The competition for graduate school entrance examinations is fierce, high-scoring candidates have no degrees, and stress causes depression
Exams drive young people crazy: 50 people take 1 place, those with good grades don't study, and those with poor grades are sad when they are depressed.
This year, the score line of the liberal arts examination has once again set a new record, reaching 367 points for more than ten consecutive years, 12 points more than last year, so that the score line of 400 points for liberal arts candidates has become difficult to surpass. A candidate without a double bachelor's degree in a major won the national scholarship with a score of 412 points, and wanted to apply for a master's degree in journalism and communication in 985 universities, but in the face of the pressure of nearly 400 points in the re-examination line, he could only turn his attention to adjustment.
The issue of adjustment has become the focus of attention of many liberal arts students, who are looking for the right institution and waiting for answers. In the past, 400 was the highest score, but today 400 is a common score on literature exams, including journalism and communication. Adjustment has become the only way out for this part of the candidates.
The increase in the number of candidates with high scores in the liberal arts came as a surprise to many candidates. Schools that used to excel in science and engineering, such as Xi'an Jiaotong University and University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, also had candidates with a score of 400 in literature. This means that choosing a literature major in a science and engineering school is not a shortcut, but a dead end.
With the rise of the national line of 34 self-marking colleges and universities this year, the re-examination line of many majors, mainly literature and economics, has approached 400 points. At first, students thought that choosing a literature major in a science and engineering college was a shortcut, but as more and more people chose this path, this path also became a dead end. A score of 400 is the minimum threshold for entering the college of their choice, and for those students who cannot open the door to liberal arts candidates, adjustment has become the only hope.
The road to adjustment is not easy, not only because of the high review line, but also because there are relatively few colleges and universities that can accept adjustment. In the case of a large number of science and engineering majors such as biochemistry and environmental materials, the quota of liberal arts adjustment majors is almost invisible. Liberal arts students should be well prepared, just like preparing for an eight-fold mirror, to find their place in the highly competitive transfer.
In the Q&A discussion post of online adjustment, suggestions are usually given from three aspects: sprint, insurance, and advice, but high-scoring liberal arts candidates are not willing to easily impact prestigious schools, which is more like a"Hexagonal candidates"Choice.
When I was choosing a school last year, I came to Beijing because I saw the professor's research direction, and now I listen to various universities here to discuss the cost performance like selling cabbage. I don't think dreams are worth much"。The final result is that initially 367 points can be transferred to Class A, and at present, a group of 400 points of liberal arts candidates have been transferred to non-B or double first-class universities.
Since the beginning of admissions, the decline in literature exams has been evident. Ten years ago, the Master of Arts was second in enrollment after engineering and science, but now it has fallen to ninth.
In 2020, due to the pandemic, the number of graduate students increased by about 200,000, but the disciplines were mainly concentrated in science and engineering and medicine. In recent years, literature has barely been able to afford several large-scale graduate student expansions. If the quota reserved for literature candidates is restricted, then the quota reserved for the unified admission must be reduced by at least half.
Last year, Fudan University's Department of Chinese enrolled 118 master's students, of whom 68 were recommended for exemption from the examination, accounting for nearly 60% of the total. The same is true for journalism and communication, another popular major for literature majors. Liu Hailong, a professor at the School of Journalism at Renmin University of Chinese, said in an interview with Southern Weekend that the overall direction of the current graduate students in journalism and communication is to increase the number of guaranteed places and reduce the number of places for unified recruitment.
In 2021, the Communication University of China examination has undergone a comprehensive reform, and the number of new applicants for the Master of Communication at Shanghai University is as high as 987, and the final admission quota is only 26, with a ratio of 38:1. Similarly, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Hunan University also have an enrollment ratio of more than 30:1.
In this already crowded and competitive course, in addition to the students of the subject, there are also a large number of candidates. This year's exams have not yet ended, and the Class of 2023 students who are preparing for the cross-examination have begun to seek guidance from their elders on major social platforms. According to Gu Yu's statistics, among the posts about the intention to cross the examination, literature students ranked first, and journalism and communication and Chinese language and literature students appeared most frequently.
It's not uncommon for people to want to further their education with a liberal arts degree, but they tend to opt for other literature degrees, which means there's more competition between them.
The proportion of interdisciplinary students in literature graduate students even exceeds the proportion of students in their own majors. In the past three years, more than 60% of the candidates admitted to the journalism and communication major of Zhejiang University are interdisciplinary candidates.
It's not uncommon for graduates to specialize in welding and master's students to specialize in McLuhan. Under the trend of many cross-examinees, the tutoring service of the literary examination has become the field of postgraduate counseling"Haidilao"--As long as you come, we will provide you with the service you need.
Taking Xinbiography as an example, the tutoring institution provides a full range of services from reading, background theory, practice, error correction, to hot spots, special topics, sprint answers, etc., revealing and analyzing the test points step by step, and instilling them in the candidates. Even a zero-based candidate can quickly gain an advantage at the starting line of the competition.
Exam organizations publish their candidate pools every year, and the candidate pools are huge, with thousands of candidates in each organization, and some candidates even hop between several exam organizations.
However, all of this is based on the fact that it will cost a considerable amount of money, most likely in the five-figure range.
The courses are getting longer and longer, and the exams for literature candidates may last up to three years. For many candidates, starting with the first semester of the first year means starting to read and study a lot.
In addition to the huge amount of money that needs to be invested, candidates must also put in exponential efforts and face internal and external pressures to excel in a competitive exam environment.
Although graduate study is not entirely lucrative, it is still a path chosen by many people.
If you search for an engineering degree on social**, you'll see a lot of posts about recommended schools, courses, and grades discussions. If you're switching to liberal arts, you're more likely to see discussions about whether it's necessary to go to graduate school in liberal arts.
For this question, perhaps even the candidates themselves do not have a clear answer. Some people think that the employment situation after graduation is too grim, so they choose to join the graduate team and work hard for another three yearsSome people admit that they don't know where to go after graduation, so they choose graduate school as a transition stage from school to society...
Anxiety envelops everyone, manifesting itself as confusion and confusion.
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