Volume 1: Student Life Chapter 92: The Importance of Active Learning Habits
After the big math class, there are no classes this morning.
When Chen Zhou returned to the dormitory, Zhao Qiqi and the other two were not playing games, but were discussing the first class of the day.
Seeing Chen Zhou , Zhao Qiqi asked: "Chen Zhou, how do you feel about today's class?"
Chen Zhou didn't understand what Zhao Qiqi meant, so he said truthfully: "The progress is very fast. It's okay if you can grasp the key points in class. If you can't grasp the key points in class, you will probably have to spend a lot of time after class."
"It's okay." Zhu Mingli looked at Zhao Qiqi and said.
Zhao Qiqi thought about it and said, "That's true, but if your foundation is not good, no matter how hard you try, you still won't be able to keep up with the progress."
Chen Zhou replied, "Then spend more time after class. Students who can enter the mathematics department, no matter how poor their foundation is, will not be too bad. If they are willing to spend time, they can catch up."
Zhao Qiqi did not comment.
Zhu Mingli said: "In fact, the mathematics department is not a fair place. Most students are admitted through competitions, and these people have been exposed to undergraduate courses early. A small number of students are admitted through the college entrance examination, and they have not been exposed to undergraduate courses. In addition, the difficulty ratio of college mathematics to high school mathematics is about 5:1. Relatively speaking, it is much more difficult for college entrance examination students to enter university than for recommended students."
After Zhao Mingli finished speaking, he glanced at Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou understood. It turned out that the three of them were discussing the difference between recommended students and college entrance examination candidates . He smiled and said, "It's only relatively speaking."
Zhu Mingli stopped talking.
Li Li, the youngest but most mature of the four, said, "I agree with Chen Zhou. What you can learn in a university classroom is limited. Otherwise, Professor Wu wouldn't have said that. It's more about arranging your time properly for self-study."
Zhao Qiqi disagreed: "Do you think everyone can teach themselves all undergraduate courses like you?"
Li Li didn't say anything, but just pointed at Chen Zhou's desk.
Zhao Qiqi took a look at the pile of textbooks that Chen Zhou had lying around. These were all the basic textbooks for the subject of mathematics.
He always felt that Chen Zhou was a little arrogant, and he didn't believe that Chen Zhou could take into account both pure mathematics and applied mathematics at the same time.
It’s not that he looks down on Chen Zhou. You know, the last person in the world who had comprehensive knowledge of mathematics and its applications was Poincare in the early 20th century, more than 100 years ago.
Over the past 100 years, with the continuous development of mathematics, it has become increasingly difficult for people to be comprehensive in mathematics, and more people will choose a direction to study and research.
Anyway, Zhao Qiqi felt that he couldn't do it. Even Li Li, who won the IMO gold medal, he felt that it was impossible to do it.
Therefore, he was not optimistic about Chen Zhou at all.
Looking at today's first mathematics class, Zhao Qiqi became more certain of his thoughts. He felt that Chen Zhou was a little too ambitious.
Thinking of this, Zhao Qiqi simply expressed his thoughts: "Chen Zhou, I think you have prepared too many teaching materials?"
Chen Zhou understood what Zhao Qiqi meant and said with a smile: "It's four years in college, you can always finish it."
Zhao Qiqi: "Okay... Four years in college, it seems you have made long-term plans..."
Li Li didn't think the same as Zhao Qiqi. He was probably the only person who knew Chen Zhou a little better.
He had accidentally seen the reports on the top scorers in the science subjects of the college entrance examination in Anhui Province during that period.
No matter what others think or see, Chen Zhou has already made a new study plan.
Because the military training for freshmen at Yanda University is held in the summer between freshman and sophomore year, he does not need to consider the military training factor for the time being.
Chen Zhou follows the school's curriculum schedule every day, attends classes on time, and studies on his own in class.
There is no way. These professors lecture too fast. For Chen Zhou, listening to lectures is not as good as self-study.
It’s not that he couldn’t keep up with the professor’s lecture progress, but after class, he would carefully review the content that the professor just mentioned in one sentence, for fear of missing any small knowledge point.
Outside of classes, Chen Zhou would ask Yang Yiyi to study together in the teaching building or go to the library.
These two places also became the places they visited most often at Yanjing University.
Generally, Yang Yiyi would hand the physics textbook to Chen Zhou, and Chen Zhou would give his math textbook to Yang Yiyi.
While ensuring that the two people learn various courses, they exchange teaching materials and ask each other for advice when they have questions.
Of course, Chen Zhou spent much more time on mathematics than on physics.
With the help of mental potions and his own good habit of proactive learning, Chen Zhou was completely immersed in this learning rhythm.
In the blink of an eye, a month has passed since the start of the school year at Yanda University.
Chen Zhou’s first National Day Golden Week holiday in his college career is coming soon.
"Oh, Dad, yes, my study load is quite heavy, so I won't be home on the 11th. You and Mom need to take good care of yourselves, as well as Grandpa and Grandma..."
Chen Zhou hung up the phone with his parents. This National Day, he was ready to make a final sprint.
Lying on the bed, Chen Zhou closed his eyes and his consciousness entered the system space.
I clicked on the backpack icon on the display screen and took a look at the collection of wrong questions lying there quietly.
Chen Zhou reached out and clicked it, and a string of explanatory text appeared on it.
"Wrong Question Collection (unique, upgrade completion: 90%), automatically records all wrong questions in the host's current study."
Just as Chen Zhou guessed, the wrong questions from high school could not satisfy the appetite of this collection of wrong questions, which required more in-depth questions.
After a summer of accumulating wrong questions from advanced mathematics, physics, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and the current basic mathematics and basic physics textbooks, I finally have only 10% of the progress left in this collection of wrong questions.
Although Chen Zhou lamented that upgrading was difficult, he was also looking forward to what the wrong question collection would look like after the upgrade.
Therefore, he decided to use the National Day holiday to work hard on upgrading his collection of wrong questions.
After exiting the system space, Chen Zhou glanced at the dormitory and saw that Li Li was the only one who had not returned home.
After the class ended this morning, Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli went home as there were no classes in the afternoon.
"Li Li, do you have any plans for the National Day? Are you not going home?" Chen Zhou got out of bed and walked behind Li Li who was reading a book.
"I'm not planning on going home. It's troublesome to go back and forth. Besides, I prefer to study at Yanda. What about you? You're not going back either, are you?" Li Li said, looking at Chen Zhou.
Chen Zhou said, "Well, I won't go back. I'll take advantage of the eleventh hour to sort out the textbooks."
Li Li asked, "How much have you learned? I took the textbooks from you and found that you have read several of them and taken notes."
The three people in Chen Zhou's dormitory were also self-studying basic mathematics textbooks, including Zhao Qiqi and Zhu Mingli, who all borrowed the textbooks from Chen Zhou.
However, these two people only started in the second half of September.
Seeing that Chen Zhou handed in his answers to the mathematics class faster and faster, they finally couldn't sit still anymore.
Chen Zhou thought for a moment and replied, "I read four books and finished studying two of them."
"Then we are at the same level." Li Li nodded and said, "Chen Zhou, to be honest, although I don't think you are any different from us like Zhao Qiqi and the others do, your ability to learn on your own really surprised me."
Chen Zhou said softly: "Maybe it's because I have a relatively good habit of taking the initiative to learn, and I have someone to encourage and learn from."
Li Li looked at him and didn't want to speak.