Chapter 53: You're really a good person!

  This chapter is a supplement to yesterday's update. I got drunk last night and was unconscious when I came back, but I still remembered to send you guys a single chapter. After sending the chapter, I went to sleep and slept until 1 pm today. After waking up, I had two cups of coffee before I sobered up. The update has started now, so let me apologize again, then I'll continue writing.

  "Old Guo, how do I solve this problem? Explain it to me."

  In Qingyuan City, countless people were frightened by a cold-blooded and brutal massacre, with many people fleeing their homes in the shortest possible time. However, the culprit behind this chaos was sitting calmly in the classroom, studying diligently. As he studied, his classmate Zhang Hang handed him a test paper, pointing to a difficult question and whispering to him.

  It's Monday evening again, and the test papers from the weekend have been handed out. Guo Zhengyang's scores have made some progress compared to the previous mock exam, but the improvement is not significant. The total score of the four subjects has only increased by about 20 points, with a total score of over 510 points, which means an average increase of only 4-5 points per subject. Take math as an example, he scored 91 points in the city's unified mock exam, but this time he only scored 95 points. Guo Zhengyang himself also knows that he has encountered a bottleneck.

  Still have bottlenecks in learning?

  It seems so.

  He used to be very poor at studying, with almost no knowledge in his brain. As long as he went to learn, he would absorb new knowledge and his grades could be improved. For example, his scores had been improving for more than a month before.

  But this tolerance cannot be unlimited, when the knowledge he has learned accumulates to a certain amount, it will be in a situation where new knowledge is learned and old knowledge is forgotten, or the memory of old knowledge is confused and unclear. When answering questions, I clearly remember that I can do this question, but as I do it, I dare not confirm, always suspecting that I have made some mistakes, and dare not confirm my old knowledge, resulting in the original correct questions being done wrong.

  At this point, even if he gets closer and continues to learn new knowledge, what he has learned will be forgotten more and more, and the total score will still fluctuate at its original level, unable to achieve continuous improvement like before.

  This should be the bottleneck in learning.

  But strictly speaking, this is not a bottleneck. It can only be said that he is now just an ordinary person and not someone who never forgets. So, Guo Zhenyang knows that if he wants to continue advancing his score segment, he must slow down the speed of learning new knowledge for the time being, stop for a while, review what he has learned first, and after reviewing it thoroughly, ensure that 90% of what he has learned will not be forgotten before learning new things.

  So after getting this exam paper, he didn't rush to learn new knowledge, but instead took out all the previous exam papers and sorted out the old knowledge he had already learned.

  Just as Zhang Hang handed over the test paper, Guo Zhengyang suddenly smiled and said, "You won't be another flash in the pan, will you?"

  Every time this deskmate of mine receives his test scores, he always gets stimulated by his own grades. After being stimulated, he will also study a bit, but this studying never lasts long, sometimes just for a few classes, and at most one or two days before returning to his lazy ways. It's gotten to the point where even Guo Zhengyang doesn't bother explaining questions to him anymore.

  "Brother, this time it's really not, ah, don't ask so many questions, help me out, okay?" Zhang Hang's expression changed slightly as soon as he heard it, wanting to say something but seemingly too lazy to speak, and finally glared at Guo Zhengyang with some annoyance.

  It's obvious what you mean, why are you being so annoying, even when I ask you to talk about a topic, you're still so vague.

  Kwok Ching Yeung was speechless, but still took over the test paper and started reading it.

  Let's just say it, after all, he doesn't have many friends, Zhang Hang is the only one, even if they weren't very familiar with each other after rebirth, but sitting at the same desk for over a month, and with memories from their past life, their relationship naturally developed.

  After reviewing the test questions, Guo Zhengyang organized the steps to solve the problems in his mind and then put the paper in front of Zhang Hang and explained it softly.

  As he spoke, Zhang Hang's eyes grew wider and wider, his face clearly bewildered, completely unable to understand.

  Kuang Zhengyang suddenly slapped his forehead, this guy's foundation was too poor. When he mentioned some basic theorems, Kuang had no impression of them at all. How could he possibly explain it? Helplessly, Kuang patiently found the textbook again and circled the necessary theorems for Zhang Hang to review before re-explaining.

  Zhang Hang still learned from the front and forgot from the back, after several comparisons, he finally roughly mastered this question.

  After learning this, a question took almost twenty minutes to complete. It was a very simple question. If Guo Zhengyang did it himself, he would have finished in a few minutes. But explaining it to Zhang Hang took four or five times as long. In the end, that kid still didn't fully understand, leaving Guo Zhengyang also speechless with laughter and frustration.

  "Hey, take a look at this question again." However, just as Zhang Hang had barely understood it, he quickly pointed to another question seeking help, leaving Guo Zhengyang speechless but still patiently helping him find the answer.

  A class flew by, and two people were whispering to each other in the classroom, their voices neither loud nor soft, like mosquitoes buzzing, causing some nearby classmates to frequently turn their heads and glance over, but those who turned around didn't pay much attention after realizing that the two were studying rather than chatting idly.

  After class, Zhang Hang ran out again, while Guo Zhengyang sat in his seat and savored the previous lesson. Only after savoring it did he realize that through one lesson, he wasn't sure how much Zhang Hang remembered, but he himself had a deeper memory of what he had explained. Mainly because those simple things, he had to explain to Zhang Hang repeatedly, and whether he thought it was fun or funny, it was equivalent to him reviewing several times.

  Even this kind of review is more effective than him mechanically memorizing the textbook, when explaining to others, it's an interaction between two people, although the interactive effect isn't great, but still more vivid than him memorizing alone.

  "So helping others with their questions is also a way of reviewing."

  A faint light flashed before his eyes, and Guo Zhengyang really felt that he had found a better way to review, although this method was slower than his own rote memorization, with only two questions covered in one class, several times slower than his own review, but the content of these two questions he remembered more deeply and clearly.

  However, Guo Zhengyang soon shook his head and smiled wryly. He was clear that this deskmate often had a three-minute enthusiasm, and estimated that this time would be no exception. In a few classes, he might lose interest in learning again. He thought that relying on this method to review would probably not work either.

  But in the following days, Guo Zhengyang found that he had misjudged him. This time Zhang Hang studied hard for two or three days and asked Guo Zhengyang when he didn't understand something, so for these days, Guo Zhengyang spent half of his day helping him with his lessons.

  But he himself was delighted with the situation, and when helping Zhang Hang to explain various questions, he was indeed reviewing his old knowledge again and again, grasping those things more firmly, and the effect was much better than his own hard study of textbooks. Although helping Zhang Hang to make up for lost time was slower than his own direct review, which was several times slower, but the memory was more profound.

  Out of 24 hours a day, Guo Zhengyang spends one hour sleeping and another one or two hours relaxing his mind, eating, etc. The remaining 21 hours are roughly divided into ten hours helping Zhang Hang review, which is slow but still more efficient than Guo's own self-study, leaving him with about ten hours for his own study, making it much better than just studying alone.

  "Brother, you're really a good guy, it wasn't in vain that we spent so much heart and soul on you for several years in high school." Three days later, after another evening self-study session ended and school was dismissed, Zhang Hang suddenly patted Guo Zhengyang's shoulder and spoke with deep emotion.

  "What's wrong with you? You actually lasted three days this time?" Guo Zhengyang smiled strangely, and Zhang Hang chuckled and said, "It's all because of Xiao Min. These days I've been looking for her to play, she often says she's busy, wants to review, and often asks a boy in her class questions, I couldn't help but say a few words to her, the result was that she retorted with 'even if you ask for help, you can't help', damn it. You know, after school, can I call Xiao Min over too? If she doesn't understand something, she can ask us, her own people. Every day she's with that boy in her class, I always feel like it's not reliable. I was thinking of learning myself and then helping her, but now I find it's too slow and too difficult to learn, might as well just ask for your help directly."

  Guo Zhengyang was suddenly speechless, and looked at Zhang Hang silently, this matter, should he agree or not?

  After some thought, Guo Zhengyang still agreed. But after agreeing, he himself felt a little strange in his heart, as if he was really getting further and further away from the path of being a good student. Now not only is his learning progress often praised by teachers, but he has also become a model of a good student. Is he going to be labeled as someone who is eager to help others in the future?

  But this thing can really be done.

  Because he has found that this two-way review is much better than his own solo memorization, Zhang Hang is also helping himself.

  Good student? Then be a good student.