Self-study can cultivate one's independent thinking ability and logical reasoning ability, and lay a solid foundation for university study. However, self-taught things are often incomplete and untrue, not as comprehensive as teachers, and it is easy to make mistakes when doing problems.

If you take the postgraduate entrance examination, any major needs to take a foreign language test, and it is a national pass. The languages you can choose are generally English, Russian and Japanese. The professional catalogue of the admissions unit indicates that only English can be tested, and other languages are not selected. If optional languages are listed above, you can choose one of the listed languages. The specific situation is subject to the professional catalogue of the admissions unit.

For example, the subjects of the initial test of English subject theory in Northwest Normal University are11ideological and political theory, 220 1 English, 202 Russian or 203 Japanese, and 331/pedagogy basic synthesis. Then you can choose one of English, Russian and Japanese as a foreign language for postgraduate entrance examination.

The subject of civil engineering in Tsinghua University is110/ideological and political theory 220 1 English -330 1 mathematics -4804 structural mechanics (including dynamic basis), so when taking the postgraduate entrance examination, only English can be tested in foreign languages.