Make a Fortune and Become Well-off [90] - Chapter 143

No. 1 High School and Wuzhong School had a tradition of joint entrance exams. Although Wuzhong School did not take No. 1 High School that seriously, sometimes, the students in the school also needed external pressure to stimulate them. Otherwise, they would still think they were number one in the world.

That external stimulus was No. 1 High School.

Although they felt that No. 1 High School posed no threat to them, it was still a key high school. It was like their younger brother, who they could occasionally give some attention to.

If there was a joint entrance examination, naturally, not only the two schools but No. 2 High School, No. 3 High School, and several fairly good township high schools around Wucheng would take the exam together.

But for Wuzhong, the only one that could pose a slight threat to them was No. 1 High School.

No. 2 High School had been trying hard to squeeze itself into the key high schools. No one in Wuzhong or No. 1 High School paid attention to No. 2 High School, let alone No. 3 High School, which had no reputation at all.

Teacher Wang, the leader of the physics group and the director of the Academic Affairs Office, couldn’t help but look up from his desk when he heard the young teacher’s words. “What does Teacher Xiao Zhu’s husband have in mind?”

He knew that her husband was a competitive class teacher at No. 1 High School, and she went to No. 1 High School for lunch every day. He thought she got some news from No. 1 High School and asked her with great interest.

Strategically, they could despise No. 1 High School, but tactically they still had to pay attention.

Teacher Ji’s wife had a round apple face. When she smiled, two sweet little pear dimples appeared on her cheeks. She asked, “I was just wondering if there are any good prospects in No. 1 High School this year.”

Director Wang of the Academic Affairs Office acted like an old fox. He unscrewed his teacup, shook his head, and blew the powdered tea leaves on the cup. He took a sip and said with a smile, “I haven’t heard of any outstanding seedlings. The outstanding seedlings have been coveted by Wuzhong. With everything in the bag, how would it fall to No. 1 High School? Even if No. 1 High School uses scholarships to poach a few of them, it doesn’t hurt the overall situation. But as for the joint test you mentioned, it’s okay to do it. I’ll talk to Lao Sun about this later.”

Although Wuzhong and No. 1 High School had been rivals for many years, the principals and directors were old neighbors who have known each other for many years. They were all familiar with each other. Wuzhong and No. 1 High School took the lead in every joint examination.

It would be the end of the semester in one month, so the joint examination would be held.

They also had to discuss with the Education Bureau and other high schools and ask them whether they wanted to join in and do it together, depending on their own wishes.

After all, not every school wanted to take the joint test with Wuzhong. When the rankings came out, if the ranking of their own school was too low, they wouldn’t be able to save face.

Director Wang was very calm.

Wuzhong was still very active in things like the joint examination. After all, it was the boss of high schools. Every time the joint test results were ranked, more than half of the top two hundred were Wuzhong students. Once such results came out, it was clear which high school would rank first and which high school would rank second. Every time they went out for a meeting and met the principals and directors of other schools, their waists were straighter, and there were more smiles on their faces.

It was just that the matter needed to be discussed with No. 1 High School on how to handle it. If No. 1 High School was missing from the joint examination, what would be the point? Director Wang thought with a smile.

After Ji Jianwei finished correcting the test papers of the two competitive classes in mathematics and chemistry, he stretched and was in a good mood.

Originally, every time he went to class, he  always asked Jiang Ning if there was anything she didn’t understand. She didn’t say anything, so he thought she didn’t care and focused mainly on her class grades. Unexpectedly, after the results of this quiz came out, Jiang Ning gave him a big surprise.

Although she had not finished the paper, her accuracy rate was very high, which showed that not only did she understand, she even got some of the things she had never learned in class correctly.

That was really very enlightening.

When learning mathematics, comprehension was very important.

Some students seem to be able to solve a question, but in fact, they have not mastered that knowledge point. To truly master a knowledge point, no matter what type of question it appears in, a person would be able to solve it through the knowledge point they had mastered, instead of just solving that specific problem.

Students who were good had mastered knowledge points. Some students who seemed to have good test scores only remembered that question or a few questions.

That was also the state of most students, so teachers provided students with more things to solve. If they answered more questions and saw more question types, they would naturally solve them when they encounter them in the exam.

There were only a very small number of people who, as Teacher Ji Jianwei said, truly mastered the knowledge points. Even he himself did not dare to say he had mastered every knowledge point. Jiang Ning might not have completely grasped it, but she had that understanding.

Teacher Ji thought that Jiang Ning put most of her energy into the competition class and could be trained as a competition student, as she might be able to get a ranking in the province.

After the monthly exam results came out, the teachers of Class 3 were also very satisfied. They thought that Jiang Ning had focused her main energy on the academic performance of the class. She was so smart that she didn’t focus on the competition class. They didn’t say anything about their approach, but when they talked about Jiang Ning with other teachers in private, they all praised the little girl for being smart.

They didn’t praise anything else, just her grades and great progress. “I just said last time that she didn’t pay attention to Chinese. Look at this time, her Chinese scores have improved.”

Because Teacher Ji was a young and new teacher, he did not head a class and only focused on the results of the competition class. He was not in the same office as the teachers in other groups. He and his alumni had a separate office for the competition class, right next to the computer classroom upstairs.

In short, teachers on both sides were very satisfied.

The students in dormitory 610 were also very satisfied because they had the braised pork snack given to them by Jiang Ning. Of course, they didn’t give everyone a piece of braised pork, as the money they got from renting books was not that much.

With only two yuan and twenty cents, Liu Ping exchanged seventy cents for food stamps. She brought more than three kilograms of food stamps from someone unknown and bought four portions of braised pork.

There were eight people in the dormitory, and each person could get about half a portion of braised pork on average.

Even half a portion of braised pork was enough. The girls in the dormitory were so happy that their eyes turned into crescents as they watched Jiang Ning divide the meat with anticipation.

That was also proposed by Jiang Ning.