Sunday.
In the morning.
The day before the deadline for the examination papers, everyone had just woken up to eat breakfast sent from the foot of the mountain when the question makers of each group were called over by their respective group leaders. They began to "check the papers" for the umpteenth time in the past few days. They summarized everyone's questions and discussed them collectively.
Mathematics team.
"Dean Pan."
"Hmm, they're all here?"
"They're all here."
"Uh, Teacher Zhang isn't here again."
"You didn't see him yesterday, right?"
"Yeah, I haven't seen Professor Zhang since the night before yesterday. I think he's been staying in the dormitory the whole time. Later on, I think he asked for a lot of information and test papers."
"Tomorrow is the deadline. No matter what, we have to settle the first edition of the Mathematics paper today. Otherwise, it will be too late. Get someone to call Professor Zhang."
"Alright, I'll go."
At this moment, Zhang Ye came in from outside.
Dean Pan looked over. "I was just about to get someone to call you. How is it?"
Zhang Ye walked in with a bunch of things. "It's almost done."
"How difficult are the questions?" Dean Pan immediately came over with great interest. He was really counting on Zhang Ye to contribute to the Math exam this time. Although Pan Yang was one of the leaders of the Math team, to be honest, his expertise was not in setting the high school algebra and geometry questions.
The others gathered around as well.
Zhang Ye said, "The difficulty is still alright. Didn't you say before that no matter how difficult it is, it won't be too difficult?"
"Yes, it's best to make it more difficult." Dean Pan said, "We already have a lot of moderately difficult questions, so there's no need for us to come up with more ideas. What we're lacking now is a difficult one. Let me take a look first."
Zhang Ye handed it over to him. "Multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and a long question. I've come up with quite a few of them. Take a look first. If you don't like it, I still have more."
Someone said, "Professor Zhang is still the most efficient!"
A middle-aged man said, "Let me take a look too."
The blackboard was pulled over.
Zhang Ye's question was immediately attracted by the magnet. Everyone gathered around to take a look, starting from the first question and working their way down.
When they saw the first question, all the teachers from the mathematics team were stunned.
"This …"
"F * ck!"
"Ah? This question … "
"Let me calculate!"
"That's not right. This isn't a high school question!"
"This is an advanced mathematical formula that only university students come into contact with, right? Moreover, it uses formulas that are to be learned in the second year. Why is there calculus? "
"This question won't do!"
A female teacher began to solve a question on a whiteboard at the side. Every teacher's question and the final question that would be on the test paper would go through a collective deduction process. The goal was to find loopholes and analyze the reasonableness and difficulty of the question. In the end, the female teacher spent three minutes solving the problem. The problem was not difficult for her, but looking at the process of solving the problem, at least two of the formulas used were definitely not in high school textbooks.
Putting down her pen, the female teacher said, "This isn't something a high school student can solve!"
Dean Pan looked at it for a long time before looking at Zhang Ye. "Teacher Zhang?"
Zhang Ye smiled and said, "The questions on the whiteboard can all be solved using high school mathematics textbooks. None of them are out of this scope. This question looks very difficult and complicated. I saw that this teacher had used quite a few formulas and advanced mathematical formulas to solve the problem, so it's actually not that complicated at all." He picked up his pen and started writing and drawing on the whiteboard. "If the train of thought to solve the problem is adjusted and not fooled by the question, the correct and easiest way to solve the problem is to start from here and bring this setting back to reality. See, this way, this way …" Finally, he put down his pen and said, "The answer is out. It's quite easy."
When everyone from the mathematics team saw this, they were all dumbfounded!
Easy?
Easy, your sister!
This question was too deceptive! Even if they knew that the train of thought to solve the problem did not seem difficult and could indeed be solved using high school algebra and geometry, the fucking train of thought to solve the problem was definitely not something that anyone could think of! This bunch of mathematics teachers could not even tell at the beginning! Much less the students!
Dean Pan laughed. "This question is interesting!"
The female teacher wiped her sweat. "How many high school students can come up with this train of thought to solve the problem? I think that 99% of the examinees will stop here! "
Zhang Ye said, "That might not necessarily be the case. If the train of thought to solve the problem is not easy, there are at least two ways to solve it through conventional means." He wrote down two solutions on the blackboard, using high school algebraic geometry formulas and train of thought. In the end, he solved both problems, but the process was more complicated, requiring constant calculations and a set of formulas.
The teachers from the mathematics team were convinced when they saw this.
Dean Pan made the final decision. "This question is very good. It's different from the previous questions in the Beijing college entrance examination. Let's move on to the next question."
The next question was a multiple-choice question.
This was a very deceptive question. If one was not careful, they could easily be fooled by the answers to the four choices and make the wrong judgment. Even if this wrong answer was added to the first item that was publicly announced, it would still be valid. This made it even more deceptive. For example, there were a few question setters from the mathematics team. When everyone was studying this question, one of them got it wrong. He was misled by the wrong choice that Zhang Ye gave him. When he found out the answer, the teacher who got it wrong slapped his forehead and coughed. His face turned red and he felt extremely embarrassed. He wished he could find a corner to hide in. It wasn't that his standards were bad, it was just that he did not use his brain and was distracted for a moment. As a result, he was subconsciously led into the gutter by the question!
This question was too wicked!
Professor Zhang had such a good grasp of the examinees' mentality. This was a fucking trap for the examinees. If they followed the train of thought of other multiple-choice questions, five out of ten examinees would have fallen for it!
It was the same for the third question!
The fourth question …
The fifth question …
The tenth question …
As the questions were calculated one by one, the more they were calculated, the more shocked the mathematics team became. The more they calculated, the more depressed they became. Some of the questions even gave them a headache and made them feel very uncomfortable. The more it was like this, the more convinced they were of Zhang Ye.
In the end, they went through all the questions.
Dean Pan looked at Zhang Ye and couldn't help but chuckle. "If I had been given such a question paper for my college entrance exam 30 years ago, I would have thanked the heavens if I could have passed, much less scored full marks!"
The other teachers also laughed. Dean Pan was exaggerating a little, but they also had the same feeling in their hearts. These questions were really too perverted! This was no longer a question of whether it was difficult or not. Many of the questions were designed to fucking trap the examinees!
A female teacher didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "Won't it be too difficult?"
Dean Pan smiled and said, "I think it's just right. Since the higher-ups want to reform and increase the difficulty of the Math exam, then Teacher Zhang's questions are clearly the most suitable!"
Someone exclaimed, "Should we use this?"
"This is it!" Dean Pan made the final decision.
A young mathematics teacher said with a complicated expression, "If the examinees see this question paper, they will definitely curse the eighteen generations of our Math question setting team's ancestors to death!"
Another teacher laughed heartily. "It doesn't matter. The more difficult questions were all set by Professor Zhang anyway. The ones that we set were all easy."
Zhang Ye said, "… So you guys just left them in there!"
Finally, after deliberating for a long time, the first edition of the Math exam was finally finalized. There were still some minor tasks left, but Zhang Ye did not need to worry about them. Dean Pan and the others would handle them. Zhang Ye excused himself and took another set of documents to the Chinese Literature question setting team.
10 AM.
The Chinese Literature team was having an intense debate.
"These questions are very good."
"The higher-ups have already said that they're not fresh enough and too old-fashioned."
"I've already changed my strategy. This is no longer the traditional way of doing questions."
"That won't do either. Chief Yu has already rejected them. It's the same for those questions of mine as well. I didn't pass any of them and have to redo them. Hai, I don't think I'll be able to make it in time."
"The Higher Education Entrance Examination Board has really set the bar too high this time."
When the door opened, Zhang Ye did not knock and walked straight in. "Is Chief Yu around?"
Su Na saw him. "Teacher Zhang, you're here? Let me call him for you. "She knocked on the office door." Chief Yu, Zhang Ye is here. "
Chief Yu came out. "How's the writing going?"
Zhang Ye said, "It's all done."
Chief Yu immediately said, "Alright, everyone, let's study it together."
Su Na was the most curious one. Very quickly, she took the questions from Zhang Ye and pasted them on the blackboard.
When Liao Qi, Li Rui, Ma Qi, and the other teachers of the Chinese Literature team saw this, they also strolled over. A few of the teachers did not pay much attention to this because they had their own opinions about Zhang Ye and did not like or appreciate him. They always felt that a lot of his abilities were exaggerated.
However, the moment they saw the first question, these teachers almost vomited blood!
Su Na burst out laughing!
Chief Yu did not say a word for a long time!
Liao Qi: "…"
Li Rui: "…"
Ma Qi: "…"
When they looked at the second question, everyone vomited blood again!
The questions that Zhang Ye had written on the blackboard were all questions that they had never heard of before. In fact, they had never even dared to think about them before. Every question had the word "unexpected" in it. But when they thought about it carefully, the hidden meaning behind the questions was very thought-provoking!
Zhang Ye went up and gave a simple explanation of the thinking and direction of solving the questions. "The first question has a more flexible answer. It mainly tests the examinee's logic and values. If the logic is clear, the argument is well-founded, and the values are positive, then we can give it full marks. Then for the second question …"
He finished explaining the questions one by one.
Then, Zhang Ye excused himself by saying that he had something to do and left. He did not stay at the Chinese Literature team for long as he knew that there were a few people who had opinions about him. As such, Zhang Ye could not be bothered with them. He was not the first question setter in the Chinese Literature team, so he did not have much say in it. Hence, after the questions were given, he left it to Chief Yu to decide.
When he left, the people of the Chinese Literature question setting team also fell silent!
Everyone was actually shouting in their minds:
Holy shit!
Are these questions from high school? This is way too weird!
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