For most children, what they learn is not Olympiad thinking, but specific problem-solving skills, the ability to make specific question types without reaching the corresponding thinking height, this skill has no substantial effect on improving thinking ability, but it is very useful for a certain test-taking stage.
Some students who do not have thinking skills can do the Olympiad questions correctly, and these students who do not have thinking skills can also cope with the difficulty of improving in the second year of junior high school. They also rely on extracurricular training, and in the name of Peiyou, they use the same way as the original Olympiad to learn all kinds of problem-solving routines to achieve the purpose of doing problems quickly.
Many children in Olympiad training practice the skills of applying the model without seeking solutions, and they also rely on external training to practice this skill in junior high school learning, this kind of problem-solving skills are separated from independent thinking and exist, and it seems that the top students who have been trained from primary school to junior high school are pseudo school masters, which are to follow a specific set of skills to apply the type of questions, and obtain results that are significantly higher than the real level.
Many of these children with advanced and super-curriculum training are not only primary school students, but also junior high school masters, and even have expanded their advantages in junior high school, which comes from the uncomplicated knowledge system of junior high school, which makes this de-thinking mode of score improvement possible, creating the illusion that Olympiad training really improves the thinking ability of these children.
However, after entering high school, the knowledge system has become complex, and it is difficult to cope with the significantly improved difficulty through the memorization of fixed problem-solving skills, and the level gap of independent thinking ability is more tested. And some students who do not rely on all kinds of external forces have become dark horses.
As a higher-order thinking expansion exercise, the thinking ability can reach a certain level, so that the effect of thinking improvement can be achieved through learning, that is, to be able to know what it is, and also to know why it is true, children who can achieve this effect, thinking often surpasses their peers, and children who spend more time learning to pursue high scores are not.