Studying abroad after the postgraduate entrance examination: Which one is more difficult, the postgraduate entrance examination English or IELTS TOEFL?

Which is more difficult: Postgraduate English or IELTS and TOEFL:

The proposition ideas and techniques of these two exams are different. Not only IELTS, but also language tests in European and American countries, including TOEFL, all focus on language ability. If you pass the language proficiency, there will be no problem in solving the questions. Chinese English tests such as the Postgraduate Entrance Examination and the College Entrance Examination not only test basic language proficiency, but also test the understanding of deeper meanings outside the language. This is not just a matter of testing English.

As far as language proficiency is concerned, the vocabulary for IELTS and TOEFL is around 8,000, while the vocabulary for the postgraduate entrance examination is generally no more than 6,000. The reading section of TOEFL and IELTS is longer than that of the postgraduate entrance examination. In the writing part, the TOEFL requires an independent writing piece of 350 words. The IELTS essay also requires 250 words. The postgraduate essay only requires 160-200 words, and the writing time for them is 30 minutes. In addition, there are listening and speaking sections in both TOEFL and IELTS that Chinese students generally have a headache with. Therefore, in terms of language proficiency requirements, the postgraduate entrance examination is not as good as TOEFL and IELTS.

But as mentioned before, the postgraduate entrance examination involves in-depth examination of meanings beyond language, and this is its unique difficulty. For example, the cloze test for the postgraduate entrance examination requires the examination of fixed combinations of words and phrases, such as whether apply is followed by for, to, or on. Such examination points are not tested at all by TOEFL and IELTS. It is even more obvious in reading. The experience of doing TOEFL and IELTS reading questions is that it may be difficult to understand the words and sentences in the article, but once you understand it, you will definitely be able to do the following questions. The sentences in the articles for the postgraduate entrance examination may not be that difficult to understand, but after reading the articles, you still don’t know which option to choose when looking at the questions.