Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Exam, the Theme of the Third Year of High School
Since Cheng Xiaoyu made a big show in the class that day, there have been a lot less gossip on the bright side of the class, and as for what happens in private, I don't care about it, but most people's minds are spent on the college entrance examination. On the top of the classroom is a huge red calendar counting down to the number of days before the college entrance examination.
The page that is torn off every day seems to tell you how far you are from the most important battle in your life. At that time, each class had its own slogan, and the third (2) class of high school was "How can there be a phoenix-like rebirth without experiencing the pain of purgatory." ”
The number of test papers is increasing exponentially, and everyone consciously uses their free time to review, and everyone gives up a qiē statutory holiday and rushes to cram school.
Wang Wei, the head teacher, posts an inspirational quote in the GG group every day, these quotations are all his originals, and he followed it with a sentence after posting: play less with mobile phones and read more books.
The students' GG space has stopped updating for the time being, and everyone is busy. Although it was not yet summer, the dreary atmosphere made everyone upset, but they had to sit firmly in their seats and study the ideas of each question.
When the bell rang and the whole class was lying on the table with their faces sideways to rest, the next teacher walked up to the podium with stacks of test papers, looked at the languishing students in the audience and sighed softly, and then began to distribute the test papers.
Occasional entertainment is to write classmates to each other, and the strange thing is that Cheng Xiaoyu is also very popular, and many classmates who have never spoken to him have handed him a notebook and asked him to write a paragraph.
Cheng Xiaoyu's poems were on the "Surging Paper", and the school also promoted it greatly, and there was a page with "The Surging" posted on the bulletin board, starting with "Dream as a Horse". Many students know about this geek poet, but Cheng Xiaoyu did not leave much gorgeous poems in the classmates.
What is left for girls is "I don't want to lose the memories of spring breeze, summer rain, autumn frost, and winter snow, and I will never forget our laughter on the road of life." "The rings of the years, like the black spinning record, play the beautiful old love song in the heart of each of us!" "On the river of time, there will flow a lot. Will the red leaves at the time of meeting fade too? "And so on.
Most of the things left for boys are "Studying is like, obviously you work hard, but what you release is a fart, so those who are content are always happy." "The relationship with you can be described as a curve of a higher-order equation." "A talented man must be accompanied by a beautiful woman! I wish you a speedy start and blessings to your children and grandchildren!"
As for Chen Haoran, he didn't get such a thing as a classmate record at all, and his Fudan escort exam was about to arrive, but he was not half nervous.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't ask others to write any classmates, yes, he just did an alumni directory, a more ambitious project.
Xia Shamo's classmates recorded him drawing staves, and Wang Ou's classmates recorded him writing lyrics. The classmates of the two put together to form a complete song.
Cheng Xiaoyu promised that after the art exam, he would record the song, engrave it into a CD, and give each of the three of them a copy.
Cheng Xiaoyu will go home directly after class to practice the piano now, and occasionally Wang Ou will go to the Lighting Forest with him to play for an hour or two when he doesn't go to the sports club.
Cheng Xiaoyu has recently increased the amount of practice, and he is not reviewing at dinner, and continues to practice. In front of Aunt Zhou, Haikou boasted out, saying that there was no need to invite a teacher, and Cheng Xiaoyu didn't know why he refused to invite a teacher, this was a decision that did not go through his brain, and it had nothing to do with self-confidence.
Cheng Xiaoyu has put more energy into piano practice these days, after all, the art examination is more important to him than the college entrance examination, as long as the art examination is passed, the college entrance examination score is really not high.
The preliminary examination for the art examination on May 3 is about to start, Zhou Peipei has already signed up for him, Zhou Peipei wanted to find a teacher for Cheng Xiaoyu after the New Year, but was rejected by Cheng Xiaoyu, Zhou Peipei saw that Cheng Xiaoyu was so confident, so he was not reluctant. (The domestic art examination is around December)
And she also greeted a few well-connected invigilators in advance, hoping to take care of the children inside. Zhou Peipei is usually quite popular in the play, she is not pretending to be generous, and she gets along well with everyone, some people ask her for help, and she usually does ironing as much as she can, and she has some background. So she opened her mouth, many people are willing to help, this kind of person owes you a favor, there will always be a time when it can be used.
Seeing that the third day of May had arrived, Cheng Xiaoyu was not too nervous, and ate two more steamed buns at home in the morning.
Su Yuxi rarely went to school, and said to Cheng Xiaoyu before going to school: "Come on." ”
Cheng Xiaoyu smiled and said, "Okay." ”
When I came back from the capital, the two of them strangely hadn't met in school, except for the time when they were not allowed to talk at home, and they could see each other during meals, they practiced in the piano room at other times.
As for picking up Xu Qinning to eat hot pot together every weekend, I went there twice, and then it was ordered by Xu Qinning to stop, and I don't know what the girl was crazy about.
Anyway, the two siblings are used to it.
Cheng Xiaoyu drove his own car to the play, and Zhou Peipei had already told him the truth, as long as it was at a normal level and not too bad, there should be no problem. After all, the art examination is still a relatively subjective thing, and it is too easy to release water, which makes Cheng Xiaoyu feel a lot more relaxed.
The exam started at nine o'clock, and a large number of people gathered at the entrance of the play early in the morning, some came with their parents, and some came together with classes or school organizations.
Cheng Xiaoyu was a little surprised by the dense crowd, today's drama exam, off-campus vehicles are not allowed to enter, fortunately, Zhou Peipei has already gotten a pass for Cheng Xiaoyu to put on the car, but the huge flow of people can only coerce him to slowly drive inside, and Cheng Xiaoyu, who is driving a high-profile white Ferrari, immediately became the focus.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't care about the anxious eyes focused on him, amplified the music, covered the noise outside, and slowly moved forward in the flow of people.
A large part of the candidates here are candidates from other places, and if they want to take the drama exam, they will generally rent a house near the drama two or three months in advance and start preparing for the art exam. Like Cheng Xiaoyu, who lives in this city, he saves a lot of trouble.
I finally entered the campus, found a place to park, took the admission ticket, and walked towards the examination site of the piano department.
There are a lot of test center signs on campus, and there are many student volunteers who attend the theater to maintain order and guide the students who come to the exam.
As Cheng Xiaoyu walked, he recalled the content of the exam, and the repertoire for the first exam was relatively simple.
1. Bach's 12 equal temperaments 1 (only fugue played) (Fugue is a musical composition, a fixed form of polyphonic music, not a form. )
2. Play 2 technical fast etudes (2 etudes played consecutively, 2 must be selected from Chopin's etudes Op.10 or Op.25)
Candidates must memorize the music and play, otherwise the test result will be cancelled.
Cheng Xiaoyu believes that the first test will be easy for him, and if he tries again, he can't see the level of his opponent now, and it is really difficult to judge, as long as the opponent is not all at Su Yuxi's level, he thinks he should not have a big problem.
Exams and competitions are generally compared to accuracy, not your understanding of the music, which is a disadvantage for Cheng Xiaoyu.
He had been deserted for more than a year without touching the piano. He once remembered winning a piano performance award when he was 16 years old, not the first prize but also the top three. So the level back then should still be very good. After this period of unremitting intensive practice, although Cheng Xiaoyu did not know what his piano level had been, although he felt that he had not recovered to the level he had reached a year ago. But he felt that his current level was still enough to cope with the exam.
And in all fairness, in fact, technology is only in the field of science, it can be said that there is no more, in the field of art, to a certain level and level is not as good as technology, at this stage, everyone has technology.
Laymen generally only look at superficial things such as tempo, dynamics, and accuracy, but many musicians do not pursue or disdain these things (except for accuracy).
Professionals generally pay more attention to technique, technique is really much more complex than technique, technique includes technique, but also covers things that technique does not have, some musicians value technique rather than technique, but this does not mean that they are not technically good.
At this time, Cheng Xiaoyu actually unconsciously put himself in the position of a performer, rather than a student. Overall, he's pretty confident.
As for the content of the re-examination (the repertoire of the first test must not be repeated), Cheng Xiaoyu did not choose a very difficult repertoire, anyway, with Aunt Zhou's support, he can enter the play as long as he does not travel to the performance of cuò stable dìng, so there is no need to play difficult repertoire.
Therefore, in the performance of the first classical sonata (selected from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert) in the re-examination examination, Cheng Xiaoyu did not think much about choosing the third movement of Beethoven's sonata "Moonlight".
As for the second item, a foreign piece is played. Cheng Xiaoyu chose Chopin's etude "Black Key".
The final test item is the basic music subject (the score is not included in the overall score, but the qualification line is delineated)
1. Music Theory;
2. Ear training (written test and interview).
These basic skills are a piece of cake for Cheng Xiaoyu, who has good ear power.
At this time, Cheng Xiaoyu confidently felt that he had stepped into the play with one foot.