考研热作文

The Post-graduate Craze

In recent years, more and more college students take part in the entrance exams for postgraduate schools. According to statistics, (from ), 111,421 students in Henan province took these exams this year, adding 12,045 more than last year. Why do more and more college students take these exams? The main reason are students’ desires for changing their current learning situation, expectations and effects from others, and social employment pressure.

Firstly, students take the exams to change their current learning situation. Because of their dissatisfaction with their universities’academic environment and the difficulties of transferring to another university, many students choose to take the exams to another better university. Take me for example; I am an English major at Henan Polytechnic University. English, as a liberal art at my university, is less valued than at a foreign studies university. For instance, reference books and related courses for TEM4 and TEM8 are fewer than those of other foreign studies universities. Thus, our passing rate of TEM4 last semester of my university is about 50% while Shanghai International Studies University is about 95%. So, if I want to change my learning situation and learn further about English, taking the exams to a foreign studies university is my best choice.

Secondly, students take the exams because of the expectations and effects from others. According to , more and more parents expect their children to get the three degrees which are Bachelor Degree, Master Degree, and Doctor Degree. In parents’ eyes, these three degrees are their children’s employment security and life safeguard in the future. In order to live up to their parents’expectations and lessen their parents’ anxiety, many of students take the exams. What’s more, some students take part in the exams because many of their friends take the exams. For example, Lilu, one of my friends, did not want to take the exams at first. But most of her intimates took the exams. So, naturally they were busy preparing for the exams and had no time to accompany her like before. Recalling the wonderful time when they played together, she felt deserted and lonely. Besides, she had no idea about the direction of her future development. Gradually affected by them, she decided to take the exams.

Thirdly, students take the exams to find a job to make a living. Nowadays employment pressure is greater and greater in our country, so some college students can not find a job after graduation. For one thing, the number of college graduates is increasing, but the social employment opportunities are limited. For another, some companies only employ job-hunters who have a Master Degree. Take peoples insurance company of china for example; it requires its clerks having a Master Degree or a higher degree (from ). Under such circumstances, we students have no choice but to take the exams to get a higher degree.

Considering the above reasons discussed, we college students should make decisions on the basis of our own conditions and needs when facing to the exams for postgraduate schools. Only in this way can we get rid of being the victim of Post-graduate Craze and make our own life in the future better.