About English postgraduate entrance examination

I didn't want to say it when I saw many people answering this question, but later I found that what I said upstairs was biased, so I couldn't help but say a few words.

I intuitively feel that the children's shoes on the first floor are all non-English majors. Anyone who has really studied English for several years will know that there is still a big difference between English majors and non-English majors who have studied hard. After all, it is impossible to learn this in four years in college without any difference. Even if you only learn one more word than others every day, you will be a big step ahead of others in four years. There are indeed many people learning English now, but their general understanding is relatively shallow, and those who are slightly professional can't understand it. If those foreign companies were really good at English, the translation companies would have closed down long ago. That was not the case. As for HR's opinion, I haven't seen any HR who thinks that English students have learned nothing, but English students have really learned something. Other liberal arts majors, such as business administration, e-commerce and international trade, are vague and really nothing.

Besides, LZ wants to be a teacher. I don't know whether you want to be a middle school teacher or a university teacher. If you are a university teacher, you may not only take the postgraduate entrance examination, but also continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination. Nowadays, the competition among university teachers is too fierce, especially among girls.

However, since you are only a freshman and a sophomore, I personally think it is too early to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination. After all, graduate education is not a castle in the air. It is based on undergraduate education, especially language majors. You must lay a good foundation for your undergraduate course before you can talk about postgraduate entrance examination, especially when you are admitted to or studying at Beijing Foreign Studies University. You can have this idea now, and then read more English books and do more warm-up preparations. Don't be too hasty

Your three questions are roughly answered here, 1, reference book title. You should search on every book website. Generally speaking, Taobao is impossible without it. I couldn't find a very biased book anywhere, but there are several on Taobao. The postgraduate entrance examination book is not a rare book of ancient books. Since this school has designated it, it must be sold. I really can't help it. You can meet seniors and sisters on the BBS of Beijing Foreign Studies University and ask them where they can buy them. Finally, if it doesn't work, you can send money directly to the publishing house for mail order. 2. It is normal that professional information is not updated. Some schools don't update for ten or eight years, and those books are available every year. But books don't mean the same topic, especially linguistic papers. It is too easy for him to change them. 3, now the network is very developed, real questions can be found online over the years, even if you can't download them for free, you can find someone to buy them. This is not a problem. If you want to be an English teacher in the future, take an examination of the English Department and major in English language and literature.

However, I still want to remind you here that I don't know what your undergraduate school is. If your undergraduate school is not well-known or your undergraduate school has never been admitted to Beijing Foreign Studies University before, I can only say that it will be a very, very difficult road for you to choose Beijing Foreign Studies University. Beijing Foreign Studies University is very difficult to take the exam. You don't think there are fewer people attracted by the number of students enrolled, but everyone who has passed the exam knows that it is very difficult to get into the exam. He is far behind Shanghai Foreign Languages in the fairness of the exam. The English department of my previous school was not bad. The department of architecture has been admitted to Beijing Foreign Studies University every few years for more than 20 years, but it was not until that year that I was the first to be admitted to Beijing Foreign Studies University. That girl was super strong. At that time, it was the big news of our whole English college. I think you can also consider going to Shanghai International Studies University if possible. After all, the academic system of Shanghai International Studies University and Beijing Foreign Studies University is exactly the same, and the English Department of Shanghai International Studies University is also a national key discipline.

In addition, as the sixth floor said, if you are bent on taking the English postgraduate exam and want to be a teacher, you'd better transfer to the English department as soon as possible if it is possible to transfer to your school. Employers, including schools, generally require English graduates to master the same major when recruiting. In addition, it will be a disadvantage if you choose Japanese for the postgraduate entrance examination. Secondly, choosing Japanese as a foreign language generally has no advantage, because you get a lot of marks when you learn Japanese for the first time, which is not as low as French. So I personally don't recommend choosing Japanese as the second foreign language test language.