Because the knowledge in senior high school is relatively small and simple, as an optional exam, once the exam is limited, in order to distinguish the level of students, it can only increase the difficulty of the exam questions. This is why we always feel that the knowledge points of the college entrance examination are particularly flexible. In contrast, let's look at the postgraduate entrance examination. Compared with the college entrance examination, the content of postgraduate entrance examination is much more complicated, including public courses such as politics and mathematics, as well as professional courses! There are both written tests and re-tests for the initial test! Not only are there various forms of examination, but the contents of the examination are all taken together, such as five courses of political examination and about ten reference books! It's good to remember so much. If you still need to be as flexible as the college entrance examination, then most people will not do it at all. If most people can't, then from the test point of view, you will think that this paper is not discriminatory and a failure! Therefore, this is also why there is a saying that "the college entrance examination tests intelligence and the postgraduate entrance examination tests perseverance".
Second, from the competitor's point of view, the competition for postgraduate entrance examination is far less intense than that for college entrance examination.
In the college entrance examination, there are very few students who can walk, and many top students who can walk still choose to get their favorite school or major through the college entrance examination. Therefore, thousands of troops are robbing the wooden bridge, and there are many experts. The best among high school students will take the college entrance examination. Let's review the opponents of the postgraduate entrance examination. Frankly speaking, in universities, especially better universities, it is not the best students who choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination! Because the students with the best academic performance either finished graduate school or chose to study abroad, the students with the strongest comprehensive quality chose to work directly! Taking Peking University as an example, most students with good academic performance choose to study abroad or walk graduate students, so it is much less difficult to get into Peking University for postgraduate entrance examination than the college entrance examination. Every year, many students from non-2 1 1 institutions apply to Peking University, and even junior college students every year. Almost all high school students have to take the college entrance examination, but not all undergraduate graduates have to take the postgraduate entrance examination. Therefore, some people who studied best and worst in the university left the postgraduate entrance examination battlefield, and the rest competed with you at the same level. It's like taking part in a weightlifting competition. Your weight is already in the 80kg category, so you only need to compete in the 80kg category, but you can't compete in the100kg category. That's unfair to you! From this point of view, the competitors of the college entrance examination are widely distributed, and there are people at all levels, while the competitors of the postgraduate entrance examination are relatively concentrated, almost like you! In other words, in the postgraduate entrance examination, in fact, your opponent is neither stronger nor weaker than you. To beat them, you just need to work a little harder than them.
Third, from the perspective of fairness, the regional fairness of the college entrance examination is far less than that of the postgraduate entrance examination.
The college entrance examination in Beijing is much less difficult than that in Shandong. In the era of unified proposition of national college entrance examination, the gap between the scores of population and education provinces such as Beijing, Shandong and Hunan will even exceed 100! The regional fairness of postgraduate entrance examination is much better. Although the postgraduate entrance examination is also divided into one area and two areas, the division of postgraduate entrance examination areas is based on the area where you apply for the school, not on the location of students like the college entrance examination. For example, whether you come from Changchun, Guangxi, Ningxia or Beijing, if you want to enroll in Beijing, as long as you apply for the same major in the same school, the requirements are the same, and you don't have to worry about geographical restrictions at all.
However, judging from the actual preparation, the postgraduate entrance examination is indeed much more difficult than the college entrance examination.
First, from the review time, the preparation time for the college entrance examination is three years.
As soon as you enter high school, teachers and parents will tell you that your biggest goal is the college entrance examination in three years. Everything you have done in the past three years is centered on the college entrance examination. All the learning contents and all the psychological and physical preparations are for the college entrance examination. You don't have to think about anything you don't need for the college entrance examination. Prepare for the exam three years later wholeheartedly! It is really "a great event in my life". But it is different for college students to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination. The average student's review time for postgraduate entrance examination is about one year. Although the competition for postgraduate entrance examination is becoming more and more fierce, students are preparing for postgraduate entrance examination earlier and earlier, but the longest preparation time for postgraduate entrance examination review is only two years. And because university study is not for postgraduate study but for professional study, postgraduate study can only be prepared in my spare time. In this way, in two years' time, there is little time left to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination, except for classes during the day, preparing for the mid-term and final exams, preparing for the CET-4 and CET-6 exams and taking various certificates. Moreover, many of the professional courses I usually study are not for postgraduate study, and many of the key contents of postgraduate study have never been learned in class (this is more serious for students who take postgraduate studies)!
Second, from the mentality, the mentality of the college entrance examination is the last stop, and the temptation of the postgraduate entrance examination is too great to be "firm"
China's current situation, you know, if you can't even get into the university, the way out is basically very narrow! Although many people shout "reading is useless", when you ask him not to take the college entrance examination, he will tell you "I haven't decided what to do without reading, so I'd better go to college first." For these reasons, your determination to take the college entrance examination is very firm, and you will work very hard to prepare for the exam no matter what results you can get. However, in the face of postgraduate entrance examination, most people are far from "firm". Because there are too many ways out after graduating from college, you can choose to go abroad, you can choose to take the civil service exam, you can choose to work directly, you can choose to start a business, and even if you are too lazy to move, you can choose to be a "neet"! Once people face many choices, it means they face many temptations and many interferences! Eliminating interference and making firm choices are easier said than done. Just as we have all studied history, why are the voices of the petty bourgeoisie and the national bourgeoisie very high in history, but many people have chosen to retreat in the face of the bloody "revolution" and are not as firm as the proletariat? Because they have "retreat"! In the face of postgraduate entrance examination, so do many students.
Thirdly, from the learning environment, the learning environment of the college entrance examination is very simple and positive.
The students around you are studying for the college entrance examination wholeheartedly. What you communicate with them is grades, grades, problem-solving skills and learning methods. Whoever doesn't learn is an alternative and will be despised by teachers and classmates! However, the environment for postgraduate review is much worse. There are four people in your dormitory, and one of them is busy looking for a job every day. One went on a trip and didn't come back for three weeks; The other is an otaku, who is busy playing DOTA or watching American TV in the dormitory every day. In the face of these students, if you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination, you must be the one who is laughed at. They will tell you-enjoy life while you are young! Sleeping, playing games, falling in love and so on are so many fun things, why not take the exam? You tell them the benefits of postgraduate entrance examination, and they will hit you with a bunch of negative news, such as "graduate students can't find a job now!" " What's the use of graduate school? It's just a waste of time and money. "One's deceased father grind is so difficult. You see that there are so many people in our department who take the postgraduate entrance examination every year, and only a few are admitted! " , "want to take an examination of xx University with your grades? Difficult! " ..... especially when you find that Xiao Li in your dormitory has found a good job, Xiao Zhang is considering getting married and Xiao Liu is going abroad. In this environment, your psychological pressure can be imagined! In addition, a teacher made a review plan for you during the college entrance examination. What you learn today and what you learn tomorrow are all planned for you. You don't have to worry about what to learn and how to learn. What you need to do is to follow the teacher's plan step by step. When you have questions in your study, the teacher can answer them for you. When you don't know your study progress, the mock exam can help you test your level and find out the loopholes ... You can only fight alone when you take the postgraduate entrance examination, and you are lonely and helpless! This kind of postgraduate preparation environment is different from the college entrance examination.
Fourth, in terms of information acquisition, the college entrance examination is relatively fair, while the postgraduate entrance examination has great information asymmetry.
This is reflected in two aspects, one is when facing the choice of schools and majors, and the other is in the specific preparation. Both the college entrance examination and postgraduate entrance examination need to choose their own schools and majors, but in the college entrance examination, students and parents only care about one thing, that is, their scores can best match which school and which major! As for the academic environment of this school, the real employment situation of this major, the tutor of this major, and the research direction, these are all extremely important information for the postgraduate entrance examination, which is basically not considered in the college entrance examination.
In addition, in the specific preparation process, it is found that when facing the college entrance examination, everyone is unified in teaching materials, and basically unified in learning materials and learning progress. However, in the face of postgraduate entrance examination, except politics, everyone's examination subjects are different. Even if you apply for the same major, it is different to apply for different school exams! Even if you apply for the same major in the same school, for example