The Fiery Era: Starting from Longxugou

Hu Chengzhi thought he had misheard and immediately asked the students to confirm.

"Teacher, you're right, I want to go straight to senior year!"

"You've only been in high school for a little over half a year, and you've already finished the entire high school curriculum?"

Hu Chengzhi was shocked to hear this. He had seen many students skip grades, but this was the first time he had ever seen someone skip directly from the first year of high school to the third year.

"almost!"

Zhao Shi'an nodded.

"It's more like a difference than a difference! Senior year of high school is not as simple as you think. High school is not like junior high school."

The first and second years of high school are for building a foundation, while the third year is for advancing to higher levels.

Just like building a house, the first and second years of high school are like laying the foundation; the depth of the foundation determines how tall the house can be built...

Shi'an, your teacher knows you have good grades, but you still need to be down-to-earth!

Hu Chengzhi patiently persuaded him, saying that the senior year of high school is different from the junior and freshman years. Humanities courses are relatively easy, but math, physics, and chemistry courses are more difficult in the senior year than the junior and freshman years combined.

As one of the first teachers when the school was founded, he had previously taught graduating classes who had skipped grades. According to the teaching schedule, the senior year curriculum was almost finished at this time, and in a little over a month, they should have entered the review stage.

But this year's graduating class is different; this year's college entrance examination is the first time the school has participated in the exam on such a large scale!

The No. 11 Middle School was founded in 1950 and officially began enrolling students in 1951. At the beginning of its establishment, there were only two classes each for junior high school and senior high school, with a total of less than 300 teachers and students.

In 51, China implemented education reforms, which resulted in the first batch of students studying for an additional six months. This summer, the first batch of students will face the middle school and college entrance examinations.

This can be seen as a test for the students, and also a moment to evaluate the school's achievements!

After the education reform, the first batch of students studied for an extra six months, giving them more time to prepare than ordinary students.

This gives them more time to review. If you think about it, the senior year of high school will soon be almost over and they'll be starting to take mock college entrance exams.

When Zhao Shi'an skipped a grade to the senior year, he was facing a group of classmates who had studied for three and a half years and had already completed all the senior year courses.

Furthermore, the review schedule set by the school according to the teaching plan will not be changed because of one person.

This is extremely disadvantageous for Zhao Shi'an!

"Teacher, don't worry about me falling behind. Take a look at this first!"

As he spoke, Zhao Shi'an handed the two booklets in his hand to the homeroom teacher.

"Are these the college entrance exam questions from last year and the year before? Have you finished them?"

Hu Chengzhi took the title on the cover of the booklet and was somewhat surprised! He hadn't expected his student to be so well-prepared.

"Yes, I bought this at Xinhua Bookstore and finished it in one day. Teacher, please take a look at my grades!"

Zhao Shi'an was very confident. In the college entrance examinations of 52 and 53, there was no distinction between arts and sciences, and each subject had a full score of 100, for a total of 800 points.

Despite his deliberate attempt to conceal his shortcomings, his total score across eight courses was just over 500.

If you score 60 in each subject, your total score will be 480.

His score of just over 500 is only average.

In this era, this achievement can be considered above average.

Over the past 52 years, the national average college entrance examination admission rate has reached 91%, and last year's admission rate was 77%.

With an admission rate of 70-80%, based on the admission ratio, as long as you pass all the exams in the college entrance examination, your ranking will be at least above average.

The country is divided into six major examination areas, with Beijing belonging to the North China examination area.

The entire North China examination area covers six provinces and municipalities: Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Suiyuan, and Inner Mongolia.

Two weeks ago, Suiyuan Province was abolished and merged into neighboring provinces and cities.

In terms of examination areas, the admission rate in North China is much higher than the average.

He performed slightly above passing in the college entrance examination. In the North China region, he would have been considered above average, barely qualifying as above average.

It was precisely because of these considerations that he wasn't worried about the teacher bringing up his grades!

"Okay! Wait for me a moment!"

Seeing his students so confident, Hu Chengzhi immediately picked up the college entrance examination questions and started looking at them. He first looked at the chemistry he taught.

As a high school teacher and instructor, he studied the college entrance examination questions every year. He quickly determined the results and did a simple calculation: 66 points in the chemistry exam in 52 and 61 points in 53.

A passing grade in the college entrance exam is considered acceptable in a school, but for Zhao Shi'an, a first-year high school student, it's quite impressive!

Thinking of all this, Hu Chengzhi looked up at Zhao Shi'an and said:

"I checked your chemistry grades, and they're pretty good. Looks like you've been working hard!"

For the exam papers in other subjects, I will have the respective subject teachers grade them!

It's getting late, you should go back to the classroom and focus on your studies!

I'll talk to you after I've finished looking at the exam papers!

"Okay, teacher! I'll go back to class now."

Zhao Shi'an nodded upon hearing this, then turned and left the office.

When he heard the teacher say that he would come back to him after reviewing the test paper, he felt that he had succeeded more than halfway. True gold fears no fire, and even if the teacher suspected him of cheating, he could prove himself by doing the test on the spot.

Now that the college entrance examination papers have been submitted, all that's left is to wait patiently!

……

"Old Hu, what's going on? I hear you're thinking of skipping a grade, right? Looks like you've got a good student in your class!"

"Mr. Hu, I heard that one of your students wants to go to the senior year. Aren't you teaching the first year of high school? It's only been a month since the second semester of the first year started, and a student already wants to go to the senior year? Could it be that our school has produced a genius?"

Upon hearing this, Li Shuting asked curiously.

"Skip a grade and go to senior year? Li, you didn't hear me wrong, did you?!"

"No, I was right across from Teacher Hu. I heard everything he said to the students very clearly!"

"Teacher Li is right! Just now, one of my students gave me two sets of college entrance exam papers from last year and the year before. I looked at his chemistry paper, and it was above the passing grade."

I haven't had time to look at the other subjects yet, but seeing how confident he is, I don't think he'll do too badly.

Hu Chengzhi nodded upon hearing this, confirming Li Shuting's words.

"Wow! It's really true! Our school has produced a talent!"

The teachers in the office were quite surprised to hear Hu Chengzhi admit it himself.

"Skipping grades is common in elementary school, but much less so in middle and high school!"

"Even if someone skips a grade, it's only one grade. During the education reform, it's only half a grade."

"Your student certainly has some ideas, skipping directly from the first year of high school to the third year. Does he think that the third year is as easy as the first year?"

"Whether it's simple or not, just take a look and you'll know."

Didn't Lao Hu's student leave behind his college entrance exam papers? Let's grade them and see what level he's at.

"Old Hu, what do you think?"

"Thank you all for your help!"

Hu Chengzhi did not refuse upon hearing this and casually handed out the booklet in his hand.

"Old Hu! That's a real bargain! The students at our No. 11 Middle School are all getting worse and worse at Russian; you can hardly find anyone in the whole class who's passing. I hope this student can give me a surprise!"

"Then I'll sentence it to biology!"

"Let me check the math!"

"..."

Seeing Hu Chengzhi generously take out the test paper, all the teachers were very enthusiastic. Apart from the teachers who went to class, all the teachers in the office came over to help.

Within half an hour, the results for both sets of exams were available.

The Chinese language exam was the easiest. Zhao Shi'an didn't write an essay. In 52, the college entrance exam essay was worth 50 points, and in 53 it was worth 60 points. Out of a total of 100 points, an essay accounted for more than half of the total score!

After the results were tallied, the teachers were quite surprised when they saw the outcome.

52年高考，数学68、语文32、物理54、化学66、生物73、中外史地64、政治常识84，俄语42，总分483！

53年数学66、语文20、物理60、化学61、生物72、中外史地69、政治常识82，俄语38，总分468！

"Wow! Excluding the essay, he scored 483 points on the 52 college entrance exam and 468 points on the 53 exam!"

Even if your essay is terrible, getting over 500 points is no problem!

Based on previous years' admission statistics, getting into university is a sure thing!

"Mr. Hu, congratulations! I never expected your student to have the level of a college entrance exam candidate in just one year of high school! That's truly remarkable!"

"I never expected our No. 11 Middle School to have such a genius! Old Hu, you'd better nurture him!"