Chapter 4: The Nine Losers
After the second round of physical fitness limit tests were over, everyone stayed quietly in the hall, waiting for the interviewer to call.
Now in the hall, there are only about 2,000 people left, and only 200 people can be summoned by the interviewer to enter the interview, and after passing the interview, 100 people are selected out of these 200 people, which is the final expedition volunteer.
Choosing 200 out of 2,000 is equivalent to choosing one out of ten, and it is still a very cruel competition.
Now the people who can decide the fate of these 2,000 people are the five interviewers. The results of the two rounds of tests of more than 2,000 people have come out, and the job of the five interviewers now is to select the excellent ones from the two thousand or so test results for the final interview.
Of course, the results of the two rounds of the test are only one of the important considerations, and there are other factors that affect the final selection, such as major, personal preference factors of the interviewer, etc.
Five interviewers, all serving NASA officers, two white, two black, and one yellow, each interviewer was responsible for selecting forty people for interviews.
In principle, there should be a certain proportion of women in the expedition volunteer team, and this proportion is about one-third. So among the 40 people selected for interviews by each interviewer, there are about 20 men and 10 women.
The information of more than 2,000 candidates has been recorded in the optical brain database, and the five interviewers stand in front of their respective optical brain screens and begin to select candidates for interview.
The data of more than 2,000 candidates is very huge, and to be selected, it is basically necessary to search through conditions, and the first search condition set by each interviewer is often the first round of physical fitness test results, with a total score of more than 90 points, and then look at the results of the second round of extreme tests, as well as other majors, specialties and other factors.
This search criterion alone basically excludes those who scored below 90 points in the first round of physical fitness tests, just imagine that you can't appear in the interviewer's selection field, how can you be selected?
In practice, interviewers' search criteria are often more demanding, and their search criteria often start with a total score of more than 95 points in the first round of physical fitness tests.
Candidates with a total score or higher will generally be favored by the interviewer, and if there are no other questions, such candidates will generally be prioritized, and if there are still places, they will lower their qualifications and be selected again from the search criteria of more than 90 points.
After a busy time, the five interviewers have almost all selected the 40 candidates they will interview.
"Angelia, haven't you done it yet?"
At this time, the other four interviewers had basically finished the selection process, and only one interviewer continued to browse through the information of the candidates in front of the screen.
This is a beautiful female officer of about twenty-seven or eighteen, with snow-white skin and a faint smile, and she is the only woman among the five interviewers.
"Not yet, if you are well, you can start the interview first, don't wait for me." Angelia, the female interviewer, who was still browsing the candidates' profiles, shrugged her shoulders and smiled slightly at the other four colleagues.
The other four interviewers didn't say anything more and walked to their respective interview halls.
When an interviewer passed by Angelia's side, his eyes inadvertently glanced at the light brain screen in front of her, which made him a little surprised, and said: "Angelia, what do you think of these candidates with a total score of about 80 points in the physical fitness test, I remember that those candidates with a total score of more than 90 points in the physical fitness test are enough for us to choose." ”
Angelia smiled faintly and said, "I know the truth, but I think that since these candidates with more than eighty points have entered the second round of the physical limit test, then they should be given a chance, not completely abandoned, right?" ”…,
The interviewer didn't think so, but he didn't say anything more, and said with a smile: "Angelia, you are really good-hearted, if someone is really selected by you, I think he should thank you very much." ”
Angelia shook her head and said, "Don't say that, I'm just giving them a chance to play fair." In fact, the work of this planetary exploration volunteer is also very dangerous, even if you choose, it may be a blessing or a curse. ”
The interviewer smiled and said, "That's what I said." Okay, I won't bother you. ”
Then he turned and departed.
I have to say that Jiang Ping's luck came this time.
It's all too rare to find a serious interviewer like Angelia. In fact, she has selected thirty-nine candidates for interview, leaving only one place, intending to give a chance to candidates with less than 90 points in the physical fitness test, of course, if there is really no special outstanding, she will have to choose another one among the candidates above 90 points.
She browsed the information of these candidates almost one by one, and when she saw Jiang Ping's information, her eyes finally stopped.
It's not because there is anything special about Jiang Ping's information, everything looks ordinary and ordinary, and there is nothing special about it. Nor is there anything to be interesting about his test scores.
The first round of physical fitness test was 85 points, this score can only be regarded as mediocre, two physical fitness limit tests, 51 points in the endurance limit test, and 35 points in the body coordination and flexibility limit test.
What made her look linger was a line of notes written in a small and inconspicuous place below the person's profile: This person participated in the expedition volunteer retest a total of nine times, and none of them passed.
Seeing this line of words, I don't know what to do, which made Angelia's heart tremble slightly.
Participated in nine times, but failed once, he insisted on coming again for nothing, if it was someone else, I was afraid that he would have given up long ago. Besides, the work is not very safe, and there are certain risks that need to be taken, and it may even cost lives.
Maybe there is some difficulty in his family that urgently needs that rich reward?
Angelia guessed in her heart, and after her gaze stayed for a while, her little hand reached over, and with a light click on the person's information on the screen, Jiang Ping had been included in the list of forty people she was going to interview.
With a faint smile on her face, she decided to give the man a chance.
At this moment, Jiang Ping was standing in the waiting hall, and the hall announcement had begun to roll call, and the lucky ones who had been named began to enter the interview hall next to them in turn in the envious eyes of everyone for interviews.
Jiang Ping's heart was a little excited at first, but as the cold and waveless voice of the radio kept coming, his heart continued to sink and become cold, and finally he was occupied by another disappointment.
I should have thought of this result a long time ago, the previous expectation was really ridiculous, Jiang Ping thought to himself.
He has been carefully counting the number of people called by the radio, after the radio has called one hundred and ninety-nine people, and there is still no name for him, his heart sank to the extreme, and he was about to turn around and leave in disappointment, when he heard the still cold voice of the radio coming over: "No. 4932, Jiang Ping, please wait in the No. 4 interview hall, No. 4932, Jiang Ping, please wait in the No. 4 interview hall......"
The cold voice of the radio was broadcast twice, and Jiang Ping's steps about to leave also stopped abruptly, and an incredible expression came up, and he looked down to check his number, it was indeed 4932! Of course, his name is Jiang Ping, and it turns out that all this is true! I actually entered the interviewer's field of vision and entered the third round of interviews! …,
A surge of joy came over him, and he almost cried out. This was so exciting, he turned out to be the luckiest of the two hundred.
Sure enough, after the broadcast of Jiang Ping's name on the radio, there was no sound, and it was obvious that the entire interview list had been broadcast, and Jiang Ping was the last selected interviewer.
The crowd gathered in the hall began to disperse one by one, and the expressions of frustration and loss could be seen everywhere. Once upon a time, Jiang Ping was the same as them, but this time it was different.
At this time, Jiang Ping had already followed what the radio said, and quickly ran towards the No. 4 interview hall.
Outside the interview hall is a slightly larger hall, and at the moment there are dozens of people standing or sitting inside, most of them men, half of them women, all kinds of skin colors, and different expressions.
These people, like him, are the interviewees who will be interviewed next. Compared to the people who left outside, they were lucky, but then there was another brutal elimination, and only half of them were able to stay in the end, and the other half had to leave disappointed, just like those who left outside the hall now.
After the initial excitement, Jiang Ping has now completely calmed down, and he secretly said to himself: You must seize this rare opportunity, perform well, impress the interviewer, and finally successfully pass the interview and officially become an interstellar exploration volunteer!
This is the first time he has entered the interview, so he doesn't know anything about the next interview, and he doesn't know what questions the interviewer will ask. It wasn't his turn yet, so he had to prepare for it, guessing what it would be like to wait and how he would answer the questions that the interviewer might ask.
"Mr. 1822, please come in, Captain Angelia, the interviewer, is going to interview you!"
A young lieutenant appeared at the doorway of one of the cabins inside, glanced at the crowd in the hall, and shouted.
As the words fell, a big black man with a height of two meters and a sturdy figure stood up from the crowd, grinned at the crowd and made a strange face, and walked into a room inside.
As this big black man named Stephenson entered, the interview officially began.