The number on the countdown changed from 30 to 60. On May 7, Shanghai decided to postpone the college entrance examination to July 7 to July 9.
This is a special spring, with the outbreak of the epidemic in Shanghai, home-based online classes, masks, and one-meter noodles have become a unique memory for senior high school students.
On June 7, candidates of the same class from other provinces took the college entrance examination room, and Shanghai students just resumed classes.
In some kind of time dislocation, they were able to "watch" each other's college entrance examinations.
On July 4, Zhao Yang ushered in the last online get out of class of his high school career.
In class, the English teacher said three words: sorry (sorry to some of the classmates who may have been scolded by him in the past three years), thanks (thank you for your company and study together in the past three years), blessing (wish everyone has a a bright future), and dismissed early.
The day before the college entrance examination, Zhao Yang finished the nucleic acid test and returned to his desk.
Outside the window, it was a fine sunny day, the sky was softer than the day before, the breeze carried the heat, and there were a few cicadas chirping in my ears.
In a little bit of anxiety and tension, Zhao Yang reviewed the wrong questions in an orderly manner, maintaining the feeling of doing the questions, "there is a little excitement before going to the battlefield".
At this time, the same-year college students in other provinces have already checked their scores and even reported their volunteers.
Seeing the hot search, many people suddenly realized that there is no college entrance examination in Shanghai.
"Seeing the same session in the same session, it feels different."
Shanghai students posted, "Thank you for someone who still remembers us", "I never imagined that I would receive blessings from the same class of candidates from all over the country."
At 8:00 on July 7th, Zhao Yang and more than 50,000 candidates from Shanghai walked to the desk of the college entrance examination together. They spread out their ID cards and admission tickets. The bell rang at 9:00. The annual answer sheet marks an end to the special high school life under the epidemic.
Soon, the long-awaited summer vacation will come.
Zhao Yang wrote in the circle of friends, "You won't miss the whole summer because of one exam."
Exam
On July 7, the heat wave was rolling in Shanghai.
The weather was cloudy and sunny, with a shower after the exam started.
At early 7:00 in the morning, teacher Zhang Xiaojian, wearing a red T-shirt, stood at the entrance of a test center in Hongkou District.
She and four class teachers, other classroom teachers, and school leaders were in a fixed area to welcome the candidates.
At about 7:30, the students came one after another, and Zhang Xiaojian was busy making the last word: Have you given the mobile phone to the parents?
Do you have your admit card with you?
Have you done an antigen test?
Zhang Xiaojian is a Chinese teacher, and she is about to take the exam for her subject.
At this last moment, some candidates are still asking, who is the author of "Six Kingdoms"?
What did Jia Yi write?
Because his home was far from the test room, Yang Pei booked the hotel a week in advance and walked to the test room.
Before the exam, Yang Pei bought some transparent document bags, so as to prevent the suspicion of cheating, and not afraid of losing important documents such as the admit card and ID card.
Before departure, Zhao Yang completed an antigen test. She sat in the car driven by her father, wore an N95 mask strictly on the way, and took the printed paper nucleic acid code to complete the identity verification and nucleic acid verification at the entrance of the test center.
According to the requirements of epidemic prevention and control, three days before the test, all candidates must complete two inspections in three days, including one on July 6.
On the morning of July 6, Zhao Yang completed the test at the designated dedicated nucleic acid testing point, with one person and one tube.
Zhang Xiaojian is going to collect negative nucleic acid reports from students on this day.
Every day after the test, candidates must complete the nucleic acid test at the test center, and strictly follow the two-point line between home and school.
The day before the test, after completing the nucleic acid test, Xiaoyu returned to the desk and maintained the feeling of doing the test.
"I used to see seniors and seniors in high school working hard and desperately. At that time, we joked that they were reciting books in the hallway just like chanting scriptures. It was our turn to realize that there was not enough time at all. The day before the exam, it still feels like there will be blind spots.”
Zhao Yang's father asked, would you like to watch a movie together to relax?
"I was sternly rejected by me." Recently, I have been unable to eat, and my mother has been cooking in different ways.
Every night, the family would go out for a walk together. The most talked about is not the exam, but where to play after the exam.
The ideal holiday was delayed by a month.
Looking back on the last extra month, time seems to have been pressed by the fast-forward button, and it has flown all the way.
"postpone"
On May 7, just after the English class, a message popped up on Zhao Yang's mobile phone, and she was a little confused.
On the morning of the same day, the Shanghai press conference on epidemic prevention and control announced that the autumn unified college entrance examination in Shanghai was postponed to July 7 to July 9.
Zhang Xiaojian was preparing lessons, and the news of the college entrance examination postponement was also surging in the group of the lesson preparation group. "It doesn't seem to have caused a lot of waves among the classmates. It may be that they are digesting it themselves."
In fact, undercurrents surging under the calm.
For some time, there has been speculation about how the Shanghai college entrance examination will be arranged.
Zhao Yang has read several versions of the "School of Education Bureau's College Entrance Examination Arrangement Plan". "Plan A, plan B, and plan C are listed, and without exception, the postponement of the college entrance examination is listed as the last item."
After the initial bout of commotion, two emotions pervaded students and parents.
The candidates who have entered the final review period and are well-prepared are worried that the battle line will be too long and the state will not be good for another month.
Zhao Yang's review schedule is completely planned according to the June college entrance examination, and every day is fully arranged. "Suddenly there is an extra month, but I am a little confused."
Many students are quite looking forward to the arrival of the summer vacation, and the arrangement during the vacation is very exciting, which is almost the driving force for the final sprint.
"Now that it has been extended for a month, everyone is complaining about the shortened holiday for the first time."
Parents worry even further.
Many parents asked Zhang Xiaojian, "Is the time for the college entrance examination set?"
The other kind of feeling is less angular.
Yang Pei had mixed feelings in his heart. He was happy that he had an extra month of review time, but he was also worried that he would not have the perseverance to persevere for another month.
In any case, "you are not alone in deferring, nor are you preparing for the exam alone".
Xiaoyu decided to accept the reality, readjusted the curriculum planning, extended the review schedule, and "tighten the strings that were originally tight for a while."
On the same day, Xiaoyu's teacher adjusted the countdown to July 7, with 60 days left.
Zhang Xiaojian, born in 1993, is a Chinese teacher and class teacher. This is the first senior high school student she has brought.
May is the third month of her online class. She is already familiar with the operation of the equipment and does not require students to turn on the camera. However, after a class, almost everyone will be named to answer questions. Students do not know when it is their turn, but they can Maintain a high level of concentration.
This year's Shanghai candidates are the first to use the new language teaching materials.
At the same time, they are also the last batch of candidates to use old mathematics textbooks.
Both the new and the old will breed different degrees of worry and uncertainty.
In Zhao Yang's online class experience, there is more joy.
At first, the teachers didn't know how to debug the equipment. They often disconnected in the middle of the live broadcast, or there was a problem with the microphone. The students didn't dare to laugh in the classroom, and privately shared "hahaha" on QQ.
She remembered that a teacher often shouted in the live broadcast class, "students who didn't come to class hurry up and enter the class", but the students who didn't attend the live broadcast couldn't hear it at all.
Online classes have put a different brand on this class of students.
On a small screen, the varied real backgrounds connect different family environments, while the virtual backgrounds show different aesthetics. Zhao Yang and his classmates even have a group to share backgrounds.
SpongeBob SquarePants Ocean, Disney Princesses, and Harry Potter's Hogwarts Castle are all beautiful.
On the screen, they saw the appearance of their classmates after being photographed, and they were suddenly faced with more than 40 positive faces, and they were not used to it.
And this screen also witnessed their learning and communication, exhaustion or distraction, friendship and mutual assistance.
Zhao Yang has truly realized the importance of friendship in the more than two months of online classes. "We will open a study room together to study with Mai, and we will discuss topics that we do not know on the phone."
The epidemic has made every candidate an "isolated island" in space, and the screen tries its best to reunite people.
class resumption
It was a month later that the students took their seats in the classroom again.
Shanghai will resume classes on June 6.
Xiaoyu still clearly remembers that the first day of returning to school was a sunny day.
Zhao Yang's classmates have changed to varying degrees. One classmate even lost 30 pounds, and some people learned to cook during the epidemic.
Returning from online to offline, on the day of the first meeting, Yang Pei said, "Everyone is still a little shy", but in a short period of time, they became familiar and lively again.
After the resumption of classes, Zhang Xiaojian's burden became heavier.
She needs to count the transportation students take every day, and students require a 24-hour nucleic acid negative report when they enter the school, as well as an antigen test in the morning.
The seating arrangement should be two meters apart, and half of the students stay in the classroom for lunch, and the other half go to other places.
There is a taste in the preparation for the test that belongs to the disinfectant.
Zhao Yang's school gave each student a transparent mask, and he wore the mask to class, and he didn't even take it off when eating. "At that time, I would often laugh when I saw everyone in the middle of class."
The school is basically sterilized at noon every day, and students who are unwilling to leave the classroom are angry with the smell of ink and disinfectant.
In short, people are back, and the campus is full of life.
After the national college entrance examination on June 7, the Shanghai candidates not only watched the national college entrance examination, but they even made the national college entrance examination papers and studied the composition of the college entrance examination in various provinces. Yang Pei frowned.
Zhao Yang studied in a key class of a city-owned key school in Shanghai. All the students in the class achieved good grades, such as mathematics. The average grade of the class was 20-30 points higher than that of the ordinary class, ranking in the top 10%-20% of the city.
And mathematics has always been Zhao Yang's shortcoming. After a year of hard work in high school, he was barely able to achieve the average grade in the class.
For the extra month, Zhao Yang decided to focus on mathematics.
Every day, Zhao Yang spends no less than two and a half hours on mathematics. In addition to the homework assigned by the teacher, she also has to systematically brush the papers and organize the questions.
Before that, she was a little impatient because of the delay. "From the next day, she gave up this idea and turned to study mathematics. I was chatting with my friends and said that this was an opportunity that God gave me, implying that I was fine. It’s still too late to learn math.”
The last month, after entering the state, in the rolling exam, time flies.
The Shanghai college entrance examination implements the "3+3" policy, with a total of six subjects.
The primary subjects Zhao Yang chose were geography, biology, and history.
In the first week of the resumption of classes, there will be two mock tests for primary subjects, the second week for the graded tests for primary subjects, the third week for three mock tests for junior subjects, and the fourth week for three subjects for three mock tests. The fifth week is about to usher in the college entrance examination.
The school tests English every Monday, math every Wednesday and Friday, primary subjects on Thursday, Chinese writing on Friday, today's test, tomorrow's test paper, and the day after tomorrow, and the cycle goes back and forth.
"I brought mathematics up in the last month, and every time I think about it, I feel amazing. Fortunately, I didn't give up at that time! Everything is the best arrangement. If I don't postpone it for a month, my mathematics may still be half-dead." Zhao Yang said .
The improvement in mathematics performance also benefited from the love of classmates.
Zhao Yang will do homework, self-study, and paperwork together with his good friends. "Because her math is very good, I followed her to improve math little by little. I am really grateful to her." In self-doubt When we do, we encourage each other.
What impressed Zhao Yang was that there was a math test in June, and a girl cried after the results came out.
The girls in the class gathered around to comfort her, hugged her, patted her head, and handed her a tissue to wipe her tears, "Say it's ok, this is not the last exam, the result was comforting, two or three girls watched When she cried, she cried too, then everyone hugged and cried together, and the girl who started crying at the end went back to comfort others."
Yang Pei said more precisely that the mathematics has improved by nearly 20 points.
In the last month, she firmly grasped the formula, and at the same time, by constantly doing the questions, she discovered the internal logic and test points of the questions, and she has been in a state of practicing and reviewing the wrong questions.
In the last month, in Xiaoyu's school, the length of one class has been increased to one hour, and the long class is one and a half hours. The requirements for attention are higher than before.
Compared with the 20-minute break in the online class, the offline class has a 10-minute break.
Everyone is struggling to "save" lost time.
Xiaoyu's mother specially proposed to the unit that she could leave work earlier every day in order for her to go to school safely and normally.
"In the extra month, not only is I working hard, but my mother keeps sending me to work every day, picks me up after get off work, and prepares dinner when I get home, so this month everyone Very hard."
In June, candidates from other provinces across the country had already completed the test and checked their scores. In the days when the scores were released, Xiaoyu was nervous for a few friends from other provinces, helping to study several rounds of volunteer applications. Come up with ideas and introduce the colleges and universities in your city to the other party."
Deeply involved in other people's reporting process, it seems that the university is closer to me.
Every time she couldn't hold on, Xiaoyu told herself, "I've been studying so hard for twelve years, why can't I just rush in the last month?"
Three years to remember
Yang Pei made a list of entertainment after the exam: go to the comic exhibition, learn to skateboard.
At the same time, she is also preparing to memorize the vocabulary of the fourth grade, to prepare for the fourth and sixth grades of the college entrance examination.
Xiaoyu wants to sleep well and wake up naturally every day.
She also observed the mobile phone endorsed by the idol, "I am very excited to buy a new mobile phone after the test." She also wants to get another driver's license.
Zhao Yang wants to learn photography, cultivate his aesthetics, and learn basic photography knowledge. "Dedicating time and energy to the things I love is what I most want to accomplish this holiday."
Three years of high school and three years of the epidemic have largely overlapped. There was no spring and autumn tour, no coming-of-age ceremony, and no formal graduation ceremony.
Fortunately, before the epidemic started in the first half of the first semester of high school, Zhang Xiaojian took the students to a summer camp for Oriental Green Boat, and also participated in a university research activity.
Like all Shanghai citizens, this spring, the college entrance examination students have also experienced various emergencies, such as grabbing vegetables, showing positive results in the community, becoming a close contact, and entering the cabin.
Preparing for the exam and the epidemic, they seem to have experienced many "major" events in three months, and their inner tenacity is also growing bit by bit.
They can all see some negative comments on the Internet during the epidemic. Yang Pei also tried to defend herself, but then she chose not to pay attention or be affected by it. She said, "I always believe that most people are kind. I believe that the world is beautiful, maintain a kind, rational and firm heart, and look at the problems encountered calmly and calmly based on principles. I think this is what I have learned from the epidemic."
Yang Pei still felt it was a pity, because of the epidemic, the three years of high school were disturbed a little bit, and there was even only one full school year for the second year of high school.
"Many people didn't have time to say goodbye, and many people didn't know enough about them, so they graduated in a hurry. But no matter what, this is a memorable and meaningful three years."
In the last class, Yang Pei's Chinese teacher said to the students, "No matter what the results of the college entrance examination are, I hope you will have something to do in the future, someone who is lovely and has something to look forward to." The teacher also gave each student a different book to give Yang Pei's "On Freedom", she liked it very much.
Zhao Yang likes Chinese, and she said that if she was asked to summarize her high school life, she might use some positive sentences that resonate with people.
For example: My high school life was subjectively full of passion, companionship, struggle and persistence, and objectively full of variables and unknowns. It was a transitional stage for me from youth to adulthood.
High school life also reflects the twists and turns and upward spiral of China in the past three years.
Zhao Yang's "graduation ceremony" was at the end of June. They could not gather due to the epidemic. They had a brief ceremony in the class.
"Happy Graduation, Gold List Title" is written on the blackboard.
Everyone prepared three packs of paper, but no one cried.
Compared with the sadness of parting, Zhao Yang said that she yearns for the upcoming unknown and freedom. The second half of her circle of friends is: "Go and embrace the future life! I hope the next time we meet, it will be fresh and bright. fly free ."
On that day, the sky was blue outside the classroom window.
(Zhang Xiaojian, Yang Pei, Xiaoyu are pseudonyms)
Beijing News reporter Zhu Qinghua