Let me introduce myself first. I majored in English as an undergraduate, and my grades were average. All the above are true, not ordinary study. There is no award certificate, only special four, which can be said to be very poor. Fortunately, Tongji is very fair in the unified examination, only looking at the results of the preliminary examination and re-examination, and does not discriminate against undergraduate schools/experiences, so I am lucky to take advantage of it. Finally, the initial test, the second test and the total score are all stable second children.
First, choose a school: choice is really important.
Postgraduate entrance examination is very different from college entrance examination. We only have one choice, so choice is particularly important. I mainly consider the choice of the school from the perspective of the school and myself. First of all, from the school's point of view, my goal is to rank foreign languages/comprehensive 985+ higher than or equal to undergraduate schools+big cities. From my own point of view, when choosing the translation direction, I need to measure the gap between my own level and the postgraduate entrance examination, and then make targeted efforts. It is worth mentioning that we need to be clear about the purpose of the postgraduate entrance examination, our own needs, our own level and the difficulty of the target institution, which will directly determine whether we can be admitted. How hard you worked to get in.
To understand the difficulty of target institutions, we need to pay attention to several aspects: enrollment ratio, enrollment number (excluding exemption from exams), retest line+final admission score, enrollment brochure, whether to add points (which may affect adjustment), collecting real questions from previous years (defining exam style, type and difficulty) and so on. This information can be obtained through research and recruitment network, official website of colleges and universities, and experience posts (Weibo, Zhihu, etc.). ), seniors and sisters.
In recent years, the enrollment situation of Tongji MTI is relatively stable, with the class with a score of 2 1 rising to 365, but it is more friendly than other schools. There are more than a dozen admissions, and the admission ratio is about 1 1 (which can be found through the research website).
Second, time management: find the one that suits you.
After determining the school and major to apply for, the second thing is to make a good plan, which is really super important. Planning includes both long-term planning and monthly planning, as well as specific weekly and daily plans. It should be noted that the planning can be complete, flexible, with a certain fault tolerance rate, and it can also be a long-term routine. The following is my schedule for your reference: in the early stage, I studied for 5-6 hours every day, focusing on laying the foundation and taking into account the school curriculum of junior year; Go all out in the middle and late stages, and guarantee 10h+ every day.
Set a learning cycle every week (including resumption day: consolidating repeated memory); Consolidate what you have learned through repetition: every night+spare time; Re-quote weekly. Personally, I suggest controlling mobile entertainment and uninstalling unnecessary apps. But at the same time of high-intensity study, we should also relax appropriately and combine work and rest.
Third, the specific review:
1, politics
I am most satisfied with my achievements. In fact, I have been worried that this door will hold me back, so I started early. Before the summer vacation, I finished the core exams of Xu Tao's basic class and intensive class. Tao Tao's speech was very interesting. I listened carefully, so I made two notes (which later proved useless).
After July, I will spend about 2 hours talking about politics every day. At first, I intensively read Xiao Xiurong's Exquisite and Concise.
Do a matching 1000 question for each reading section. After the first round, there is an endless pattern of brushing questions. 1000. I brushed it three times completely, and read it many times in the middle.
Leg sister's "30 days and 70 minutes" was brushed twice; Xu Tao's "problem set" was brushed by Ma Yuan and Mao Zhongte. PS: I strongly recommend Sister Leg's recitation booklet! Every time I finish a section of "30 days and 70 minutes", I will use a booklet to look at the knowledge points. Really learning new knowledge every day, especially enriching.
If you surf the Internet frequently, you will find an interesting phenomenon. Some people say that politics is difficult, so I got a 75+ without much revision. Some people recite for a long time, but their grades are still not ideal. That's the truth. The multiple-choice question that determines the score can easily hit your review blind spot. Political achievements depend largely on luck, but I really dare not pin my hopes on luck, and I really hope that politics can help me improve my total score, so I spend as much time in this course as translation itself.
I don't think there is a question of "how to learn" politics. It can be seen that my grades are all piled up in time. It's not cost-effective, but you can make progress if you are willing to spend time. If you have no confidence in other subjects and hope that politics can help you, you must brush the teacher's multiple-choice questions more, so that you can better understand the thinking of writing questions. Of course, don't brush for the sake of brushing. You should have a complete chapter system in your mind.
2. Translate the master's English
Translating Master's English is a comprehensive survey of English proficiency. Common questions are word discrimination, grammar, reading, cloze, error correction and composition. Tongji is characterized by a variety of questions, which are not difficult, including cloze *3+ reading *3+ composition (300 words and 50 points).
My review plan is like this: first of all, memorizing words is the foundation, and repeated effects can be achieved through app+ paper books. Liu Yi 10000+ For a paper book, it was repeated three times like a duck to water. You can start GRE after reciting TEM-8, using a red GRE vocabulary book. I chose to prepare for the exam with Spark Black+TEM-4 Grammar 1000, and brushed the wrong questions twice; Reading has accumulated eight reading+English one+foreign periodicals; Eight-year-old composition template composition back; Correction/Gestalt wrote the corresponding title of Spark Black/English One.
3, English translation foundation:
Tongji has a large number of subjects. In previous years, the real question was two English-Chinese translations. As expected this year, it's still the same. I almost never stop writing, and time is tight. There are 7 English articles, 8 Chinese articles ***30 points, 4 translations each 20 * * 80 points, 1 translation appreciation 20 points, 1 composition topic 20 points. Finally, both questions can be in Chinese and English (as mentioned in the title). Tongji entries never test abbreviations such as WTO and IMF, so I saved a lot of effort when preparing for the exam. I'm bold, too. I didn't recite any of them. Fortunately, I made the right bet. Entries are recommended for cross-examination dictionaries (Yellow Books support Little Yellow Books). China Daily is a newspaper, with a summary in tabular form every week and month. The price is not expensive, but it saves a lot of time. After reciting these two entries, there is basically no problem. The key point is to memorize, review frequently, mark the unfamiliar ones when memorizing, and write them silently every day in the later period. I have a special habit of memorizing things. I have memorized all of them. I just need to take off the strokes and look back to find the rest of the entries quickly.
Translation is naturally the highlight, and it must be the most important part for teachers. I have practiced many books, such as A Concise Course of English-Chinese Translation for Twelve Days by Zhuang Yichuan.
The yellow book for the cross-examination and so on, but the key+highly recommended books are three textbook trainings (yellow, thinner one), which are relatively dry, detailed in analysis and have more English translations. I practiced this book almost twice and made a lot of notes on A4 paper. At first, I suggested reading Twelve Days in Wu Ge (Brother Five). What does this book say? Personally, I think it is good to learn it once. Example should be written first, and then analyzed. Because there is no analysis, there is no need to write exercises after class. Then you can practice three books. Stick to it every day, even if you don't like it, even if you don't have time, you should write a little to ensure your feel. There are many books that MTIer is familiar with, such as Advanced English-Chinese Translation Theory and Practice by Teacher Ye Yinan.
Teacher Li Changshuan's Theory and Practice of Non-literary Translation may be that my level is not enough, and I haven't gained anything from reading it. Secondly, there is the English version of Selected Modern Prose of China by Mr. Zhang Peiji, which is also very famous, and I believe everyone knows it. I suggest buying one and reciting one every week, which is very helpful for translating prose.
Translation appreciation is divided into two parts, one is to appreciate the following translations and analyze the skills used, and the other is to talk about the basic qualities of being an excellent translator. The first part bought Teacher Li Ming's Translation Criticism and Appreciation. This book is strange. The front is full of translation and comparison, and there is nothing to analyze. The latter part is dry goods, which are the papers of many professors and MTI graduate students. Read a book every day for a month before the exam and learn from what angle to analyze translation. The second part, the basic quality of translators, the previous year's examination. I accidentally saw that the first chapters of Min Lu's two books had the same title, so I memorized them deliberately and won them successfully. So it was effortless to write in the examination room. The two parts are only marked with ***20 points, but the score should focus on the appreciation in front. The last question gives a sentence from Qian Zhongshu, and then talk about your opinion on the translation, 20 points. There is no skill in this question. Combine this sentence and then express your views directly with some translation theories.
4. Chinese writing and encyclopedia knowledge:
Many students in this course may be confused, but there are still many skills to talk about. Tongji's encyclopedia is to write a composition first, and then encyclopedia knowledge. The first topic is practical writing, with 40 points. This year is the same as last year's press release. First of all, I issued a press release (very conscience! ), you need to analyze the structure of this press release first (inverted pyramid), and then write an imitation. Don't be nervous about practical writing. Just buy a book on practical writing before the exam, read all possible styles, and then read the model essay. I didn't read some styles that Tongji didn't pass, such as business letters and contracts. Personally, Tongji seems to pay more attention to cultural literacy. In previous years, all the exams were letters, New Year greetings and press releases.
60 points for the second argumentative essay. First, explain the main characteristics of argumentative writing, and then write an article on the topic. The main features of argumentative essays are found out before the exam, and it is OK to recite them. Don't write much, just be brief. The composition is the highlight, and the size of the composition adds up to 100, which is very telling. I referred to the experience post of Tongji University's composition, and practiced it according to the standard of application when preparing for the exam, which seems to be in line with it. Tongji's topics in previous years were social topics closely related to current events. This year's topic is "the cause of providing for the aged in the new era". Never write an argumentative essay on such a topic, but write "how to do it" and put forward your own views and suggestions. Before the exam, you should prepare your English composition at the same time, practice regularly, and write large and small compositions according to the order and time of the exam. In high school, my composition score was very high, so I always asked him to help me correct it (although it seems that I only wrote five or six articles). Usually when you are tired of studying, you will turn over your composition book and copy some good sentences. The most important thing is that I found the source article in the People's Daily in Tongji a few years ago, so the People's Daily is the most important. Every day, you must take time to read articles (mainly cultural and editing sections) that may be used as examination questions (key points).
Finally, the encyclopedia knowledge, Tongji Encyclopedia has 10 blank +20 choices+10 noun explanation * * 50 points. Practice has proved that I am also right, that is, Tongji never tests political and economic categories and names, which saves me a lot of effort in memorizing encyclopedias. There are also multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the-blank questions. I also took many real questions a few years ago. It's worth searching for real questions everywhere, and then typing them on Word one by one for typesetting and printing. It is recommended to buy a dictionary of encyclopedic knowledge entries for cross-examination (Yellow Book supports Yellow Book). I started reciting many encyclopedias in June 165438+ 10. I have recited this book many times except politics, economy, geography and people, and the book is about to be torn up. . There is also the choice and fill in the blanks in the encyclopedia of the Yellow Book. It's still very useful. Be sure to memorize it. I also bought a one-stop question bank, and I recited historical and cultural topics repeatedly. These are all homework that must be done. If I remember correctly, choose 30 questions and fill in the blanks. I can write 24 questions accurately in the examination room, and several of them are correct. There were also 5-6 real questions in previous years. I seem to be able to write, and one or two of them are unfamiliar from memory. By the way, you should recite the real questions of the encyclopedia and the translated entries in previous years, and you should take them without scoring. We must attach importance to two specialized courses.
Fourth, the second interview
The second interview is not difficult, and the online time is not long, mainly because of the ability to improvise. The general structure is self-introduction+visual translation+political literacy questions+professional questions and answers. My review is also divided into several parts according to the content of the exam: listening, shadow follow-up, interpretation practice, learning visual translation class, preparing for self-introduction and professional class question and answer. Self-introduction should be prepared in Chinese and English, and questions and answers should be mainly in English. It is recommended to practice listening and interpreting every day and prepare for possible problems according to self-introduction. I personally took an interpretation class for the exam. Every day, there will be interpretation materials to push and explain, record by yourself and listen to the questions repeatedly. I have read Wu's Notes on Interpretation, but the notes vary from person to person, so it is good to follow them. I go to the teaching building every day to find a small classroom without people, play materials, interpret and simulate the examination process, mainly because I don't have stage fright and dare to speak. Professional questions and answers need to be classified for preparation, personal graduation thesis direction, translation theory, postgraduate entrance examination planning and so on. Pay attention to keep a good mental outlook and be confident and calm during the exam.
Fifth, write it at the end.
Postgraduate entrance examination is a protracted war, during which both endurance and pressure resistance are tested. But no matter what happens, persistence is the most important thing. Make and complete a detailed and feasible plan for yourself at every stage every day. Only in this way can we make progress day by day. When I was preparing for the exam last year, some of my classmates had already started their postgraduate entrance examination. Some students set foot on the society and found jobs. It seems that I am the only one standing still. I feel anxious and self-doubt from time to time. I'm afraid it's empty, but it's more consistent persistence and self-confidence. Looking back on this period of time, I still don't regret my original decision. I will never forget it, and there will be bad consequences. I hope everyone can be admitted to their favorite school!