Chapter 375 Countdown to High School Graduation

On February 2022, 2, the nine-day winter vacation ended and students returned to school and classes.

The night before school started, Mu Zhengguang couldn't sleep. "No one can slow down the passage of time. All I can do is cherish every moment I spend with you." This simple and easy-to-understand truth was repeated dozens or even hundreds of times in his mind before he felt a little better.

On the first night of school, Mu Zhengguang suffered from insomnia again. It would be nice if time could go slower. But how could time go slower for one person?

If only it had been longer.

From then on, Mu Zhengguang would run to school whenever he had time, arriving early in the morning, at noon, and at night. After the evening self-study session, the lights in the classroom would stay on for another half an hour, and he would never leave school before the lights were turned off.

He made good use of the time in school to study. He did red, blue, yellow, and green test papers one after another. He practiced multiple-choice questions, big questions, and every subject.

Striving is not for becoming a hard-working person in the eyes of the teacher, nor is it for obtaining those illusory high scores, nor is it for being able to say with reason and evidence that you were a hard-working person and had a meaningful senior year of high school many years later.

Rather, this time should not be wasted!
The time I spend with you is shortening by the second, how can I spend it in a daze! Even if you are not in the classroom, I look at your desk and your books and dare not neglect them at all. Moreover, in the right and wrong answers, it seems that people can forget the passage of time.

On February 2, there are 26 days left until the college entrance examination.

March 3th and 12th, the fifth mock exam.

Even if the teacher didn't tell the students the dates of the mock exams half a month in advance, most students would be able to figure it out. It's just Saturday or Sunday. The 5th or 6th is too early, and the 19th or 20th is too late. So the only dates left are 12th or 13th, right?

In the fifth mock exam, Mu Zhengguang scored 567 points and Xu scored 574 points.

April is here, the weather is getting warmer, and some students have already put on short-sleeved shirts.

The second class on Thursday morning is physical education.

In every physical education class, except for the first few minutes when everyone has to gather together, everyone can move freely at other times.

The teacher provided badminton, basketball, football, table tennis and skipping rope.

The skipping rope was the least popular. All other sports equipment were taken away, but the skipping rope remained in place.

The teacher provided four sets of badminton rackets, and Mu Zhengguang always got one of them. He and Xu played badminton, walked, ran, bought water, and drank water together, and time passed like this.

In the first half of the semester, teachers would emphasize not to fall in love, but in the second half, teachers never said it was okay again. Perhaps they were afraid that a sudden breakup would affect students' mood and then affect their academic performance.

As the weather gets hotter, students are putting more and more enthusiasm and sweat in physical education classes.

After physical education class there is Chinese class.

The Chinese teacher was a middle-aged woman. Her lectures were very interesting and she talked about a lot of topics, some of which were not related to the exam. Once in class, she talked about Lu Xun's income as a teacher. After talking about Mr. Lu Xun, she said, "The salary in our school is really low. Fortunately, I am easy to support. A handful of noodles is enough for me."

Mu Zhengguang was deeply impressed by this.

It is also very interesting when she calls her classmates' names. She always shortens three words to two words.

Mu Zhengguang is referred to as "Zhengguang" for short, and sometimes Xu also calls him that.

Mu Zhengguang's Chinese score was not excellent, but this did not affect his love for the Chinese class in the third year of high school. The Chinese teacher had long hair, and some bold female students would secretly touch her hair when she was walking around in the classroom and not paying attention. The teacher never cared about it.

It's another physical education class.

The Chinese teacher looked at the sweaty students and listened to the sound of them fanning themselves with books, without showing the slightest displeasure.

Chinese is probably the least important of the six subjects in the senior year of high school, and the Chinese homework is also the least of the six subjects. Other subjects can be improved by doing practice questions, but doing practice questions in Chinese is really meaningless.

After a physical education class, the students were exhausted and panting. In this class, she didn't need to call them to answer questions or check any homework. When she was teaching, the students just needed to interact with her a little. She knew that the students were always willing to interact with her, so she never worried.

Among the six subjects, biology has the lowest full score of 90 points.

After entering April, most of the biology class was spent on taking tests, and the teacher would then spend more than ten minutes explaining the test.

Starting from the second half of the second year of high school, the way the biology exam was explained changed.

The teacher would ask, "Which question do you not know? Those who do not know, raise your hands." "If there are many people, I will explain it. If there are few people, I will not explain it." This is what the teacher said. The teacher's approach is different. As long as someone raises their hand, even if there is only one person, that question must be explained.

In the third year of high school, there are only six multiple-choice questions in a biology test paper. The teacher will still ask "Who got the first question wrong? Do you want to explain it?" At this time, students do not need to raise their hands to vote. The test paper graded by computer records the correct rate of each multiple-choice question. The teacher can judge the difficulty of a question by the correct rate and then decide whether to explain it.

Mu Zhengguang thought that the teacher asked whether they needed explanations because he might want to know which students needed explanations and which students did not.

For Mu Zhengguang, biology class was easy. In a 45-minute class, he could finish two test papers and get more than 80 points in both. This was considered getting better.

Mu Zhengguang thinks the most stressful course has never changed: physics.

In biology, chemistry and physics classes, students have to do and explain the papers in class. The difference is that he can do two biology papers and one chemistry paper in one class, while it takes two classes to do and explain one physics paper.

The physics teacher would also ask, "Who got it wrong? Raise your hand." For various reasons, some students got it wrong but didn't raise their hands. Mu Zhengguang was one of them. The teacher would also ask, "Anyone who didn't understand, raise your hand." Some students didn't understand but didn't raise their hands. Mu Zhengguang was one of them.

The sixth mock exam will be held on April 4th and 15th.

Xu's seventeenth birthday was on April 4. Mu Zhengguang gave her a golden hourglass.

There is not much time left in high school and the graduation ceremony is just around the corner.

After the sixth mock exam, the homework for each subject was greatly reduced. Every day in class, it was nothing more than doing exercises and explaining exercises. This was the case for all subjects, including Chinese. In one class, we did exercises, and in the next class, we explained exercises. The time between them was a little longer, but the essence remained the same.

Mathematics is the most time-consuming, whether it is doing the exercises or explaining the exercises. Sometimes, in order to finish explaining the last question, half a class and the entire blackboard would be used. Later, in order to save trouble or because there was no time, the teacher would use detailed answers instead of explanations. The detailed answers were very long, even longer than the test paper.

The amount of homework assigned by teachers has been reduced, but the pressure on students has not been reduced.

After the evening self-study, more and more people stayed in the classroom. At first there were more than ten people, then more than twenty people, and later more than thirty people. They stayed in the classroom not all to study, some of them were chatting.

It is unusual for them to stay in the classroom after school and chat with their classmates. Maybe they did not study hard, but seeing the college entrance examination approaching, they must be under great pressure. Mu Zhengguang can understand these people very well. At first, he was the one who stayed in the classroom to study, and now, he is the one who stayed in the classroom to study and chat.

(End of this chapter)