Chapter 155: One Examination Determines Life
After lobbying and the necessary operational means, from the Presidential Palace, the Parliament to the Lauten Provincial Government, a resolution was finally passed on the acquisition of land rights on the island of Jacques.
Although Jacques Island has almost no amenities, the purchase price is still as high as $800,000, which is already comparable to many private islands.
In addition, the plan of "Lin Han Scholarship" has also been approved and has been implemented since this year.
The specific implementation agency of the scholarship program is the soon-to-be-established "Timor-Leste Linhan Scholarship Foundation".
In Huaxia, Lin Han's alma mater, Qinglin County Middle School, was the first to express its willingness to become a cooperative middle school of the scholarship program, and even offered to reduce tuition fees, hoping to ask for a few more places.
After all, although Qinglin County Middle School is barely one of the top 100 middle schools, its influence in the country is still low, and now there is such an "internationalization" project, no matter what, it is also a signboard.
Qinglin County Middle School with foreign students, which gives people the feeling that it is immediately on the same level as the High School Affiliated to Peking University and Hengshui Middle School.
For this reason, Principal Wu, Lin Han's old class, personally went out, relying on superhuman handling skills, all kinds of procedures up and down were quickly completed, which was very quick, and at the same time helped Lin Han contact many other schools to talk about it.
With Qinglin County Middle School taking the lead, the rest of the matter will be much smoother, attracting many domestic high schools to participate.
As for the super middle school like Hengshui Middle School, it is not too enthusiastic about it, after all, it has foreign teachers, international classes, and exchange students, and most of them cooperate with educational institutions in developed countries.
Therefore, people are really not interested in Timor-Leste, a poor rural area with backward education standards, and after several lobbying by President Wu, they finally promised a small number of places.
In terms of universities, due to the scale and influence of the scholarship, only Beilin is directly involved in the program for the time being, and has given some support and care.
As for other universities, scholarship programs are mainly implemented through regular study abroad channels.
Considering the current rough level of secondary education in Timor-Leste, it is likely that this year's comprehensive performance of secondary school students will not be perfected, so the primary situation in this first year will be slightly more special, in short:
One test is for life!
Students who directly take the top 5% of junior high school and high school entrance examinations will enter the second round of selection tests hosted by the "Timor-Leste Linhan Scholarship Foundation", and those from poor families are preferred.
As long as you are in the top 5% of the entrance examination, you can get at least one honor and a little condolence money, even if you can't go to China to study, you can choose any school in Timor-Leste.
The main subjects selected in the second round of testing include Chinese, history, politics, mathematics, physics, chemistry, comprehensive quality, etc.
Under certain conditions, those who are extremely biased are allowed to participate in the competition, and it is possible to obtain the final qualification.
In general, the test structure is similar to that of Huaxia, but the examination standards of Chinese are higher and there are certain rigid requirements.
As for the local college students in Timor-Leste, because the number is too scarce, after the preliminary screening of the National University of Timor-Leste and the Ministry of Education, the Lin Han Scholarship Foundation will directly adopt an interview system to select five students with excellent character and academic performance and send them to the Celestial Empire for further study.
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Viquek province, a certain "county".
Ten-year-old Xavier Gusmão is sitting on a donkey cart and following his father to the county town to catch a fair, ready to sell some corn and buy some groceries.
The donkey cart carried a lanyard Gusmão, as well as his father, who looked like he was in his fifties, but was only forty years old, and, of course, some corn that was not very good-looking.
Gusmão sat on top of a pile of corn, looking down at a piece of paper torn out of nowhere, scratching his head from time to time, as if in thought.
On the piece of paper were a bunch of triangles, circles, and some Arabic numerals and English letters......
In the middle of the night, an uncle wearing straw sandals ushered in on the opposite side of the donkey cart, and when the old Gusman saw this, he hurriedly flicked the small leather whip and stopped the donkey cart.
"Brother Rwako, can you tell me the price of corn today?"
Rwako walked to the side, shrugged his shoulders and said, "The price of corn today is not very good, only 11 cents, how many catties do you have here?"
Old Gusmang sighed slightly: "One hundred and twenty-six and a half catties, for such a long time, it can't be sold anymore." ”
"Well, hopefully next year will be better. Rovaco shook his head.
After saying that, Rovac noticed the little Gusmão next to him, and when he saw him scratching his head, he immediately went over and patted him on the shoulder.
"Hey, little Gusmão. A pound of corn is 11 cents, 126 and a half pounds, tell me how much it can be sold?"
Little Gusmão was concentrating on the piece of paper in his hand, and was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, but he didn't raise his head and said, "$13.92." ”
Ruako laughed, "Still so fast, are you sure you're not mistaken?"
Old Gusmão frowned dissatisfiedly: "My son has never been wrong. ”
In fact, this is also the reason why he took little Gusmão out to catch the market.
As the most educated member of the Gusmão family, little Gusmão, who graduated from primary school, has an unparalleled talent for mathematics and is fast in arithmetic.
At least in the father's opinion, this child is much more affordable than a calculator.
Therefore, under the conditions of financial constraints not long ago, he was wise and witty to interrupt his son's junior high school studies, and farmed and rushed to the market with him.
Except for the math textbook, half of which was torn away by little Gusman, and the rest of the textbooks were also sold directly by him.
Even the half of the math textbook made old Gusmão a little dissatisfied: what's the use of learning those strange things, can you use them to sell vegetables?
Rwako touched his chin: "I just heard about something in the county, saying that a big man from Huaxia wants to set up a scholarship in East Timor. ”
"Timor-Leste's junior high school students, as long as they can score in the top 5% of this year's entrance exam, will have the opportunity to get the sponsorship of that big man to study in China......"
Listening to Rwako's words, the little Gusmão on the side obviously moved, and the whole person seemed to be still, as if he was expecting something.
Rwako continued: "I see that your little Gusmão is very smart......"
Old Gusmang waved his hand: "He is also good at mathematics, and others are not very good." ”
Little Gusmão didn't speak, but lowered his head, unable to see his expression.
"I've heard that students who are extremely biased can be selected exceptionally if they really have special talents," Rwako said. ”
Old Gusmang still disagreed: "That's not good, he retired from the first year of junior high school, and he is not the third year of junior high school, how can he take the entrance exam?"
At this time, little Gusmão suddenly raised his head, and his tone was very firm: "I want to skip a grade!"
"Skipping a grade?"
Old Gusmão was stunned for a moment, and then slapped him on the forehead.
"Smack!"
"Why don't you go to heaven!"
Little Gusmão covered his head, a little aggrieved: "I can go to primary school two years early, can't I go to the third year of junior high school two years early?"