Is the postgraduate entrance examination really useful?

well, I took the postgraduate entrance examination blindly. Unfortunately, I was born in Shandong province, where my thoughts are conservative. There is a saying in Shandong that there are three things about unfilial: "One does not take the exam, the other does not take the exam, and the three-step postgraduate entrance examination". As a college graduate who failed the undergraduate course in Shandong Province, I never thought that one day I would be among the graduate students.

After I went ashore from my junior college, I wanted to find a job after graduation, because after all, I am not young, but I can't stand the influence of ordinary undergraduate students around me. When I first entered the undergraduate school, I saw that other students were preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. At that time, I had a little thought in my mind, but I gave up immediately. I knew what level I was, and I was not afraid of jokes. I haven't passed CET-4 yet. You can imagine my situation then. The most important thing is that we have to take a math test in our major, and my math foundation is only limited to the little advanced math foundation in the college period. Linear algebra and probability theory don't know what it is at all. Let me take the postgraduate entrance examination and take a hammer test.

However, parents in Shandong always follow the trend and watch other people's children taking the postgraduate entrance examination. How can they have less children of their own? I clearly remember that in the semester when the first year of undergraduate course was coming to an end, parents called you almost every day to advise you to take the postgraduate entrance examination, but they didn't want to think about whether their children had the strength and ability. Later, I had no choice but to promise first. In order to prove my determination, I asked my family for two years to buy the online class of New Oriental. I remember that the online class seller asked me if I wanted to take the exam. I didn't have any goals at that time, but I just said, Let's learn first.

The summer vacation is coming soon. If I didn't take the postgraduate entrance examination, it would be the last summer vacation in my life. At that time, our teacher said that you should start to set your goals and prepare for the professional courses in the target colleges. I was thinking at that time that I couldn't stay in Shandong all my life, and I wanted to go out. Although I didn't expect much, what if, in view of my own strength, I chose Guidian as the target college, and I didn't have much experience at that time, so I bought a professional course material of Guidian on Taobao, which cost me nearly 3 yuan, but it was useless and I graduated. I don't know what happened that year. Guidian's enrollment brochure was very late, and it was only at the end of September that the exam outline was issued, and suddenly I changed my professional courses. I looked at the enrollment professional catalogue three times at that time, and I really didn't believe my eyes. I don't know why, but the professional courses in that year were different, and I changed them back the next year.

I remember that there were still more than 8 days before the postgraduate entrance examination. At this time, I was almost hopeless, but I felt that I had spent all my money and didn't want to give up. So I spent the whole October looking for a school and tried to learn several specialized courses. When I started to register, I remembered that one of my classmates was studying in a double-non-school in Qingdao, so I contacted him and reported directly to his school. But after studying for a period of time, I found that I couldn't learn, so I had no choice but to consider changing schools. Occasionally, I saw the professional course examination questions of another double-non-school in Qingdao, and found that it was quite simple for me, so about a week before the registration system was closed, I changed to the school I am studying now.

I don't know if I was lucky. My math score happened to be the national line of that year. I was caught in an epidemic and caught up with the enrollment expansion, so I went ashore in a fog. When others saw the admission results, they were happy, but I was sad. Seeing the research direction of a bunch of tutors, none of them had heard of it, and none of them wanted to do it. When choosing tutors at the beginning of school, there was no double election meeting. I was almost sold as a free labor force, and my classmates around me were already working, and they were still spending their parents' money. I was in my twenties and had no financial resources. The gap just came out.

Anyway, it's all kinds of maladjustment. I even retaken my English. Coupled with all kinds of disappointments, I was seriously depressed in the first semester. At that time, I wondered every day why I had to work hard for the postgraduate entrance examination, why I couldn't get over it, and I didn't have an answer for a long time. After a winter vacation, I slowly adjusted. In the second semester, I went to see the job fair of the school, and found that my direction is really difficult to find a job, because graduate students depend on your research direction, not just your major.

In fact, the higher you go, the narrower you get. Undergraduate students only look at majors, while graduate students look at your direction. So now I have made many of my possibilities impossible, but I can't help it. I chose my own way. Even if I regret it and cry, I will walk him through until graduation, which is really a relief.