I am a student from three schools, and I passed the mti interpretation in the first test and second test of Sichuan University.

Before and after the exam, I thought I should be able to get in, but to be honest, I didn't expect to do so well in the exam. I still remember that at this time last year, I was sitting at the bottom like you, and my life was almost completely occupied by the word "postgraduate entrance examination" and the related worries, hesitation, confusion or hope. In the summer of my junior year in Chengdu, I spent countless sleepless nights lying in bed, wondering how I would tell others my story if I really got in. Now I am really sitting here, but I feel that I have too much to say and I don't know where to start. In fact, last night, when I was preparing what I was going to talk about today, I recalled the details of my postgraduate entrance examination and had mixed feelings. I have the impulse to write an article. However, time is limited today, and I don't need these little moves. I will share my experience with you.

First of all, why do you want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?

I guess the reason why many students take the postgraduate entrance examination is to improve their academic qualifications and find a better job in the future. I don't deny that this is a very realistic idea, including my own postgraduate entrance examination. Some students don't know what they are going to do. Look at the people around you and take the test yourself. What I want to tell you is that the postgraduate entrance examination should not be too utilitarian. For me, the most important reason for postgraduate entrance examination is that I like my major. Although I took the translation exam, literature and culture are also my great love. When I was studying British and American literature, I felt that there were so many British talents in The Romantic Period that I wrote a short paper about The Romantic Period. Of course, this is purely for my own entertainment, but it is a good way to cultivate my interest. So when everyone is worried about writing a paper, I think it is very simple. I will often go to the medieval group on Douban, where there are many keywords I am interested in, such as Crusaders, Gothic Style, Chivalry and so on. I have seriously considered taking the European Culture major in Sichuan University.

Having said that, the point is that the most correct motivation for postgraduate entrance examination should also be the purest motivation-love, like and interest. I don't know how many people here dare to say that they really took the postgraduate entrance examination because of love. Maybe you think I am too idealistic and ungrounded, but I am not. Graduate students are different from our previous education. We have been taking exams since childhood, including the postgraduate entrance examination itself, which is very realistic utilitarianism, but the postgraduate entrance examination is more about teaching you to do academics. If you really want to study hard, you must have an academic heart, profound humanistic feelings and cultural accomplishment. Language itself is just a tool. What graduate school brings you is to teach you to use this tool to understand the culture behind this language-a broader and more wonderful world. These factors, I hope you can carefully consider before making a decision to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

After deciding to take the postgraduate entrance examination, I will go to school to decide my major.

I won't say much about professionalism. In fact, it is the same as why I took the postgraduate entrance examination before. In my opinion, no matter what major you take, you must like it, or even if you pass, I'm afraid you won't be willing to pay. The biggest problem is choosing a school. In my opinion, if you choose a good school, the postgraduate entrance examination will be more than half successful. As far as my own experience is concerned, although there are many troubles in the review process, it is far less than the troubles caused by tangled schools. It is no exaggeration to say that it took me four months to make the decision to interpret at Kaokawa University. You can look at my mental journey: interpretation from outside Sichuan-interpretation from Trade University-foreign translation-European culture from Sichuan University-interpretation from Sichuan University-interpretation from Sichuan University. You know, behind every dash, I searched the research materials of various schools for countless hours in the middle of the night, and I had the cheek to get to know the seniors who were studying and ask for information.

Because I took the MTI interpretation exam, I will talk about MTI's experience in choosing schools, and analyze the situation first: many schools across the country are recruiting people now, but the difference between good and bad is too great. Of course, the best ones are definitely those five: foreign trade interpreters from Beishangguang to Guangzhou. Secondly, interpretation and translation in Peking University, Fudan University, Nantah University, Xiamen University, China Normal University, Heather University, Wuda University, Sichuan University and Zhong Da University are also very good. Although some schools are famous for their brands, such as Tongji in Tsinghua, to be honest, the strength of foreign schools is not strong. (Only relatively speaking, it is still very awesome. ). Simply teach everyone how to look at it. You should find a tutor for this major, and then find out how good this tutor is, such as publishing papers, speeches, conferences, books and so on. Then pay attention to the words that prove professional strength, such as national key disciplines and first-class disciplines awarded by doctors. Of course, everyone knows about good schools, but it is also difficult to take the exam. How to choose is a big problem. Personally, I think mti is now in a flood trend, so it is better to take an examination of professional foreign language colleges and 985 schools. Of course, this still depends on your personal situation. If your requirements are not too high, after hard work, the chances of two or even one are still quite good, such as Sichuan Normal University, Xi Jiaotong University, Cai Xi and so on. What I'm talking about is just a whole concept. You can learn more about each school by yourself. By the way, there is another question about tuition. The tuition of mti is not low. Fortunately, some schools have scholarships (as far as I know, it should be less than half), and the better the school, the more generous the scholarships. This factor may also be considered when choosing a school.

The following is a review of specific subjects.

In fact, as I said, choosing a school and major is the most difficult. If you make a decision, then the rest is simple: no distractions, just work hard and try again. Of course, efforts should also pay attention to methods.

I. Politics

First of all, about politics, I just want to say that I don't want to love anymore. In short, I spent about 50% of my review time on the four courses of postgraduate entrance examination. Maybe everyone has no idea yet. This is a luxury, no, it is a crime, for the time of reviewing for the postgraduate entrance examination. I try to review politics. Basically, I have brushed all the previous courses, read all the knowledge points in the later period, and recited the big questions very hard, but I only got more than 60 points. My roommate spent much less time on politics than I did, but I finally got 7 1. Although unwilling, I still want to tell you the comparison of our review methods. My political newspaper is Xu's classmate Gao Chong's class. He bought it and then he fought with me. We all use the same account. I feel that Kao Chong's class is actually very detailed, that is, there are too many knowledge points and the class hours are too long, which I can't understand. Then it's basically a class to catch up. In fact, knowledge points are not taken to heart. My roommate didn't report to class at that time, just watching sister Leg's class. Or bought pirated copies, and then she followed Sister Leg and Xu Tao, and I was the sprint handout for the test worm. But I think Kao Chong's thinking and current politics are average. It's not as good as Leg Sister and Xu Tao, so everyone can stay with Leg Sister and Xu Tao.

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Xiao Xiurong combs the test sites;

Xiao1000;

Zhang Junfang 2000;

Ren 3;

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Second, Ying Ji.

In fact, the English-based questions are very similar to those of our TEM4, with reading and composition as the single choice. Since Sichuan University recruited MTI, Ying Ji has been very simple, almost as difficult as Gongliu. However, the difficulty of basic English has risen sharply this year, and the vocabulary is very large. It not only examines the cognition of words, but also examines the discrimination of near meanings, and the grammar is also very deep and detailed. It is not enough to master the popular grammar that everyone knows, which is much more difficult than the similar problems in grade four. In addition, reading is more deceptive, with a huge vocabulary and profound content, which is more difficult than reading in TEM-8. I didn't understand the first article I remembered in the examination room. This is the first time in my history. To sum up, we should consolidate our basic skills and challenge the difficult problems in review. Composition, in fact, is similar to the composition of TEM-8. But if you want to be admitted, you can't write in general, but you should write brilliantly. My personal experience is that since everyone's content can't reach the level of professors and logic can't reach the level of native speakers, you should work hard on superficial articles such as vocabulary and sentence patterns.

Use more advanced vocabulary and some beautiful structures, such as hanging structure, participle adverbial, short sentence and parenthesis, which I believe the writing teacher has said in class. The vocabulary of the Basic English Translation Test is translated from English into Chinese. Most of the words in this section are related to current events. In recent years, there are some related organizations of the United Nations, or what conferences are being held in China, etc. You can go to China Daily to see some entries updated by these teams, or you can follow MTI's official WeChat account to see what is summarized on Twitter every day. I think that's enough. Another topic is the English-Chinese translation of paragraphs, including English-Chinese translation and Chinese-English translation. If there are no problems with vocabulary and grammar, the whole translation will be smooth. I use a concise English-Chinese translation course to review.

But not the theory and practice of literary translation, and they have no other skills except doing it themselves.

If you get an article and translate it, you can compare it with the attached Chinese translation to see if your ideas are the same as others' and what is the difference between your translated sentences and others'. Back off! Single! Words! ! This is the most basic and important. The process of memorizing words runs through the whole process of my postgraduate entrance examination. When the number of words really rises to a certain extent, you will find that your English is like failing. TEM-8 vocabulary for English majors, Li Yi 10000.

The composition of Sichuan University is a bit like TEM-8. You have to read a material, and then write your own opinions according to the content of the material, which examines your reading ability and summarizes and demonstrates your opinions. If you prepare your composition, you can start it in September, and if it is too big, you can start it in 65438+ 10. Before that, you can read the opinion page of China Journal every day, or you can learn to write English abstracts without deliberate practice. After September, you can buy an excellent model essay for TEM8 100 to learn how people express their views and recite good expressions and sentences. At this time, you can practice writing properly.

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That year, the lonely postgraduate in Na Yue, the lonely road of postgraduate entrance examination, the confused postgraduate entrance examination heart that night, the feeling of hate and love for the helpless postgraduate entrance examination, the persistent dream of postgraduate entrance examination in the wind and rain, dear comrades persisted in the end!