Yes, I really think cramming may not be a bad thing for college students. Of course, I'm not saying that this is necessarily a good thing. In my opinion, spoon-feeding is actually a relatively neutral word, and the core of this word lies in choice. Of course, please don't ignore an important premise I said: for "college students", cramming is not necessarily a bad thing.
The outline of this article
First, let's explain the meaning of "spoon-feeding". According to the information I have found, the phrase "cramming" should come from the first sentence of the Tang Dynasty poet Meng Jiao's "chanting": cramming and teaching his wife to read the yellow line. The original intention is that when I get old, I will start to pray for God and Buddha. Now it is generally used to refer to people who are usually unprepared and are in a hurry to deal with things at the last minute. This sentence is used on students. In most cases, it is a metaphor for not studying hard at ordinary times and reading and reviewing in a panic when the exam is approaching.
Meng Jiao reads classics.
According to the content in the last paragraph, we can naturally draw a conclusion that students' "cramming" learning style is really not worth advocating, which is why it is not good to treat cramming learning style from the traditional point of view at the beginning. I do admit that this way of learning is really not worth promoting under non-special circumstances. The reason lies in the "purpose" of learning.
Excellent course of discipline
What do you mean? Imagine, what is the big goal of our study before high school? Have you tried to master enough knowledge to enrich yourself? I don't think so. In fact, students at this stage can receive lifelong education, which is ideological and moral education. Many people want to cultivate their children's virtues from an early age, but no one will think that the knowledge of primary school, junior high school and senior high school will be useful all their lives, right? The big goal of study is to get good grades, make parents, grandparents happy, and give more lucky money? I admit, I did think so when I was a child. This can be regarded as a small goal of learning, or a medium goal, but the big goal is obviously not the case.
To be realistic, we go from primary school to junior high school, and from junior high school to senior high school. Twelve years of student life and twelve years of study life are actually for that exam-the college entrance examination. These words may be too realistic. Admitted to a good university and graduated from a famous university will undoubtedly have a great influence on a person's later life. Graduation from a prestigious school means that you can work in a big company with high salary and good treatment. If you graduate from a non-prestigious school, the company you work for may be in a small factory, your job may be in jeopardy, and overtime may be unpaid. At the same time, your classmates and your mentor will be your contacts after entering the society, which means that it is not only necessary but also necessary to study hard before and after high school, which is almost related to a person's life path.
Therefore, it is extremely undesirable to cram before going to college. Admittedly, as the saying goes: if you sharpen your gun when you get cold feet, you will be unhappy. Surprise before the exam will really improve your usual performance, but after the exam, can you still remember the knowledge of surprise before the exam? This is obviously impossible. In the face of the exam, you can make a surprise attack once or twice before the exam, you can also make a surprise attack every time before the exam, and you can even cram for the college entrance examination. Your grades will also improve. Of course, as long as you study, your grades will improve. However, this improvement is only compared with my former self, but now I am better than my former self. However, the college entrance examination is not a battle between yourself and yourself. The college entrance examination is a turning point of fate that countless people eagerly look forward to. Cramming at the last minute satisfies you, but can you compete with others? If those who study hard every day fail in the exam, isn't it a big joke played by fate?
Therefore, before going to college, it is absolutely impossible to learn by rote. However, since I defined the scope before I went to college, has this method changed since I went to college? Can the exam be a surprise and cramming before the exam? To this question, I will answer: Yes, that's right. College students can simply stop studying at ordinary times and surprise before the exam. College students can cram for the Buddha's feet aboveboard and confidently. Remember what I said above, cramming for the Buddha's feet without special circumstances is not worth advocating. Since we have said that it is not special, there must be special circumstances. Universities are special cases; Universities are just different; Universities are different from primary schools, junior high schools and senior high schools.
Students, I want to ask you a question: Do you still remember the first day of college?
I may never forget what happened that day. I have a hunch that I may never experience the unparalleled novelty, the farewell to the past and the great vision for the future in my life. I think my experience that day may be enough to represent most people. My parents can't stay with me for long. They drive to school in the morning, queue up, pay bills, get bedding, clean up the dormitory, and then leave after a busy day. Then they have a small meeting in the classroom at night to meet new students, but they can't go back to their home after school, and all the meals have to go to the canteen. At that time, I vaguely realized that I was different from before.
my mother school
I wonder if you have the same idea as me on the first day of school. Since then, I have taken the first step from a child to an adult. Many things have to be decided by yourself. Now no one is looking after my studies, the school curriculum is too simple, and suddenly my life has no purpose. Anyway, school courses can cram for the last minute and make a surprise attack before the exam. I usually play. Go shopping during the day and buy at buy buy; Go back to the dormitory to play games at night; If you can't get up in the morning, you won't go to class. This is a true portrayal of a period of time when I just entered the university campus, and it is also the reason why I think about the "cramming" learning method.
As I said at the beginning, my understanding of "cramming" is not good or bad for college students, but a very neutral way of learning. Similarly, as I said at the beginning, the core of the problem lies in trade-offs. During that time, I seriously thought about it. What caused my behavior to be deviant and more presumptuous? That is, after I went to college, my lifestyle suddenly changed. Before I went to college, my life was like a linear game. Every day, where to go, what to do and what not to do are all stipulated. Even if you eat, you don't have much power to choose; After I went to college, bang, my life became an open world, and I suddenly had countless choices-everything had countless choices. For example, in the evening, I used to have to go home and have a good sleep. Now I can choose not to go back to my dormitory, I can sing K all night, I can play games in Internet cafes, I can eat all the food in the night market, and so on. With so many choices, coupled with the lack of death line oppression like the college entrance examination and the bondage of parents, the sudden release of pressure will make people feel quite excited that "the sea is wide and the fish jumps, and the sky is high and the birds fly".
However, time is so fair that no one will be spared and no one will be forgotten by him. The exam is always coming, and I suddenly found that there are still a few days to go before the exam, and I was a little flustered because I didn't attend the class because I was greedy. So I have to cram for the exam these days. Then when the results come out, you find that you actually passed the exam. You are ecstatic, you have finished the first experience of cramming and tasted the sweetness of cramming. Maybe it will be like the Yellow River flooding-out of control.
Maybe when I was forced for the first time, I was too flustered to attach it before the exam, but when you suddenly found out: alas! It turns out that you can pass the exam after studying for so few days, and you can pass it. Then I found out: hey! It turns out that as long as you pass the college courses, you don't have to study any more. At this time, you can't help but smell really good. After all, who doesn't like to have fun compared to boring study? At this point, the first active trade-off is completed. Because cramming is feasible, between studying and playing, you choose to play and cram for the final exam.
We seem to have a cognition since childhood that when a cockroach is found in a house, it means that there is already a nest of cockroaches in the house. In fact, this sentence is also true. When you cram for the first time, you will inevitably cram for the second time, the third time and countless times. This low-investment, fast-return, low-risk way may indeed be very suitable for the lifestyle of contemporary fast-paced college students. So obviously, the cramming learning method is expanding rapidly in universities. As soon as the exam comes, the usually empty library is crowded with people, unable to grab seats and borrow teaching AIDS and reference books. Once the examination cycle is over, the library will soon return to its original empty appearance, and few people will go to look through the teaching AIDS and reference books. Obviously, the examination cycle caused a hard-to-find person in the library to cram for the last minute.
library
I usually play, and when I am about to take the exam, I will cram for a surprise before the exam. After the exam, I will start the next cycle. Some students will definitely have questions: this kind of cycle is called plaything, giving up on oneself and wasting people. Why do I still say that cramming is not a bad thing? Why do I still say that college students can prepare for the exam aboveboard?
Because of my classmates, I just choose to use "play" and "learn" as examples to prove my point of view, but who says that college students only have two choices: "play" and "learn"? As I said before, the choices of college students are very rich. Maybe it's really bad to delay learning because of playing, so I can't tutor Buddha's feet aboveboard. But what if you stop playing? What if you're drawing? If you like painting, you won't have time to paint before you go to college. After you went to college, you spent all your time painting and forgot to eat and sleep. Naturally, I can't consider studying, so I have to cram for the exam and make a surprise attack before the exam. Is this last-minute cramming still a bad thing? Who knows that you love painting so much that you will never become a famous painter in the future? If you study hard, even if you get full marks, no one will buy your paintings because of your grades-if you don't draw well; Or maybe you like machinery, and you don't have time or need to learn it before you go to college. After you went to college, you spent all day thinking about what your robot should do. Finally, you won the prize and won the honor in the important competition. However, it also delayed my study, so I had to cram for the last minute and have a surprise before the exam. This last-minute cramming is not necessarily a bad thing. Maybe when you graduate, you will be valued and hired by big companies because of your good performance in many important mechanical competitions. If you didn't get such good grades and so many awards because of your hard work, would those big companies and enterprises who should have liked you hire you because of your academic performance-even if you got full marks; Besides, the postgraduate entrance examination is the same. As we all know, many subjects in the postgraduate entrance examination do not coincide with the courses you study at school. So I'll give you a choice. How will you allocate the study time of postgraduate entrance examination subjects and university courses? I think most students will only have one answer, that is, to shorten the study time of university courses as much as possible and spare time to study postgraduate subjects as much as possible, even if this will lead to cramming for the exam.
Although in our impression, college is really the most leisurely and time-wasting period in life, we can't forget that college students have many choices. In a period when life trajectories and choices are completely different, we can't allocate time to everything equally, but we must arrange the priority, importance and unimportant order. In the college entrance examination, we always say that grades are a barrel effect, that is, your final grades depend on your shortcomings. If you can make up for more shortcomings, you can get higher scores. That's right. The requirement of the college entrance examination is to improve the balance of all subjects, and there is also a marginal effect, that is, it is far from easy to improve from 120 to 140 from 80 to 120, so we are pursuing the barrel effect before the college entrance examination. But when I went to college, the situation changed completely. Unlike high school, universities no longer pursue the barrel effect, but should be the longboard effect, that is, the longer the longboard, the more prominent your people will be and the higher your income will be. As long as the shortcomings can get by-that is, as long as you pass the course, no one will care, and it's not that important. And spoon-feeding learning is just a very neutral way of learning. This learning style has nothing to do with quality, but personal choice. It can save our time and focus our attention on more important things that deserve our attention. If the benefits of this approach far outweigh the dangers, why not?
I spent a lot of time searching for information before writing an article. At first, I wanted to check the rise and popularity of cramming, but there was really little information about it. On the contrary, there is a lot of information to teach you how to cram efficiently. I think it's actually quite interesting. "Reciting Buddha's feet by rote" has always been regarded as an alternative and efficient learning method. Now everyone is not satisfied. Above "efficiency", we should pursue more "efficiency". From one point of view, this is a more efficient laziness on top of laziness. But from another perspective, it seems that college students generally accept cramming, and they are generally willing to pursue more efficient cramming methods. I think this is also a witness to the accelerated development of society.
As you can see from the information articles on the Internet, all the exams teach you how to tutor for the last time, such as "Bare exams for Band 4 and Band 6 teach you how to tutor for the last time" and "How to tutor for the final exam of university" (details will be broken down into various subjects, so I won't list them one by one), and some even teach you how to tutor for climbing mountains. Of course, there are so many articles that I can't list them one by one. The following are some fragments of articles that I have compiled to teach Band 4 how to cram for Buddha's feet. We can analyze it together.
First, the listening part of the puzzle skills
"1. Paired dialogue (that is, the principle of" Yin flourishes while Yang declines ")
When a woman speaks in a conversation, you must listen carefully. Men generally agree with women's suggestions and demands.
Girls are generally better than boys, so general conversations will show that girls are better than boys, in any case, in all aspects.
2. The entanglement of options (the principle of "the closest choice is the most complete, but the opposite is the second choice") has similar meaning, and whoever expresses relatively comprehensively will choose!
These two options express opposite meanings. Who should I choose? The answer must be somewhere in between. At this time, you need to listen carefully to determine the answer. I really don't understand, but there is a 50% chance that you are right.
3. Attitude problem (the principle of "first priority is positive")
Regarding attitude options, we should choose positive and optimistic positive energy options.
4. Get to the point (the principle of "the first three sentences are the answer")
The first question of the long dialogue, if nothing unexpected, is answered in the first three sentences. Topics with keywords (the principle of "the answer is near the keyword")
When the comparative of buthoweverfirst first appeared ... and so on, all these places had answers.
5. The principle of "bad tendency"
Tickets can't be bought, homework can't be finished, exams are difficult, the surrounding environment is poor, trains and planes are late, and teachers are strict! This is very important ~
6 "Answer balance" principle
25 English listening multiple-choice questions
The 25 answers include: 6A+6B+6C+6D=24 options and then +ABCD.
Any one.
Final conclusion: 6A+6B+6C+6D+A/B/C/D=25 "
Second, the composition template
"0 1. TEM4 composition template: solving questions.
Candidates are required to list a variety of problem-solving methods 1. The status quo of the problem II. How to solve (advantages and disadvantages of the solution)
In recent days, we have to face my problem-A, and it is getting more and more serious. First of all, we should take a series of effective measures to deal with this situation. On the one hand, on the other hand (Solution 2). Finally, (scheme 3). I believe-(my solution). Therefore, I believe that a bright future knows us, because. "
There is a lot of content on the internet that teaches people to cram for the Buddha's feet efficiently. Due to the limitation of space, I won't list them here. I will list the sources of the articles cited in the first two chapters at the end of the article. Next, I will carefully analyze this efficient cramming learning method according to the specific contents listed above.
Sharp-eyed students may have seen it, but I have been thinking that the content quoted above is "effectively cramming Buddha's feet." That's right. In my opinion, the above two articles no longer belong to the category of "cramming", but to the category of "efficient cramming and cramming", because I think students must be familiar with them. It is nothing more than integrating and refining the knowledge points in the books when the exam is approaching, supplemented by a lot of exercises, in order to achieve the effect of accelerating maturity and getting results quickly. As I analyzed in my last article, this is not wrong. On the contrary, we can save a lot of time and focus on what we care more about. But what about this efficient cramming teaching? From the lines of these two compositions, we can see that it basically does not talk about problem-solving skills and does not contain core knowledge points. In other words, if you don't read these efficient cramming articles, you are likely to fail the exam. After reading this article, you may still fail. How much achievement can these articles bring you? In these articles, there are no core knowledge points, only the skills of covering problems, and how much help can be brought to people can only be said to belong to a metaphysical concept. Perhaps the biggest improvement is your confidence? Let's look at the first listening skill:
"Paired dialogue (that is, the principle of' Yin flourishes while Yang declines'), in which women must listen carefully when speaking. Men generally agree with women's suggestions and demands. Girls are generally stronger than boys, so general conversations will show that girls are stronger than boys, in any case, in all aspects. "
In order to prove this "truth that yin flourishes while yang declines", I have turned over the real questions and answers of Band 4 listening in recent five years. I was surprised to find that, in terms of probability, this principle does exist, and it is really common to ask questions whose answers are hidden in girls' words. This kind of problem is generally that boys encounter problems, and girls often make reliable suggestions. But there will be different situations, so this principle generally does not apply. If you blindly believe in this principle, the ending may not be good. After all, the skill of this article-not only the principle that yin flourishes while yang declines, but the whole article includes the part I quoted and the part I didn't quote. It's all about the teacher, not the problem itself. This skill is all about the psychology of the questioner, not the only real answer on the test paper. The disadvantage of this technique is that you look at the real questions in previous years and think that these principles are true. The exam is really simple. But when you get to the examination room and see the test paper, you will understand. Perhaps the questioner patted his head this year, and the practices and principles in previous years have changed.
Listening skills circulating on the internet
The same is true of composition questions. Students look at the composition template I posted in the second part, and you are not required to write articles, sentences or even master grammar. As long as you remember some commonly used words and phrases, you can write a CET-4 composition quickly. At the beginning and end, all the places are applied to you with common sentence patterns. You only need to fill in the words and phrases according to the requirements of the composition topic, and really make a composition of 120 to 180 words into more than a dozen fill-in-the-blank questions. However, when you master only one template that can be applied, writing a composition becomes a fill-in-the-blank problem. It seems simple, but can the types of composition questions really be predicted? No, templates have very limited applicability. I admit that these templates have their reference value, but the hope of passing them is too vague to be completely pinned on this "cramming Buddha's foot in colleges and universities."
Spreading CET-4 composition template on the Internet
I read too many such efficient cramming articles when looking up information, which can basically contain various certificates from all walks of life. Although these articles are different and seemingly unrelated, the most basic core has not changed at all. They are all based on the regular reverse speculation of the real questions in previous years, and then sum up a series of answering standards, so that you can answer the questions without mastering the knowledge points in the exam. But to tell the truth, no matter whether there are so-called laws or not, as long as you carefully study the real questions in previous years' exams, you can often find some specious "laws". But does this causal law really apply to exams that haven't happened yet? I don't think so. Maybe one exam can overturn all the rules found in the past. Then, when the questions in this exam are also included in the category of real questions over the years, you can extract new rules from them.
Seeing this, are there many students who are confused? Ah, didn't you say it's not a bad thing for college students to cram for the last minute? Why are you here? You speak ill of me again.
Students, I support cramming. In the final analysis, rote learning depends on oneself to learn and master knowledge. During the exam, you have real control over the test questions. You can easily realize which questions you can do, which questions you can't do and which questions you are ambiguous. Moreover, I criticized the efficient spoon-feeding teaching, and all I taught online were the skills of covering questions. After answering the questions according to the tutorial, in the end, you still don't know how many you can answer correctly and how many you can't. This is the difference between control and everything. Don't leave everything to fate to make a final decision, or you will get a joke instead of a gift from fate.
The article is so long that there are almost no students. Finally, talk about the applicability of cramming. There must be some students who suddenly have a question mark in their mind when reading the previous article. Why are all the examples I cited cramming for the college course exam? Can't it be something else? For example, can't you cram for painting? For example, can't I cram for robot contest until the game is about to start? For example, can't I wait until the exam is about to start to cram for the exam?
The answers to the three questions in the last paragraph are very consistent, of course not. It is easy to understand why one can't cram for the postgraduate entrance examination, because the college entrance examination can't. Students can think about it, after excluding some other factors, whether the postgraduate entrance examination is similar to the college entrance examination, the same preparation period is very long, the same exam (the college entrance examination is only once, but the postgraduate entrance examination is a written interview twice), and similarly, if you want to be admitted to an ideal institution, you have to crowd out many competitors. In fact, both of them are endurance marathons, to see who can last longer and who can better withstand pressure and loneliness. Cramming is like sprinting. When others are only 100 meters away from the finish line, you speed up and sprint halfway. No matter how fast you run, you can't win the championship. Therefore, cramming naturally does not apply to the category of postgraduate entrance examination.
There are differences and similarities between the types of mechanical competition and postgraduate entrance examination. If you want to win a prize in this kind of competition, it's not how many achievements you have made, but how many opponents you have defeated. Once you encounter such a ranking situation, it will undoubtedly turn into the marathon war mentioned above, and the illusion of cramming will never allow you to achieve the desired results.
As for things like painting, they are positively related to growth and time. How much time and effort you put in, how much growth you can gain. In my opinion, there is basically no possibility of cramming for the Buddha's feet, even the rapid development of the level is only the result of accumulation. Although there are various crash courses in painting now, even this crash course has far exceeded the level of cramming. Even so, the foundation can't be very good after learning. It can only be said that the shortcomings of foundation are covered up by flattery.
Knowing that cramming has its scope of application, you can understand why I say cramming is a neutral learning method. Because the correct use of this learning method can save time and concentrate, but improper use will bring all kinds of bad consequences. This is its neutrality, good and bad. And what we have to do is not to criticize this way of learning in a self-righteous way, nor to use it blindly. But to do a good job of analysis and choose when and where to use it in a more rational way. I believe that as long as we make good use of it, it can always bring us good results and it can always avoid bad results.
Although from the above, I have roughly talked about the scope of application of cramming from a few examples listed. However, such a vague ending is not my style. Next, I will clearly talk about where this learning method of cramming is applicable and where it is not applicable.
1.？ College courses: undoubtedly applicable. After all, I almost always take this as an example. There are two reasons for this. First, the courses you study in college are of little use after graduation, and then you can pass these courses as long as you read books. Therefore, college exams are very suitable for cramming for exams.
2.？ Postgraduate entrance examination, model contest and other competitions: not suitable, any pursuit of ranking will become a marathon, as mentioned above. If you don't work hard at ordinary times, the way of sprinting in the near future will obviously not help you get a good ranking.
3.？ Hobbies and specialties: not suitable. Many skills are useful for life, such as drawing and playing the piano. Similarly, the growth of these skills is directly proportional to the time and energy spent, and there will be no exam to check the progress you have mastered, so there is no need to cram temporarily. If you don't like it, you can not do it. A hobby is the kind of thing you do when you like it.
To sum up, if it is only a score, there is no need to delve into it, and you can cram for it temporarily. If you need to compete with others for ranking, you can't cram for the time being. Those who want to learn and master in depth should not cram for the sake of Buddha's feet.
Applicability of cramming temporarily
Finally, I want to talk about my views on the cramming development of college students, which is also my idea of combining a lot of information these days. It's just a family statement. Students can have a look. I'm thinking that a long time ago, college students probably didn't have the option to cram for the Buddha's feet. Not only many famous great scientists and engineers are engaged in their university fields, but also many unknown or even unknown people have found jobs corresponding to their majors after graduation. At that time, the course was very important, which can be said to be the most important. However, since the expansion of university enrollment, the enrollment threshold of universities has been lowered. Not all students who can go to college are hardworking, but those who are playful can also go to college. Moreover, some college students have started to graduate and can't find professional jobs. As a result, professional courses are getting less and less attention, and college students often take measures to improve their own strength outside the courses. Nowadays, there are more and more competitions, and all the energy of college students is on the sidelines, which leads to more and more common cramming.
Yu Min, the father of the hydrogen bomb, graduated from the Physics Department of Peking University.
People often compare the sword to a gentleman's weapon. One of the reasons is that the sword has two blades, one can cut the enemy and the other can cut its own shortcomings. Nowadays, people often use a double-edged sword to describe things, affairs, ways and means that can bring both benefits and bad consequences if used improperly. I think "cramming" is a double-edged sword. Proper use can improve efficiency, but wrong use will not bring good results. Even overuse can make you completely out of control of some things. But in fact it is neutral, and what it becomes depends on the students who use it. So I hope the students will not defile it, but don't beautify it. Just think of it as an ordinary tool and use it when you need it.
note:
The first quoted Listening Skills is taken from the semi-monthly talk on How to cram for the Buddha the day before taking the CET-4.
The second quotation "Composition Template" is taken from the excellent "General Template for English Composition in Band 4" by Beijing girl, which must be memorized before the exam! 》