Chapter 23: You must treat everyone equally, right?
The second place, Hu Shucheng, also scored a high score of 192.
This year's score line for entering the semi-finals is slightly higher than in previous years, reaching 116 points.
With scores like Xu You and Hu Shucheng, if they perform normally in the rematch, they really have a good chance of making it to the provincial team.
In excitement, Gao Shang decided to quickly gather the players who entered the semi-finals and start a new round of training.
After calling the students from classes one, two and three, Gao Shang came to the door of class six.
At this time, Class 6 was having a physics class.
Gao Shang knocked on the door and Zhao Shuang said, "Come in."
"Teacher Zhao, I'm looking for Xu You."
Seeing Gao Shang's face full of joy, Zhao Shuang roughly guessed what was going on.
"Teacher Gao, are the preliminary results out?"
"Well, Xu You scored 198 points, the highest in the school. He has a good chance of making the provincial team this time, and maybe he can even push higher."
Although Zhao Shuang did not support Xu You to participate in the competition before, after hearing that Xu You really achieved good results, he was happy for Xu You from the bottom of his heart.
Although Zhao Shuang and Gao Shang spoke softly, many students in the class could still hear them clearly.
"What is the full score for the physics competition preliminaries?"
"It seems to be 200 points, and Xu You only lost two points!"
"Damn it, I only lost two points on the competition questions. What does this mean?"
"No one in the Olympiad class is taller than Xu You. Xu You is so awesome!"
Xu You’s achievement in the competition made his classmates look at him with admiration again.
Xu You himself was not surprised by this score. After all, when he compared answers with Hu Shucheng before, he already knew that his score would not be too low.
"Xu You, go to Teacher Gao!"
"Yes, teacher."
Seeing Xu You was about to get up and leave, Dong Chao felt happy for Xu You but also felt a pang of sadness in his heart.
This classmate who once had similar grades to me is now in a different dimension from me.
"Xu You, you won't forget that you have me as your deskmate in the future, right?"
Xu You glanced at Dong Chao and said with a smile:
"Don't worry, even with your face full of acne, I will never forget you."
Soon, Gao Shang gathered the twelve contestants who entered the physics competition semi-finals.
Gao Shang first read out each student’s preliminary results and the preliminary score line.
Let everyone have a general understanding of their own level.
"Ah, still 6 points less than Xu You."
Although the score of 192 is not low, it can only rank second in No. 4 Middle School.
However, Hu Shucheng had nothing to regret about losing to Xu You.
Moreover, the preliminaries were just a warm-up for Hu Shucheng, and the semi-finals were when Hu Shucheng would really start to perform.
"The preliminaries are over. Because the results of the preliminaries will not be counted in the semi-finals, everyone is now theoretically on the same level. Please forget about the results of the preliminaries. The semi-finals are a completely different level of difficulty."
At the beginning of the physics competition sprint class, Gao Shang briefly introduced the rematch to everyone and had everyone practice some rematch questions.
"Now let me talk about the competition system of the semi-finals. The semi-finals are divided into theory and experiment. The theory is 320 points in total, including eight calculation questions, each of which is 40 points, and the total time is 3 hours. The experiment is 80 points. Only students who rank high in theory are eligible to take the experiment exam."
"It can be said that the semi-finals are still mainly based on theoretical examinations. Of course, the experimental part cannot be ignored. Although the experimental questions are worth less points, they are likely to affect the final ranking."
"So, in the next two weeks, we must not only practice theory, but also spend some time on experiments. Each of us students must be prepared to take the experimental exam."
After talking about the recent plans, Gao Shang led everyone to start training for the rematch.
The new round of training is obviously much more intense than before.
They are all training on various large questions, even including many real questions from the CPhO finals.
This made the contestants feel a lot of pressure.
But for players like Xu You and Hu Shucheng.
This level is completely acceptable.
After all, they had already started preparing for the rematch.
As he continued to grow, Xu You was finally able to keep up with Gao Shang's speed under normal circumstances.
Xu You strictly planned the use of his energy points every day to ensure that he would have enough energy points for self-study in the evening.
In addition to preparing for the rematch of the physics competition, Xu You also has to prepare for the mathematics competition league.
Xu You didn't feel distracted by preparing for two competitions at the same time.
These days, Xu You gradually discovered the various wonderful uses of mathematical knowledge in physics.
There are even some questions that are much easier to solve if you know some math techniques than if you just use physics knowledge.
It can be said that if the mathematical foundation is strong enough, it will be of great help in physics competition.
On the day approaching the Digital Competition League, Xu You and Gao Shang told each other that they wanted to participate in the Digital Competition League.
"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten about it. You really don't want to concentrate on preparing for the competition, and you have to treat everyone equally, right?"
Looking at Gao Shang's fake smile, Xu You really couldn't tell whether Gao Shang really didn't want him to go or was just joking with him.
"Hey, go ahead, go ahead. If I don't let you go, you won't be able to review well for the physical education competition."
Gao Shang still couldn't stop Xu You from participating in the mathematics competition.
Even if Xu You's heart does not completely belong to Wu Jing, at least the person is still with him.
In all these days, Xu You has never registered for the mathematics competition sprint class, and even the mathematics competition teacher doesn't recognize Xu You.
Gao Shang naturally didn't think that Xu You could achieve any results in the mathematics competition.
It would be better to finish the exam as soon as possible and give up this thought as soon as possible.
On September 13, the Digital Competition League officially began.
Because Shengcheng is the capital of Ningjiang Province, the test site is not far from Xu You's home, and Xu You does not need to stay in a hotel.
After getting up in the morning, Xu You took a taxi and came to the test site.
According to the information on the admission ticket, Xu You found his examination room and took his seat on time.
The Mathematical Competition League is divided into the first and second rounds.
The first test will be held from 8:00 to 9:20, for a total of 80 minutes. It consists of two parts: fill-in-the-blank questions and essay questions, for a total of 120 points.
After the first test, there will be a 20-minute break.
During this period, if you feel that the results of the first test are not ideal, you can give up the second test.
The second test will be held from 9:40 to 12:10, for a total of 150 minutes. There are four essay questions, with a total score of 180 points.
It can be said that the second test is the key to truly determining the candidates' scores.
At 8 o'clock, the test officially began .
"Question 1: Suppose the real number a satisfies a＜9a^3－11a＜|a|, then what is the range of a's value?"
Just the first question stumped some students.
Does a cubic inequality of one variable also contain absolute values?
Such questions are very rare in normal high school math problems.
Some students did not come up with a clear idea within a few minutes and hesitated whether to skip it.
But if you skip the first question, it will seriously affect your answering status for the following questions.
But a question of this difficulty is very simple for Xu You.
