The average number of selected candidates for adjustment is 400+.
This is the list of results of this year's adjustment re-examination of the College of Liberal Arts of Fujian Normal University, as you can see, all the seed players with more than 400 points in the preliminary examination, only 8 of the 66 admitted students scored in the 390-400 score of the preliminary examination. The highest score is 427 and the lowest score is 391.
Fujian Normal University College of Liberal Arts 2024 Master's Enrollment Adjustment Re-examination Results Announced (Page 1)
And this Rashomon that happened in the blessed master is an example, not an exception.
Postgraduate examination adjustment, cooking oil with fire
In view of exploring the real situation of this year's postgraduate entrance examination, Kang Shishi interviewed his friend Mr. Meng, who served as a graduate tutor in the design discipline of a double-first-class university in northern China, not 211, but the art discipline was better:
"When the transfer was first opened, a student came to contact us, with a total score of 403, 76 in English, and won a lot of design awards and papers. I was surprised when I saw it, it was in very good condition. The eight major art schools of the undergraduate, the background is good, and the adjustment is actually low. But the child looked a little unconfident, and asked the teacher if you think I can do this, I should have been rejected by other schools. Later, we were recorded after passing the re-examination.
At the end of the adjustment, when the school checked the information, it was found that such high-scoring students were not the only ones, and this year's high-score adjustment situation has reached the highest level in previous years, so the standard for adjustment screening has also increased. ”
Q: Is it because of the "high score trap" caused by the excessive involution of this year's postgraduate entrance examination competition?
Teacher Meng thought for a moment and replied, "There are many reasons. This is one of them, and the other is because the proportion of top students who have stayed in China for graduate school has increased in the past two years, and there are more and more people who can get high scores, and more and more people can score in World War II and World War III. ”
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Although Mr. Meng's opinion is a family statement, it is difficult to confirm it with data. However, as far as Kang Shishi's years of experience in studying abroad and Baoyan education and training are concerned, such a trend does occur.
Take the data of undergraduate graduates of Tongji University in the past ten years as an example:
Source: Tongji University
From the class of 2014 to the class of 2023, in the past ten years, in fact, the overall admission rate of Tongji undergraduate students has not changed significantly. In 2016, it was 57%, and in 2022, it was still 57%, but last year there was indeed a small increase, rising to 62%, but it was not a big problem.
For university graduates such as Ji and Tsinghua University, in fact, they have much less trouble than others in terms of employment. Although the current job market is a bit unreasonable, you have to card your first academic background, whether you are a graduate student, and whether you have internship experience, but it is still very tolerant of top university students.
More than half of Tongji's graduates have chosen to be employed in "dispatch", which is widely used in government units, enterprise units, state-owned enterprises and large private enterprises, which are relatively difficult to enter. The directional selection that students are concerned about also belongs to "dispatch". In layman's terms, it means that "there are many opportunities to enter the program, and there is no need to rely on graduate school entrance examinations for employment".
Source: Tongji University's 2023 graduate scale, structure, graduation destination implementation rate (employment rate), and employment flow
The vast majority of the remaining half of the students have gone on to higher education.
However, although the overall admission rate of Tongji has not changed much, the choice of students has changed greatly in terms of whether they choose to stay in China for graduate school or study abroad for graduate school.
Source: Tongji University
Ten years ago, the percentage of students who chose to study abroad was 42.85%, and since then it has decreased year by year, and has plummeted to 21.91% after three years of the epidemic. Only the class of 2023, they have just come out of the haze of the epidemic and experienced a small wave of rebound, rising to 28.30%, but the overall trend is still downward.
Similarly, the same is true for leading universities such as Tsinghua University and Peking University:
Tsinghua University 65.6% choose to study in China Source: Tsinghua University's 2022 Graduate Employment Quality Report
Peking University 63.89% choose to study in China Source: Peking University Undergraduate Teaching Quality Report (2022-2023 academic year)
This data is quite scary. I'm afraid that it's not the decrease in the number of students studying abroad, but that these students from prestigious schools, these students from prestigious schools who are especially good at exams, have poured directly into the domestic graduate examination room to participate in the war without turning their heads on the accelerator.
Your competitors are getting better and better every year.
400 points, tear the fig leaf of the inner volume of the postgraduate entrance examination
Through long-term observation of 4,500 students and 10 years of follow-up visits, she explored the true appearance of students behind the popular Facebook labels such as "Double Non University" and "Second College", and wrote books such as "My Second Student" and "Home Visit".
From Mr. Huang Deng's book and speech, there are some words that are deeply moving.
At first, before writing the book, Huang Deng, like many popular opinions, felt that the reason why these children were able to enter the second school was because they did not study hard.
"In 2005, when I joined Guangdong F College as a teacher, the university had already expanded its enrollment. A chain of discrimination in higher education is clear. This discrimination gradually takes on a kind of moral criticism and arrogance. I have the illusion that it is much easier for students to get into universities than I was at that time, and I don't have to have to study hard to get into two colleges. ”
Sanlian Life Weekly "Home Visits to Two Students, My Subverted Cognition"
But the idea is arrogant after all. The student family living in Guangdong is not like in the movie, one person has a plate of keychain, eats morning tea slowly at 10 o'clock in the morning, and plays mahjong in the afternoon to collect rent. There are very, very many families in Guangdong.
When Huang Deng followed the students into their hometown in the mountains, looking at the mountain roads covered with mud and gravel, the crowded classrooms in the townships, and the 200 ballpoint pens that the students had carefully preserved in their third year of high school, she felt their determination to study hard. With few college students in the village, parents are proud to think that their children-
"I was admitted to a second-class college, which is amazing"
Source: Huang Deng's interview on the Thirteenth Invitation Program
However, individual satisfaction is not representative of the group after all, and even on the campuses of Guangdong, the school still instills students with one-dimensional evaluation criteria such as "working and settling in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou" and "whether it is 985 or 211".
Anxiety is not limited to secondary students.
In January 2024, Huang Deng and media personality Bai Yansong conducted an interview in Beijing, with students from Shuangnon University, as well as students from Tsinghua University, Peking University, Renmin University, Zhongshan and other top 20 universities in China. But the amazing thing is that whether it is a student from a "good school" or a student from a "bad school", everyone's anxiety can actually resonate:
Huang Lan also found that the conflicts faced by young people are isomorphic, and students in so-called key universities are even more anxious, "They are always expected, they have always been in a good evaluation system, and they are always in front, so when the truth of society is revealed, those children are actually quite difficult." ”
Southern Weekly, "Yellow Light: After Seeing the Second Student, Their Origin and Exit"
Test-oriented education seems to be maintaining a semblance of fairness in an extremely attritional way. Students seem to be like a perpetual motion machine, studying in college, but they can't escape the state of brushing questions and comparing grades in the third year of high school.
However, does light outweigh grades?
There are two stages of the postgraduate entrance examination, one preliminary examination and one re-examination. The former is seeking fairness in the test, and the latter is in the selection of differences. If the preliminary examination for graduate school is like the college entrance examination, justice is judged by scores. The postgraduate entrance examination is like a corporate job search, it is essentially a "competition" with other people. It's not that you can get as much as you work hard, but it depends on whether you have the talent and advantages that can beat your competitors.
Some time ago, the hotly discussed first place in the preliminary examination for graduate school entrance examination was still brushed Source: Sina Weibo
"When you've come to the point of dispensing, I advise you not to get your hopes up. To be honest, I think the students who can adjust are very good. You know that some schools specialize in accepting 'unsuccessful students' from Tsinghua University and Peking University, right? ”
Zheng Yan (pseudonym), a friend of Kang Shishi, a doctoral student at a 211 University of Science and Technology, assists her supervisor in recruiting new students every year, and shares:
"It's not about being better in the second year than in the first year. I'll give you an example, when you enter the re-examination stage, this teacher will look at it. For example, if you take a science experiment, one person takes a 399 test, and one person takes a 386 test, but the person with 399 has never done an experiment, and the person with 386 has a strong experimental experience, so does the 13 points they miss matter at this time? To put it mildly, I had the worst personal advantage when I applied for graduate school, double non-undergraduate, or non-fresh graduate, but in the end, my supervisor only recruited me, and he bluntly said that it was, and others were not very good. ”
Counterattack is a big bet
"Because it's so volatile now, everybody is thinking about sunk costs. "Because I want to know why the rate of top students choosing to go abroad has decreased, I and the first two years in H· Student X, who was the seeded player of our faculty team at that time, agreed that he would definitely be able to climb the vine and apply for Harvard, but finally chose the domestic security research.
"Maybe I don't have enough ambitions, Mr. Kang, haha, I think it's already very good to turn in, and I feel that this temptation is too great when I can record it. I could have given up on applying to study abroad, but what if? There is also the willingness of my parents, and between seeking stability and taking risks, we chose to seek stability. ”
It really takes a lot of courage to give up Baoyan Source: Xiaohongshu @ Denim's life fragments
"Stability", I personally think, is the common pursuit of college students in recent years. Otherwise, the popularity of public examinations, compilation examinations, and postgraduate examinations cannot intensify in the past four years.
So next, Kang Shishi is going to say something "unpleasant".
Now there are many students who choose to work in World War II and World War III. After graduation, I did not participate in employment for half a year or a year and a half. We will not mention the rational should or should not, but only talk about the dilemma that everyone is facing at present: Is it necessary for us to fight World War II? Can we succeed in World War II? What else can we do to get ashore safely?
First of all, can World War II succeed? In fact, 60 to 70 percent of the enrollment places in the relatively good universities are almost fixed. More than half of them were given to Baoyan and Qiangji. Among this batch of graduate students, some of them were originally top students in the 985 and 211 classes, but because the most powerful group of people didn't go to study abroad, they forcibly squeezed out their research quota and had to fight for graduate school. There are more than 200 people in an examination room, and they are competing for 6 or 7 admission places in this major.
Therefore, World War II students, you originally hung a "failed once" debuff, and wanted to go ashore, one is to fight for high scores, and the other is to roll a portfolio, award papers, scientific research papers, interview skills. At the same time, you must also overcome laziness and self-discipline to study, every day 8 in the morning and 11 in the evening, if the students do not have this awareness, persuade you to give up.
Source: Japanese drama "Dragon Sakura 2"
To put it bluntly, I recommend that you go straight to employment.
There are always students who say that if they want to go to graduate school, they want to have a degree, be able to enter a better company, and get a higher salary. But the problem is that if you want to get into a good company, it has more to do with whether you have a bachelor's degree or a master's degree, but whether your school is 985 or 211. It's a bit harsh, but realistic.
That's where the employment happens. Anyone who has worked knows that the memorization of academic qualifications can basically affect two things, one is your first job, and the other is the starting salary. But when you're looking for a second job, it's about your work, your design skills, your management skills, and your emotional intelligence, and how well you did in your first job. Whether it's a bachelor's degree or a master's degree can't decide whether this person can draw and model or not, you can take out a listed commercial project, and the boss still wants you. As the working years go on, everyone can gradually find that how much money you can earn has nothing to do with your own academic qualifications.
As for the starting salary, if calculated according to the cost of time, the salary gap between undergraduate students who have worked for three years and graduate students who have just graduated is not large:
Source: The Paper
The only thing that is more affected is the entry into the establishment, after all, some establishments require a postgraduate degree. However, who says that you can't go to graduate school after working? In fact, graduate supervisors at colleges and universities may prefer students with work experience.
First, you have business experience, and you don't need to be taught too much by your supervisor to have a keen sense of design, after all, the school-enterprise cooperation projects you were exposed to during your graduate studies are really going to be sold in the market. Second, the tutor doesn't have to worry too much about the student's social problems, after all, they all say "work for a year, grow ten years old", this student can be relieved.
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So if the students' home conditions are not bad, there is another way that is highly recommended for everyone to go, that is, to study abroad.
After all, foreign colleges and universities are application system, not examination system. It's only about your portfolio, resume, and other personal abilities. That's the advantage of studying abroad.
Although the Internet always uses "water master" to describe those universities abroad that are easy to apply for in the short term. However, from the perspective of art design, it was originally foreign design that has been developed for a longer time, the discipline is newer, and the strength is stronger. If we were talking about mechanical, engineering, physics and other high-tech majors today, Kang Shishi would definitely not dare to be so ashamed, but as everyone knows, the development of human art history is divided into two sides: China and the West, but the history of design is really faster in the West.
What's more, go out and have a look, don't always live in a couple, people can grow faster.
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Finally, I ended with a small paragraph I saw on the Internet.
A classmate who failed the graduate school entrance examination shared her preparation experience on the Internet, and netizens in the comment area comforted her and gave her World War II preparation experience. A few days later, the girl appeared in the comment section and said easily:
"It's a shame, but I decided to move forward in life. ”
"Now I can catch up with the tail of spring recruitment and look for a job, God told me not to suffer from poverty for another three years!"
If you are interested in studying abroad, or have more questions about postgraduate entrance examinations, art design, portfolio creation, and Shenbo, please send a private message to Kang Shishi.