Where is the college entrance examination without ten thousand people, but there are enough free fruits for three meals?

It rained in June, and Hengshui, which was at the forefront, was silent. This place, called "College Entrance Examination (Excellent Course) Factory" and "Super Middle School", looks as usual at the moment.

Judging from the enrollment rate, Hengshui has created a veritable myth of college entrance examination:

The latest year's college entrance examination results are printed on the walls on both sides of the nearly 200-meter-long road outside the school gate, quietly showing the magic of this small town.

As the main campus building plays circularly: "Practice is the college entrance examination, and the college entrance examination is practice". Everyone kept their original posture and prepared for the final battle.

The college entrance examination is coming. Although there is no ceremony for ten thousand people to send exams and burn incense to worship Buddha in Mao Tan Middle School, every inch of land here has entered a natural state of fighting.

"The road ahead of us,

The college entrance examination is the only destination. "

On June 5, there are only two days before the college entrance examination. In the afternoon 10, the Taocheng clinic opposite Hengshui School was still busy.

Pushing the door in, the strong smell of disinfectant swept through, bypassing the consulting room in the front hall, which was an infusion room less than 10 square meter. Five students in school uniforms in Hengzhong are making infusion bottles, all of which are injected with their left hands without exception. On their right hand side, there is a set of papers related to the college entrance examination.

On the chair opposite, six or seven parents sat quietly, without verbal communication and no one playing mobile phones. The white light sprinkled in the room makes the room narrower and colder.

Asked if it was convenient to talk, several parents immediately replied: "Don't disturb your child's study."

Also preparing for the exam are thousands of senior three students in the closed Hengzhong campus. According to the usual practice, 7 days before the college entrance examination is the stage of independent review. Teachers from all disciplines don't come into the classroom, but wait in the corridor, and students come to ask questions from time to time. Teachers in each subject are on standby in shifts to ensure that there are tutors in each subject during the review period.

"Who is afraid of the college entrance examination this year when the spring breeze blows the drums" and "Life can't come back without the college entrance examination and rehearsal" ... The big slogan originally hung in the teaching building has been removed, and only one sentence "Practice is the college entrance examination, and the college entrance examination is practice" is retained on the scrolling screen. And all this is "in order to let children have a normal heart", Song Ming, a teacher who has been teaching in Hengshui for five years, responded.

"I want to live in full bloom like flying in the vast sky", which is a song played by Hengzhong during recess. As the college entrance examination approaches, the bell is adjusted to "Blue Danube".

On the afternoon of June 6, there is only one day before the college entrance examination. The campus is undergoing a routine final examination before the college entrance examination, and the preparation classrooms are closed. Melodious music sounded, "the boat floated gently in the water, and a cool breeze blew head-on" ... It seems to be out of place with the legendary "College Entrance Examination Prison", and everything is just to make the atmosphere less dignified, as if the college entrance examination is really an exercise.

From dinner on June 5 to the end of the college entrance examination, the school will provide candidates with three free meals and plenty of fruits such as watermelons and bananas. Only 5 cents is charged for each meal to record the number of people who eat. Even the doors of the classroom are repainted with lubricating oil for fear that the sound of opening and closing the doors will disturb the reviewing students.

Xiaofei, a native of Xingtai, Hebei Province, is about to take the college entrance examination. Unfortunately, this period happens to coincide with the physiological period. The school will provide contraceptives to students in need, postpone menstruation and ensure that the college entrance examination is foolproof.

Free fruit provided by the school.

She knows very well that no matter whether the admission rate of Hengshui is 98% or 90%, for herself, the chance of further study is only 0 or 1. In this plain province around the capital, there is only one university named 2 1 1, which corresponds to more than 400,000 college entrance examination students in the province this year. Thousands of troops roared, but there was only one wooden bridge in front of us, and no one could afford to lose.

Although all students study in the balance, not all students agree with its educational method. Pang Feng is one of the few "heterogeneous". With the latest mobile phone worth 8,000 yuan, he stayed at school and lived near the school with his mother for a month before the college entrance examination.

He admits that he can't accept the educational method that obliterates individuality and is completely standardized on the scale. "It's my first time to take an exam in Hengzhong", but after staying here for a while, he couldn't adapt. He tried to resist, and under the school rules that "abnormal contact between men and women" was not allowed, he spent a week making 30 pages of PPT to confess to the girls he liked.

"At last, when the teacher asked, she confessed everything. I think this person is unreliable, and then I hacked her. " The result of Pang Feng's willfulness this time was that he was called to his parents and went home to reflect for half a month.

Free meals provided by the school

He also tried to transfer to Shijiazhuang No.2 Middle School, but he stayed there for a week and experienced the consumption of doing problems all day. "I understand that exam-oriented education is everywhere," he said frankly. Pang Feng dropped out of school in a rage and finally came back here under the pressure of his parents.

"For most people, they have no choice, so they have to adapt to the college entrance examination; But if I have connections and resources, I won't be bound by those systems. I want to go to Yale to study in the future, and that is quality education. " He is full of expectations for his future, but this boy of 18 obviously has no answer about how to go to Yale.

More students, like Phillips, study hard and work hard. "I can't think of it. I have to bite the bullet and study. I am afraid that if I think too much, I will be distracted. " No matter what the future road is, at my stage, the college entrance examination is the only destination. I need balance. "Two days before the college entrance examination, she finished her meal in a hurry as usual and prepared to go back to the classroom to review.

After a lot of tactical training at sea, the first-line students have long been numb and almost nervous. This is the strategy of the college entrance examination in Hengzhong, and it is also the confidence of the students to advance to the front.

Free meals provided by the school

"They are my children,

I have to hold on. "

At 6: 09 am on June 7, it was already dawn. Students who are about to take the college entrance examination are standing on the playground of Hengshui. Everyone is holding excerpts or post-it notes to remember the key points. As usual, they are reciting some test center they may encounter.

A minute later, at 6: 10, the slogan "run-go" sounded on time, and thousands of students kept pace, "work hard and strive to be the first" and "17 we will win the college entrance examination" ... Every class shouted their own slogans, almost screaming.

There are many neatly packed boxes on the playground near the teaching building. The tea eggs and ham in it are carefully prepared by the school teacher. This is also the practice of Hengshui. On the eve of the college entrance examination, the class teacher will cook tea eggs for each student.

As before, preparing lessons every day, the lights of Song Ming's house stayed on until late at night. He and his wife are both senior three graduating classes this year, and they are both class teachers. They always have to cook tea eggs for nearly 300 students. Tomorrow morning, they will give them to the students one by one. At the last moment, "we think this is a warm ceremony", they said wearing the same "college entrance examination refueling clothes", and white T-shirts were printed with Chinese characters for cheering for the college entrance examination.

"Being a teacher here is really stressful, but I think it's worth it." Song Ming came to Hengshui as soon as he graduated, and grew from a young teacher to a business backbone. He stayed for five years. He also found his other half in the balance, and together with the couple 1 1 who teach here, he completed the collective wedding at school.

There is a saying in Hengshui, "If students want to run fast, teachers must bring them up first". Teachers are an important part of the success or failure of college entrance examination. According to the requirements of the school, teachers who study in the morning should arrive at the classroom at six o'clock, and those who study in the evening don't know what time to arrive. There was once a teacher who made do with biscuits and finally suffered from stomach bleeding; There is also a female teacher who was knocked down by a motorcycle at noon. The first thing she said when she woke up was "I have a class in the first afternoon" ...

Xiao Fei's head teacher is also the grade director. She recalled that the class teacher once said at the opening meeting that she was scolded by the principal in the office. The headmaster said to him, "Do it if you can, and do it if you can't!"

Students in Hengshui never read textbooks outside. The teacher held a teaching and research meeting, bought almost all the teaching materials on the market, then integrated and summarized them, printed them into a study plan and distributed them in a self-help way. "If we do a set of questions, it is equal to the effect of others doing 10 sets of questions," Song Ming replied confidently.

Three years of dribs and drabs, just waiting for the last hard battle. In order to make students absorb knowledge better, the teachers smashed every point and explained it one by one. Accordingly, students' independent thinking ability is inevitably questioned.

Xiao Fei has the same concern. She recited many "routine" templates for solving problems and often got high marks by standardized answers. But when asked why she used this template, she could only respond awkwardly, because it was the only way to score.

"Is this' cramming education'?"

Song and Ming categorically denied that "the current dispute between exam-oriented education and quality education is a false proposition. We can only say that we will do our best to equip students with excellent weapons in the arduous college entrance examination, which is the only thing we can do. "

In the balance, Song Ming also heard other voices from time to time. For example, Hengzhong opened a branch school in other places, which was questioned as "retrogression of quality education" and the Hengzhong model was "purgatory of college entrance examination destroying human nature", but he always believed in the path he chose.

In this college entrance examination sniper battle, the teachers took the students to the front step by step. In the last mile, what the students can do is to fill the bullets for the children.

"send the child to the balance,

One step closer to a good university. "

At 9 o'clock on the evening of June 6, only one day away from the college entrance examination.

There are still people outside the gate of Hengshui No.1 Middle School (namely Hengshui South Campus in Hebei Province), which is nearly 20 miles away from the city. Three years ago, it was called "Grassland", but now it is full of excitement because of the completion of the new campus, and even a bus (3 1) was specially opened, starting from this school and going back and forth between urban areas.

"Zhao Hanyu, Zhao Hanyu's parents", the guard's voice did not fall, and a middle-aged man immediately leaned in. "Here, here, I'm Zhao Hanyu's parents," he said, handing over the "note" (a day certificate issued by the class teacher).

I took the test paper in the child's hand at the door and hurried away with her.

This is a common phenomenon at the school gate on the eve of the college entrance examination. Some students are under great psychological pressure, and parents want to spend more time with them, so they will come over to "accompany them" and pick up their children to and from school in the morning and evening.

But not everyone can be so smooth. Lin li specially asked for leave and left Handan by car alone. I spent two hours on the road to cheer up my daughter before the college entrance examination.

"I really believe in the balance of teachers, but with so many students, teachers can't cover everything. My daughter has been under great pressure recently, and I don't trust her to take the college entrance examination like this, but she hasn't got the certificate from the teacher yet, so she can only wait outside.

Zhou Feng's son is also a member of the college entrance examination army. Unlike other parents who pick up their children, he didn't want to pick them up when he came from Wuyi. "I know that the college entrance examination is on the scale, just like a programmer coding. I lost the doorway to my child's heart, so I can't disturb him." Then I smiled. "But these two days, my mind is full of college entrance examination. Just look outside the door, otherwise I can't do anything else."

? Free meals provided by the school

Admittedly, for most parents, sending their children to school is more reassuring:

Hengshui has become the "golden signboard" of Hebei and even the national college entrance examination. According to the data of college entrance examination in 20 16, Peking University and Tsinghua University enrolled 15 1 23 and ***274 students respectively in Hebei province, contributing 139, accounting for 50% of the total enrollment in Hebei province. The rate of one copy was as high as 92.44%, and 4,989 students were admitted to universities.

According to parents, the Long Yuan Hotel, which is 3 kilometers away from this campus, and the nearby Marriott Hotel are all full.

Before the college entrance examination, they came from Xingtai, Handan, xian county and Qinhuangdao, and offered their own ceremonies to pay homage to the college entrance examination in the form of accompanying the exam or even taking a sneak peek.

"The balance is our business card,

Must be responsible to the end. "

On June 5, there are still two days before the college entrance examination.

Li Jianguo, 35, rides an electric tricycle to and from two campuses. This person, who has worked in Hengshui for 12 years, still plays the role of "delivering paper before the exam" this year.

He said that from June/KLOC-0 to June 5, the school will print several sets of final "review papers" for candidates' reference. Before the college entrance examination every year, the "paper feeder" will go online on time, and the three printing rooms in two campuses will start at the same time to print the test questions in turn.

"I am responsible for the last few sets of questions in the college entrance examination every year. I was asked to buy the questions, but I never agreed. The school is very strict. As an old man here, I need to know the rules. Here, I heard that there are several big questions in the college entrance examination every year. " His tricycle shuttled back and forth in this battle and completed its mission.

"Listen to clear? Even a teacher you know can't get in without a certificate. " On the eve of the college entrance examination, it was nearly afternoon 10. The security guards at the school gate screamed at the top of their lungs and gave lectures in the authentic Hengshui dialect. About 30 security guards stood neatly in a row and obeyed this last key security arrangement.

The most important moment has come, and everyone is in high spirits. They are part of the balance, deeply feel that they are part of this "myth" and look forward to its continuation.

The discussion about Hengshui has been very hot, standing at the forefront, and the candidates here still review independently according to the past timetable. If it weren't for the countdown characters on the blackboard, it seems that everyone here is about to face a daily test.

They have killed that big exam thousands of times in high-intensity repeated training.