Chapter 5: Preliminary Selection and Participation in Physical Examination
One day in mid-January, Lin Xiaoguang was leaning against the radiator, waiting to eat, when suddenly there was a knock on the door.
Xiaofei thought it was his little friend and hurriedly opened the door, only to see a young man who was tired of life. The young man stood outside the door and did not come in. He just gasped and asked: "Lin Xiaoguang, is Lin Xiaoguang's home here?"
Xiaofei nodded quickly.
"Well, please inform Lin Xiaoguang that he will go to the County No. 1 Middle School for a physical examination tomorrow. I will also inform others. Goodbye." After the young man finished speaking, he left without looking back.
Yang Wenshu was in the kitchen. When she heard the noise, a hint of joy appeared on her face. She walked out and stared at him, still a little unbelievable: "Did you really pass the exam?"
"It's almost like ten!" Lin Xiaoguang also felt like he was dreaming.
He was quiet for a few seconds, then suddenly his face burst into laughter, and he jumped three meters high, so happy.
According to the admissions process of this college entrance examination, shortlisted candidates will undergo a centralized physical examination. It is said that if the total score is 220 or above, or a single subject has a perfect score, if they can reach the physical examination step, it means that the score is not bad, and they can be admitted.
The score is not a big issue, in the end it all depends on your choice and major.
The choices he filled out this time were Peking University, Fudan University, and Sun Yat-sen University, with nine majors in three schools.
However, he felt that the test was in good condition and his estimated score was quite high, so there was probably no problem.
The day after he was notified of the physical examination, Lin Xiaoguang went out early in the morning, dressed warmly, three layers inside and three outside, wrapped like a rice dumpling.
Previously, on a whim, he went for a run in a single coat early in the morning, calling it a physical exercise. However, in the middle of winter, after sweating all over, he caught a cold from the cold.
After he recovered from the cold, Yang Wenshu prohibited him from going out. However, he had to go for a physical examination and repeatedly gave him more clothes.
On the morning of the next day, Lin Xiaoguang went to find Yang Lan first, and then the two of them went to school together.
Chang'an No. 1 Middle School is not within the county seat, but in the southeast corner outside the county seat, in a very remote place, surrounded by farmland.
Lin Xiaoguang was very curious. The school was built in 1942. At that time, the county was so big. How could it be that there was no land for real estate development? It had to be built outside the city. Didn't you know that there were bandits outside the city? He couldn't understand it either.
For four years, he traveled in and out of the city every day. He wasted a lot of time on this three- to four-kilometer road. It was hot in the summer and cold in the winter. He suffered too much.
He complained: "If I were the principal of No. 1 Middle School, I would definitely move the school to the city, at least to the area of No. 3 Middle School. In the future, a subway will be built there and the school will develop rapidly."
"What is the subway?" Yang Lan was a little curious.
"The subway is an underground railway. Our current railways travel long distances, while the subway is urban rail transit. It travels short distances, just like buses and trams." Lin Xiaoguang explained, suddenly burst into laughter.
"Anyway, there is one in Beiping. You will know about it when you get to Beiping."
"Okay, let's go to Peking together then."
After arriving at Chang'an No. 1 Middle School, Lin Xiaoguang discovered that there were many people coming for physical examination, nearly 400 people.
It was still early, and the physical examination had not started yet, but many people arrived early, not afraid of the severe cold, and stood on the open space in front of the teaching building, stamping their feet and breathing.
He looked around and suddenly understood that these four hundred people were not only from Chang'an No. 1 Middle School, but also from other schools, and even township middle schools. They had nothing in common. They should have been randomly divided by people from the County Education Bureau.
These candidates are all scheduled for physical examination in No. 1 Middle School.
After all, there are several middle schools in the county. After calculation, there are more than 1,700 people in Chang A County who have passed the primary election.
There are more than 100 counties and districts in Western Shaanxi. According to this, a total of 180,000 people passed the primary election.
Lin Xiaoguang remembers that there were more than 20 million applicants for the first college entrance examination. On average, there were 625,000 people in each province. Although Xishan is located in the northwest, it has a large population base, but it is not as populous as Nanhe and Xichuan.
This number should be about the same.
In this primary election, the number of people who passed the primary election nationwide was 5.73 million. On average, it was 180,000 in each province, which is really consistent.
In later generations, there were almost 300,000 candidates for the Xishan College Entrance Examination every year.
In later generations, there are 1.4 billion people, 10 million college entrance examination candidates, 330,000 candidates in total in Western Shaanxi, 260,000 admitted, and an admission rate of 80%. However, this year in 1977, the country has a population of 950 million, 20 million college entrance examination candidates, 625,000 total candidates in Western Shaanxi, and primary candidates.
180,000, less than 10,000 were admitted, and the admission rate was 1.6%.
In later generations, the admission rate of Xishaan First Class was 14.24%, the admission rate of 211 was 5.67%, and the admission rate of 985 was 1.88%. This was after the university expanded its enrollment.
In other words, the group of people who were admitted to college or junior college in the 1977 college entrance examination are all equivalent to the 985 prospective college students in later generations.
Even though there were many opportunities at that time and the state assigned jobs, it was no wonder that people had high achievements.
Lin Xiaoguang was thoughtful, watching each candidate who took the physical examination. Each one was in high spirits, but knew nothing about their situation. Of these 400 people, only less than 22 could go to college. Among 18 people,
Only one came out.
Before I knew it, the physical examination began.
The physical examination in the 1970s is not much different from the physical examination in the new century. If there is any difference, it is that there are fewer instruments and there are many physical examination contents.
For example, the equipment for measuring blood pressure and heart rate is relatively simple.
After checking the body, the physical test begins, including 1,000 meters for boys and 800 meters for girls, pull-ups, sit-ups and push-ups, etc.
The physical examination ended successfully. When he went back, Lin Xiaoguang was a little absent-minded.
Yang Lan walked aside, chatting with classmates from No. 1 Middle School.
Chang'an No. 1 Middle School is not big, nor is it small. There are at least a few hundred people in each grade. With so many people in each class, not to mention all, the top ten can still be shortlisted through the preliminary selection and assigned to four or five schools.
School physical examination, there are more than a dozen people undergoing physical examination in Chang'an No. 1 Middle School.
As a top student, many people know Yang Lan, but not many people know Lin Xiaoguang.
After Lin Xiaoguang's four years of middle school, those classmates went to the mountains and countryside to take exams in other places, but he didn't meet any of them who came for a physical examination.
Yang Lan's home is next to the Finance Office, only a two-kilometer walk away.
Lin Xiaoguang sent her home first.
Downstairs, Yang Lan asked him to come up. He remembered his uncle's unhappy expression, so he smiled and shook his head and refused. He took a shortcut home, passing by Chang'an North Road, and saw someone selling meat buns on the street.
It was so hot that he suddenly wanted to eat it.
But when I saw the meal, I had to give up, but I still made up my mind to buy one next time I go out in the morning.
The matter of the physical examination passed like this, but a colleague of Lin's father and Lin's mother heard that he was shortlisted through the primary election and praised him. Later, for some reason, three brothers and sisters of the Lin family, all three families had children who passed the primary election.
After being shortlisted, the news spread and immediately aroused heated discussion in a small area.
The news also reached the old man's ears, but he felt complicated.
It happened before. After graduating from high school, Lin Xiaoguang refused to go to the mountains and countryside no matter what. Then he postponed it until late October, when the People's Daily and China Central Broadcasting announced the announcement.
He just felt something was wrong.
Later, when Lin Xiaoguang and Yang Lan took the college entrance examination together, someone joked that he knew the inside information and that was why his grandchildren did not go to the countryside.
That's fine. When all three children were shortlisted through the primary election, he was happy on the one hand, thinking that his family's ancestral graves were the reason for their love. On the other hand, he was not very happy about the heated discussion of those people. He was just joking, but he was afraid.
At that time, if all three children really go to Yanjing and live together in the northern Qing Dynasty, they will not be jealous to death.
Because of this, the old man felt pain and happiness.