2005 New Edition Reference Book for Postgraduate Entrance Examination English

Author: Zhang Jinxi
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Publish Date: 2004-02-01
Features: Winning the Postgraduate Entrance Exam: Full-Year Planning, Detailed Control—Professor Zhang Jinxi Discusses the Strategy for Postgraduate Entrance Exam English (Part 1) The postgraduate English exam tests students' "true skills" and "fundamental abilities." To pass the exam and achieve high scores, solid "fundamental abilities" and some "true skills" are essential. A solid "fundamental ability" means fully mastering the requirements of the postgraduate English exam for listening, speaking, reading, writing, and translation. Within a year, students must break through the vocabulary barrier, listening barrier, reading barrier, writing barrier, and translation barrier. Moreover, candidates should pay attention to the trends in English oral interviews during university interviews and pass the oral English test. How can students achieve high scores under such tight time constraints and outperform their competitors in fierce competition? I believe candidates should prepare in advance and plan the entire year; they should focus on details and control the overall situation. Generally, candidates for the postgraduate entrance exam can: break through vocabulary → comprehensive review → test their level → break through specific skills → simulate the exam hall. Candidates with solid fundamental abilities can: test their level → break through specific skills → simulate the exam hall.
From a time perspective, from February to June, students should focus on reviewing English because the postgraduate politics syllabus changes significantly every year. During this period, they should do three things: break through vocabulary, comprehensive review, and break through specific skills. Based on vocabulary breakthroughs, candidates should comprehensively review the basic requirements of the postgraduate exam. In the comprehensive review process, they should first familiarize themselves with past exam papers to understand the latest changes in postgraduate English (recommended using Renmin University Press's Comprehensive Analysis of Past Postgraduate English Exam Papers (2005 Edition)). On this basis, they should further review comprehensively by knowledge modules (recommended using Renmin University Press's New Postgraduate English Exam Reference Book (2005) and Postgraduate English Course (2005)).
After the comprehensive review stage, candidates should summarize their progress during this period and take a level test paper according to exam requirements (Renmin University Press's Postgraduate English Level Positioning Test) to identify their weak areas. If listening is weak, focus on listening (recommended using Bai Jie's edited Comprehensive Breakthrough for Postgraduate English Listening); if reading is weak, focus on reading (recommended using Guo Qingdong's edited 200 Articles for Postgraduate English Reading); if writing is weak, focus on writing (recommended using Tian Yuying's edited Comprehensive Breakthrough for Postgraduate English Writing). The same applies to other areas.
After five months of comprehensive review and targeted breakthroughs, students should take another set of level test papers to identify gaps and enroll in summer tutoring classes accordingly. This way, they will gain more from the summer tutoring.
After the tutoring, starting in September, students should enter the practical training stage. According to exam hall requirements, they should conduct comprehensive training, adapt to the exam environment, and practice listening (listening), speed (reading and cloze), and find the right feeling (to adapt to the exam atmosphere) (recommended using Renmin University Press's Postgraduate English Simulation Exam Hall). This will help them prepare thoroughly for the exam.
In summary, only with full-year planning and detailed control can students win the postgraduate entrance exam. Wishing everyone success in their endeavors.