Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 86: Two-pronged Approach

Chapter 86: Chapter 86: Two-pronged Approach

"First year of junior high school is the time to lay the foundations, there are so many formulas to learn! And in the subject of mathematics, solving problems requires the application of a variety of formulas. If you miss out on some parts, how could you possibly solve the problems in the second year?"

After hearing the homeroom teacher’s words, Zhen Yu was somewhat dumbfounded.

This was not what she had imagined...

Zhen Yu had imagined self-studying — the school would teach the first year content, and she would self-study the second year, working on both simultaneously.

By the end of the first year term, she would be able to take the final exams together with the second-year students and directly move on to third year.

The logic was impeccable! Unfortunately, the childhood memories that faded with the years were a hard hurt.

Unable to respond to Teacher Cao’s inquiries, Zhen Yu could only bow her head in silence.

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After finishing the cigarette in his hand and stubbing it out in the ashtray, Cao Yong spent the entire process deep in thought.

The office was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and no one disturbed him.

Clearly, after hearing this dialogue between the teacher and the student, the other teachers were not as calm on the inside as they appeared to be; each one was thinking to themselves.

Of course, there were also some who were just curious, simply wanting to know how things would unfold.

Zhen Yu was undoubtedly a very promising student. Since entering junior high school, except for dragging behind a bit in composition, she scored full marks in every subject.

Such an achievement was rare even in primary school, let alone in junior high school.

Any teacher would want such a good student in their class, and if trained properly, entering a key high school was definitely not a problem.

Teacher Cao too cherished talents, and after careful consideration, he thought it was feasible for her to skip a grade.

But skipping grades is one thing; not paying attention to the current lessons and instead self-studying the material for higher levels is simply putting the cart before the horse!

Cao Yong pondered how to persuade and educate this female student.

From his observation of Zhen Yu over the past two months, she was a very decisive and stubborn girl.

If he couldn’t win her agreement, it was likely that no matter how much he said, it wouldn’t change her decision.

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In fact, this was exactly the case.

After hearing Teacher Cao’s words, Zhen Yu took only a few seconds to make a new decision.

She had already nearly memorized all the formulas from the first term of the first year during the summer vacation and had also done some exercises to reinforce her memory.

Now, she only needed to learn the formulas from the second term of the first year in the same manner before she could start self-studying the second year content.

The reason Zhen Yu was so eager to skip a grade was because, after the junior high school reform extended it to four years, the physics and chemistry courses originally added in the second and third years were shifted to the third and fourth years.

If she couldn’t jump directly to third year, skipping from second year to fourth year would require self-studying an additional subject in physics.

That would be too difficult. Now that there was a shortcut available, why wouldn’t she take it?

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Ten minutes between classes simply didn’t allow Cao Yong the luxury of deep contemplation or lengthy discussions.

After a brief consideration, he decided to intervene forcefully.

"You can skip a grade if you want, and self-studying is also fine. But starting today, you must pay attention in class, even if the teacher is covering content you believe you’ve already mastered well! You can treat attending classes as if it’s a review. A solid foundation is what allows you to advance steadily! Do you understand?"

Zhen Yuxin didn’t quite agree with it.

She felt that for purely memorization-based subjects like history and geography, she really didn’t need to listen to the lessons again.

But she had been taught by Teacher Cao for three years in her previous life and had long understood his temperament, so she obediently replied, "I remember."

Teacher Cao knew that Zhen Yuxin might not truly accept this, but he only needed to ensure one thing — that during class, Zhen Yuxin was still learning the content meant for the first year of junior high.

He believed that with this girl’s abilities, merely dedicating class time to first-year knowledge was enough for her to learn it well.

As for self-study, after his advice, he believed she had already grasped the importance of progressing step by step.

"Go back, and pay attention in class!"

"Yes. Goodbye, Teacher."

Zhen Yu gave a gentle bow to the teachers present, turned around, and left the room.

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A week of intense revision later, the mid-term exam arrived as scheduled.

Since the exams were conducted at the same time throughout Siying School, the entire school was enveloped in a solemn atmosphere on that Friday.

Zhen Yu didn’t know about others, but from the discussions with her friends the night before Thursday, Zhen Yu found out that for the first year, the two classes were undergoing the exams simultaneously.

This was probably to prevent any leakages of the exam papers.

The exams were to start at 7:30 on Friday, and by 7:00, most of the students had already arrived.

To prevent the students from cheating by using cheatsheets, the seating arrangement had been completely mixed up.

All the desks had also been turned around the night before, with the desk slots facing forward and cleaned thoroughly.

But Zhen Yu dared to say that this was still useless.

Because by arranging four people in a row, it provided a great convenience for cheating. Even if each class was supervised by two proctors to strengthen monitoring, it was still not possible to completely prevent this age-old problem in test settings.

Because each day after school, Fu Yu would blatantly study with Fu Jiaoyang how to cheat.

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The proctors arrived at 20 past seven; they were Teacher Cheng who taught Chinese and Teacher Xu who taught biology.

The two female teachers first carefully divided the papers into small stacks of four, while the students below kept their eyes on the papers.

After sorting out the papers, Teacher Cheng checked her watch, "Still two minutes left, shall we distribute them?"

Teacher Xu nodded, took the papers to the left side of the stove, and while handing them out, said, "Don’t start writing yet! Wait for the bell!"

Teacher Cheng stood on the podium, overseeing the students below, "Pass them inwards from the outside, and make sure to check if any part is unclear or misprinted, and quickly exchange it~"

Indeed, a male student raised his hand.

After Teacher Xu finished distributing papers to half the classroom and returned to the podium, Teacher Cheng then went down from the podium, took the paper from the raised-hand male student to check, and confirmed that his paper was indeed misprinted due to a folded corner, before handing him a new one.

Soon, the exam papers on the right side of the stove were also all distributed.

Zhen Yu held her paper and quickly skimmed through the questions; the first subject was Chinese, and she was comfortable with the initial questions. However, when she flipped to the essay question, she felt somewhat perplexed.

The topic: "My Day"

Could be written in either the simple present or simple past tense, with a length requirement of 800 words.

Her day was just the routine of going to school and coming home... What was there to write about? How could she possibly achieve 800 words? Writing a mere account would definitely yield a low score!

Zhen Yu was worried when the bell rang.

At such a critical moment, time was limited.

Zhen Yu decided to just turn her paper back and complete the other questions first before contemplating the essay.

She picked up her pen and started swiftly writing her answers, filling in blanks and making selections without a pause, only stopping when she reached the reading comprehension section.

Teacher Cheng stood on the podium, although her gaze mostly swept across the room, she kept looking in Zhen Yu’s direction from the corner of her eye.