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Ning Chen also felt that this arrangement was more appropriate. Although Tong Yicheng could be regarded as a teacher on the team, he was still a doctoral student after all. The apparent age difference between him and Ning Chen was relatively small, so they would not appear so constrained by each other.

The day before the finals started, the teachers brought Ning Chen to Shuimu University to familiarize themselves with the examination room of the finals.

The management of Shuimu University is relatively strict. Ning Chen and others were only allowed to enter the campus after registering their identities at the door.

Ning Chen had been to Shuimu University in his previous life. His biggest impression of Shuimu University was that the campus was extremely large. If he wanted to walk around the campus, he would have to walk for an hour or two.

Fortunately, there are many places to rent cars on campus. You can save a lot of time by riding around the campus.

The examination room for the finals was located in the Liao Kaiyuan Building of Shuimu University. Ning Chen first went to the examination room to register, and then walked around the examination room.

After walking around the campus for a while, everyone didn't stay on campus for too long. After dinner, they returned to the hotel early to rest.

The next day, after breakfast, Liao Jun and others took Ning Chen outside the examination room of the finals.

"Ning Chen, you go in and take the exam, we will wait for you outside."

Ning Chen felt like a student taking the college entrance examination, escorted by several "parents", but Ning Chen also knew how important the results of this competition were to them, and he still understood their feelings.

"Okay, teachers, I'm going in."

Entering Liao Kaiyuan Building, Ning Chen first signed in the sign-in book, and then prepared to go to the examination room of the first subject to take the exam.

At this moment, Ning Chen heard someone say from behind:

"Are you Ning Chen from Shengzhou University?"

Ning Chen looked back and found an unknown boy.

"Well, what's wrong?"

"It's nothing. I have heard of you for a long time. Today I can finally get to know you in person. I am Tang Ding from Shuimu University."

Tang Ding happened to be signing in behind Ning Chen just now, so he recognized Ning Chen's identity.

Ning Chen felt that Tang Ding's attitude seemed a bit strange, but after all, it was the first time that the two met, and Ning Chen was not sure whether his feeling was correct.

"If I remember correctly, you should have ranked first in the semi-final written examination of Algebra and Number Theory."

When Ning Chen looked at the results, he was also somewhat impressed by the name Tang Ding.

Although Ning Chen doesn't pay attention to other people's results, after all, Ning Chen's memory is very good now, and he can roughly remember some things at a glance.

According to Ning Chen's memory, Tang Ding not only ranked first in the semi-finals of algebra and number theory, but also ranked among the top fifteen in three other subjects.

Because the final individual all-around award is based on the sum of each student's three highest scores, it can be said that Tang Ding is Ning Chen's biggest competitor for the individual all-around award.

"Yes, you remembered correctly. Compared with yours, my semi-final results were inferior. I hope that in the finals, we can both show our 'real' strength and have a good competition."

Tang Ding's words sounded harmless on the surface, but after all, Ning Chen was a person who had experienced two lives, and he immediately understood Tang Ding's psychology.

"This kid...does he suspect that there is something wrong with my semi-final results?"

To be fair, Ning Chen's results in the semi-finals were achieved entirely by his own strength, and he didn't even use plug-ins like excitement mode.

However, Ning Chen also understood Tang Ding's psychology. After all, he came from a low-ranking 985 university. If it were him, he would probably have some doubts in his heart.

But doubts are doubts, and it would be a bit impolite for Tang Ding to say these things to him face to face.

Ning Chen did not show any anger, but said with a smile:

"It's just an exam. Just focus on your own answers. I don't want to compete with anyone."

After saying these words, Ning Chen ignored Tang Ding and went straight to the examination room.

Tang Ding originally thought that after he said this, Ning Chen would feel flustered because he had a ghost in his heart, but he didn't expect that Ning Chen would be so calm and calm.

It was like hitting a fist on cotton. Not only did it not cause any harm to the other party, but Tang Ding himself felt that his heart was blocked and he could not vent it out.

After entering the examination room, Tang Ding's emotions were still fluctuating, and he could only try to suppress his emotions.

Ning Chen, on the other hand, was really not affected at all by what happened just now. He was in a very calm mood and did not feel as nervous as he did in the semi-finals.

In terms of mental age, Ning Chen has an absolute advantage that no other student can compare with.

As the bell rang to start the exam, everyone picked up their pens and started answering.

The difficulty of the written test in this finals was obviously a level higher than that in the semi-finals, but Ning Chen had been fully prepared before, and questions of this difficulty were completely within Ning Chen's ability to bear.

Other students in the examination room were not stumped by questions of this difficulty. After all, many students here have achieved good results in other mathematics competitions and have rich competition experience.

Many students finish their answers before the exam ends and use the remaining time to check.

The first subject exam was over. After everyone handed in their papers, they came out of the exam room and chatted about the content of the exam while walking.

"The difficulty of this question is not bad. You can tell at a glance that the first question is about harmonic functions, so you can kill it instantly."

"The second question has a similar question type in Schweitzer's book. Just change it a little and fit it in."

"The fourth question is actually a Heisenberg inequality. First integrate the points, and then apply Cauchy's inequality and Plancherel's theorem, and everything will come out."

Everyone's words when discussing the questions were very simple, and it sounded as if they were doing difficult questions for junior high school students.

However, Ning Chen could tell from it that these students were indeed masters of mathematics, and their ideas for solving these questions were completely correct.

"There seems to be something wrong with the fifth question. Is the independent variable written wrong? I didn't do it according to the conditions of the question."

"I also felt there was something wrong, so I skipped question five and chose question six directly."

"The sixth question was obviously the most difficult one. I took one look and knew I couldn't do it, so I had no choice but to choose the fifth question."

According to the normal order of questions, generally speaking, the questions at the end are more difficult.

But Ning Chen knew that in fact, the independent variable of the fifth question was not written wrong, but if it was done according to this condition, the difficulty of the question would be much higher.