Study Monster Cultivation System

Chapter 90 - 090 Is chemistry not wonderful?

Lin Yujing was so frightened that her hair stood on end, as if she had seen a ghost, staggering back, ready to flee.

Yu Hong jolted to his feet and blocked the doorway.

He closed the door and locked it from the inside.

Then he glared at Lin Yujing.

Today, no one gets away.

"There’s no way around it, the specific cutoff scores are not published, although we are speculating, they are basically accurate," Sun Leyang immediately picked up Li Zheng’s test: "You are Li Zheng, with 24 points, you can make the provincial third level, with some training, aiming for the provincial first level is hopeful."

As he spoke, he grabbed Li Zheng’s head fiercely. "You brute-forced a lot of questions, but you really worked out something."

Li Zheng was also shocked to the core.

Me, 24 points?

Provincial third level?

After praising the two of them, Sun Leyang remembered there was still another person in the room.

"Erm... this..." He swallowed, folded the test paper, and handed it to Xu Mengxi, "Mengxi, last year’s questions, especially hard, the cut-off score for the provincial second level was 34 points, just for your reference, decide for yourself."

Xu Mengxi took the test paper, her heart seemingly stopped beating.

Her mind went blank, even breathing felt painful.

But still, she bit her lip, and unfolded the paper—

9.

Just one number.

9.

She didn’t show much surprise or disappointment, only smiled as she raised her hand, foolishly scratching her head.

"As expected, still... too ordinary..." She stared blankly in a direction that didn’t exist, her voice gradually trembling, forcing herself to bite down on her teeth hard enough to keep from bursting into tears on the spot.

Li Zheng could see her sorrow and reluctance, and stepped forward to encourage her: "It’s already very impressive... I was just guessing wildly..."

"Don’t say that, wild guessing... is when true talent shows..." Xu Mengxi kept backing away, retreating all the way to the office door, her head lowered, she said tremblingly, "Then... I’ll head back to class first, good luck to you."

Sun Leyang couldn’t help but feel sympathy: "It’s okay, Mengxi, your level is still the top of the senior year, it’s enough for the college entrance exam."

Lin Yujing also caught up, swinging her arm wanderingly: "You’re really amazing, Mengxi... I was guessing too."

"Oh, you guys..." Xu Mengxi’s laughter was shaky, "Your consolations are really... Anyway, thank you all, I’m fine."

With that, she couldn’t hold back any longer, burst open the door, and ran out covering her face.

"Ah..." Yu Hong sighed.

"Uh!" Lin Yujing was about to go after her.

Yu Hong suddenly glared, locking the door again.

From behind, Sun Leyang’s laughter followed: "Hehe, don’t run away."

Caught between the two, Lin Yujing looked at Li Zheng with teary eyes, as if pleading for help.

But Li Zheng was still immersed in his self-affirmation.

"24... Provincial third level, I can do this, compete, practice problems, a thousand problems, no, ten thousand..." Li Zheng’s eyes blazed as he nodded at Lin Yujing, "Let Mengxi calm down first, listen to Teacher Sun’s explanation before going to look for her."

"Wooahru!" Only then did Lin Yujing realize, compared to Yu Hong and Sun Leyang, Li Zheng was the most terrifying one.

...

After regaining his composure, Sun Leyang started explaining.

"For you, doing competition problems is like deducing new knowledge from what you’ve already learned, which is one level higher in difficulty than those who specialize in competition learning. It’s not easy to accomplish this."

"Mengxi’s situation is regrettable... she’s still stuck at the level of knowledge she’s mastered, and to make her learn competition content now would be very difficult, it would definitely delay her college entrance exam preparation."

"These are all objective facts, Mengxi certainly understands them, you don’t have to overthink it."

"As for you two." Sun Leyang turned on his phone, and showed the QR code to the two, "Add me as a friend first, I’ll send you ’The Preliminary Round Basic Requirements’.

It’s sort of like an exam syllabus, but rest assured, the competition will definitely go beyond the syllabus, like the preliminary round paper you just did, the off-syllabus stuff was quite serious, which is why everyone scored so low."

Li Zheng immediately took out his phone to scan the code.

Even if not for the competition, peeking into Old Demon Sun’s Moments is always great.

Lin Yujing, however, kept her head down without moving.

"Oh?" Sun Leyang asked, "You are... really not interested in competing, huh?"

"Mm." Lin Yujing nodded.

"Yujing!" Yu Hong said through clenched teeth, "Teacher Sun has agreed to help, there’s no better opportunity than this."

Lin Yujing remained silent.

"Alright, Yu Hong, everyone has their own aspirations, it’s okay." Sun Leyang sighed, "Even if you don’t compete, at least listen to me finish, take a week to think about it, discuss it with your family, and with your teachers at school. You are truly exceptional, I’m willing to wait a week for you."

"Thank you, Teacher," Lin Yujing finally managed to look directly into Sun Leyang’s eyes, "The teachers have all been very good to me, but as for chemistry... I really... can’t get interested in it."

Yu Hong exclaimed in surprise: "You managed to do this well in chemistry even though you don’t like it?"

Facing Yu Hong’s presence, Lin Yujing lost her words again: "Um..."

"Actually, I didn’t like it much either," Li Zheng raised his hand sincerely, "I only started liking it recently."

"What is this..." Yu Hong swung his hand and shook his head in frustration, looking out the window angrily, "You guys continue, I’ll keep my mouth shut."

"Hehe." Sun Leyang laughed again.

He knew very well in his heart.

A student’s liking for a subject is half from the student themselves, and half from the teacher lecturing.

The style of Yu Hong, it’s no wonder nobody could grow to like it.

Sun Leyang naturally wouldn’t point it out. After Li Zheng had added him as a friend, he continued explaining.

"The content related to competition study is vast, I’ll be sending it to Li Zheng in a bit, Lin Yujing if you need it, you can ask Li Zheng for it."

"And because there is so much material, you can’t cover it all by self-study, which is why the significance of teachers and training classes becomes apparent."

"A good competition teacher will guide students to specialize in certain knowledge points and give up others, depending on the student’s situation,"

"There’s actually a bit of gambling involved. For less outstanding competitors, guessing right can often lift them a level."

"But for you guys, I’d like you to master everything since there’s still a year left..."

Li Zheng suddenly raised his hand at that moment, "Teacher, I want to compete this year"

"Quit messing around." Sun Leyang chuckled, "The competition is in early November, less than half a month away. What can you learn in that time?"

"I’ll learn as much as I can," Li Zheng nodded.

"This..." Sun Leyang turned to look at Yu Hong, "What do you think about this guy?"

Yu Hong just shook his head, clearly upset by Lin Yujing, he simply couldn’t be bothered with Li Zheng either.

"Heh heh..." Sun Leyang smiled helplessly. "Then let Teacher Yu sign you up first. She’ll give you all the review materials and problem sets, but remember, you can’t share them with anyone."

"Thank you, Teacher Sun."

Next, Sun Leyang began to explain the competition process.

"The preliminaries are in November, in the Jijing Area, with about 3,000 competitors. Prizes are awarded based on the final results."

"Last year, a total of 66 people won first prize in the preliminaries, or provincial level one."

"About half of these people were from our school and No. 1 Middle School in the City."

"After all, the two strongest chemistry competition teachers are at these two schools, heh heh."

"Now, pay close attention, the main event is coming.

"Of those 66 provincial level ones last year, 17 got reductions in their university entrance scores through independent recruitment by 985 universities, usually no more than 20 points."

"Yes, all that hard work for a provincial level one, and you’re rewarded with just a 20-point bonus."

"From last year’s situation, in the Jijing Area, for those who won a chemistry provincial level one, there were only 2 who got a score reduction for T2 (Jinghua University), and 3 for C9 (a coalition of nine universities)."

"That’s why I didn’t recommend Mengxi participate. Even if she desperately wins a provincial level one, that’s all there is to it."

As Sun Leyang said this, he turned to look at Lin Yujing: "But you’re different. Without much effort, you can win a provincial level one, even have a chance to join the provincial team. I can tell you that those in the provincial team are guaranteed a 985 score reduction. As for the final competition medals, their value is much higher. A gold medal could guarantee admission to Jingbei.

So, you should really go back and discuss this thoroughly with your family."

"Uh..." Lin Yujing nodded, her voice trembling slightly.

Li Zheng asked, "What about provincial level two and three?"

"Starting from provincial level two, it’s not much use," Sun Leyang waved dismissively, "There were about two hundred or so provincial level twos last year, few of them got any score reduction for top universities. They might get into 211 universities, but I guess you guys wouldn’t set your sights on 211."

"As for provincial level three, it’s basically just for participation, not really meaningful."

"It’s still something," Li Zheng was very eager to participate. "Then I’ll set my goal at provincial level two."

"Heh heh, there’s still a chance next year, this year you’re just going through the motions," Sun Leyang said while stretching, then suggested to Yu Hong, "He insists on testing the waters, and registration is about to close. Why not sign them both up now?"

"Sign them up," Yu Hong nodded to Li Zheng, "Don’t put too much pressure on yourself. Just do your best. I’m not worried about you affecting your college entrance exam, just concerned whether your health can handle it."

"I pay special attention to balancing work and rest, Teacher Yu."

It was getting late, and Sun Leyang then handed over the exam papers and their solutions to the two students.

After they had left, Sun Leyang sighed, "Ah."

"Ah," Yu Hong also slapped his thigh.

Sun Leyang clapped his hands together, "Why doesn’t she like chemistry? Isn’t chemistry wonderful?"

"Yeah, and she had to proclaim it in front of us," Yu Hong sounded even more frustrated.

"Oh man, if this weren’t Lin Yujing, I would’ve scolded her already," Sun Leyang said with a face full of resentment as he started packing his briefcase. "You talk with their head teacher again, see if you can work on her mindset. It’s rare for your school to have the chance at making a breakthrough from zero."

"Hey, it’s not about the breakthrough for me. I just don’t want to see a good student get derailed," Yu Hong stood up and said, "Anyway, I appreciate all your efforts, Teacher Sun."

"It’s no trouble, heh heh," Sun Leyang raised an eyebrow.

While that eyebrow raise was sleazy, it carried a deeper meaning.

Don’t forget to tell your spouse when you get home that Old Sun gave you a boost.

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What follows is a little theater by the author.

Part Two.

There was a Grandma who had supported me for many years, named Le Sanye.

Friends in the group know her well.

She’s not fierce, but she talks a lot.

Here’s an excerpt from our chat on February 4th:

[Le Sanye: Mori Tian, do me a favor]

[Mori Tian: Mom, please tell me.]

[Le Sanye: Help me promote a book~]

[Mori Tian: This... although I’m just a Lv.4 third-rate author, promoting books is a matter of integrity for me. Even though we’re this close, I need to read the book first before deciding.]

[Le Sanye: "A Lone Person’s Paradise," the author has a simple style, with a real sense of wonder. I think it’s very good.]

[Mori Tian: I don’t want what you think, I need what I...]

[[Transfer]: You’ve received 500 yuan. Please check using your mobile QQ.]

[Mori Tian: I think it’s very good.]

[Mori Tian: The more I read, the more comfortable I feel. Truly the work of a profound author with a history literature background.]

[Mori Tian: Hey, hey, why the transfer, it’s not about the money. Am I that kind of person? Kou Shiwulang’s book is just great! Revoke it, revoke it! I’m going to get mad if you don’t!]

[Le Sanye: QQ transfers can’t be revoked.]

[Mori Tian: Oh well, can’t do anything about that now... by the way, you haven’t given my daughter her New Year’s money yet, have you?]

[Le Sanye: ...]