From child prodigy to chief scientist

Xu Xiao has been giving it his all lately, but he still feels like he has reached his limit.

"It seems that getting into the national team is still too difficult for me. I'll try my best to answer the first four questions correctly and get into the national team."

Generally, the minimum score for international students is no more than 80 points. Given Xu Xiao's current form, he still has a good chance of reaching that goal.

Even if the International Finance program doesn't guarantee direct admission, as long as students can get a score reduction, the pressure during the college entrance exam can be significantly reduced.

On that very day, the system interface, which had been silent for some time, suddenly displayed new messages.

The keyword task has been updated.

【1. Mathematical Intuition】

[Entry Task: Comprehend 50 CMO-level questions]

[Effect of this entry: Makes it easier to find the correct approach when solving math problems]

[Increases learning efficiency in mathematics by 20%]

【2. Language Master】

[Entry Task: Master at least three different human languages]

[Effect of this entry: Increases the learning speed of any human language by 50% when exposed to it]

[After learning a language through deep learning, one can acquire a native-level language sense much faster.]

3. Noise shielding

[Entry Task: Accumulate 50 hours of learning under noisy conditions]

[Entry Effect: Allows you to actively choose to completely block one type of noise]

[Significantly improved tolerance to arbitrary noise]

Please choose one of the three task categories.

"A new entry quest... I've finally been waiting for you."

Ignoring the ongoing training camp, Xu Xiao immediately focused his attention on the three newly updated keywords.

After reading just the first entry, Xu Xiao was basically certain that this was the choice he had made.

Mathematical intuition is a skill that Xu Xiao desperately needs right now. Acquiring this skill would allow Xu Xiao's mathematical talent to undergo a qualitative leap.

While understanding 50 math competition finals-level problems is not easy, it can be accomplished little by little over time.

However, when Xu Xiao saw the second entry, he was also somewhat tempted.

If you could become a "language master," learning a foreign language would be much easier in the future.

However, compared to mathematical intuition, this term is less appealing and not a skill that Xu Xiao urgently needs.

As for the third entry, "noise shielding".

It does have some merit in terms of effectiveness. If there are uncontrollable noises such as magpie calls nearby, one can be completely free from such influences.

However, such situations are relatively rare, especially since one already has focused keywords, which inherently provide some resistance to noise.

At this point, choosing "noise words" becomes extremely cost-effective.

Almost without hesitation, Xu Xiao silently recited in his mind:

"System, I choose the first one, the vocabulary task related to mathematical intuition!"

[The "Mathematical Intuition" vocabulary task has been activated]

[Number of CMO-level questions the host has understood: 0/50]

Seeing the progress of the entry task, Xu Xiao felt slightly disappointed.

"As expected, the statistics were only taken after the mission started; the questions I understood before were not included in the calculation."

However, this is quite normal. If previous questions were included, Xu Xiao would probably be close to completing the task by now.

"Wait a minute... if I review and understand the problems I've already solved, will that also be included in the calculation?"

Thinking of this, Xu Xiao quickly took out the problems he had done and tried them out.

Unfortunately, Xu Xiao's cleverness still failed.

Based on the pattern of previous term tasks in the system, the content of term tasks is generally related to the effect of the term.

Simply repeating the understanding of problems you've already mastered won't bring any substantial learning results.

"It seems I have no choice but to honestly do the tasks."

Since that's the case, Jing Xuxiao stopped deliberately looking for shortcuts and immediately started searching for problems he hadn't done before, learning them from scratch.

Solving a CMO-level question like this takes a lot of time.

Even for relatively easy medium-difficulty questions, being able to solve them in 30 to 40 minutes is considered quite fast.

After spending more than half an hour completing a question, Xu Xiao finally saw that the progress of the entry on the system interface had become 1/50.

"At this rate, we should be able to complete this entry task before the national finals."

With the blessing of mathematical intuition, entering the National Assembly is not impossible.

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Over the next few days, Xu Xiao devoted most of his time to this task.

One of the nice things about this task is that there is no limit to the difficulty of the questions.

According to the system's requirements, these questions only need to meet the CMO level.

Therefore, theoretically, Xu Xiao could have chosen 50 medium-difficulty questions, which should have met the system's standards.

Xu Xiao did indeed plan it that way at first, but as the mission progressed, he realized that the situation was not as ideal as it seemed.

If the questions are highly similar, or even if only some data has been changed, the system will not count them repeatedly, even if a new question is introduced.

The number of past exam questions and mock exam questions for CMO is relatively limited to begin with, and Xu Xiao has already done some of the questions before, so it is not easy to find so many medium-difficulty questions.

This forced Xu Xiao to shift his attention back to the more difficult problems.

The difficulty of these types of questions is on a completely different level.

Medium-difficulty questions like the first and second CMO questions can still be solved using knowledge from the league, but the content of the questions is more extensive, roughly equivalent to the combined content of two challenging questions from the second round of the league.

CMO questions three and four are problems that cannot be covered by the knowledge required for the league. They can only be solved by combining university-level mathematics knowledge with some original constructions.

For such difficult problems, Xu Xiao needs at least an hour to complete them, and sometimes it may take him an hour and a half, and he may even get stuck.

Fortunately, this task does not require Xu Xiao to solve these questions independently. Even if he cannot solve a question, he can fully understand it after seeing the answer.

In order to complete the task as soon as possible, Xu Xiao decided that after completing the practical training exercises he knew how to do, he could hand in the papers early and study on his own.

He doesn't yet have the ability to solve the final question in the national finals, so spending too much time on it wouldn't be very meaningful.