mtl008 Chapter 295 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 11
Chapter 295 The Little Deaf-Mute of the Era 11
However, once they started learning high school material, their pace slowed down. Anyone who has been to high school knows that this kind of thing can't be rushed.
However, the courses back then were not as demanding as they are now, and my family just wanted to avoid any regrets. As for how good a school I would get into, they never dared to hope for that.
I just don't want to be eliminated directly. If I can get into a regular university or even a regular junior college, I'll still be lucky.
Moreover, as long as you can memorize the textbook, you can get at least 80 out of 100 in humanities subjects. As for math, physics, and chemistry, you can only learn as much as you can.
Liu Yuxi knew when the college entrance examination would be reinstated. If it weren't for the fact that it couldn't be announced in advance, he certainly wouldn't have waited until 76 to guide his family.
Now that her family had the idea, she arranged the courses very tightly. For a whole year, Liu Xiaozhu and his wife studied for at least ten hours a day without a break. It was a real cramming method of teaching, and they were really sick of studying.
The two had protested, but Zhang Dani suppressed them directly. After all, no one knew when the college entrance examination would resume. The professors had already returned to the city. What if it resumed next month?
Therefore, focus on finishing all the lessons as soon as possible. If the college entrance examination has not been reinstated by the time you finish, then gradually fill in the gaps in your knowledge and deepen your understanding.
Studying, especially studying diligently, is very mentally taxing. That year, not only did Liu Yuxi frequently bring back pheasants and rabbits, but Zhang Dani also often brought home meat, just in case they both got too tired from studying.
As a result, over the course of a year, both of them lost seven or eight pounds. You have to understand that there were hardly any fat people at that time. People who were already thin lost seven or eight pounds, and from a distance, they looked like two bamboo poles, one tall and one short.
After the two finished studying all the high school textbooks, they slept for a whole day and night. Liu Yuxi didn't arrange any more classes after that, since it was almost time to finish.
Liu Yuxi started creating test papers for each subject. She had many ready-made ones in her online space, so she only needed to copy them. Every day after work, the four siblings, along with Liu Xiaozhu and his wife, would do a set of test papers to check for and fill in any gaps in their knowledge. When they went to work, they would also quiz each other and memorize, focusing on not forgetting what they had learned and practicing what they were not familiar with repeatedly.
There are no secrets in the village. When discussing the rehabilitation of those people within their own family, the women in the family would inevitably bring up these matters when chatting with other villagers, since it was considered current news.
During casual conversations, some speculations about the future inevitably arise. After all, the Liu family values education, and if there are any children of school age in the family, they will naturally talk about it when they return home.
There were also families in the village who had married educated youth, and with the wives and sons-in-law visiting relatives during the Spring Festival, eventually, everyone in the town who had such ideas began to quietly prepare.
When the news of the resumption of the college entrance examination came, there were less than two months left before the exam. The educated youth in the village were going crazy. The brigade leader did not make things difficult for them, allowing them to work half a day in the morning and stay in the afternoon to study.
Of course, those educated youth who considered themselves to be good at studying and whose families were relatively well-off were allowed to take a complete break from work for the two months. The brigade did not force them to do so. His regulations were mainly aimed at those educated youth who had poor living conditions and were not very confident in passing the exam. After all, they still needed to eat.
As for those educated youth who had already married into the brigade, after completing their marriage certificates and writing down their detailed family addresses, and after the brigade verified their information, no one stopped them from taking the college entrance examination. It was just a matter of going to the educated youth office.
In recent years, there have been educated youth returning to the city from surrounding areas. You should know that the first batch of educated youth sent to the countryside was in the 1950s. Some of them abandoned their families and businesses. If one such case came out, it would spread throughout the surrounding villages.
The Liu family has been around for hundreds of years, so they have a lot of experience and knowledge. Moreover, the family members are united. The clan chief had already made it clear that either you shouldn't marry someone from the village, or if you do marry, you should live a quiet and honest life. Otherwise, you'll have to wait for the Liu family to come after you.
The educated youth in the village had lived here for at least three years and understood the nature of the villagers. So, even if they had some ideas, they suppressed them and obediently followed the instructions.
What else can be done? Every year when work points are calculated, the village sets aside a sum of money as a public fund, which is deposited in a separate savings account and kept by the clan chief.
This money is used to handle some village affairs, such as subsidizing elderly people living alone, repairing village public facilities, and paying medical expenses for people who have accidents while working or hunting.
It's obvious that if they have other ideas after returning to the city, this money will be used for the villagers' bus tickets, lodging, and food. No way, no way. Luckily, they all found wives and husbands they liked. If all else fails, they can just drag their wives and husbands along to learn together.
For the past two months, the village primary school has been filled with kerosene lamps brought by each family on the evenings. People gather together, either discussing things in small groups, listening to the four Liu siblings summarize key points in a few classrooms, or copying the stack of test papers from various subjects brought by the Liu family. After copying, they do the tests themselves and then check for any gaps in their knowledge.
Originally, Liu Xiaozhu and his wife weren't very confident. After all, the other students had studied for three years in high school, while they had only studied for one year. When they did practice tests recently, there were many knowledge points that they couldn't remember. Compared to Liu Yushan and his three siblings, they were far behind.
But after everyone gathered together to study, their confidence returned instantly. After all, only a dozen or so people in the village had graduated from high school in the past few years, while the others either had junior high school education or were still in high school. The educated youth had been away from school for at least three years.
After completing a test paper with these people, Liu Xiaozhu and his wife privately remarked that their chances of passing the exam were still quite high, since many people in their village had studied in advance, while most people across the country probably hadn't.
With a changed mindset, the couple studied with even more enthusiasm. They had some family resources, and their younger children were cared for by Zhang Dani, Wang Xiaomei, and Niu Xiaolan. Aside from washing their own clothes, the couple had virtually nothing else to do; all their energy was focused on their studies. Everyone was studying; they couldn't let anyone else catch up.
That exam also roughly divided the people in the village who were going to take the college entrance exam into three levels. The first level was those who hadn't forgotten their high school knowledge. If you helped them review the knowledge, they could fill in the gaps in their knowledge by doing the test. Of course, there were very few people like this, just a few high school graduates in the village who had graduated two years ago.
The second type is someone who still has some recollection of junior and senior high school knowledge, but when you test them, they seem unsure about everything. This is because they have neglected the knowledge for too long and can only go through it all again from the beginning. As for whether there is time to do more practice questions later, it depends on the individual's progress.
The third type is those who graduated from junior high school and did not attend high school, or those who attended high school but did not study much. These people are unlikely to pass the exam this year, but since the college entrance examination has been reinstated, there will be a second time. So those who are not giving up will still gather together to continue studying and prepare for the future.