After taking the advice, I became a top student.

Chen Mo did not slack off and continued to diligently complete various suggestions every day.

Evening self-study,

Unlike the senior year, the evening self-study sessions in the first year of high school do not involve teachers giving lectures. Instead, students review or preview the material on their own and complete the homework assigned by the teacher that day.

Chen Mo had already finished his math homework and was now diligently copying his junior high school math textbook.

He also moved his seat next to Shen Qingyi during evening self-study, and the "front row halo" was quite nice.

cough cough...

Suddenly, Shen Qingyi, who was standing next to her, coughed twice.

Only after Chen Mo looked over did she raise her hand, pick up her water glass, and take a sip of water.

Chen Mo immediately understood what she meant, and promptly picked up the mineral water bottle on the upper right corner of his desk, gulped it down, and then resumed copying the book.

After copying for a while, he suddenly raised his head and looked at Shen Qingyi beside him as if by some strange impulse.

She was scribbling on a draft paper, but her brow was furrowed, clearly indicating that things were not going well.

This is an analytical geometry problem.

Clearly, Chen Mo wasn't the only one learning the subsequent mathematical knowledge on his own; Shen Qingyi was doing the same thing.

Chen Mo glanced at the question and also fell into thought.

Shen Qingyi muttered to herself, "Let the coordinates of point A be (x₁, y₁) and point B be (x₂, y₂). According to condition one, we can obtain the formula..."

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo's eyes lit up. "If we consider this parabola as a hillside, isn't point P like a ball thrown from A that bounces once on the hillside before reaching B?"

Shen Qingyi was taken aback, but quickly understood what Chen Mo meant. "That's right, we can use the tangent of the parabola as a mirror and utilize the principle of light reflection."

"That's right, the angle of incidence at point P is equal to the angle of reflection, and this relationship can be expressed by the slope of the derivative."

Without further ado, Shen Qingyi immediately introduced derivatives into the algebraic expression to represent the slope of the tangent, while Chen Mo marked the incident and reflection angles on the diagram and intuitively pointed out the possible key symmetry point C.

The contents of their drafts began to complement each other: Shen Qingyi's rigorous algebraic derivations and Chen Mo's leaping geometric intuitions.

Lines of equations took shape on the draft paper, and they were getting closer and closer to the final answer to the problem.

Finally, Shen Qingyi wrote down a complicated formula and suddenly got stuck.

Chen Mo looked at the formula and point C on his diagram, then suddenly picked up a pen: "If we substitute the coordinates of point C into your formula..."

"This eliminates the most difficult-to-handle higher-order terms!"

Shen Qingyi's heart pounded, and her pen flew across the paper as she performed calculations.

Chen Mo also began to deduce on the draft paper.

The two arrived at the answer almost simultaneously, using a method that combined geometric intuition with algebraic rigor, making it simpler than the standard answer.

The two exchanged a glance, and Shen Qingyi had a very faint smile on her lips. The sense of accomplishment from solving a difficult problem was something she couldn't share with outsiders.

However, she was quickly stunned. She suddenly realized that, without knowing when, Chen Mo had transformed from a seeker of advice into a participant in discussions, and sometimes even his ideas amazed her.

This guy's math skills are improving way too fast!

Does copying books really have that much effect?

Shen Qingyi frowned, considering whether she should also try copying books.

However, she quickly dismissed this absurd idea. Copying books might indeed improve one's efficiency, but it was still too low and not worth it.

Chen Mo smiled happily.

[Suggestion complete: Imitate the top student in your class; do exactly what they do. Imitation similarity 81%, now you have gained the "Insight" ability.]

【Insightful Eyes: Able to see through the essence of things at a glance. Insight +20】

Although Chen Mo makes this suggestion every day, the similarity is never very high, and he can only slightly increase the amount of resources.

I never expected that just solving one problem together would result in a similarity score of 81.

Perhaps this so-called imitation doesn't refer to actions, but rather to the thinking of a top student!

The similarity between them wasn't high before, simply because he wasn't a top student yet. Now that he's improved in all aspects, is he finally able to catch up with the thinking of a top student?

Even now, the similarity is only 81. So how strong are Shen Qingyi's attributes?

Chen Mo's thoughts changed in no time, and soon he was overjoyed to see that the attributes on his panel had changed from five dimensions to six dimensions.

Furthermore, insight starts directly from level B; obviously, level D and level C have no insight whatsoever.

Chen Mo also understood that the reason he didn't have the insight attribute before was because he simply didn't possess insight.

I wonder just how strong this insight really is.

Chen Mo was somewhat eager to try.

But Shen Qingyi, standing to the side, had a worried look in her eyes as she looked at Chen Mo, hesitating several times as if she wanted to say something to him.

Finally, Shen Qingyi seemed to have made up her mind. She took out a stack of notes from her desk drawer and handed them to Chen Mo. "The midterm exams are in a few days. These are my study notes for every course I've taken since I enrolled. Take a look. If there's anything you don't understand, feel free to ask me anytime."

As the class representative, she knew that this midterm exam was not just an ordinary exam, but one that would determine class placement.

Although the Ministry of Education has explicitly prohibited class division, schools still secretly divide students into classes in practice.

Gathering high-achieving students together makes them easier to manage, and the learning atmosphere is much better when they are together, which will help them perform even better.

As long as performance-based assessment criteria remain unchanged, such incidents are unavoidable.

Based on Chen Mo's entrance exam scores, she will likely be placed in one of the earlier classes, while she will undoubtedly remain in Class 18.

At Rongcheng No.1 High School, the larger the number of classes, the better the class.

In the past, she wouldn't have cared which class Chen Mo went to, but now, for some reason, she subconsciously wanted Chen Mo to stay.

She felt that students like Chen Mo, who studied so hard, should not be overlooked.

That's how she convinced herself.

"Thanks."

Chen Mo didn't know what Shen Qingyi meant, but he still accepted her kindness.

Given Shen Qingyi's current academic performance, getting into Tsinghua or Peking University shouldn't be a problem. In bookstores outside the school, you have to pay for these top student notes.

Given Shen Qingyi's abilities, the key points in her notes are likely to be the important test points for this midterm exam. If Chen Mo studies them carefully, it shouldn't be a problem for him to improve his score by several tens of points on the midterm exam.

"come on!"

Shen Qingyi gave a bright smile and encouraged her.

She didn't tell Chen Mo about the class assignments; she didn't want to put too much pressure on him.

Chen Mo was unaware of Shen Qingyi's ulterior motives; he was doing his homework.

If cosα + 2sinα = -√5, find tanα.

The question was very simple, and Chen Mo believed that anyone who saw it could see it at a glance: tanα=2. So he was too lazy to write out any steps and just wrote down the answer. He then moved on to the next question. He was busy copying from the book and didn't have time to waste.