The Last Class Suspension Has Begun

The next story is probably the retirement record?

Story

A Preliminary Round

Actually, it seems I wrote something here before, but Git messed around and lost it.

The preliminary round has never been difficult for me, because I'm the kind of person who likes to study various details, and I have no problems with many theoretical things. Before the exam, I even verbally explained the nth-element approach to the big guys, but in the exam room I lost 2.5 points.

No comment on the multiple-choice questions, the easy ones were all easy, the last question was impossible, I hadn't learned about it, a bloody loss of 2pts. Reading comprehension was okay, mainly the third question was quite nasty. The code that was two full pages long was something I didn't expect, and it was handwritten STL, a bidirectional breadth-first search with explosive complexity. Cloze test = filling out lottery tickets, completely filling out lottery tickets. I got 7 out of 10 questions wrong. The first question was okay, it tested a simple greedy algorithm, I fell into a few traps and lost points. At that time I was indeed NTT, I didn't figure it out. The second question DP I completely didn't understand, I didn't even get the two giveaway questions, -15pts and directly retired.

Overall, 70pts-, retirement depends on luck.