I am a science and engineering student in undergraduate, this year enrolled in Zhejiang University, School of Economics, Master of Economics, specializing in the direction of Western economics. The initial test score of 430 points, ranked second in the master's degree, of which 81 points in politics, 74 points in English I, 135 points in math III, 801 Economics Comprehensive 140 points (professional first). Finally, I was admitted to the first volunteer, and the preparation time was about 4 months.

It is undeniable that it is getting more and more difficult to study now, so as a cross-candidate, as detailed as possible, the examination (preparation for the preliminary examination) process of the experience and feelings organized here, I hope to be able to give a little tangible help to those who come later.

On choosing a school and a major

My undergraduate degree is further up the Qingbei and East China five schools, so basically in these institutions to choose. Zhejiang University belongs to one of the five schools in East China and is a comprehensive university. In terms of overall ranking, ZJU is firmly in the top five in the country. Due to sufficient funding and being located in the human paradise of Hangzhou, it has often been in the top three in recent years, and is an extremely strong university. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

Institutional information

The choice of institution was not very difficult for me. Because my undergraduate further up is Qingbei and East China five schools. I'm a bit of a homebody, and at the same time ZJU is backed by the largest private economic province with its own unique advantages, and then combined with my own ideals and career planning, I chose to take the exam back to Zhejiang.

Before the formal preparation

After graduating from my undergraduate college in July, I chose to go home to study. Because of the problems at home, coupled with too much procrastination, the two months of summer vacation, which is called the "golden period of preparation", were wasted. This precious two months was used to slowly find the preparation state, the result is that in addition to the whole book of math roughly did once, Xiao 1000 questions did once, other things did not do.

But, because of their own procrastination and squandered precious time is no way things, rather than regret why they still do not cherish the opportunity of this year, it is better to immediately stop thinking nonsense, rapid action.

Major

I crossed over from a traditional engineering degree to economics, and I didn't take a single economics course (even electives) in my undergraduate program. I was surprised that I was able to study from scratch and score 140 points in more than four months, making me the number one in my major. In addition to luck and ZJU 801 Economics Comprehensive, which is really easier than other colleges and universities of the same level, I think the experience of the major course is still worth sharing with you.

The bibliography

Referring to the Zhejiang University "801 economics synthesis" syllabus designated bibliography:

①"Principles of economics: microeconomics fascicle" (7th ed.) (U.S.) Mancun, Peking University Press

②"Principles of economics: macroeconomics fascicle" (7th ed.) (U.S.) Mancun, Peking University Press

②"Macroeconomic principles: macroeconomic principles: macroeconomics fascicle" (7th ed.) (Peking University Press) Economics (7th edition) (U.S.) Mancun, Peking University Press

③ Microeconomics Tutorial, Li Jianqin, Shi Jinchuan edited, Zhejiang University Press

④ Macroeconomics Tutorial, Ye Hang, He Zhanyong, Li Jianqin, edited by Zhejiang University Press

Preparation process

My study of the professional course is only full of The first is the first time I've ever been in a position to do this. Professional course is worth 150 points (some majors are 300 points), please make sure you pay attention to the professional course! If you don't have the time, you should pass your political science and English classes, and make sure you have enough time for your major.

Political experience

Political foundation

I am a thorough science and engineering student, the political foundation is almost zero, before the examination of the politics of this course is completely unaware, only heard that you need to memorize a large number of content, so at first the course is relatively fearful. Because the economics major also has a lot of content to memorize, in order to stagger to share the pressure of the later stage, politics and math are the first two courses I contacted. After returning home in July, I first flipped through a copy of Xiao Xiu Rong's Politics Essentials, which was used by the previous year's senior, and I probably understood the content of the exam, so my fear of politics dissipated, and I got a good grade on the exam.

My feelings about preparing for politics are: for science and engineering students or students who are very unfamiliar with politics before, it takes a long time to familiarize themselves with the state and adapt to the content of its minutiae, but compared to other subjects, the threshold is low, the difficulty is small, therefore, in the case of the conditions, the politics should be started as early as possible (only to prepare for the multiple choice questions, the big questions less than December do not need to look at).

Teaching materials used/online classes

Teaching materials

"Xiao Xiurong Knowledge Points Essentials"

"Xiao Xiurong 1000 Questions"

"Legs Sisters Sprint Memorization Handbook"

"Xiao Si" "Xiao VIII" "Legs IV" "Xu VIII" (simulation paper)

Brush the program

online classes

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Xu Tao Ma Yuan part of the course

Leg sister multiple choice skills class

Leg sister late explanation of the analysis of the writing/analysis of the questions with the back of the course (did not watch it all)

Preparation process

Examination of the politics of the three major master teacher Xiao Xiu Rong, leg sister, Xu Tao is very good, any one of them can be chosen, there is no need to buy the books of the three teachers at the same time.

As mentioned earlier, for each subject I will choose 1-2 books as the backbone for repeated review, and then depending on the weak and difficult parts to make targeted additions. For politics, my preliminary backbone part is "Xiao Xiurong knowledge point essence of practice" plus "Xiao Xiurong 1000 questions". Xiao Xiurong Knowledge Points Lecture and Practice" is actually a political book, leg sister and Xu Tao have the corresponding book, the content is almost the same, mainly for learning to flip through the reference, do not need to look carefully, because out of the title to see can not be remembered; "Xiao Xiu Rong 1000 questions" is equivalent to the common questions question bank, the leg sister of the "70 points in 30 days", Xu Tao's "excellent question bank" is also the nature of the same, the choice of any one teacher's topic book will be enough to use.

Because I had no contact with the subject at all before, I started in July. It has been proved that the political and early start can reduce the late great pressure, because the political test points are not difficult but a lot of, to the late start will be greatly depleted energy. Politics want to get a high score must be sure to pay attention to multiple-choice questions, because the analytical questions answered good and bad score difference is generally not more than five points. Before December, learning politics should put all the energy on multiple-choice questions, big questions can be said to look at is a waste of time. Because the political examination paper is only finalized in early December, any big question topic seen before then is almost impossible to become a real question.

English I Experience

English Fundamentals

English I was the least well-prepared subject, and it was also a headache for me. I gave myself an estimated score of 80 and my final score was 74. My foundation is not good, because of laziness, undergraduate only in the freshman year through the fourth level, even the sixth level did not pass, until the senior year is also eating the old college entrance exams. In fact, English is a subject that requires perseverance, if you can overcome inertia and fear, the score will not be bad. It is because of the fear of difficulty, English is the subject that I invested the least amount of time, so it makes sense that my score is low. I can't talk much about my experience, but I can only write briefly about the process of breaking through a few bottlenecks in my preparation for the exam.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary review can be said to be throughout the entire process of the examination, but the systematic review of the early foundation stage is very important. There are only so many words in the vocabulary, if you can take the past 20 years of questions for vocabulary slicing, you can find out how often each word occurs, excluding some a/the and other basic vocabulary, the word frequency of each word will be very clear.

When we memorize vocabulary, we certainly can not memorize, so only memorized, forgotten, can be combined with the root word affix for effective review, the effect is better. Vocabulary book I recommend 2 books, are in accordance with the word frequency for layout.

One is Zhu Wei's "Loves Practicing Words", which has accompanying explanatory videos (previous version). In fact, the most central one is his video, ignore the tawdry behavior shown in his video, and follow the whole thing, and benefit a lot. If the time is really insufficient, you can put the high-frequency vocabulary part of the system to learn and memorize, this set of vocabulary book is the best is in accordance with the frequency of the word, with the video of the root word vocabulary memorization, the effect is very good.

Another book is "The Secret of Words", which is used by my best friend, who memorized it about six or seven times, repeating it over and over again, and sometimes brushing it up in between meals.

Summary: As long as you choose a vocabulary book that suits you and you can stick to it, the key to memorizing is repetition. I don't think it's necessary to listen to a vocabulary course, but if you have enough time, you can memorize it in between classes or during breaks, which is not a bad idea.

Long difficult sentences & grammar

My general advice is to review the long difficult sentences must watch the video and read the book, so that the review will be half the effort, someone to teach you the skills, teach you grammar, teach you how to slice and dice, it is really very important. Standing on the shoulders of giants and then being able to think independently for a bit is definitely the best result.

The two most difficult parts of the English exam are mainly vocabulary and reading, a need for long-term persistence, a need for vocabulary as a foundation, plus grammar to crack the long difficult sentences. If the foundation of English is average and there is enough time, you can spend some time to make up the grammar, if the foundation is quite good, you can go straight to the long difficult sentences.

June-August focus on breakthrough reading, this is the top priority, be sure to pay attention to reading skills video and summarize their own, for some of the common answer skills, reading skills and masking skills to do a good job of summarizing.

Reading I use are Zhang Jian's yellow book. I used two sets of this book to prepare for the exam, because I need to be able to read through the questions.

For the English teacher to choose this

Tang Chi

Tang Chi teacher's course overall logic meticulous, full of dry goods, with his "logic of reading", can not say invincible, but at least very strong, it is very easy to understand that the essence of the examination of the reading of the logic of the study, I was reading the whole with the Tang Chi. The main focus of Tang Chi's reading class is on paragraph logic and reading skills, many people listen to his class, the effect is still very good, after all, from the real problem to start, and take a practical review of the route to

Shang Zhi

In my last session of a senior in the use of Shang Zhi's course, I can not stand his voice, it is said to be the lecture to the voice of the hoarse, I do not know whether it is true or not.

This stage of attention do not figure fast, must be stable, many times slow is fast ah. At the same time, September should also begin to prepare for the examination of the composition, because by the time of September, many people's review process to join the examination of the political course, English review time will be compressed.

This stage should pay attention to use the second set of questions, because the first we will do the reading when a lot of questions will be wasted, so it is necessary to buy a blank set of the whole set of papers for simulation practice. The action to pay particular attention to at this time is to chew and chew before absorbing. This time to pay attention to do some other question types of summary, you can properly watch the other question types of skills video, summarize the law.

Here focus on the essay, because this stage does need to look at the essay. The general essay is from September-October to start memorizing a template, sentence patterns, etc., and then begin to organize their own preparation templates.

Whether you need to organize the template thing, may be a lot of English better people will not care, but my personal advice is: if you are not sure of the English test 70 points +, then please polish a good several templates, at least you can let you in the test on the target, not to panic, according to different types of organizing a number of templates, templates do not necessarily have to be all common, applicable to a specific small range of templates is also very beautiful.

Recommended books: Wang Jiangtao's "Exam English High Score Writing"

His "Exam English High Score Writing" can be said to be a very high-quality book, focusing on memorization and writing, memorization and then imitation writing, the group of their own templates. In addition, Mr. Wang Jiangtao's composition text posting is very good, I hope that everyone should pay attention to this point, especially in English and politics this kind of some places can be subjective scoring, handwriting neat is also an advantage.

Of course there are others, depending on their own preferences, such as Eddie Pan and Liu Xiaoyan. I've seen Mr. Eddie Pan's "nine-panel" writing structure, each essay is divided into three paragraphs and nine parts, the framework is clear, hierarchical, very suitable for the group handwriting template. Eddie Pan's writing ideas can be echoed with the head of the road, the composition must group their own templates, very important, of course, the template is not necessarily a, can be divided into types of groups N. Advantages of Mr. Liu Xiaoyan's class: synonymous sentence variation + sentence grammar, you can organize your own template according to Mr. Liu's explanation. Disadvantages: too many high-level sentences, I personally feel that the whole is high-level sentences will appear to be too strong template breath, high scores are actually not very good.

November-December: practice exams, mastering the examination room mentality

In fact, the practice test papers used in the study sprint is not much, and generally do not recommend the use of the market simulation paper, because the difference between the real problem may be more, the best way is to stay 1-2 years of the real problem for the final simulation, simulation, carefully analyze the test paper.

Math 3 experience

Preparation process

I purchased fewer math reference books than most students. A book as the backbone of review, a "Zhang Yu line generation 9 lectures" as a supplement, plus test papers: questions + Li Lin 6 + Li Lin 4 + Zhang Yu 4. The reason why I did not buy a lot of information, in that I do not advocate the sea of questions, but I insist on a classic problem repeatedly do more times, more summarized. Because math is a subject that often appears "brain and eyes learn, hand learn not", the two of the same type of classic questions to do 5 times, until understand the angle of the question, the logic of the question, the answer to write, absolutely than to do it again 10 of the same type of questions to gain big.

My whole process of reviewing math 3 revolves around one core goal: mastering the fixed practice of question types. The main reason why I want to get a high score in math than the high school math to get a high score is a lot easier is that: the high school math to master the skills more than the math, there are a lot of topics in the form of a lot of changes, and the study of math is basically a fixed type of questions, changes are very small, and even the form of the question is fixed. As long as you can master the practice and principles of regular questions, you can get a good score.

Therefore, my general idea of review is: to determine a good question bank → the first time to do the question → screening wrong questions, classification → the second time to do the first time in the wrong questions → screening repeat wrong questions, classification → repeated wrong questions repeatedly practiced until the examination. Do not easily open a new question, only do the most beginning to determine a good question bank.

Because I have a certain foundation, plus it was already July when I started, so I bought the whole book directly. Lee Jung Won's Review Book is the full book chosen by many students who are taking the prestigious exams, and this is the one I chose. This book is of high quality, and there are many people who say that it is more difficult, according to my experience, the high math part and the probability theory part are about the same as the other full books, and only the linear algebra part is more difficult, so I switched this part to "Zhang Yu's Linear Algebra 9 Lectures" instead.

The whole book of Li Zheng Yuan has about 750 questions, about 400 in high math, 200 in linear algebra (didn't do it), and about 150 in probability theory. "Zhang Yu Nine Lectures on Linear Generation" has about 300 questions. I spent 60 days (July and August) brushing up the first time, reading the basics in the book and doing the questions against the answers in the book.

December reserved all the time for question papers. I chose three sets of papers:

Zhang Yu 4 sets of papers+Li Lin 6 sets of papers+Li Lin 4 sets of papers

Of these, Li Lin 4 was used for full simulation. Zhang Yu 4 + Li Lin 6 these 10 papers I still do as practice questions, three rounds in 20 days, to maximize the use of the last period of time to fill the holes. The specific arrangement is as follows:

The first round, a paper a day, *** 10 days, the process of the slightest upset is regarded as a wrong question, and marking;

The second round, independently and completely wrong questions, repeatedly write the steps, to be able to see the question can think of the corresponding ideas, complete write the steps of the degree of 5 days;

The third round, the question paper, the whole book, the questions on the last The third round, the combination of the paper, the whole book, the last questions left on the examination paper, the repeated mistakes in the combination of the questions, if necessary, write again, for the last recollection, the last round of cleanup.

So, even though I didn't do much in the papers, I maximized the value of each paper - every question I usually asked was a practice question and a tool used to fill in the gaps, except for the one in the exam room.

Lastly, I would like to say some words to you, such words can actually be seen in many places, but some really only experienced to y understand. Regardless, there are a few words from the bottom of my heart that I would like to exhort, and these can be said to be the most important thing that I was able to get to shore.

Don't stay up all night, you really need to get enough sleep; do your best to keep a calm, positive, peaceful, and pleasant mindset to study; once you start preparing for the exam, forget about your so-called "disadvantages"; and lastly, stay away from electronic products, not not use them at all, but I hope that you will be able to control the length of time that you use them, and never get addicted to them! Wish you all a bright future.