From child prodigy to chief scientist

Some students had gotten full marks on this question before, but none of them could make Sun Yifei's eyes look so pleased.

Looking at the process without any trace of modification, Sun Yifei could already imagine that Xu Xiao's thought process when solving this problem was probably seamless.

In the later comprehensive problem on functions and derivatives, Xu Xiao used the idea of ​​separating parameters and constructing functions, and cleverly applied scaling.

After carefully examining each scoring point, Sun Yifei still couldn't find any place where points could be deducted.

"Perfect score... Xu Xiao can actually get a perfect score in math!"

This was the first perfect score paper that Sun Yifei graded in this midterm exam.

At Yucai School, getting a perfect score in math is not a very rare thing.

Unless the test is ridiculously difficult, it's quite normal to have a few perfect scores each time.

Sun Yifei had never seen anyone get a perfect score in math at such a young age before.

"This child's progress is terrifying. It's only been a short time, but he's like a completely different person compared to before."

Just over a month ago, Xu Xiao's math score was only around 130.

Improving by ten or twenty points in just over a month seems like something that can be achieved with a little effort.

However, it's important to understand that improving even one point above 130 is extremely difficult.

However, considering that Xu Xiao has been participating in math competition training recently and has even qualified for the math competition league, it is only natural that he was able to get a perfect score.

What Sun Yifei didn't know was that Xu Xiao had actually finished the test in just one hour, and while answering the questions, he was still wondering if the math questions on this midterm exam were too easy.

If Sun Yifei saw Xu Xiao's answer sheet, his surprise would probably double.

Two days later.

The results of the midterm exams are all out.

Chinese: 126.

Mathematics: 150.

English: 124.

Science score: 266.

Total score: 666.

Upon receiving her exam results, Xu Xiao was quite satisfied with her performance.

Compared to the last monthly exam, Xu Xiao's total score improved by a full 40 points, which would place him among the top 50 in the science stream at Yucai High School.

If you can achieve this score in the college entrance examination, you can definitely reach the minimum admission score of top 985 universities.

However, Xu Xiao still feels that she has considerable room for improvement. Apart from mathematics, she has a good chance of improving her score by 10 points in each of her other subjects.

Xu Xiao now has Tsinghua University and Peking University as his only two targets.

Moreover, simply meeting the admission scores of these two universities is not enough; it's best to exceed them as much as possible to choose a better major.

Sometimes, your major is even more important than the school you attend.

If it's a less competitive major at Tsinghua or Yenching University, it might not be as good as the top majors at other C9 universities.

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In the days that followed, Xu Xiao continued her disciplined study routine every day.

Although such days may seem a bit monotonous, Xu Xiao thoroughly enjoys the process of gradual improvement and doesn't feel any sense of loneliness.

With these days of perseverance, Xu Xiao's entry has accumulated 20 days of progress, and the light at the end of the tunnel is about to appear.

On this day, Xu Xiao was training with the math competition team as usual.

Just as the training was halfway through, Qian Feng was suddenly called out by the other teachers.

Not long after, Qian Feng returned to the classroom, this time with a piece of paper in his hand.

"Everyone, please pause for a moment. The results of the math competition league are out, and we'll announce them now."

Upon hearing Qian Feng's words, everyone immediately stopped writing and looked at him nervously.

After all, league results are related to whether or not you can enter the provincial team. If you don't enter the provincial team, it means that your journey in this year's math competition will come to an end.

Even Xu Xiao's heart started racing, and he lost all interest in doing the problems.

"He Muzhou, 248, second in the province, has qualified for the provincial team!"

Upon hearing He Muzhou's results, everyone spontaneously applauded him.

This score is indeed quite high; in previous years, it would have been entirely possible to achieve first place in the entire province.

After all, Liaoning Province is not considered a strong province in the competition, and there is still a considerable gap between it and other strong provinces such as Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hunan, and Guangdong.

It seems that even more outstanding individuals have emerged among this year's math competition students.

He Muzhou's reaction was not particularly strong; he simply nodded a few times, showing little surprise at the result.

After all, he already had a rough idea of ​​his score after the exam, and this score was exactly within his estimated range.

After the applause subsided, Qian Feng continued to announce:

"Xu Xiao, 246, third in the province, has qualified for the provincial team!"

There was a brief two-second silence in the training room, followed by even more enthusiastic applause, mixed with exclamations of surprise from some students.

"Holy crap... Xu Xiao made it to the provincial team too, and he's third in the whole province!"

"That's incredible! He's only two points behind He Muzhou."

"Xu Xiao has only been in training for less than two months, and he already scored over 240 points?"

Even though Xu Xiao's score was slightly lower than He Muzhou's, the impact she had on others was far greater than He Muzhou's.

Even Qian Feng was stunned for a while when he saw the results, completely unexpected that Xu Xiao could get such an amazing score.

Having secured a spot on the provincial team, Xu Xiao finally had nothing to worry about anymore.

Even if they can't advance further in the national finals and are directly admitted to Tsinghua University and Yanda University, at least they can get some points reduction qualification, which is an acceptable result.

The Yucai Math Competition team performed quite well this time. In addition to Xu Xiao and He Muzhou, two other students also made it into the provincial team.

The students' results were generally concentrated in the first and second place in the province, and even those who were slightly worse got the third place. No one went home empty-handed.

"The four students who have made it into the provincial team will need to report to the provincial team in a few days. I hope you can continue your efforts and achieve even better results in the national finals."

The provincial math competition team's training camp is being held at Shengjing University. The good news is that both are located in Shengjing, which is relatively close to Yucai School.

However, the training camp during this period was closed, and everything, including eating and sleeping, had to be done within Shengjing University.

After joining the provincial team, Xu Xiao will definitely not be as free as he was at Yucai High School; he will have to obey the team's arrangements in everything.

But such an effort is entirely worthwhile in order to perform better in the national finals.

After returning to the dormitory that evening, Yang Dun asked Xu Xiao about his results in the math competition.

"I heard the math competition results are in. How did it go, Xu Xiao? Did you get first place in the province?"