Do your best for two months - 60 seconds for the college entrance examination to write to the third year

Do your best for two months

——The college entrance examination countdown to 60 days for high school students

About the author: Li Xiaopeng, Chongqing Jiangjin, Ph.D., Renmin University of China, visiting scholar at Cambridge University, a follower of the Chinese education system, and an old author of "Study for School" for many years. His books on education include "Learning to Change Destiny" and "The Dragon Sword of the College Entrance Examination".

When I was about two months away from the college entrance examination, what am I doing? The number on the countdown sign of the school stairwell gradually moved closer to 60 and 50. Everyone knows that it is not far from zero. Probably at that time, my father came to see me. We were on the road. I suddenly said, "I can’t believe that the college entrance examination is only sixty days old." The words are still in the ear, and the college entrance examination has been over ten years. The time flies, it is amazing.

However, it is these sixty days that have affected my path for the next ten years. I can now write this article in the library of the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematics at Cambridge University, which is inseparable from the sixty-day effort.

I often receive letters from readers asking me how much I can improve in the last two months? In fact, no matter how long or short, the answer is similar: continuous efforts will always improve, and the more you work, the more you will progress. Specifically, I am not good at it. In general, it is definitely the shorter the time. It will be more difficult to achieve greater progress. But we can't give up trying because of this, because progress is difficult, but every little progress makes sense.

Some people squat at the level of two books, and finally sprinted and motivated, because it is very obvious to improve the previous step. However, some people have more than one book and one is still far away. It seems that the last period of time is like the "junk time" in football games. It is irrelevant to the final result. In fact, the final admission result of the college entrance examination has many levels. In the big part, it is the division of the two grades of the two books. The key points are the top famous schools such as Peking University Tsinghua University, and the famous schools such as Zhejiang University. Some common points. In the two books, the admission scores of universities in places like Beijing and Shanghai are also higher. In the same school, the admission scores of different majors will also differ. In short, no matter where you are, every effort will make you progress a little bit, and every improvement in your score will eventually lead you to a better result.

For example, myself, my high school grades have always been higher in the whole school, but not the top, there are always a few people will be ahead of me every time. I am the fourth in the grade for the final exam. At that time, I wanted to go to Beijing for examination. According to my ranking in the whole school and the college entrance examination in our school over the years, it is basically no problem to test Chinese politics and law. There is a certain degree of certainty in the examination of Renmin University. Finally, through sixty days of hard work, I still chose a more insurance target, and I was admitted to Renmin University of China with a relatively large advantage. If I was a little bolder at the time, it would be no problem to enter Peking University with my college entrance examination results. However, due to the high scores, the majors in the NPC can basically choose me, so it is a satisfactory result. The last two months of my efforts to give me the benefit is to turn things with certain risks into reality, and on this basis, I have gained more choices.

The National People's Congress is also a good platform. I applied to Cambridge to study. Although the NPC's signature is not loud, it does play a vital role. If it is just an ordinary key university, hope will be much more. On the other hand, although the National People's Congress is good, it has developed very fast in recent years. There is always a gap between Peking University and Tsinghua University. I have many friends in these two schools. In normal times, everyone feels like eating, drinking and having fun. It’s really At the crucial moments such as employment and going abroad, they are still more competitive.

Therefore, the efforts and progress of the last two months should be divided into two aspects. On the one hand, don't feel that you can't immediately realize your "highest ideal" through the college entrance examination. You must make unremitting efforts. Whether it is the last two months or the last two days, it is a good thing to get any progress. A higher platform will be of great help to our future development. On the other hand, don't feel too much fear of the final result. The difference in the college entrance examination can be made up by the efforts of the college entrance examination. Many students have not achieved satisfactory results in college entrance examinations, but they have performed well in universities. Finally, they have made great progress through postgraduate studies, work, and going abroad. Such examples are numerous. In our high school class, there was a classmate who took the college entrance examination to a university in Tianjin, and later went to Peking University to study for a master's degree. There was also a classmate who was not admitted to Peking University for the first time in the college entrance examination. In the second year, he was admitted to the Chongqing college entrance examination. When I was in high school, I felt that I was able to go to Peking University to study at the highest level of life. I never dreamed of having the opportunity to come to Cambridge. So, in two months, let yourself be the best, no matter what the outcome, no regrets - this is not empty talk, but many people use a lot of experience and a long time to prove A very real reason. With this mentality, we can make the most progress in the last two months.

Just two days ago, I saw a classmate in a study abroad forum. The college entrance examination was only admitted to one book, but during the undergraduate period, I was very diligent. I sent two English papers in international academic journals, and then I graduated from the undergraduate course. Harvard University admitted to the doctoral degree. So, how much progress can you make in two months? Maybe it won't be too big, but if you start today, in any "last two months", try to learn the best mentality of your own. Sooner or later, you will get from ordinary colleges to Harvard University. Amazing progress.