20 12 Postgraduate Entrance Examination Time: 201265438+1October 7-8.

20 12 the national unified examination for postgraduate enrollment will be held on July 7-8, 2065438+0265438+/kloc-0. The number of postgraduate applicants nationwide was 6.5438+0.656 million, an increase of 6.9% over last year and a record high.

Gan Yuan, a teacher from New Oriental Online, said that this is the third consecutive year that the number of people has increased by 65,438+10,000. I only expected the number to increase before, but I didn't expect it to increase so much. Looking at the growth rate of 6.9% alone is not conspicuous compared with previous years, but the actual increase of 6.5438+0.4 million people is debatable:

First, the employment situation of undergraduate graduates is not ideal, which is the deepest reason.

Assuming that all graduates are satisfied with their employment, I think few people will spend a three-year youth to go to graduate school, so the group of "forced postgraduate entrance examination" is huge. It is not that graduate students can find good jobs, but because of the continuous expansion of graduate students. In recent years, master's and doctoral students have basically become the main force in the job market, and the living space of undergraduate graduates has been compressed, and their employment competitiveness has deteriorated year by year. It is normal for state organs, universities, state-owned enterprises and well-known foreign enterprises to raise the recruitment threshold and have strict requirements for academic qualifications. In order to seek a higher starting point for employment, some undergraduates can only choose "one exam to determine the country".

Some experts say that the employment situation this year is particularly severe, which has led to an increase in the number of graduate students. Teacher Gan Yuan said, When will the employment situation be less severe? The economic situation is the decisive factor in the job market. The economic situation is well organized this year, but I feel that the overall demand in the job market is very strong, and employment should not be so difficult. However, "what schools teach is not what society wants" has led to this contradiction. If the structural contradiction between university training and social demand is not fundamentally solved, the employment difficulty will continue. In other words, employment pressure is really not the most active variable among many variables that lead to an increase of 6.5438+0.4 million.

Second, the increase of "soy sauce party" in postgraduate entrance examination has led to an increase in the number of applicants.

Many candidates are not competitive enough, and there are not a few who "cope", "try their luck" or even "take the exam". There are two reasons: first, the enrollment ratio of full-time professional masters has expanded this year, and the working population in society has more sufficient reasons to take the postgraduate entrance examination. But to be honest, due to the influence of working hours, survival pressure and energy, there are also many "soy sauce" in the postgraduate entrance examination. Second, "academic determinism" has no market for a long time, and people are becoming more and more calm and rational about "highly educated". Most people take the postgraduate entrance examination as a means, so it is not surprising to give up or rush into battle when there are other ways out or difficulties in preparing for the exam.

Third, the lowering of the threshold for the initial examination of some majors has led to an increase in candidates.

For example, four management majors and 1 economic majors (accounting, tourism management, engineering management, library and information science, and auditing masters) were changed from four to two this year, and politics was abolished and only one professional course was taken. The difficulty of preparing for the initial exam (non-competitive difficulty) is greatly reduced, attracting many potential candidates. For another example, some masters of economics cancel mathematics, which also leads to an increase in the total number of people chasing hot subjects.

There are also some secondary reasons, such as the merger of one district and two districts this year, which leads to the narrowing of the difficulty difference in the postgraduate entrance examination areas and the increase of candidates in some remote areas.

Teacher Gan Yuan, the product director of New Oriental Online Classroom Postgraduate Entrance Examination, reminded the majority of candidates that it is a reality to increase the number of applicants. If there is no obvious change in the actual enrollment this year, the competition will intensify. However, the postgraduate entrance examination has always been a "single-handed struggle". If you fix yourself and stick to it, the "soy sauce party" will quit without a fight. Let the government and the next candidates pay attention to the number of postgraduate students and the macro situation. There are still five weeks before the exam, 20 12 candidates, what you have to do, what you can do, is to seize the prime time and laugh at the end!

New Oriental Online Online Classroom Postgraduate Counseling Team wishes everyone a successful postgraduate entrance examination!