Qiu Sai was divided into individual and team competitions.
The individual competition was a one-person competition, while the team competition was a five-person competition.
Both systems had five events.
They were analysis and differential equations, geometry and topography, algebra, number theory and combinations, applied mathematics and computational mathematics, and probability and statistics.
Each contestant could register for the event they were good at or participate in all five events.
In addition to these five individual awards, there was also an all-around award.
The All-Around Award required one to participate in five events and perform well in all five events to win the award.
It was certain that the value of the individual award was much higher than the group award.
This could be seen from the number of medals.
The group prize was only gold, silver, and bronze.
As for the individual prize, there were six gold, silver, and bronze.
The rules of the competition were that the preliminary round would be held at various competition points, and the best would be selected to go to the capital to participate in the final round, as well as the final interview.
Xu Hao and the other students from Sichuan University who were participating in the team competition were in different examination halls.
The first test was on analysis and differential equations, which lasted two hours.
However, after receiving the paper, Xu Hao was a little conflicted.
It wasn't because the paper was English, but because there were only five questions in total.
Although these five questions were all big questions, it was still a matter of minutes for Xu Hao.
Two hours was too long.
After Xu Hao received the paper, he finished answering the questions in less than 20 minutes.
He even took the time to check it out.
The remaining hour was torture for Xu Hao.
Because the exam was very strict, they had to hand in their phones.
He couldn't even sit and play with his phone to kill time.
After sitting in his seat for more than ten minutes, Xu Hao could not stay any longer.
He stood up and handed in his paper, taking his phone away at the same time.
This commotion made the other students in the examination room unable to help but look up at Xu Hao.
They were all wondering if Xu Hao was going to give up everything.
He couldn't do it, so he handed in the paper in advance?
The invigilator was also a mathematics professor. After Xu Hao handed in his paper, he looked at Xu Hao sympathetically.
He felt that this was another person who had given up struggling.
After returning the phone to Xu Hao, the professor looked at Xu Hao's test paper in boredom.
When he saw that it was all filled up, he found it a little funny.
Was this just randomly filling up the list and trying to get some attitude points?
A little naive!
However, when he looked at Xu Hao's answers seriously, his expression became serious.
Because Xu Hao actually answered correctly, and he even used a very simple method to answer.
The old professor couldn't help but sigh. There was actually such a solution to the problem.
Then, he started to read the questions more seriously.
On the other side, Xu Hao was walking out of the exam hall with his phone in his hand when Director Huang, who was in the next exam hall, saw him.
There were a total of three examination halls for this preliminary round. Two of them were for the individual competition and one was for the team competition.
Southwest University and Xu Hao's Sichuan University were in the first examination hall, while Director Huang and Director Chen were in the second examination hall to avoid suspicion.
Director Huang couldn't help but tease Director Chen when she saw Xu Hao hand in his paper and leave after half an hour.
"Old Chen, is this student from your school not good enough? You gave up the exam in half an hour. Your attitude is not right. Did you bring the wrong person?”
Director Chen also looked outside and saw Xu Hao talking to Gu Qingcheng on the phone in the corridor.
He also remembered Xu Hao's speed in solving the questions in front of him and could not help but smile confidently.
"I didn't bring the wrong person. It's just that you looked at him through the crack of the door and looked down on him!”
"Who told you that handing in your paper in half an hour means you've given up struggling? Couldn't he hand in the paper in advance after he finished it?”
Director Huang didn't believe this. He had invigilated Qiu Sai for many years.
He had only heard of students complaining that they had enough time. When had he ever seen someone hand in their paper in half an hour?
So he just smiled and said,"You can be stubborn. When the results are out, he scored a zero. I'll see how you can continue pretending!"”
"Let me tell you, this time, Elder Qiu set the questions according to the difficulty of Harvard's PhD qualification exam.”
Director Chen ignored him. He picked up a paper and looked at it. He realized that it was quite difficult.
He even felt that even he wouldn't be able to hand in his paper in half an hour.
Director Chen panicked.
He thought to himself, Xu Hao, this brat, could it be that he was really stumped and gave up on answering the questions?
He really wanted to go out and ask, but in the end, he endured it.
He comforted himself that perhaps Xu Hao was not good at analysis and differential equations, so he gave up on this topic.
However, this did not matter. There were still four more rounds to go. As long as one did well in any one of them, they would be able to enter the finals.
If he won any award, it would be a worthwhile trip.
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