A great director who grew up happily

Chapter 200 Subject Competition Examination

At the registration desk of the academic competition venue, Chen Jinnian roughly estimated the number of contestants. Even if those whose information had already been verified were excluded, there were still nearly two hundred people queuing here.

Qiao Yingzi looked at the long line and complained, "There are too many participants."

"There's no other way. There are simply too many high schools in Beijing. My uncle said that just from Dongcheng District, Xicheng District and Chaoyang District alone, there are a total of 312 contestants submitted. If you include Haidian District and Fengtai District, the number would at least double." After Huang Zhitao finished speaking, he hurried to look at the questions.

Many other contestants were the same. Even if they had to stand in line, they couldn't waste their study time.

Of course, there are occasional exceptions, such as Chen Jinnian, who was doing nothing and looking around.

"Hey, you should also make good use of your time to learn." Qiao Yingzi patted his back and reminded him.

"What do you want me to learn? I've heard of math competitions, physics competitions, and chemistry competitions over the years, but when have you ever heard of a Chinese language competition? The only thing I can think of that's even remotely related is the composition competition." Chen Jinnian turned around and complained.

"Yeah, it seems like what you said is right."

This form of competition is almost tailor-made for science. In terms of value, mathematics competitions and physics competitions are the highest. Those with the best results can be directly submitted to Tsinghua University. Chemistry competitions are slightly worse, but are also recognized by all universities.

Biology competitions have the lowest value because biology is a liberal arts subject in the science field, so the results are not convincing. Only national award results are useful.

As for the liberal arts, I'm sorry, there are no competitions in politics, history and geography. If you want to go the competition route, you can only take the National Innovation English Competition and the Innovation Composition Competition. But if you want to get good results in these two tracks, it really depends on luck.

At least you have to be at the level where smoke is coming out of your ancestral grave to have a possibility of success.

After hearing what Chen Jinnian said, Cheng Mengxue closed the book in her hand, turned around and asked, "So you are planning to give up?"

"It's not like we should give up. We'll just take it one step at a time. It's just like when a bear is chasing us. We don't need to run faster than the bear, we just need to run faster than everyone else."

In fact, Chen Jin has not been idle during this period. He spent 4 skill points to improve his reading and memory ability from Lv3 to Lv4, reaching elite memory ability.

His long-term memory ability didn't improve much, but his short-term memory ability increased significantly, almost two to three times. He used this week to go through all the information Pan Shuai gave him and memorized most of the content.

However, this is also a huge burden for him. Chen Jin feels that his brain can no longer accommodate anything else, and these short-term memories can only be maintained for four or five days at most.

If one twentieth of it can be converted into long-term memory by then, that would be a very optimistic estimate.

With the orderly registration of the contestants, it didn't take too long before they passed the information verification and entered the venue.

This subject competition is divided into two rounds. The first round is a closed-book exam, which is responsible for preliminary screening. The scores of two contestants from each school are added together to form a total score, and the contestants are ranked from high to low. The top 20% of the contestants will enter the second exam.

The second round is an on-site exam, in which students are required to answer questions given by the teacher within the specified time.

So as soon as they entered, this group of students from Chunfeng Middle School dispersed and rushed to their own examination rooms. The number of people in each examination room was the same, with 26 candidates from 52 schools.

Chen Jinnian and Cheng Mengxue were only allowed in after being asked to hand over all their personal belongings.

The examination room was very large, with a considerable distance between each seat. There was also a sealed manila envelope on each table, and quite a few surveillance cameras were installed. He casually glanced around and found seven or eight cameras.

"Which school are you from?" asked an invigilator holding a seating chart.

"Chunfeng Middle School." Chen Jinnian replied.

"Third row, fourth column, and fourth row, fourth column from the left. Your names and photos are affixed to the envelopes. Once you are seated, you are not allowed to open the envelopes without permission until the exam begins."

"Thank you, teacher."

After all the candidates enter the venue, the first exam of the subject competition officially begins.

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In the invigilation offices of each subject, invited professors were already sitting there, monitoring the candidates' every move through a real-time large screen, and also communicating in a low voice about the questions for the second round.

The door to the Chinese language department's room opened, and in walked a short-haired woman in her forties wearing black-framed glasses. She greeted everyone with an apologetic look, "I'm so sorry, there's so much going on at the station, I accidentally got delayed."

"I didn't expect Director Yan to come here in person. Aren't you preparing a new program? How did you find time to come here?" Professor Kang from Beijing Normal University asked. It was obvious that they were all old acquaintances.

"Like everyone else, I came here to see if there are any outstanding talents."

After Director Yan exchanged greetings with several professors, she stood in front of the screen and carefully observed the candidates answering questions in the examination room. She had known about this subject competition a long time ago, and the reason why she attached so much importance to it was because she had an extremely important program in her hands, "Chinese Poetry Competition".

Since the success of "Chinese Character Spelling Competition" and "Chinese Idiom Competition", "Chinese Poetry Competition" has also been put on the agenda. It has taken two years from the initial project establishment to the preparation. There are more than 20 sets of program process plans alone.

With such a good example before it, and the fact that it was first broadcast on a comprehensive channel after the Spring Festival, this program can only succeed and cannot fail.

But judging from the initial rehearsals, the on-site effect was not particularly good, especially in terms of on-site guests. She has always hoped to select more suitable people.

As she watched, her eyes suddenly lit up. She pointed at one of the surveillance images and said, "Hello, can you enlarge this image?"

"which one?"

"Monitoring No. 5"

"Okay, right away."

As the staff tapped the keyboard a few times and gently dragged the monitoring window, the image from camera No. 5 filled the entire large screen.

Director Yan quickly took a few steps back, adjusted her glasses and looked to the left side of the surveillance screen. It was this pair of men and women sitting next to each other that caught her attention, especially the boy on the far left, who was too conspicuous among the candidates.