Chapter 80 High Score
After the college entrance examination, they celebrated with delicious food and drinks on the day, and the next day Song Yuanchao went to work as usual after dawn.
The printing workshop of the school-run factory has officially started production. This time, what is printed is no longer college entrance examination review materials, but extracurricular tutoring materials divided according to grade levels.
The school started its summer vacation on July 1st, and the teachers became free. The free teachers helped to organize materials and set questions, and the factory subsidized the teachers in the same way as before.
The weather is hot and there is no air conditioning in the office. At best, there are a few electric fans. And these fans cannot be turned on too high, because if they are turned on too high, the wind will easily blow away all the papers in the office.
Therefore, the teachers at work had a very hard time. They had to rely on a basin of water, a towel and drink tea to keep away the heat every day. In order to ensure their health and smooth work, Song Yuanchao asked the factory to deliver a large bucket of salty soda, sour plum soup and other heat-preventing drinks every day. In addition, he also rode a tricycle to the ice factory to buy ice cubes to cool down the teachers and factory workers.
Thanks to the teachers' efforts, the extracurricular tutoring materials gradually took shape and construction at the factory officially began.
In the following days, Song Yuanchao kept running between the factory and the school, busy with various tasks. He was so busy that he didn't even have time to care about the college entrance examination results.
Half a month passed in a flash. One day, Song Yuanchao was checking a set of junior high school mathematics exercise books that had just been bound in the workshop. Suddenly, Principal Zhou and Factory Director Ma rushed in from outside.
"Yuan Chao! Song Yuan Chao!"
As soon as he entered the workshop, Principal Zhou shouted Song Yuanchao's name in a loud voice that was totally inconsistent with his age, looking for him. Song Yuanchao looked up towards the door when he heard the voice, and for a moment he didn't know what was going on.
"Yuan Chao!" Seeing Song Yuan Chao, Principal Zhou and Director Ma strode over. When they got close, Principal Zhou looked at Song Yuan Chao with great satisfaction and said excitedly, "You passed! Yuan Chao, you passed! You passed!"
"Yuanchao, you are really great! You actually got admitted. I am happy for you from the bottom of my heart. But... you will leave after getting admitted to university. When I think of this, my heart feels empty..." Raising his hand and placing it on Song Yuanchao's shoulder, Director Ma was also a little excited.
Although Song Yuanchao was not an ordinary person, having experienced nearly seventy years of ups and downs in his previous life, he had long been calm about many things. But today, when Principal Zhou and Director Ma suddenly told him that he had been admitted to university, his heart beat violently uncontrollably and his whole body trembled slightly.
"Principal, Master, I...did I really pass the exam? What score did I get? Which university?"
"371 points! You actually got 371 points! Which university can't you go to?" Principal Zhou was very happy. He didn't expect Song Yuanchao to get 371 points. In 1979, the admission score of Imperial University of Peking was 310 points and 280 points for liberal arts and science respectively. Song Yuanchao took the science test and directly scored a high score of 371 points.
371 points? Song Yuanchao was stunned when he heard this score. He himself did not expect to get such a high score. He originally thought that getting around 340 points was already very good, but the actual score was more than 30 points higher than he expected.
Looking at Song Yuanchao's stunned expression, Principal Zhou thought he was so happy that he was silly. In fact, he was no different from Song Yuanchao when he received the phone call just now. He was also stunned when he heard the score and could hardly believe his ears.
As a senior educator, Principal Zhou knew very well what Song Yuanchao's score of 371 meant.
In this era, although the country has resumed the college entrance examination, the admission scores of the college entrance examination are actually not high because the students and young people taking the college entrance examination have weak academic foundations.
There have been only three sessions since the resumption of the college entrance examination. Not to mention the first session, the admission score of the Imperial University of Peking was only 270 points, which is unimaginable in later generations.
Even for this year's college entrance examination, since the number of people taking the college entrance examination nationwide reached a record high of 4.68 million, and with the addition of fresh graduates taking the college entrance examination, the difficulty of the examination paper increased accordingly, and the admission score also increased accordingly, the entire college entrance examination admission rate was only 6.1%.
As an educated youth who returned to the city, Song Yuanchao was able to score such a high score of 371 points. This made Principal Zhou excited and extremely gratified. He was glad for his persistence. It was precisely because of this persistence that Song Yuanchao did not miss the college entrance examination, thus saving a rare talent for the country.
Taking a deep breath, Song Yuanchao clenched his fists. At this moment, he was also extremely excited and even felt a little strange. Why would he, who originally didn't care about the college entrance examination, have such a feeling?
"Song Yuanchao, you are awesome!"
"Director Song, you are amazing! You actually got admitted to the school. Congratulations!"
"Director Song, you have to treat us! This is a big happy event!"
When they heard that Song Yuanchao was admitted to , the entire workshop suddenly burst into cheers after a brief calm.
Everyone looked at Song Yuanchao with great envy and admiration. In their opinion, Song Yuanchao was not only their leader, but also a real college student . He was also a college student who had been admitted to the highest institution of learning in the country with high scores. How could everyone not be proud of this?
Compared with the later generations when there were college students everywhere, the quality of college students in this era was extremely high. Before the expansion of university enrollment, it was no exaggeration to say that going to college was like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. Moreover, once you were admitted to university, your status would change accordingly. No matter what your status was before going to college, as long as you entered university, you had one foot in the ranks of state cadres.
Song Yuanchao is now the workshop director of the school-run factory, and is also a teaching staff member. However, even so, his so-called cadre status is only within the school-run factory and is not in the formal administrative sequence.
What is a cadre? Only those with administrative rank are cadres!
In the 1950s, the country designated 23 administrative levels. You belong to that level and get paid at that level. This is the true identity that represents the four words "state cadre".
Just like Principal Zhou, as the old principal of the key middle school No. 2 Middle School, especially as the principal of a city like Shanghai, according to the current administrative level of 23 levels, his administrative level is the 16th level.
Director Tajima is different. Although he runs a school-run factory and is a veteran of No. 2 Middle School, his administrative level is only a clerk at level 22.
So although Song Yuanchao was the workshop director, he did not have any administrative rank and received the same salary as ordinary workers.
But it is different when you go to university. College students are the chosen ones of heaven. Once you are admitted to university, your status will change drastically, just like the ancient imperial examinations where people leap over the dragon gate, from being a farmer in the morning to being an emperor in the evening! This is not an exaggeration at all.
As a college student, you directly enjoy the treatment of a level 23 cadre at school. Not only are tuition and miscellaneous fees waived, but the state also .
After graduating from university, the state will assign you a job, and the starting point is at least a level 22 clerk. If you graduate from a key university, the salary will be higher, and it is possible for a doctoral student to work at level 21 or even 20.
Song Yuanchao's status as workshop director and so-called cadre was only limited to the school-run factory. But now it is different. He has been admitted to university and his status as a state cadre is a foregone conclusion. From this point of view, Song Yuanchao and Director Ma are almost at the same level of state cadre.
Ordinary people have always envied and feared the status of state cadres. Even some workers who had previously disapproved of Song Yuanchao's rapid rise from a newcomer to a workshop director, looked at him differently when they heard with their own ears that Song Yuanchao had been admitted to university.
"Okay, I'll treat you. I must treat you." Song Yuanchao agreed with a smile amid the cheers of everyone. He took out a big unity ticket from his pocket and handed it to Li Daqi beside him: "I'll treat everyone to cold drinks. Daqi, take people outside to buy some Jianzhuan. Buy as many as you can. I'll treat you!" (Jianzhuan is a small ice brick of Guangming, half the size of a medium ice brick, wrapped in white wax paper, sold for 1.1 cents at the time, and was a luxury among cold drinks.)
"good!"
"Thank you, Director Song. We wish you a bright future in college!"
"Yes, yes! I wish Director Song a prosperous future. Don't forget us when you graduate and become a government official!"
When everyone heard Song Yuanchao was so generous, they immediately cheered and applauded. The whole workshop was filled with joy. Feeling everyone's enthusiasm and sincere blessings, Song Yuanchao had tears in his eyes and was very excited...
