Cheng Ran knew that his father might look generous and cheerful, but in fact, he would never change his mind easily. He was the kind of person who would not only listen to what you said, but also watch how you acted. Judging from the big data of Cheng Ran's upbringing, even if Cheng Ran talked a lot, it would not change his decision.
The only thing that can change his decision and get him back on track is what Cheng Ran actually does and the tangible results. At this time, if he earns a sum of money to pay the high price of high school, it may not necessarily change his father's decision, and may even cause trouble such as a crisis of trust.
Therefore, getting into No. 1 Middle School was the most urgent matter. On the other hand, it was never too late to learn. In his previous life, he died of overwork because he was tied to too many things. Later, he even had little time to read books to enrich himself. As for studying hard, it was even more of a luxury.
Therefore, at this time, Cheng Ran is filled with a feeling of nostalgia and longing for learning, and even awe and devotion to knowledge. It is important to have no regrets in a reborn life, but as time goes by, what makes you not regret the time you spent in the past? The answer is to do meaningful things or improve yourself.
He just wanted to be a sponge, diligently absorbing the knowledge that he had once ignored. Even a little bit would make him sip a drop of dew in a dry desert.
Let’s start with the first goal first, so after dinner Cheng Ran stayed in the room and took out the materials of various subjects from the three years of junior high school to read through them.
Although Cheng Ran in his later life did not go to a very good university, he learned from his mistakes in high school and was not left too far behind in the end. He entered a non-key major in a 211 university, so he still had some basic knowledge. Not to mention working for many years, traveling and going on business trips abroad, he was already very familiar with English. The content of junior high school was mostly about listening and the use of grammatical contexts, which was almost no difficulty for him. Except for some very rigid sentences that were different from spoken language, which he was a little slow to react to for a while, most of the others were clear at a glance. What he was holding in his hand was actually the Shanhai City Middle School Entrance Examination paper issued by the school last year. He wanted to see if there was any problem in answering the paper at his current level.
The result was that there was no problem, but when he compared the answers later, he was deducted 10 points for the use of some uncommon grammar. Even if he didn't know some words, he could judge their meanings by combining them with the context. Therefore, the problem for him in English was to be more careful, do a few more papers, and make up for the problems. Basically, there was no problem, and it was not difficult to get full marks.
This is a really moving conclusion...
Chinese. After looking at a few papers, he was tested on some uncommon characters or pronunciations, such as "菡萏", "毰毸", "濩落", "瀺灂"... These can be improved by focusing on uncommon characters. There is no problem with the usage of idioms and words. The biggest problem is actually in classical Chinese and reading comprehension questions. Classical Chinese filling in the blanks requires rote memorization. If you miss a word, it won't work. Cheng Ran has lost a lot. Now he wants to pick it up again, and the only way is to increase the amount of reading.
As for the reading comprehension questions based on prose analysis, they are what give Cheng Ran a headache. They are not about understanding and analyzing an article, but about what kind of connotation is reflected behind the description of a situation, what kind of mood the author has, what he hopes for, and even other messy and weird associations...
Cheng Ran remembered that a writer once said that his articles were included in the Chinese language test questions. When he tried them himself, he got them all wrong. He didn’t even know the author’s thoughts and state of mind in the standard answers for his own article… For this kind of reading questions, there is only one strategy, the same as studying classical Chinese, which is to look at the correct answers more often and then answer them verbatim, without any room for free expression.
As for physics and chemistry, in fact, these two subjects in junior high school are not difficult. Physics is basically some application related to life phenomena, which is generally thermodynamics, resistance, voltage and current. The difficulty of the questions is mostly around Ampere's law, circuit to find the change of current and voltage of the sliding resistor. Chemistry tests chemical equations and the experimental process of chemical reactions. Some have small traps, mainly testing carefulness, but this is basically a low-level question setter. A more clever question setter will combine experimental questions with various reaction patterns. From the replacement reaction of blast furnace ironmaking to various additional reactions to rust removal with dilute sulfuric acid.
Generally speaking, these two subjects still require the memorization of formulas and theorems. It is not difficult for Cheng Ran to pick them up again at this moment.
As for mathematics, the formulas and theorems are a little unfamiliar, but these can be made up. Moreover, most of the math questions at this time are within the syllabus, but some of the questions that pull the score are suspected of being beyond the syllabus. There is no way, this is the means to distinguish some top students. In fact, in terms of the main syllabus questions of mathematics now, ignoring the factors of carelessness, many top students can almost get full marks. At this time, some questions are needed to widen the gap.
Some of these questions are even Mathematical Olympiad questions, and some are only learned in high school. This tests the students' mastery of the question bank. However, for Cheng Ran, he is least afraid of the content beyond the syllabus. Although he has forgotten a lot of the mathematics he learned in high school, some of the memory points are still there, and he can apply them to other things. Many of them are not difficult for him. Of course, the premise is that he still needs to review them systematically.
I also encountered some very interesting math problems, such as this one, "In order to understand the health status of the elderly in a certain city, some of the elderly are randomly selected for investigation. Which of the following methods of selecting the elderly is the most appropriate: A. Select 100 female elderly people. B. Select 100 male elderly people. C. Select 100 elderly people in the park. D. Select 10 points in cities and towns, and select five elderly people at each point."
Although he may have been a little carried away, some of the questions did seem to him like even a child today could answer them... and these kinds of questions had appeared in previous high school entrance exams.
As for ideology and politics, Cheng Ran came into contact with a lot of these in later life. Now it seems that many things also require a process of reviewing and picking up again.
After reviewing the previous junior high school entrance examination question books, he made a review plan.
English: Basically, there is no need to review. Just read some English reading books every day. If conditions permit, read some foreign newspapers.
Chinese: Plan to spend four days to review the most important classical Chinese texts and famous essays and miscellaneous articles in the textbooks.
Physics: Five days to review all theorems.
Chemistry: Five days, also reviewing theorems, chemical equations, and reaction collections.
Ideology and politics: Seven days is enough for rote memorization and laying a foundation.
Mathematics: Five days, mainly formulas, one set of high school entrance examination papers every day to check for deficiencies and fill in the gaps.
In addition, although he usually passes the physical education exam by getting up early in the morning and running, Cheng Ran does not exercise for the sake of grades, but to cherish his young body that has not been damaged by alcohol and sex. He wants to nip all bad habits in the bud. The word "health" is only understood by those who have experienced it, and it is something that cannot be replaced by any amount of wealth or status.
Overall, it will take him less than a month to fully master the junior high school knowledge.
A fulfilling, unprecedented new life has just begun...