When economists study economic phenomena, they will conduct further research on the inflection point phenomena that appear on the economic curve and publish papers to explain economic phenomena.

For those who study modern Chinese history, whether it is historians, educators, and sociologists, they all regard the winter of 1977 as a turning point in modern Chinese history. This turning point is not only the turning point of the country and the times, but also the turning point of many individuals. From this winter, the development of the country and the track of personal life destiny began to extend in the right direction. "Thousands of troops cross the single-plank bridge" is a true portrayal of this college entrance examination. People call the college entrance examination period "Black July", while the 1977 college entrance examination was an "extremely cool" season.

In the winter of December that year, a total of 5.7 million people entered the examination room nationwide, and the admission quota was only 272,970, with an admission ratio of 29:1, and in the early 1990s it reached 3.5:1. The fierce competition was the highest in history. There were candidates from the 66th to 77th, with the youngest being only 13 or 14 years old (UST Junior Class), and the oldest being thirty-six or thirty-seven years old. Brothers were taken together, aunts and nephews were in the same examination room, and teachers and students were accompanied by exams everywhere. It is not uncommon for mother-level candidates to rush to the examination room after feeding their children.

Heilongjiang is a province with more educated youth going to the countryside. It can be predicted that the number of applicants for the first year of the college entrance examination will never be small, which makes it more difficult for Heilongjiang Province to register and organize the examination. In order to alleviate the contradiction of excessive concentration of applicants and to thoroughly implement the Party Central Committee's policy on "selecting merits", the Provincial Admissions Office has formulated a two-level examination system of "primary selection of prefectures and cities" and "unified examinations" and obtained approval from the provincial party committee.

At that time, more than 195,000 candidates applied for colleges and universities in Heilongjiang Province. After the first round of preliminary examination, more than 62,000 people were qualified for the re-examination. There were many "zero-point papers", "several-point papers" and "more than ten-point papers" in the preliminary examination. Afterwards, the admissions personnel said that if the preliminary examination was not held and all applicants were allowed to directly participate in the college entrance examination, not only was the waste of human resources such as marking, score collection, and admission, but also corruption would also be caused by this (quoted from Harbin News Network).

For the fifth company, the college entrance examination cram school where Li Siming is located, most people have obtained the qualification for the re-examination. This greatly increases everyone's confidence. On December 24, educated youths from Daxing Island boarded a tractor or a carriage and rushed to the test site. Before leaving, the company commander and instructor specially ordered the cafeteria to give everyone a sumptuous breakfast, and before departure, they also made a pre-examination mobilization. I don't know where the two of them got the precautions for the exam, and read it according to the book. The educated youth rushed to the examination room with a sense of confidence or anxiety. A popular saying among the educated youth: a red heart, two preparations, thank you for the exam*, but not the criticism of the "Gang of Four". No matter what this opportunity is rare, no one is willing to waste this precious opportunity. The hard work for the past two months depends on the struggle of the two or three days. I wonder if I was not afraid to write a blood book in order to go to Zhenbao Island back then, what is this?

Li Siming was actually a little nervous. He applied for science, and Chinese and politics were his weaknesses. Although he spent most of his time on this course, it was not easy to get high scores. The application he filled out was the Department of Electronics of Peking University. Because he graduated from the University of Science and Technology in his previous life, he wanted to see what the charm of this is known as the "No. 1 institution in China" is, but it is not easy to take the exam, not to mention that in 1977, the most fierce competition in the college entrance examination in history. When he learned that Li Siming applied for Peking University's science, many people gave up the idea of ​​competing with him to avoid "killing each other". He was also unsure whether he was sure that everyone was equal before the exam. Take the Chinese test paper for example. It is normal for some well-known university professors and writers in later generations to fail to take the senior high school students, not to mention that Peking University recruits less students in Heilongjiang than in Beijing.

The exam was conducted in a middle school in the Youth League. There were 30 people in the classroom, and everyone had a single table. There was no glass on the windows of the classroom. Some people were sealed with sacks, but it was still exposed. Fortunately, there was heating in the classroom, otherwise the pen could not be picked up. It is said that there was a small episode for the paper used in this test paper. For China, which has been carrying out the planned economy for decades and has severely lacked resources, how to solve the paper paper used by many candidates has become a headache. Candidates think that if they want to take the exam, for example, they have to print papers and grade the papers.

It is difficult to always have a part of the money, and it is entirely difficult to rely on the state to obtain it. Everyone hopes that the registration fee can be set at one dollar. At that time, the Politburo discussed that it would not increase the burden on the masses, just collect 50 cents. The problem was finally reflected in *. He made a quick decision and decided to temporarily shelve the plan to print the fifth volume of "Selected Works", allocate relevant papers, and print the candidate's test papers first. History thus showed a very comedic scene. The philosophy of struggle is no longer popular, but replaced by fairness, competition and freedom based on knowledge dignity.

The first exam was mathematics. As soon as the test paper was published, Li Siming quickly browsed it. The difficulty was too low. There was only fill-in-the-blanks and calculation questions. There was no such form as multiple-choice questions, and the number of questions was small. Li Siming slowly answered the questions and tried to get full marks. Unexpectedly, after he had just finished answering three questions, several people stood up to hand in the paper, which made the other candidates panic and involuntarily speed up the answers.

"Damn it, you really have a strong player. This speed is too terrifying!" Li Siming later learned that these people had lost the courage to answer the questions because they encountered several problems and handed them away.

After answering the questions, I looked at the watch for an hour. This watch was still a souvenir for my father to celebrate his departure from the labor reform farm and to be a new person. Since I went to elementary school, the teacher has been tirelessly repeating it before the exam every time. It must not be in a hurry to hand in the paper, and it must be carefully checked. Li Siming checked it several times, but he really couldn't find any problem. At this time, there was no place to go out. It was cold and the Grandmaster and the others were still taking the exam. So, when bored, Li Siming re-exerted all the big questions, of course, using other methods of solving problems. This is called learning from one example and the gardeners often taught. A paper was so scattered by him. Some questions were not only used in two ways, and some even used advanced mathematical methods.

When the time comes, after handing in the paper, when the exam room, the candidates are automatically divided into different groups to check the answers. Judging from the expressions of Xu Dashui, Zhang Hua and others, they all did well. Xu Li can be said to be full of joy. It seems that she is performing her best. During the review period, she is one of the most diligent educated youth. Li Siming wishes that she will do well in the exam because she always knocks on the door to ask for math problems when Li Siming is sleeping soundly in the second half of the night. For the sake of Xu Dashui, Li Siming swallowed his anger for a long time.

Several people went to a restaurant to have dinner and prepared for the Chinese test in the afternoon. After receiving the test paper, Li Siming browsed it as usual. When he saw the composition questions, he really wanted to laugh. The title was "A Year of Fighting in My Year" and he "bet" it was exactly the same as his "bet" (author's note: This is actually a Chinese composition question in Beijing). When he was betting the questions two months ago, he asked everyone to write a regular article and hand it over to Xu Li, who is recognized as the best writing style, to revise it. The good article was also read on the podium. In fact, this composition question is the only college entrance examination question that he clearly knew. Unexpectedly, history repeats itself again. For Li Siming, the difficulty of Chinese is acceptable. Apart from the pinyin questions and an ancient essay question, he felt that he would not be much worse than others in Chinese subjects.

After leaving the examination room, all the candidates who had participated in the fifth company cram school surrounded him and expressed their gratitude, which made Li Siming a little elated. If it were summer, he could learn from Zhuge Liang with a feather fan. The candidates who had not participated in the cram school were full of regret, and they all used their relationship to find notes for the next two subjects, and maybe they would be "bet" by Li Siming!

The next day, in the morning, the physics and chemistry exams were physical and chemistry exams, and the liberal arts exams history and geography exams. Physics and chemistry were naturally Li Siming's strengths. Compared with the difficulty of his exams that year, it was completely a little bit. Just like taking mathematics, it took less than an hour to finish the questions, and then analyzed these questions from a professional theory, and extended these physical phenomena and chemical reactions theoretically, like writing a paper, and it was very casual. After writing, Li Siming began to regret it again. Will he be treated as a graffiti by the marking teacher as a primary school student?

I took the politics exam in the afternoon. As expected, the political exam was closely related to current affairs. The scope of current affairs was almost the same as the one I discussed with others. It only involved philosophy, but it was still difficult.

After the exam, Li Siming walked out of the examination room, and the dry and cold air outside rushed over, making his a little dizzy brain wake up immediately. For most candidates, the exam has been over. Some people laughed indulge in their hearts, and they must have performed better; some people are serious, but the smile on their lips betrayed him; some people are crying with their heads and crying, and the exam will definitely be a mess; some people are depressed and must have performed poorly; some people claim that if they were not the "Gang of Four", they would have performed better; more people secretly swear that they would "kill" back next year.

The people from the fifth company in Daxing Island did well in the exam, which can be seen from their joyful expressions that they could not hide. The most depressed people in the entire company are Company Commander Chen and Instructor Ding.

"Old Ding, if we get into college next year, we will become the commanders of the bare feet!" Company Commander Chen complained to Instructor Ding in a muffled voice.

"They can be considered successful? Think about it, they were seventeen or eighteen years old when they first came, and they had to endure all the hardships they should have. We can't block their way." Instructor Ding said.
Chapter completed!