Share your experience in Lanzhou University’s postgraduate entrance examination in ecology?

Sharing the experience of Lanzhou University’s postgraduate entrance examination in ecology

I didn’t hesitate much when I was choosing a school. At that time, I didn’t really want to continue studying as a graduate student and teach the subject. I preferred ecology, and in The majors I considered were only ecology and did not take the undergraduate examination. At that time, I thought that the schools in the northwest might be easier to pass, but during the review process, I really fell in love with this major, and later I accidentally discovered the ecology subject of Lanzhou University. The evaluation is A, and the strength is still very strong. This can be regarded as an accident.

To review the situation, due to the epidemic last year, school did not start in the first half of the year, and I did not feel like studying at home. I have always had the idea of ??taking the postgraduate entrance examination, but I have been putting it off and not really studying. It was not until the end of June that I realized that I was going to take the postgraduate entrance examination, and then I started studying. As soon as I started studying, I realized that I might be late in reviewing, so I felt anxious. I kept reading experience posts and watching my seniors. We each reviewed the method one by one, but the more we read, the more anxious we became, so we simply stopped reading and followed our own methods. We first studied English and professional courses, and then started reading politics at the end of July and beginning of August. My basic situation is like this. Although my review effect is good, I still have to start early because the review later will be too intense. Now I will talk about my review methods for each subject in detail. You can refer to them. If you want to review specifically, you still have to According to your own situation.

My total score in the preliminary examination was 359, including 80 in politics, 63 in English, 91 in biology, and 125 in ecology.

1. Preliminary test

(1) English

I have been laying the foundation in July, which is memorizing vocabulary and reading grammar.

The word book I used was Zhu Wei’s Lianlianyouci. During the entire review process for the postgraduate entrance examination, I memorized the words from this book three times. You must memorize the words every day until the day of the exam. If you don't memorize them for a few days, you will really feel it.

This book by Zhu Wei also has a supporting video. Everyone has different opinions on this video. Although there are some highly recommended videos, I personally feel that it is not necessary to watch it. It is a waste of time. I watched five of them. The unit left and right is really time-consuming, and I haven’t read the rest of it, which is of no use. I suggest you just memorize the words and just memorize them. It’s not required to be able to write, but you just need to know the Chinese meaning of the words when you see them.

For grammar, I watched the video of teacher Liu Xiaoyan. I personally like this teacher very much. The class is very humorous. Although sometimes it is a bit nonsense, I don’t like the kind of teacher who talks about knowledge throughout the section. Teacher Zhong, I like to talk about knowledge while relaxing like telling jokes. In addition to reading, I have learned from Teacher Liu Xiaoyan how to do other types of questions, and Teacher Liu Xiaoyan will have a life-saving class in December, which is very strong It is recommended to read it, especially the composition, which is very well written. Even if the basics are particularly weak, you should be able to pass the test without any problem.

I started to do the real test questions at the end of July (you can do it soon or at the beginning of summer vacation). For detailed explanations of the real test questions, I bought the Postgraduate Entrance Examination Truth (English 1), and many classmates also bought Jian’s Little Porn Book, if your English foundation is not very good, it is recommended to buy the postgraduate entrance examination truth.

And for English exams, it is enough to do the real exams. There is no need to buy other simulation papers. You can just do the simulations in the last month of two or three years. You must not do the entire set of papers at the beginning, but do them by question type. During the summer vacation, you should mainly do reading. I did the reading three times in one session. The first time I did it, I watched the video for explanation. The second time I translated the full text, you can practice your translation skills by the way. After completing this time, you will find that some questions are wrong even if you translate the full text. At this time, the method is very important, because before You have already watched the explanation video, so you can watch it selectively the second time. If you feel that you can't analyze the previous questions, watch that question specifically or watch it at double speed. It’s already late to finish this time. The last time is mainly to summarize your own wrong questions. Generally, the wrong questions are often of the same category or similar. You can classify them and summarize the methods yourself. The last month is the simulation of the entire set of papers.

I watched Teacher Tang Chi’s video about reading. Teacher Tang Chi is really good at reading. He just talks about methods.

Watch his method first, his video will explain how to do it. I started doing it 10 years ago (2004-05), and I didn’t think it was necessary to do it much earlier). After finishing it, after watching Teacher Tang Chi’s video, I started doing it the second time. The second time is to translate the full text and write it on paper (a bit of a waste of time, choose it by yourself). You can analyze the reasons by yourself based on the methods you have learned before. If you can't analyze it, you can watch the video.

The order in which I did the first and second readings was as follows: I first finished the first reading from 2004 to 2010, and made a video of reading one article. Then I stopped doing the later ones. I was afraid that I would not be able to digest them well at this time and waste the real questions, so I started the second time from 2004 to 2010. In the process of doing the second time, I was interspersed with doing the new questions from 10 years later. In this way, you can test your review learning effect through the accuracy of new questions. Until all but two or three sets of final simulated real questions are completed, you can start the third time by different question types.

For composition, if you have time, you can memorize teacher Wang Jiangtao’s composition book. You have to start memorizing it during the summer vacation. I’m not sure how many essays I should memorize specifically. I didn’t memorize this one either. I bought his book at that time. I never memorized the book, and then I gave up when I found that I couldn’t memorize it anymore. I watched teacher Liu Xiaoyan’s composition video around October. I think this is pretty good, but some people say it’s just a template, but she will give you many, many choices, and the chance of repetition is very small. If you have the ability, you can In order to make improvements, I also summarized a set of templates that I thought were very good. My subsequent composition scores should not be low, because my previous answers were not very good. After watching the video lesson and summarizing your own template, you must practice it yourself. That is, take the essays from the previous real questions and write them yourself. You must write them yourself! ! ! Otherwise, the template is not yours. You must write it. During the simulation process, you will find many problems with the template. For example, some sentences may not be applicable to some topics. If you find these problems, you can improve them in time. It does not mean that you can just summarize the template and remember it. It's okay and can be changed at any time.

Gestalt, new question types and translation are collectively called Xiaosanmen. I started preparing for it in October. The video I watched was translated by Teacher Tang Jing. I think his translation was quite good. The new question types are from teacher Liu Xiaoyan. I first listened to teacher Liu Xiaoyan's Gestalt, but later I found that the accuracy of the questions was not high, so I listened to teacher Song Yixuan. Each has its own merits, so you can first take a look at which teacher's teaching style suits you.

(2) Politics: The later stage is very important! ! !

Basics: Summer nine months (Xu Tao’s lectures and Xu Tao’s exams with 1,000 questions)

The political review time starts from the summer vacation, because it is Xu Tao’s course, so I bought a copy of Xu Tao's examination papers, read the lecture notes and took notes while listening to the lectures (some students also bought Xiao? Knowledge framework (for different reasons), I finished studying modern history during the summer vacation, mainly focusing on the construction of the political knowledge framework. When I have nothing to do, I will draw the knowledge framework on paper. The political knowledge points are relatively trivial and can be summarized. ?Better memory. For the original part, it is recommended that you must listen to the lecture for this part. Pay attention to understanding the original part, and you must understand this part, so that the later questions will be smoother. For the overview of modern history, it is recommended to study modern history first, then study the overview, and organize the knowledge framework according to the timeline.

For the thinking and practice part, it is recommended not to listen to the lectures, but to do the 1,000 questions directly, and look up the books if you don’t understand.

Later period: 10 copies - exam (Sister Legs sprints to recite the notes of the four figures? Xu Tao simulates the test paper and Sisters Simulates the test paper of the Xiao Wei live class). First, do 1,000 questions, and then turn over After reading Xu Tao's book, I drew a knowledge framework in my mind or on paper. I didn't memorize politics in 10 copies. It was mainly about continuous consolidation in the process of doing questions and building a knowledge framework. In the later stage, after the sprint recitation notes came out, I memorized a little of Sister Leg's sprint notes. The main method of reciting is: after closing the sprint notes, I can recite the framework and general content of the memorized chapter.

Multi-choice question part: The time in the early part is actually to help us improve the scores of the multiple-choice questions and the scores of those who get the multiple-choice questions. After checking the answers to my political multiple-choice questions, it seems that I got two questions wrong, that’s why I got such a good result, and the hot spots in the multiple-choice questions will account for a certain number of cases. Later, I will have a live class, and the hot topics will be discussed in the live class. It is recommended that the live class Read it several times. The answering technique for multiple-choice questions requires you to find the feeling when you practice later. Question part: For students who don’t have enough time, they don’t deal with political questions at all in their usual recitations. When the four numbers come out, they just memorize the four numbers. But at that time, I also bought Xu Tao’s pre-exam prediction of 20 questions that must be memorized. , because the answers to Xiao Si’s questions are actually not very organized and need to be summarized to enhance memorization, but Xu Tao’s 20 must-memorize questions are more organized and comfortable to recite, so I The two are combined into recitation. ?And Xu Tao has a lot of 20 questions that must be memorized. It is better to memorize the four zodiac signs. It is recommended to memorize the four zodiac signs. If you have enough knowledge, recite Xu Tao. When reciting the questions, don't think that the original questions will appear. Although the 2021 political test questions Xiao has once again become a god, you must know that what you recite is only the corpus that will be used to answer the questions in the exam.

Examination characteristics: Politics can be improved in the short term, and you will also find that part of the scores are actually obtained in the later review. Don't say that "politics is not friendly to science at all" "In this case, if you sprint hard after 11 days in the later period, it is very likely to turn from a scumbag into an 80-year-old god, so you don't have to worry about politics, and the review of politics will be easier. For the memory of fragmented knowledge points in the later period, it is recommended Listen to Sister Leg's tape recording or Xu Tao's recording. These can be listened to on the road. It won't waste time. You just need to listen carefully and have an impression of the corresponding knowledge points.

(3) Professional courses

Lanzhou University has two professional courses, ecology and basic biology. The questions are relatively basic. There are three ecology textbooks provided on the official website. I personally feel that the one by Niu Cuijuan is enough, and there is no need to buy the other two.

The main reference books for biology are "Basics of Modern Biology" and "General Biology". I don't like the layout of general biology so I didn't read that book. I mainly use A set of exercise books for the basics of modern biology and general biology (although I am not very good at this subject, I still have some experience, so in terms of textbooks, I think this book and one exercise book are enough) .

I went through the textbook during the summer vacation. I just read it once and I roughly know what is in the book. I started memorizing it when school started in September. I memorized the professional courses probably three or four times before the exam. After reciting it for the first time and reciting it for the second time, you will find that it is as if you have not memorized it at all. This is normal. There is no need to panic. You can recite it about three times before the exam.

For these two professional courses, you can look at the real questions and roughly analyze the key points. They are all relatively obvious.

Ecology: Mainly read the textbooks. The questions in Lanzhou University’s ecology major are very basic. This year, they are all from the textbooks. They are all in the textbooks, even the last experiment question. The questions designed are all based on the knowledge points in the textbook. In the past two years, there were one or two explanations of nouns. Questions worth about 10-20 points were not in the textbooks, but they are not available this year. The exam content is in the textbooks, so there is no need to worry.

Basic biology: This professional course only lasted for two years. The year I took the exam was the second year. The previous professional courses were biochemistry and ecology. In the 20th year, the professional course was changed, but The previous re-examination had a written test, and it was about general biology. The focus of general biology and basic biology are different. But you can look at the real questions of the previous re-examination. They are still similar, but basic biology is more basic than ordinary biology. . For review, I mainly read the Basics of Modern Biology and General Education Workbooks.

I feel like the outline given by the official website is just a joke. The outline it gives is the table of contents of the book "Basics of Modern Biology", and it is the first seven chapters. However, if you look through the past papers, you can find that in the following chapters, animals Plant microorganisms and evolution are the focus of the exam, mainly animals and plants, because evolution also involves the evolution of animals and plants. This is the focus. There is no need to look at some of the content in the previous re-examination questions for general students, such as the immunity section. Basic biology is generally not tested. If you are really worried, you can just take a look at it and write down what you can find in the exam.

3. Suggestions and Encouragement

(1) Regularly formulate a small goal and plan. In this way, learning will be more motivated and clear, and step-by-step will also reduce the pressure and anxiety of learning. Make a short-term plan and a long-term plan for yourself every month. Including daily study time allocation, tasks to be completed during the week and tasks to be completed this month. Plans are remade almost every month. During this process, adjust at any time if it feels inappropriate. This pattern eventually circulates to the last day of the postgraduate entrance examination. In fact, when planning, you are also telling yourself what you have learned and what you still haven’t mastered. You will have a clear understanding of your review progress, and you don’t have to be confused and overwhelmed. .

(2) Don’t blindly compare with others. Different majors and schools are different, so there is no need to make yourself anxious because of others.

(3) Maintain an optimistic attitude. For professional courses on recitation, you may feel that you can't finish it no matter how hard you recite it, but in fact, the knowledge is impressed in your mind. At this time, mentality becomes more important. Follow the steps step by step and learn more.

(4) The significance of the postgraduate entrance examination lies in your real involvement in national affairs. Please keep your faith until the clouds clear and the moon shines! I wish you success!