Chapter 96 – Episode 96. Talking With Successful Students
I also turned on the heating when I was in my studio room, so I can say that I live warmly, but Song Ji-eun was living as warmly as I did.
Her room was also fairly well heated.
And I thought that the advantage of a rooftop room would be that the soundproofing was pretty good.
The sound does not come from the studio or the gosiwon, or from other floors in general.
Usually there is noise from the next room.
Taking an apartment as an example, there can of course be noise between the floors above and below, but usually you can’t hear it even if you turn on the TV.
It’s hard to hear if you’re doing something in a studio or a gosiwon, or on a floor slightly above or below it.
But in the next room, I can hear the sound of humming songs or music playing.
From that point of view, Song Ji-eun lives alone on the roof, so she doesn’t have a room next to her, so it can be seen that she is quite free in soundproofing, since there are only up and down levels where soundproofing is relatively good in the first place.
Her room was a bit larger than my studio, but it seemed to have everything.
It is true that it has some limitations because it is a rooftop, but it was a room for office workers who passed the 9th grade civil servant exam one step earlier than me.
Based on the entrance, there is a closet on the right and a storage closet next to it.
To the left is a long bookshelf with four tiers, and to the right is a computer desk and computer.
There is a bed in the front, and what appears to be a door to the bathroom behind it to the left.
The place where Song Ji-eun and I took our seats was the space between the doorway and the bed.
My hands were slightly cold on the way from my house to here, so as soon as I arrived in Song Ji-eun’s room, I put my palm on the warm floor of her room and said.
“Oh, it’s very warm.”
“That’s right. I couldn’t live if it was really cold.”
“Shall we have a drink?”
“Whoops, yes.”
Song Ji-eun and I each picked up a can of World Beer that I had brought.
The canned beer I had this time was a bit shorter than my forearm, but it was quite large, so it seemed like there would be no shortage of drinks together.
When I opened the beer can with a murmur, the feeling of carbonic acid escaping in an instant was refreshing.
“Shall we salt it?”
“Is that so?”
Song Ji-eun and I bumped into canned beer and ended up drinking together.
Song Ji-eun sat down in front of me in a white hoodie, thick pajama pants, and her bare feet to have a drink with her.
“Gulp, gulp…”
The beer went down my throat, and the taste of malt soaked in cold carbonation swept my mouth and throat coolly.
I thought it was alcohol too.
The taste of drinking with a woman like this after studying all day was really sweet.
Song Ji-eun also drank beer as coolly as I did, probably because the beer tasted pretty good.
“Kuu~.”
After she drank the beer, she picked up a cheese stick, took a bite, and chewed it.
I thought her choice was a choice based on priorities.
I brought the beer, but she prepared the snacks.
And the types of snacks are cheese sticks, chicken nuggets, and french fries.
When buying three side dishes, of course, each would have been individually wrapped in a freezer bag at the market, but it can be seen that Song Ji-eun poured a certain amount separately and put it in a microwave oven.
On a wide plate, the side dishes were also quite generous.
Chicken nuggets or French fries are okay if they cool down a little, but she seemed to eat the cheese sticks first, because if the cheese sticks cooled down, the cheese inside the sticks might stop stretching.
So I followed Jieun Song with another cheese stick and ate it.
Jieun Song talked to me while eating cheese sticks.
“Are you studying well, brother?”
She asks if her studies are going well, but my thoughts came to her body first rather than whether my studies are going well.
The white color seemed to work pretty well.
In the meantime, I had met her on a chair right in front of the rooftop, but maybe it was because we met outside, I had only seen her in feminine clothes, but seeing her dressed in such comfortable clothes gave me a different feeling.
“Ah. Are you doing well these days?”
As the month of November went by, practically the days I played like that seemed to be few days.
In the meantime, when I go to the water purifier at the academy, when I go to the bathroom, when I go out to eat, etc… I received a confession at a lot of times.
But for the few women who were lucky enough to dash into me at a timing that fit perfectly into any of my schedules, I gave the opportunity to get my giant stuff stuck in her privates.
I could still see that I had changed from the time ago, when I used to hang out with and drink with girls every day without hesitation, even when I wasn’t studying properly.
I only met and played with women as much as possible during the time I didn’t have time to study, and most of the time I spent preparing for the civil service exam.
I said a little more.
“In the middle of last month, well, until about that time, I played a lot. Now that I’m going to study again, I think it’s fortunate that it went well.”
“Oh, really? That’s great~. Where’s the progress these days?”
Song Ji-eun asked me.
Apparently Song Ji-eun is a passer of the civil service exam ahead of me, so I could see that talking with her about her civil service exam made me feel a bit reassured in a way.
“The problem-solving class is a 2-month course, so it’s about half done.”
“I think the teachers are still keeping pace. When I was in school, I was really late, so I did a lot of reinforcing.”
Haha, Sensei is also a human being, so wouldn’t he try to keep up as much as possible to reinforce less?”
“Right. Probably so, right?”
Song Ji-eun said.
“For me, the problem-solving class was more helpful than the others. In the case of the basic concept class, I learned a lot, but there weren’t many cases where I applied how this would come out as a small problem, so I didn’t have the taste to study.”
“Uh, that’s why I skipped the basic class and signed up for the problem-solving class.”
“Are you going to listen to the end of the class and the final class?”
I feel like I don’t need to hear that much.
There are problem solving classes in November and December, and past problem solving classes in January and February.
There is a special final lecture class from March until just before the exam.
Of course, this does not mean that there is only this in the academy, but there are various curricula, and among them, it is one of the most popular.
In addition, there are many academies, and each academy has numerous general classes and single-course classes.
Anyway, I don’t intend to listen to the past and the final.
First of all, since I was in school, I tend to have less importance than others when it comes to past exam questions.
It’s a bit like the TOEIC or something like this, unless the problem comes out while going round and round like a question bank.
Of course, the issue of the release will have meaning.
I think it is meaningful to find out the direction of the test question through past questions, or to organize the key points according to it because it is a question that has appeared in the previous test.
However, I think so.
I think the problem with the release is just basic.
As for the number of people who enter the test center without solving past exam questions, I don’t think that there will be that many.
If the past exam questions are so frightening, many people should look at the past exam questions and go in to do well in the exam.
But not so.
I think that past questions are basically worth learning, but that’s to the extent that I think they’re worth solving once and analyzing all questions once.
Rather than digging through it for several months, if I spend the same amount of time, I think it would be better to solve more predicted problems than past problems.
And the same goes for thoughts about the finals.
Just as people think that it is better to solve expected problems than to solve past problems, there will be many problems in the final, but anyway, since I listen to the lecture and do it, I solve the problem with my own hands at the end rather than listen to the lecture until the end. I think it is more important to build up a real sense of seeing.
So my plan is this.
After taking the problem-solving class, I then solve the problem for about two more months by self-study.
While solving textbooks other than the textbooks that were used in the problem-solving class, even if it is the same unit, the problems dealt with in that unit can be different for each problem book, so solve as many problems as possible and set up a kind of net.
The more problems I am familiar with, the more I plant them in my head, the denser the net becomes, and I think I will be able to catch the exam questions.
And I’ve been studying in that style ever since.
Also, around the last month, or two months, I think I should prepare to fully demonstrate my skills in the test center by solving mock test questions and organizing incorrect answer notes in order to develop a sense of practice as much as possible.
Even if my skill level is 90, I want to eliminate the possibility that I can only show 80 in the exam.
In the process of preparing for the actual exam, in a tense environment rather than thinking together while listening to a lecture in a lecture room, or in a situation where there is a time limit and a test paper, I believe that I can demonstrate my best skills only when I practice enough.
It will be individual differences.
This is my way of studying, and someone can get closer to passing by analyzing past exam questions well, and someone can make better use of lectures until the end to reach the pass.
However, my method is to learn how to solve problems like this, then get used to as many types of problems as possible, and then practice similar to the actual exam.
Everyone’s method may be different, but I’ve been studying this way all my life, and I intend to stick with my own method.
With that in mind, I answered Song Ji-eun.
“I’m the type of person who likes problem-solving classes so much, so I could take a problem-solving class, another academy or another problem-solving class from the same academy, but… I’m going to try to study some more.”
At my words, Song Ji-eun nodded seriously.
“Um, that’s right.”
Song Ji-eun continued.
“Because each person may have a difference of opinion. It depends on how the person who uses the cram school uses it, so I think it should be tailored to her brother.”
The last time she talked with Song Ji-eun, she had heard several stories about her subject-specific professors that she thought were okay, and the subject-specific study methods she had done.
Obviously, it would not be possible to do it alone without listening to the lecture, but it seemed that it was up to each individual to decide for himself how much to use as she said.
“Brother. If half of it was over, you must have already solved a lot of problems. That’s a very thick book. Almost an encyclopedia for each subject… I’ve taken a problem-solving class before.”
“Oh, that’s right. Ah~, but I think it’s much better than the basic book. The basic book is like having three encyclopedias.”
“Ahaha! That’s right, that’s it. Wow… How did I see all of that…”
“The real author, you are also amazing. I took this test very easily at first. But after actually trying it, it seems that all the people who passed really worked really hard.”
Among those who failed, there must be many who worked hard, but I think that all those who passed must have worked hard.
If you think about it like that, I think that the author passed the civil service exam these days, and after work, he comes home from work and watches TV and rolls around, but when he studies, he seems to have worked extremely hard.
“Your brother will pass, too.”
Haha, I think it could be done like now, but isn’t it like that? It’s harder than I thought to continue something steadily.”
“Yeah. That’s really difficult. I also had a lot of things I wanted to do when I became a civil servant, but after passing the exam, it was difficult because I was only doing Pilates all the time and I couldn’t keep up with other things.”
“What if something else?”
