After the politics exam in the morning, many graduate students said that it was too simple, they were all within the syllabus, and they were all within the review materials, and they could get the ideal score as long as they worked hard to memorize them.
After the English test in the afternoon, the candidates laughed again, the postgraduate English is much simpler than the six-level exam, the words are all on the syllabus, and the content is also on the review materials. As long as you memorize the information carefully, you can get a high score in the English level 4.
Both exams are based on syllabus and review materials, and are less difficult, so you can get a high score on the exam if you put in enough time to memorize. Many people even memorize the materials for graduate school entrance examinations from the beginning of their freshman year, and pay little attention to ordinary undergraduate courses, and they don't care about failing courses, as long as they are guaranteed to graduate. Such students can indeed be admitted to graduate school by memorizing the materials for graduate school, but their learning results in ordinary undergraduate courses are very limited. As a result, they often find themselves lacking in professional knowledge and practical skills in the laboratory.
While the simplicity of politics and English provides candidates with the opportunity to score high on the exam, its memorization-based nature also raises some questions.
1.Postgraduate English does not provide an accurate assessment of English proficiency: Many candidates achieve a high score in Postgraduate English, but do not have the English proficiency to match it. They only rely on memorization of review materials to get high scores, but do not fully assess their ability to use English comprehensively. This has also led to difficulties for some test takers in the practical application of English.
2.Memorization of professional knowledge leads to insufficient comprehension and application ability: Many candidates have obtained high scores by memorizing postgraduate examination materials, but they have not really understood and mastered professional knowledge. They don't apply what they've learned to real-world problems or how to use specialized equipment such as laboratory instruments. At the graduate level, supervisors have to find ways to get these students to graduate, but they can't help them much.
1.Delay the pressure of social employment: The postgraduate entrance examination makes students enter the society a few years later, which delays the employment pressure of the society. This is also one of the reasons why the number of graduate students continues to expand. In the process of graduate school entrance examination, students often need to continue to accept the investment of their parents and provide more time for their parents. Therefore, delaying the pressure of employment has become one of the purposes of the political and English exams set up in the graduate school entrance examination.
2.Increase the number of graduate students: Politics and English are mainly memorized subjects, in order to allow more people to be admitted to graduate school, and also to allow not very smart students to study in graduate school, so the graduate school entrance examination has become memorization-based, giving materials and scopes and outlines. As long as you are willing to take the time to memorize, you can be admitted to graduate school.
3.It is not for the purpose of selecting scientific researchers for training: the postgraduate entrance examination is no longer for the purpose of selecting scientific researchers for training. Researchers will select and train among the research students, and such students are more excellent, and the supervisor will carefully train them. Even if the student does not engage in scientific research in the future, it is easier to be recognized by the recruiting unit when he or she is employed. Because they are better from the undergraduate stage, and they also learn real skills in the graduate school stage. There is no expectation of finding talent among graduate students at all.
While the memorization nature of politics and English raises some questions, the elimination of these two exams may not be the best option. Because these two exams can provide students with opportunities to help them enter the society in a few years later and delay the pressure of employment. At the same time, through these two exams, students can also be exposed to certain social and political knowledge and open up a broad horizon.
1.Improving the content of the exam: The content of the comprehension and application skills can be moderately increased, rather than just memorization. This provides a more comprehensive assessment of the student's level of expertise.
2.Introduce comprehensive quality evaluation: comprehensive quality evaluation indicators such as students' volunteer time and the number of times they participate in public welfare activities can be introduced to evaluate students' ability and comprehensive quality in aspects other than politics and English.
3.Improve the quality of review materials: Review materials should focus on comprehension and application, not just simple memorization. In this way, the comprehensive quality of students can be better cultivated.
Politics and English are undoubtedly memorization-based subjects for many candidates, and their simplicity raises some questions. While the cancellation of these two exams may be an alternative, doing so will also introduce new problems. Therefore, improving the content of the exam and improving the quality of the review materials, as well as introducing comprehensive quality evaluation, may be a better option. At the same time, it is also necessary to realize that the postgraduate entrance examination is not to select scientific researchers for training, but to allow more people to have the opportunity to enter the graduate stage and delay the pressure of employment. Therefore, maintaining the establishment of political and English exams can provide more opportunities for graduate students to enter the postgraduate stage.