In fact, many people who take the postgraduate entrance examination have the pressure to escape from the real society and choose to stay in school. Among those who take an inter-disciplinary examination and study, many people have never studied their original major at all, and have never even seriously considered whether they are suitable for this major. Just to escape, they chose a seemingly relaxed major to take the exam.
If so, please stop and think about what you really want. Because a heart that never takes life seriously will not get better because of changing majors.
If not, please think twice. Because you have been very serious, you should be more careful this time.
First of all, the review meeting for postgraduate entrance examination is an arduous course. Interlacing is like a mountain-this old saying will run through the whole process of learning.
My original major was the worst, and I studied for three or four years, and I was exposed to it. The basic knowledge must be more solid than what I haven't learned. I may not go into the details, but the big pattern, ideas and ways of thinking all exist in my mind. Even if I surprise for four years a month before each exam, it's not useless. This is a major advantage of this major for foreign majors. On the contrary, it is the disadvantage of cross-majors relative to their own majors.
When reviewing, you should spend more time on specialized courses, so that basic courses can easily be shelved, and any backwardness in any subject will affect the mentality and test scores of the whole review process.
Secondly, you may encounter unexpected difficulties in preparing for the exam.
If you are not familiar with answering professional questions, you will inexplicably lose the points you shouldn't have lost. Moreover, after passing the written test, the uncertainty of the re-examination always makes it difficult for people with different majors to have the confidence to be "controlled", and it is really difficult to be "controlled".
Finally, and most importantly, I will live as a graduate student for the next three years.
Whether facing students with solid basic skills, tutors with certain requirements and standards, or facing a new learning career that may make you lose your coordinates for a while-how to position yourself, how to regain self-confidence, how to establish "new feelings" for new majors, and how to plan your future career and life are all problems that need to be overcome with more efforts than others.
Therefore, whether you want to change your direction and major requires a sharp and strict examination of yourself, rather than blindly following the trend. The following points can be considered:
Do you really love the new major for which you will work?
In the long run, is there room for this new field to develop its talents and personality?
Are you sure that after studying for three years, you can really enrich and improve your knowledge structure, instead of shaving your head and collapsing at both ends?
Finally, the most basic and current question: Does the basic course have its own advantages? Without advantages, how to allocate more time for the review of specialized courses?
Assess the situation: know yourself and do it practically.
After self-torture, I believe you must be a clear-headed person with a firm dream.
Here, we have to re-emphasize the reasons and standards of interdisciplinary examination and research: first, love; Second, the decision made on the basis of comprehensive evaluation of one's own talents, advantages and disadvantages; Third, be confident, and don't be afraid of hardship and tiredness.
You can give an example. A graduate student who didn't study hard at school, after four years of study, found that he still didn't like his math major, but liked literature, history and philosophy. If the basic course English politics is not bad, then he has the minimum requirement to consider cross-disciplinary examination and research. So, how to determine the major next? First look at hobbies. What if you are interested in journalism, archaeology and literature? Rule out one by one. For news, collect more information to see what qualities a reporter needs, such as a keen sense of news smell, a strong sense of struggle and participation, and a healthy body. Face up to your strengths and weaknesses. If you have a keen sense of news, but you don't have a strong sense of fighting and participation, or even can't face the long-term work intensity, then give up. For archaeology, make the same assessment; In addition, if your parents are against your archaeological dream at this time, please consider their concerns. You should not go it alone, but consider the actual situation of your family. Moreover, parents are people who know you, and they actually know your personality and talent very well. Then if you think that the acceptability of your parents' opinions is greater than your enthusiasm for archaeology, then archaeology is also crossed out. If the remaining literature is feasible after a series of evaluations, then there are many professional subdivisions under it. Is it China literature or world and comparative literature, ancient literature or modern and contemporary literature? It should be decided according to internal and external factors such as reading preference, accumulation and whether the test questions can be handled. These will be related to the next part.
This is just an example. There are so many changes across disciplines that it is impossible to describe them in detail in a few pages. We can only understand the various factors that need to be considered and weighed through this example.
Of course, please remember that your inner love and confidence in your learning ability are the most important in your choice. With these two points, I believe your choice will be the one that suits you best. This will be a beautiful decision, and after the decision, there must be a feeling that the clouds are clearing away. Once the direction is set, go there and don't look back.
Preparation: Open your eyes and ears.
Let's cut to the chase.
First, subdivide majors and schools, and determine the target for entering the exam. You must see which city you like. Since you want to change the status quo and start a new study course with the help of this postgraduate entrance examination, don't make do with which city (or cities) you have always wanted to study in. Circle the approximate scope, and then find the enrollment brochures and professional enrollment forms of the schools there-find or use all the relationships online. Pay special attention to whether the major you are interested in refuses the cross-disciplinary examination. Carefully compare and determine two or three famous schools you want to go to and your favorite major. This step can be carried out simultaneously with the last city. Everyone's situation is different. It is necessary to make a plan for each step by ourselves, from which we can gain a great sense of accomplishment. In short, it makes us feel that everything is under our control.
Then, find as many optional professional questions as possible in these optional schools over the years, and study them carefully to see which one you are more sure of. This step is very important and cannot be omitted or postponed, which will directly affect the performance of future exams. After this step, the school and the subdivision major can almost be decided.
When will this stage take place? The sooner the better. We don't advocate stretching the front too long. It is enough to review effectively from April to 65438+ 10. However, different majors need to be "brewed". You don't have to start a real review too early, but at least two months to six months earlier than others. You should start looking for schools, dabble in periodicals and books related to new majors, and find a sense of closeness to new majors and a sense of yearning for the new future of new schools-this is the first stop before the real review begins. We will use this time to make up for the lack of cross-majors, and we will be more determined and confident when the real battle starts.
Second, the teaching materials for specialized courses are in place. In front of work, we should be meticulous. In April-May, the final school and major to be tested should be determined. After deciding, trust your own judgment, don't hesitate to buy professional course textbooks! Buy textbooks for all professional courses according to the bibliography listed by the school, find one or two teachers and sisters who can help, find classmates, find relatives, and even find netizens to inquire about those who are not listed.
There are two problems here: buying books and finding brothers and sisters-try to buy books yourself. There are schools that can be sent by mail, and bookstores that can be searched. If not, go to the library system or online to find the publisher of this book, find the phone number of the publisher, and make a remittance by phone. Don't bother others with everything from the beginning. If you can solve it yourself, find a channel to solve it. There are more important things to trouble them in the future. Really can't. Go find my brothers and sisters. The most important thing is to be clear about the problem. It is useless to say casually, "I want to take an examination of your major, please help me." You need to clearly state your specific problems, which books to test, which extensive reading to focus on, and where to buy them, but there is no way to ask them for help-everyone will be happy to help when they hear such a clear question. Before the end of June, the main professional course materials must be in place.
Third, the problems that should be paid attention to when reviewing.
First of all, basic courses can not be ignored. As I said before, you must have a certain mastery of basic courses before you can take the interdisciplinary exam, otherwise you will be at a loss at the critical moment. When you concentrate on specialized courses, basic courses can't stop for a day. You can spend the whole morning reviewing English: reading, vocabulary and listening, before lunch, before dinner and before going to bed. If you persist every day, you will have enough time to prepare for English review. So is politics. It's better to enroll in an autumn class for several months, with a teacher leading the review, which is more efficient than exploring for yourself and the general context of knowledge will be clear. Please believe in yourself, this course, which you learned from junior high school, will not be too bad, but you should also cultivate your interest in it in your heart. If you hate it and put it on hold for a while, it will be too late; On the contrary, spending two hours a day, as long as you persist, will be both relaxed and full.
Cross-major students often put their enthusiasm on specialized courses and neglect basic courses intentionally or unintentionally. When they find that time is tight, they will look back, and the basic courses have fallen behind a lot, which greatly affects their confidence in sprinting and exams.
Secondly, review specialized courses. 165438+ 10 Be sure to read professional books carefully at least once before registering. Don't deceive yourself this time. Quality is paramount and you should know everything. In this way, we will be more confident in the next two months.
Be sure to take notes. June 1 1 It's time to register, and you will find that more and more people are discussing the review progress. At that time, you will be surprised by the preparation and progress made by candidates in this major and other cross-majors-there are so many people who are so well prepared! The "guilty conscience" that is easy to occur in unfamiliar majors will be more intense at this time, so looking back and summing up your achievements, only a few real notes will be your tonic. Counting them requires a few notes. Add political English, and you will be surprised at the 654.38+ million-word notes you made. This is an important source of accumulating confidence and holding your head high.
Review with all one's strength: stick to it without fear.
First of all, study the test questions over the years and draw the key points by yourself. Examination questions are very important over the years. Before registration, that is, at the beginning of June, 1 1, you must get the relevant professional examination questions of the school over the years. This requires actively mobilizing network resources, downloading what can be downloaded, and buying what can be bought. The last resort: asking for help from brothers and sisters. At this time, the requirements should be as clear as possible. A girl, who took an examination of a university major, found a schoolmate through her classmate's sister and called her: "I know that there is a counter in the reading room on the fifth floor of your school library where you can borrow and copy the past years." Please help me copy a major in a certain year ... "Sister Xue was shocked:" I didn't even know there was such a place. How do you know? " The girl slowly talked about how to find the school column discussion from the internet and how to understand it. Sister Xue was very interested and opened her eyes. She helped her copy down all the questions that could be found in related majors and sent them out.
The next step is to study the test questions more carefully. It only takes one night to put all the questions over the years on the table, sum up the rules, key and difficult points, teachers' habit of writing questions and so on. In this way, you can draw the key points of the next review (even the key points of the exam), instead of reading them all and reviewing them with brains and goals. Don't be afraid that the teachers in the department will change dynasties. If we change it again, the style of scientific research will remain unchanged, and the general idea will remain unchanged.
After finishing the key points, a momentum of "strategizing" came into being. Taking advantage of this momentum, we will certainly get twice the result with half the effort.
Secondly, prepare for the exam and master the habit of answering professional questions. In the remaining two months, I must find some time to go to the professional dormitory of the school to take the exam. The purpose is to understand the conventions, special requirements and points for attention. Any school will do, just a regular university that you can find conveniently; Of course, if it is convenient, the best choice is to study the dormitory of a professional student to be tested in school, so that you can not only understand the test questions, but also dig out more problems that should be paid attention to in these two months.
When taking an exam, as emphasized in the review, you must be confident. I believe you are carefully planned and prepared. When you get the test paper, you should love it as much as you love professional books. With a cool head and a warm heart, you will be invincible.
Finally, it is a second interview. There are different opinions about whether to find a tutor. If you can find the best, don't be nervous if you don't find it. Believe in yourself is the most important thing.
In fact, when receiving the second interview notice, there is generally no more time to expand the knowledge, which should be done at the first time. At this time, cross-professional students often worry that their foundation is not enough and they are worried again. Then, instead of robbing, it is better to take out the books you have read before and turn them over again. It's always useful. It's better to be cooked than to be cooked. Being familiar with or proficient in a certain field can better reflect one's own characteristics than generalizing. Face the tutor with a sincere smile, even with confidence and courage that only a hard drum can muster. After at least one year's study, we are also compound talents. What are we afraid of?
Speaking of which, the whole process seems to be over-it's not! When you get the admission notice, it's a start.
Entering the postgraduate stage is a more independent and professional learning process, and interdisciplinary students will definitely be impacted as soon as they step into this world. Unfamiliar fields, knowledge that teachers think should be common sense but unheard of, and a new life orientation that is hard to find … all these should be psychologically prepared. I suggest that you don't forget to read books related to your major (not professional textbooks) and continue to lay the foundation during your life in heaven from May to August. There is no time to lay the foundation for you when you enter graduate life.
In short, it is necessary for brave interdisciplinary graduate students to continue to adjust their body and mind with resilience and confidence before starting school, and not to give up the good habit of continuous learning to prepare for entering a new learning career. I believe this preparation will usher in a new situation, realize the challenge of life and enrich my dreams. Take life seriously, and life will repay you seriously. Believe and persist.