How about asking the college counselor?

The strengthening of postgraduate entrance examinations in colleges and universities plays an important role and significance in easing the employment pressure of college students, promoting high-quality employment of college students, and promoting self-growth of college students. As the organizers, implementers and guides of the daily ideological and political education and management of college students, counselors have naturally become the vanguard in the advancement of postgraduate entrance examinations. The author believes that in order to do a good job in postgraduate entrance examinations, counselors should think about and pay attention to the following aspects.

1. Establish a correct view of postgraduate entrance examination work. First, correctly understand the purpose and significance of postgraduate entrance examination work. Today's society is a society in need of talents, and the employment situation is becoming increasingly severe. The level of a student's personal academic qualifications largely determines the size of the student's future development space. As a college counselor, we should upgrade the postgraduate entrance examination work to the level of adapting to the needs of the social talent market, high-quality employment of college students, and self-development of college students. Only in this way can we maintain a correct mentality for the postgraduate entrance examination, pay attention to the postgraduate entrance examination work, and truly do a good job in the postgraduate entrance examination work.

Secondly, integrate the student-oriented concept into the postgraduate entrance examination work and pay attention to love and dedication. For counselors, postgraduate entrance examination work is not only a task, but also a responsibility, and it is also a manifestation of dedication and love to students. It is necessary to abandon the view of blindly pursuing the postgraduate entrance examination registration rate, online rate, and admission rate in the postgraduate entrance examination work, and avoid doing some face projects and image projects in order to complete the postgraduate entrance examination work tasks; it is necessary to combine the postgraduate entrance examination work with students' personal development, and start from caring about the healthy growth of students. From the perspective of success, we emphasize the voluntary principle of postgraduate entrance examinations and focus on guidance and encouragement.

Third, starting from life goals and ideals, inspire students to invest in the postgraduate entrance examination. As a college counselor, we should not only be good at understanding and grasping students' current life goals and ideal status quo through students' daily study and life, but also be good at using various working methods and methods to inspire students to clarify their life goals and establish lofty ideals. Specific to the postgraduate entrance examination work, it is necessary to combine the students' professional characteristics, employment situation, and future social talent demand to let students understand the role and significance of postgraduate entrance examinations in realizing their life goals and ideals, thereby motivating students to aspire to take the postgraduate entrance examinations.

2. Pay attention to cultivating the awareness of postgraduate entrance examination. The university stage is an important period when college students’ outlook on life, values ??and world view tend to be formed. During this period, can counselors integrate the cultivation of awareness of postgraduate entrance examination and regard the postgraduate entrance examination as a One of the life goals of college students, it not only plays an important role in the personal development of college students, but also can better promote the postgraduate entrance examination work. Counselors can start from the following two aspects to cultivate college students’ awareness of postgraduate entrance examinations.

On the one hand, on the basis of accurately grasping the psychological state of college students before and after entering university, we should cultivate their awareness of postgraduate entrance examinations as early as possible. Before entering college, most of their lives were from school to school, and most of their time was spent "sweating" around the college entrance examination baton. Whether they could obtain good college entrance examination scores and enter an ideal university was their main concern at that time. primary goals and ideals. After entering college, the goals in middle school have become a thing of the past, and new life goals and ideals have not yet taken shape. Therefore, there is a temporary vacuum zone of life goals and ideals. In addition, the university learning environment and management methods are also significantly different from those before. Differences, if necessary guidance is lacking, will result in some college students being unable to grow up healthily due to unclear life goals and ideals. This is not only the significance of counselors as mentors in college students’ lives, but also reflects the heavy responsibility of counselors. Combined with the postgraduate entrance examination work, when counselors educate college students about their concepts and beliefs, they can guide them to take the postgraduate entrance examination as one of their life goals and cultivate their awareness of the postgraduate entrance examination as early as possible.

On the other hand, from the perspective of personal development of college students, we can stimulate students' interest in the postgraduate entrance examination and cultivate their awareness of the postgraduate entrance examination. College students are full of hope for the future and often have high expectations for college study, life, emotions and future employment. When expectations are too high and reality fails to meet psychological expectations, they are prone to psychological fluctuations and even self-destruction. In order to prevent this situation from happening, it is also one of the counselors' responsibilities to guide students to set a more realistic goal for themselves. Further study through postgraduate entrance examinations is undoubtedly one of the practical goals. Counselors can provide ideological education guidance through individual talks, theme class exchanges, expert lectures and other methods, combined with the current social talent demand and employment situation, so that students can Gradually realize the importance of the postgraduate entrance examination for your future employment, personal future, and career development, thereby helping to cultivate awareness of the postgraduate entrance examination.

3. Efforts to create an atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination. Every college student who can squeeze through the single-plank bridge of the college entrance examination and enter the university has the ability to pass the postgraduate entrance examination. In the postgraduate entrance examination work, as long as the counselor can use more brains and adopt practical methods , creating a good atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination will attract more and more college students to aspire and devote themselves to the postgraduate entrance examination.

First of all, the guidance of the atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination. Strengthen the publicity and guidance of the postgraduate entrance examination to let students know the role of the postgraduate entrance examination in their future development, so as to attract more students to join the postgraduate entrance examination team. Every college student has good expectations for the future. When they truly realize the role of the postgraduate entrance examination in cultivating their abilities and career development, they will naturally consider taking the postgraduate entrance examination. In addition, you can also organize postgraduate entrance examination exchange symposiums, invite past postgraduate entrance examination students to talk about their postgraduate entrance examination experience, hold postgraduate entrance examination lectures taught by experts, and other activities to make students feel infected and inspired, so that they can aspire to take the postgraduate entrance examination.

Secondly, the guidance of a positive test preparation atmosphere. Organize and convene mobilization meetings for the postgraduate entrance examination in a timely manner, hold postgraduate entrance examination special posters, hang postgraduate entrance examination banners and encouraging slogans, and create an atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination. Use class meetings and other occasions to praise and encourage the typical examples of students in the class who are actively preparing for the exam, and use the role of demonstration to attract more students to devote themselves to the postgraduate entrance exam.

Third, guidance on the atmosphere for postgraduate entrance examination registration. Timely convey to students various information about postgraduate entrance examinations, consciously publicize students' application status, and at the same time have a deep understanding of each student's attitude towards postgraduate entrance examinations, conduct individual heart-to-heart conversations, and encourage some students who do not plan to take the postgraduate entrance examinations or lack confidence in the postgraduate entrance examinations to be affected and join In the postgraduate entrance examination team.

In addition, when creating an atmosphere for the postgraduate entrance examination and publicizing and guiding students to take the postgraduate entrance examination, we must pay attention to the working methods and methods, think about the students in everything, have a student-oriented concept, and avoid making the postgraduate entrance examination work one-sided and for the sake of students. Complete the postgraduate entrance examination tasks regardless of the actual situation of the students, and use language and methods such as coercion and orders that make students disgusted.

4. Actively serve postgraduate entrance examination students. Whether the school's postgraduate entrance examination work can truly be implemented and produce actual results, from the counselor's perspective, it is more necessary for counselors to have a concept of actively serving postgraduate entrance examination students. , specifically, it is postgraduate entrance examination information services and postgraduate entrance examination student psychological services.

The service of postgraduate entrance examination information means that counselors should try their best to understand and collect and organize the information and materials in every link of the postgraduate entrance examination, and publicize and convey it to students in a timely manner. Such as professional information, admissions school information, tutor information, application information, re-examination information, etc. This requires counselors to spend a lot of time and energy, but it also saves a lot of time and energy for postgraduate entrance examination students, allowing them to concentrate more on preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination. For example, before applying for the exam, we should promptly inform the postgraduate entrance examination students of the application requirements and issues that need to be paid attention to when applying for the exam; after the exam, we should timely grasp the students' test scores, urge online students to prepare for the re-examination, and provide targeted re-examination guidance; after the score line is announced, collect The adjustment information is conveyed to students who have been transferred or failed in the first re-examination, and they are instructed on how to make adjustments.

The psychological service for postgraduate entrance examination students is to understand the problems and difficulties existing among students taking the postgraduate entrance examination, to understand the psychological changes of students during the postgraduate entrance examination process, and to provide timely guidance when problems are discovered. The first is the review and examination preparation stage. In view of the lack of confidence, excessive pressure, irregular study and life, improper learning methods and other phenomena of some students, psychological counseling is provided to guide them to learn to adjust themselves and enter the review and examination preparation state as soon as possible; second, after the postgraduate entrance examination scores are released, Talk in a timely manner with some students whose test scores have not reached their expectations, eliminate their psychological burden, and guide them to maintain a sunny mentality; third, strengthen psychological guidance for students who have fallen behind or students who failed the first round of reexamination, and help them build confidence in adjustments. Don't give up casually, take the initiative to fight for opportunities.