Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 592 That research group? Not worth worrying about!

Weng Pingting is currently in another province, so the only way to communicate with her after receiving the news was by phone.

But Bai Qinghua owns properties in Beijing, and more than one.

The next day, he got up very early and went to Shi Qianqian's residence to wake her up. Then, he brought the sleepy-eyed female disciple to Nan Zhuren's residence.

The four members of the sect sat around the dining table in the living room, making the table look like an office desk.

"Had breakfast?"

Nan Zhuren was considerate. After seeing his panting mentor and senior sister, he took the initiative to go to the kitchen to cook noodles for them, and brought out his and Chonghui's portions as well.

It just so happens to be their breakfast time.

Chonghui and Shi Qianqian were both still sleepy. They had been so excited last night because of Nan Zhuren's amazing preliminary test results that they hadn't slept well.

Bai Qinghua looked at Nan Zhuren, who seemed completely unaffected, with a complicated expression, and after a long while, slowly said, "Total score 471?"

It is important to know that with the development of the times, although the number of postgraduate places has been continuously expanded, the difficulty of the national unified examination for academic master's degrees has been increasing year by year.

In order to avoid the predictions of various postgraduate entrance examination institutions, the test setters will even deliberately look for knowledge points in the textbooks that many people may never use in their lifetime as test questions, just to deliberately increase the difficulty of the exam.

In this situation, if a student achieves an "above-average" level—for example, scoring around 220 or 230 points on a 300-point professional course exam—it's achievable with the same mindset they had when taking the college entrance exam and with a little effort.

To achieve a score of 240 or 250, one needs specialized training and an exceptionally long period of study, requiring a much longer preparation period than the average test taker, and sometimes even a second or third attempt.

As for achieving even higher scores, that really depends on your luck in predicting the exam questions and the mood of the examiner. To say you can consistently get a top-tier score is practically impossible.

Decades later, Bai Qinghua believes that even with the same level of preparation he had back then, he might not have been able to get into the current self-determined admission score of Beijing Normal University.

Students these days are so overly competitive.

Upon hearing Bai Qinghua's question, Nan Zhuren nodded calmly and said, "Yes, the professional course score is 294. I should have no problem with the multiple-choice and short-answer questions, and I also solved the calculation questions. Perhaps I missed some key points in the essay questions, or maybe I was symbolically deducted a few points for the experimental design."

Bai Qinghua checked his ears again. Yes, he got 294 points in his major course.

No, you're actually reflecting on and repenting now?
Even if you memorized every single word from all the reference books, you probably couldn't achieve a score like that!

Bai Qinghua suddenly felt a bit speechless. After so many years of teaching, this was the first time he had ever seen a student like this.

But when Bai Qinghua thought that the student in front of him was Nan Zhuren, he felt inexplicably relieved.

So after much deliberation, he could only manage one comment: "...Pretty good."

However, Bai Qinghua then added meaningfully, "You'll probably get a lot of calls during this time, so be prepared."

In theory, Nan Zhuren's information is currently only available within Beidu Normal School. Even her ranking won't be made public until the list of candidates for the re-examination is released.

But Nan Zhuren understood Bai Qinghua's meaning and shrugged, saying, "Anyway, I'll be going on a business trip soon, so I'll just hang up if I get a strange call."

Bai Qinghua nodded, very satisfied with Nan Zhuren's reaction.

He then turned serious and said, "I called you all here today for this matter—this business trip."

The conversation started to get serious, and Chonghui and Shi Qianqian, who were slurping noodles, immediately looked up.

Shi Qianqian looked at Nan Zhuren with a glimmer of light in her eyes. The noodles tasted good; she hadn't expected this man to be such a good cook.

pity……

……

Bai Qinghua continued the previous topic, saying, "Pingting also told you about going to the disaster area yesterday, right?"

Nan Zhuren, Chonghui, and Shi Qianqian, the three disciples, nodded in unison, their eyes gleaming with eagerness.

Even Nan Zhuren had a visible expectation in his eyes.

Such a large project is novel to everyone; at the same time, the nature of this project is something that ordinary industry professionals can only dream of.

Bai Qinghua, however, poured cold water on the idea first: "First of all, we won't set off now."

“We went to the front line, but not the front line of disaster relief—that was too dangerous. We didn’t have the skills to protect ourselves in that environment; we would only cause trouble.”

The two "first-line" concepts seem somewhat contradictory, but they are not difficult for the three people present to understand.

"The first to arrive are professional rescue teams and medical personnel, but you may have to wait two days or even a week," Bai Qinghua said. "We are a volunteer team that went in an official capacity, so we have to wait for notification."

"But because of this, we have to be ready to depart at any time during this period."

Bai Qinghua looked at Nan Zhuren: "For the time being, please do not accept any inquiries."

This was a special instruction given to Nan Zhuren.

Nan Zhuren nodded without hesitation.

Bai Qinghua then said, "Secondly, our work mainly involves conducting psychological assessments and crisis interventions for the affected people, while also providing psychological counseling for the staff."

"But we are only in a secondary position; what we do is just supportive."

The three of them could understand this.

"For crisis intervention among disaster victims, we will primarily rely on the medical teams at the hospitals. As for psychological counseling for medical staff, rescue workers, and other personnel... we will also follow the instructions of another psychological counseling team."

Nan Zhuren blinked.

This is a bit hard to understand.

He looked at Chonghui beside him and found that his senior brother had no objection to it.

Chonghui explained, "That's right. The teams dispatched for disaster relief this time are basically the teams that wrote the instruction manuals. But the teams involved in the psychology section of these instruction manuals are not just our research group, and not even just the psychology department of Beijing Normal University..."

After Chonghui's explanation, Nan Zhuren quickly understood.

It's not that Bai Qinghua's research group was inferior to others. However, in the disaster relief process, compared to the vast number of affected people and staff, Bai Qinghua's research group was relatively small.

Even adding the experienced consultants who are capable within Bai Qinghua's company, the number is still a drop in the ocean.

Therefore, collaboration with other teams will definitely be necessary.

Secondly, for disaster relief workers, the psychological support they need goes beyond just "psychological counseling".

Nan Zhuren vaguely remembered that the disaster relief manual included a plan for "building a highly efficient medical team." This plan focused on the workload of the team and aimed to maximize rescue efficiency while ensuring the mental well-being of the medical staff.

In addition to the arrangements for "regular psychological counseling," this project also includes preliminary training, the design of emergency plans, daily training plans, and a corresponding real-time monitoring and evaluation system. Nan Zhuren and his research group are responsible for the single module of "psychological counseling."

From this perspective, Nan Zhuren and his teammates are indeed in the support role.

Thinking of this, Nan Zhuren frowned slightly.

Dividing a complete task into modules and assigning specific personnel to each module is somewhat like an industrial assembly line.

However, tasks involving "people" introduce many uncontrollable variables.

Focusing solely on intervention doesn't seem to be a viable approach in our future work...

But Nan Zhuren could understand. After all, it was such a big project, and it was already quite an achievement for Bai Qinghua to be able to secure even one module of the task.

I just hope nothing unexpected happens on set.

"In short, everyone must keep communication open while on site, and report any special circumstances to me immediately," Bai Qinghua said seriously.

The three of them nodded in unison.

……

“However, there is still a small problem here,” Bai Qinghua suddenly added.

At this point, he looked at Nan Zhuren and said, "You should be preparing for the re-examination soon."

Although the preliminary test score was high, it is only part of the final score.

After the preliminary test results are released, there are usually less than two months before the postgraduate entrance examination retest begins, which consists of a written test and an interview.

The final ranking is then determined by weighting the re-examination score and the interview score by a certain percentage.

In theory, although Nan Zhuren is now a shoo-in for first place in the preliminary exam, or even the best in history, there is still a possibility of him failing.

Generally speaking, students who are unsure of themselves will start reviewing immediately after the preliminary exam; while students who are confident will start reviewing around the time the holiday ends and the preliminary exam results are released.

"You haven't looked at the textbooks for over two months since your preliminary exam; you've been doing consultations, haven't you?" Bai Qinghua hesitated. "Think it over yourself. If you're not confident, you don't have to go on this business trip. Anyway, intervention with disaster survivors will continue for a long time. You can get involved after your second exam..."

Nan Zhuren listened silently as Bai Qinghua finished expressing his concerns, then thought for a moment and asked, "Teacher, is the scope of the re-examination the same as that of the preliminary examination?"

There's nothing to hide, Bai Qinghua nodded.

"Then there's no problem. I've been reviewing all this time." (Reviewing in my dream.) "I haven't forgotten any of the knowledge points."

"If all else fails, I can bring the books with me and review the key points in my spare time. After all, Senior Brother Hao has highlighted the important points for me." He brought the books with him from his dream and continued to study in his dream.

This kind of review plan is quite chaotic.

But it was Nan Zhuren who revealed this plan. Considering the other party's unprecedented preliminary test results, Bai Qinghua inexplicably felt that it was reliable.

Some people just can't be measured by common sense.

Bai Qinghua nodded, and then began to give instructions on other miscellaneous matters, such as the luggage to be prepared before departure, the contact person upon arrival, and where to report for duty, etc.

After he finished speaking, he realized that his stomach was starting to rumble.

Bai Qinghua came over as soon as he got up. Besides giving instructions on important matters, he was also eager to see his little apprentice because of the preliminary test results that Nan Zhuren had reported last night.

His seemingly calm expression was just a facade.

"Teacher, your dough has lumped together," Nan Zhuren suddenly reminded him.

Bai Qinghua looked down and, sure enough, the noodles in the bowl had absorbed all the broth, and the originally clear soup had become thick and sticky from the seeping starch.

In contrast, Chonghui and Shi Qianqian's bowls were already empty.

"I'll make you another bowl," Nan Zhuren said sensibly.

"No, don't waste food." Bai Qinghua stirred the food with his chopsticks. To be honest, this was the first time he had ever eaten a meal cooked by his apprentice.

Unlike the previous three, who only asked me to treat them to meals outside.

Thinking about it this way, I felt a little touched.

“Speaking of which, teacher,” Nan Zhuren suddenly asked, “which team you mentioned that needs our cooperation is from?”
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Huaguo University of Science and Technology, Institute of Psychology, Admissions Office.

A teacher with medium-length hair slicked back stared at the computer screen in front of him, and the tables on the screen kept changing as he operated them.

After a long while, he let out a long sigh, picked up the coffee in front of him and took a sip, then tried to brush his hair back—but he couldn't budge it. His hair was stiff in clumps, looking like it had been coated with a pound of hairspray.

"Let's hurry up and finish the preliminary rankings and the list of candidates for the re-examination today. If there is any news from other schools, let's also organize it and make a good handover to the next class." Teacher Yijinjiao said to his colleague who was also working hard, while drinking coffee. "After all, we may have to go on business trips with the teacher at any time. This is important and cannot be delayed."

"Okay senior brother."

The teacher who responded had heavy dark circles under his eyes, clearly indicating that he had been working overtime for some time.

While working on the task at hand, Teacher Houquan kept complaining, "I knew I shouldn't have taken this recruitment job. Who would have thought something like this would happen at this time..."

Teacher Yijinjiao didn't respond, he just kept drinking coffee. He received the news last night and has been working overtime ever since.

After a flurry of clattering keyboards and clicking mice, Teacher Houquan finally finished his work.

He leaned back and started drinking his coffee, muttering under his breath, "If it weren't for the need to stay at the university, I really wouldn't want to do this recruitment work..."

Teacher Yijin Jiao still didn't respond, but he deeply agreed with her.

After a brief silence, the two men in the office each finished their coffee.

Teacher Houquan looked preoccupied, as if he had finally found an opportunity, and said, "Senior brother."

"what happened?"

"I heard that we're going on this business trip with Professor Bai from Beijing Normal University?"

"Yes, what's wrong?"

Teacher Houquan looked troubled: "This part of our project... it seems like we snatched it from Teacher Bai, right? Going out together... isn't it awkward?"

"What's there to be afraid of?" Teacher Yijinjiao chuckled. "Teacher Bai gave it up herself back then, and besides—"

(End of this chapter)