The number of candidates exceeded 4.57 million, and nearly 3.47 million could not go ashore
The scale of postgraduate examinations has been increasing year by year, and this trend is reflected not only in the number of candidates, but also in the expansion of scores. As of 2022, the number of candidates exceeded 4.57 million, however, nearly 3.47 million candidates failed to successfully enter the postgraduate stage. Even though the initial test score reached 400 points, it was found that he could not make the cut. In the process of pursuing the upward stage of life, some people can succeed, but others will encounter failure. To make matters worse, this may become the norm for years to come.
1. The number of graduate candidates increased by 21%, the score line was more than 10 points, and nearly 3.47 million people could not enter the graduate stage.
In 2022, the number of applicants for the postgraduate examination reached 4.57 million, an increase of 800,000 from 2021, a growth rate of about 21%.
Since 2015, the number of applicants for the postgraduate examination has been rising every year, with the exception of 2015 and 2016, when the number of applicants increased by more than 10%, and in 2019 it reached a staggering 218%。
After reviewing relevant data from 2014 to 2022, Whale** found that as the number of applicants for the graduate examination increased, the acceptance rate was decreasing. From 2014 to 2018, the graduate acceptance rate has remained above 30%;However, starting in 2019, the acceptance rate fell below 30% and has slipped to 24 in 20222%。
Looking at the timeline, from 2014 to 2022, the number of applicants increased by a total of 166%;However, the corresponding number of admissions increased by only 102%, showing that the trend of more monks and less porridge is becoming clearer.
The increase in the number of graduate candidates is closely related to the overall environment. Affected by the international environment and the new crown epidemic, the downward pressure on the economy is greater, the development of domestic enterprises is in trouble, and employers have reduced recruitment indicators. In the face of the severe employment environment, the postgraduate examination has become a popular choice for many fresh graduates and former students. It has become a consensus to improve personal competitiveness through graduate examinations.
In recent years, more and more non-double first-class universities have obtained master's degree granting qualifications and set up master's enrollment programs, which has made a major contribution to the increase in the number of admissions. However, the flip side of this fact has caused anxiety among many graduate students: the master's programs of non-double first-class universities have not succeeded in attracting candidates, and the competition between prestigious universities is fiercer than ever.
On March 11, Tsinghua University announced the basic score line for the 2022 master's degree admissions reexamination, in which the total score of applied statistics major must reach 420 points (out of 500 points) to enter the retest, and the mathematics subject requires 140 points (out of 150 points).
In the past few years, a score of 400 has been quite high, but nowadays, 400 has become the standard. For example, the re-examination score of the English translation major of Chinese Minmin University is 402 points, the re-examination score of the European language and literature major of Shanghai Foreign Chinese University is 411 points, and the re-examination score of the journalism and communication major of Nanjing University of Finance and Economics is 416 points.
Surprisingly, in the shortlist of the master's degree in finance at PBC School of Finance last year, 426 points were already relatively low scores, and the high scorers even reached 453 points, and there were many candidates with perfect scores in the mathematics test.
One person's effort can improve individual scores, while collective effort can push up the overall score line. The fierce competition has also caused a lot of trouble for students who want to enter colleges and universities that are not self-marked.
On the day when Tsinghua University announced the re-examination score line, the Ministry of Education held a first-class work meeting, deployed the 2022 national master's degree enrollment re-examination and admission work, and issued the "2022 National Master's Admission Examination Candidates Preliminary Examination Score Basic Requirements for Entering the Re-examination" (commonly known as the "national line" in the outside world). After the release, it immediately attracted a lot of attention. Compared with the scores of academic degree majors in 2022 and 2021, except for agriculture and military science, the score lines of the remaining 14 disciplines are all ** (excluding candidates who enjoy the policy of caring for ethnic minorities).
More and more candidates joked on social platforms, saying that "even if Confucius is alive, he will not escape the fate of not going to school and being transferred".
Education, as a major directly related to the education industry, has increased its re-examination score from 310** to 351 points in just six years, which is 14 points higher than in 2021**. Li, a third-year student who is about to apply for education, said: "I chose to take the education exam because I don't like mathematics, and I can get a teaching certificate to become a teacher after graduation. But after seeing the national line, I was worried about whether I could get in. ”
Li's uneasiness reflects the mentality of many graduate students, and this year's college graduate program enrolls 11070,000 candidates, which means that nearly 3.47 million candidates will not be able to enter the retest. Reality is sometimes harsher than we think.
Second, it is becoming more and more difficult to get into graduate school, but how can training institutions respond to this trend?
The other side of the picture is triggered by the training institutions.
With the announcement of the national line and the score lines of 34 self-marking universities, candidates' preparation for the re-examination has become the top priority at present. A student Liu, who scored more than 400 points in the initial examination, said that this year's competition is very fierce, and in order to prevent accidents in the re-examination, he has signed up for the re-examination training class of the training institution.
According to Weibo's blue V account "Qianjiang**", the number of graduate students re-examination applicants currently accepted by the postgraduate examination institution "Haiwen Postgraduate Entrance Examination" has increased by 50% compared with the same period last year.
This phenomenon is not uncommon. Behind this phenomenon is the anxiety of the candidates and the confidence to succeed.
* It is observed that although there are endless candidates with a score of 400 or more, and 3 million candidates suffer setbacks in the preliminary examination, this will not affect the postgraduate examination training institutions, on the contrary, this situation will promote the development of the postgraduate examination training business of these institutions. The main reason for this is that postgraduate examination training institutions have made accumulation in the subdivision of professional fields in recent years, providing candidates with more efficient and targeted training, which will help candidates achieve high scores.
In other words, it's not that students don't want to learn, it's that teachers are better at teaching.
Wang Xiaowei, the core teacher of Huatu Postgraduate Entrance Examination, believes that the frequent occurrence of high scores does not mean that the exam questions are simple, in fact, the difficulty of the exam questions has been increasing in recent years.
Wang Xiaowei and his team have been focusing on the preliminary examination and re-examination of the LL.M. examination, especially in the fine training in the re-examination stage, which has formed a certain influence.
The reason for the high frequency is the improvement of the efficiency of the postgraduate examination institution. Wang Xiaowei said, "The extensive training in the postgraduate examination market in the past is gradually evolving into refined training. Everyone understands that whoever can provide candidates with core value breakthroughs and effective score improvement will be able to survive. ”
Refinement means more focus on service. The postgraduate entrance examination has been gradually upgraded from offline large class courses in the past to service-oriented online + offline comprehensive courses, with unified teaching of online large class courses and personalized tutoring offline, including punch-in recitation, regular assessment, targeted explanation, etc.
A greater focus on service also means a higher **. Around 2013, the price of offline large classes for a single subject was about 100 yuan, and some institutions even provided pick-up and drop-off services. However, under the unstable situation of the epidemic, online training has gradually become the mainstream, and while the offline cost of postgraduate training institutions is decreasing, the price of a single subject has already exceeded 1,000 yuan, and even risen to 3,000, 4,000 or even tens of thousands, which has become a norm.
An indisputable fact is in front of us: the more difficult it is for candidates to prepare for the postgraduate examination, the better the business of the training institution. This is not only reflected in the initial examination stage, but also in the re-examination stage. The re-examination is more "non-standardized", and the re-examination requirements and standards of each school in the same major are different, and the possibility of enterprises enlarging the teaching and research leverage of public courses in the preliminary examination is almost zero, which will inevitably lead to higher re-examination costs.
The ecology of postgraduate training is different from that of K12: the results of the college entrance examination are not satisfactory, at least there are schools to attend. However, failing to pass the initial entrance examination means that the efforts of the past year will be in vain.
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