From child prodigy to chief scientist

If Xu Xiaozhen can get into a top national university at this age next year, it will be of great promotional significance for Yucai Education.

"That's great, Principal Tian. I will definitely do my best to get things done with the Education Bureau."

After obtaining the high school equivalent certificate issued by Yucai for Xu Xiao, Wang Ze went to the district education bureau and explained his request.

Unsurprisingly, the application was quickly rejected.

Their reasoning was that there was no precedent for such a thing, nor was there any relevant policy basis.

However, Wang Ze did not give up. After searching through almost all the education documents from the Ministry of Education and the province, he finally found a vague statement in the "Detailed Rules for the Implementation of the Enrollment Work of Regular Institutions of Higher Learning in 2005".

"Those with equivalent academic qualifications may apply for the college entrance examination after submitting an application, obtaining a certificate from their work unit or street office, and being reviewed and approved by the education administrative department at the county (district) level or above."

According to this detailed rule, there are indeed no age or school registration restrictions for college entrance examination registration.

Even so, the district education bureau did not readily agree, requiring that Xu Xiao be evaluated first to ensure that he indeed possessed the equivalent academic ability of a high school student.

To this end, the Education Bureau specially sent three experts to Yucai School to learn about Xu Xiao's situation from the teachers and students, and also conducted some tests on Xu Xiao.

Fortunately, the final result was good. After some investigation and assessment, they confirmed that Xu Xiao did indeed meet the requirements to take the college entrance examination.

Given this, the Education Bureau did not deliberately make things difficult for Xu Xiao and made an exception by issuing him the corresponding documents.

Two days before the deadline for college entrance examination registration, Xu Xiao finally managed to complete the registration.

"Xu Xiao, your situation is the first of its kind in the entire province in all these years. It was really not easy for you to even get registered this time, thankfully we didn't give up."

"Director Wang, thank you so much. I will definitely continue to work hard and won't let you down."

Xu Xiao knew that Wang Ze had been to many places these past few days for his own sake, and had almost argued with the leaders of the education bureau.

"No need to thank me, the most important thing is that you really have the ability. Alright, I won't take up any more of your time, go back to your studies."

On the way back to the classroom, Xu Xiao still found it difficult to calm down immediately.

This matter is indeed of extraordinary significance; it would not be an exaggeration to say that it has opened up a completely new path.

If Xu Xiao can truly enter university early in this way, then students who are capable of meeting the college entrance examination requirements but do not meet the so-called registration standards will not encounter as many obstacles when registering.

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After successfully handling the college entrance examination registration without any major incidents, Xu Xiao continued to maintain a highly self-disciplined study routine every day.

Recalling how exhausted she was during the last monthly exam, Xu Xiao decided to make some adjustments to how she allocates her energy.

In fact, the system's entries have the function of being actively turned off. If you actively turn off an entry, its effect will no longer appear.

Xu Xiao had never used the feature to close entries before, because focusing on entries had a positive effect and no obvious side effects.

However, after experiencing a high-intensity monthly exam, Xu Xiao realized that being too easily able to focus might not be a good thing.

This will cause his energy to be rapidly depleted without him realizing it. With his current weak body and immature brain, he is not yet able to adapt to such high-intensity consumption.

Therefore, Xu Xiao decided to proactively turn off the focus effect when it was not necessary, ensuring that she could enter a focused state for three to four hours each day.

In that case, I shouldn't experience mental exhaustion when taking exams that can be completed in one day.

On this day, Xu Xiao received a notification for the school's math competition selection exam.

A week later, the school's selection exam will begin, and the school will determine the list of students who qualify to participate in the competition based on the exam results.

Because he doesn't consider math competitions a priority, Xu Xiao hasn't participated in any training sessions so far.

But since he had already decided to sign up and give it a try, Xu Xiao felt that he should go and listen in before the selection exam began, at least to get a sense of what the math competition exam questions were like.

The next morning, Xu Xiao went to the math competition training room alone.

Xu Xiao had originally thought that she would see some familiar faces, since she had been frequently attending classes at the high school recently and had some impression of many students.

But when he got to the classroom, he found that it was filled with unfamiliar faces.

After thinking about it, he quickly figured out the reason.

Generally, those who participate in high school competitions are students in their first or second year of high school.

He's been attending classes for senior high school students lately, so it's normal that he doesn't know these students.

When Xu Xiao arrived, the students in the classroom looked at each other in surprise, and even Qian Feng, the math competition teacher, looked at him with some doubt.

"Teacher, I'm a student in the children's class. Director Wang asked me to come here for training..."

Judging from Qian Feng's expression, he didn't seem to know anything about the situation beforehand.

To be honest, Wang Ze didn't really care too much about Xu Xiao wanting to participate in the math competition. Lately, he had been focused on helping Xu Xiao register for the college entrance examination.

Qian Feng didn't specifically go to Wang Ze to verify. After Xu Xiao found a seat, he began today's lesson.

After class began, Qian Feng started by talking about the homework assignments given the night before.

Xu Xiao tried hard to keep up with Qian Feng's pace, but because he had not studied beforehand and was unfamiliar with the relevant knowledge, he soon found himself falling behind.

Compared to regular high school math, math competitions are almost a whole level more difficult.

Even though Xu Xiao could score 140 in math, she still found it very difficult to understand.

"No... I'd better enable the Focus attribute."

The most urgent task was to understand Qian Feng's lectures. Even if it would deplete her energy too early, Xu Xiao decisively activated the focus entry.

Quickly entering a state of focus, Xu Xiao was finally able to understand some of the content, unlike the initial helplessness she had felt.

Although Xu Xiao had never been exposed to math competitions before, he still had some impression of some math competition knowledge because it was related to advanced mathematics.

"That concludes yesterday's exercises. Next, we'll discuss using modeling techniques to solve math problems."

Seeing Qian Feng begin the new lesson, Xu Xiao felt a little relieved.

In that case, at least everyone will be on roughly the same starting line.