong Muqing smiled and didn't say more.

"You're too modest," Lu Jie agreed without saying anything more.

He knew that Zhong Muqing would likely go to Stanford University in North America, which is ranked higher than Tsinghua and Peking Universities in the world, so she might not necessarily stay in China to study.

However, in her previous life, Zhong Muqing left No. 12 High School after finishing her second year of high school to study at Stanford University. In this life, she did not go after finishing her second year of high school, but continued to study with them until her third year.

This surprised him somewhat.

She hasn't contacted him since the summer between her first and second year of high school, when her father's assistant spoke with him.

He assumed that she and her family had reached an agreement that she would go to Stanford after finishing her second year of high school, just like in his previous life.

After thinking about it, for Zhong Muqing, the biggest difference between this life and her previous life was her academic performance.

In this life, her academic performance is much better than in her previous life. Based on these grades, she could have been admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University as a high-level athlete.

So, is he considering staying in the country to study at Tsinghua or Peking University?

However, when this topic was discussed, Zhong Muqing never explicitly said that she missed Tsinghua and Peking Universities.

He guessed there might be some special circumstances behind it, so he didn't ask any more questions.

......

Winter passes and spring comes, and spring then enters summer.

Senior year of high school is very boring; it's all about studying.

But time passed very quickly, as if it had been accelerated.

The National College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) is on June 7th.