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"Xu Qiu, I have good news." After ten o'clock, Wei Xingsi suddenly appeared at the door of 216 and said:

"Your graduation thesis has been selected as one of the Top 10 Excellent Undergraduate Graduation Thesis of Shanghai Comprehensive University and Shanghai, which are honorary titles at the school level and provincial level respectively. This afternoon, reporters from Shanghai Radio and Television Station will come to talk to you. Interview."

"It's so sudden, do you need to do anything to prepare?" Xu Qiu asked, it was the first time he was going to be on TV in such a big age.

"You shouldn't need to prepare much. It's not a live broadcast. Just tell the truth when the time comes." Wei Xingsi smiled and said, "The reporter who came this time is an alumnus of the Shanghai University of Magic. They will definitely favor their alma mater and regard you as a positive role model. You don’t have to be too cautious if you’re here to promote it.”

"That's good." Xu Qiu nodded.

Wei Xingsi turned to Wu Feifei and the others and said, "Clean up the laboratory. A reporter will come to interview in the afternoon, and they may want to film scenes in the laboratory."

After Teacher Wei left, Xu Qiu logged on to the official websites of the school and departments to check. He knew that such news would usually be announced by announcement.

Sure enough, the department's "News Express" column had a piece of news published yesterday, "Congratulations to Xu Qiu from my department for being awarded the Top Ten Outstanding Undergraduate Graduation Thesis of the Metropolis".

Next to the "Research Trends" column, there are two press releases written by Xu Qiu before, "Wei Xingsi's research group from the Department of Materials Science has made important progress in the research of organic photovoltaic high-crystalline polymer donor materials", "Wei Xingsi's research team from the Department of Materials Science The group has made important progress in the research of organic photovoltaic 3D-PDI non-fullerene acceptors", it is the two articles he published before, AM and NC, and only this level of work can be published on the official website of the department.

Xu Qiu randomly scanned the outstanding work of other research groups. Although there are no academicians in the Department of Materials Science and Technology, there are also a few "Changjiang" scholars. However, in the past two years, each group has only one to three JACS, AM, For articles at the level of EES, there is no more powerful work, such as the major sub-journals of "Nature" or the main journal of CNS.

After some comparison, Mr. Wei's group has the most high-quality articles in the whole department, mainly from the field of organic photovoltaics that Xu Qiu is in charge of.

Xu Qiu looked at the school's official website again, and it announced the list of the top ten outstanding undergraduate graduation thesis of the Shanghai University of Magic. This shows that his graduation thesis has a high probability of scoring first.

In addition, there are Top Ten Undergraduate Graduation Thesis of Shanghai Magic City. Three papers were selected by our school, one from the Department of Materials Science, one from the Department of Journalism, one from the School of Management, and two papers from our sister school Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Five articles were divided among other colleges and universities such as Eastern Expedition University.

Although this kind of provincial honorary title will be inclined to the top colleges and universities, it cannot give all the places to the top, so it is relatively average.

As for whether Xu Qiu's graduation thesis will be rated as one of the top ten national outstanding undergraduate graduation thesis, he is not sure.

Theoretically, according to the quality of his graduation thesis, it should be among the top in the country, but this kind of honorary title has a lot of subjective elements in the evaluation, and there is plenty of room for manipulation, and we understand the national conditions.

Who knows what the origins of his competitors are.

If it is similar to the college entrance examination and the Olympic competition, it is relatively fair.

Speaking of the Olympiad, although Xu Qiu had gained 20 points in the college entrance examination by relying on the mathematics competition, there were bitter tears behind him.

The domestic Olympiads mainly have five directions, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, and informatics.

Among them, except for informatics, that is, computer competitions, Xu Qiu has signed up for all competitions.

As for computers, Xu Qiu didn't learn programming at school before. In computer classes, either the teacher was often sick, or the students played CS online. Players of this level went to the competition to deliver food.

The process of the other four major competitions is similar. It is almost the provincial preliminary competition, the semi-finals, and then select the best from the provincial first prize (provincial first) to participate in the national competition. It is said that some provinces have special prizes, but Xu Qiu's province does not have one. .

Xu Qiu didn't pass the preliminary physics competition, so he went straight to the street. Both biology and chemistry entered the semi-finals. If you enter the semi-finals, you will get a prize, and the minimum is to save three.

However, he won the second place in the province in the mathematics competition, won the first place in the province, entered the provincial team gloriously, and was sent to participate in the national competition.

In Xu Qiu's province, the provincial team has a total of three people, and the top three with one point in the province will compete.

The national competition is similar to the provincial competition, and there are national one to national three. In addition to certificates, medals will also be issued, also known as gold, silver and bronze awards.

It is said that each province has an initial quota of three people, with a maximum of ten people. Every time a gold medal is won, the subsequent competition quota will be permanently +1. Xu Qiu's province's best result is a silver medal, so there have always been only three quotas.

Although the country is a developing country, the differences between different provinces are very large.

For example, the provinces where the four major first-tier cities are located are actually no different from developed countries. After all, these provinces were originally "rich first and then rich later", bringing together the human, financial and resources of the whole country, giving priority to development, and the speed of development can be imagined At the same time, there are also some impoverished counties where you have to walk several miles to go to school.

The national competition was held in Ancheng, Shaanxi Province. Xu Qiu's homeroom teacher was a math teacher (male), and he personally took him there. It was also his first trip to Shaanxi Province.

What impressed me the most was that on the day Xu Qiu and the others arrived, the competition organizer had a banquet for all the candidates in the hotel where they were staying, and then Xu Qiu found that the dishes in Ancheng, Shaanxi Province were really spicy, and nine out of ten dishes were added with chili.

I still remember the faint pain in the chrysanthemum that night...

The next two days are the official exams, a total of six questions, three questions per day, and a limit of four and a half hours to complete. Each question is worth 21 points, and the total score is 126 points. This score is three times the score of the International Olympic Competition. Adapt to domestic habits.

In foreign countries, 5-point system, 7-point system, and 10-point system are not uncommon, but in China, 100-point system, 120-point system, 150-point system, and 750-point system are generally used, such high-score systems.

Xu Qiu thinks that the main reason is that there are too many people in the country, and the point system is too small to distinguish them, and the points are the only evaluation criteria, just like the total score of hundreds of points in the college entrance examination, there will still be a difference of one point. In the case of a difference of a few hundred places, if it is changed to a 10-point system, and 100,000 people get the same points, then there will be no mess.

As for the exam questions for the competition, Xu Qiu naturally doesn't know any of them...

Because they are all superclass advanced mathematics knowledge, including number theory and the like.

Many schools have special competition classes, and the three years of high school are all for preparing for the competition.

This kind of competition class is the gap between heaven and hell. If you pass it, you will be sent to C9 universities such as Qingbei University, Magic City Comprehensive University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Hangzhou University, etc. If you can’t pass it, some of them are in the second year of high school. Students, there is one more chance. If you take the exam in the third year of high school, it will be a bit miserable, and competitions are very talented. It doesn't mean that you can become stronger after studying for another year.

Xu Qiu became a monk halfway through, so he could only solve advanced mathematics with his elementary knowledge in high school, and it would be strange if he could solve the problems.

However, he still carried forward the self-cultivation of the examiners, and did not hand in the papers in advance. He has been working hard for four and a half hours. The 8-point test paper has an average of three pages for each question, and the paper is full.

Another impressive thing is that before entering the examination room, the test organizer will provide a bottle of water, a piece of Snickers chocolate, a banana, an orange, and a pack of biscuits. This is the first time Xu Qiu has seen food provided. The exam is still relatively novel.

The test results came out very quickly, not long after the test, probably on the spot.

With a full score of 126, Xu Qiu scored 6 points.

Six questions, 6 points, he suddenly realized that he would give me one point for hard work for each question.

The score line for this year is 9 points for the bronze award, 69 points for the silver award, and 99 points for the gold award.

6 points, not even the threshold for the bronze award.

However, Xu Qiu's homeroom teacher discussed with the organizers of the competition, and finally helped Xu Qiu get a bronze medal. After all, everyone came here, and it's not good for students to come here for nothing.

The other two from the same province as Xu Qiu were also bronze. Gan Province and Qing Province had a few who gave up the exam and got zero points. The most eye-catching one was Guangdong Province. Ten people participated, six gold and four silver, and three of them got perfect marks.

In the national mathematics competition, Xu Qiu successfully became a denominator, and almost returned empty-handed. Thinking about it, it is really a dark history...

PS: Today is the fourth update of the 4D.