First of all, let me introduce myself. I took the postgraduate entrance examination in 2022, which is the postgraduate entrance examination in December during my senior year. I graduated from the Design Department of Central South University of Forestry and Technology, with a total score of 381. Below I will introduce some of my own experiences in the postgraduate entrance examination process. They are all gained through many detours. Of course, there are also some things that I did not do well. I hope that my experience can save everyone from making mistakes. Detours, smooth journey, smooth landing!

Preliminary test results

Student ID card

About choosing a school:

The reason why I chose to take the test Central South University of Forestry and Technology majored in design because my undergraduate major was industrial design and I wanted to work in this field in the future, so I chose to continue my studies in this direction. I don’t think the better the school, the better, because the better the school, the more effort is required and the difficulty of the exam will be greater. When choosing a school, you need to comprehensively consider your acceptance level and future development direction (for example, if you hope to study in Which city to work in, etc.),

Admission Notice

Only after careful consideration, you will not make a choice that you will regret. Once you have chosen a school, you must start looking for postgraduate courses. Check out the bibliography! Prepare for the exam intensely and regularly.

I will share it from the following aspects:

Contents

(1) Professional course 1 preparation experience

1. Bibliography

2. Exam question types

3. Preparation time for professional course 1

(2) Experience in preparing for professional course 2

1. About Enroll in a hand-drawing class

2. Preparation of hand-drawing training tools

3. Preparation time planning for professional course two

(3) English test preparation experience

1. Vocabulary

2. Reading

3. Composition

4. Gestalt + Translation + New Question Type

5. English test preparation time line planning

(4) Political test preparation experience

1. Preparation materials

2. Teacher recommendations

3. Internet Course Channels

4. Timeline Planning for Political Examination Preparation

The preliminary test for the postgraduate entrance examination is very important. Only after passing the preliminary test can you get the ticket to go ashore, and due to everyone’s cognitive level As well as the impact of factors such as the epidemic in recent years, the number of postgraduate entrance examinations has reached a record high, reaching 4.57 million. This number will only be higher this year. However, the number of people recruited by various institutions will not change much, which results in the numerator and denominator remaining unchanged. As the school becomes bigger, the admission rate for the postgraduate entrance examination becomes lower and the difficulty of the postgraduate entrance examination increases. Postgraduate candidates not only have to compete with students from the same class, but also with people from World War II and World War III. And if you look at the national level last year, you will know that the scores of many majors are significantly higher. The score for design went up by 15 points. In this case, only by putting in more effort can everyone avoid becoming the denominator and get ashore smoothly.

The national line for the preliminary postgraduate entrance examination in 2022

The choice of school is no longer something I should consider when answering this question, because it is already late September, and there are only about 100 days left before the postgraduate entrance examination. Three months of preparation time. The professional course books and examination methods for postgraduate entrance examinations in different schools may be different. Art majors vary greatly according to the research directions of different schools, so I believe everyone should have already decided on the school. Determining a school should be based on comprehensive considerations. You cannot just pursue the quality of the school, but also consider it based on your actual situation. If you are not determined enough to study, you will easily give up midway and fail in the exam if you apply for a highly competitive school. If World War II happens again, it will also affect the mentality.

Let’s talk about the preparation for the preliminary postgraduate entrance examination of the Design Department of Linke University!

(1) Experience in preparing for professional course 1 (Design History)

1. Bibliography

The professional course 1 is also called "Design History and Criticism". It is a subject that examines the understanding and discussion of knowledge related to design history. In the past, the school had designated reference books, but in recent years there has been no specific explanation. Reference books, but we can still prepare for the exam based on previous books. The content of the examination is similar, but the question types may change. The general preparation books are "History of Industrial Design" by Teacher He Renke and Teacher Wang Shouzhi. There are two volumes of "World Modern Design History", mainly the first one.

"History of Modern Design in the World" and "History of Industrial Design"

It is strongly recommended that you go to a shopping platform that you are familiar with and buy a copy of "The History of Industrial Design" or "The History of Industrial Design" as a reference. Use the book, which has a more detailed summary of knowledge points. (If you have the conditions, you can also find seniors who are already studying at the school where you want to take the exam, buy some materials or let them take classes, etc. Of course, these are just help, and the most important thing is your own efforts).

A helping hand (choose the history of industrial design)

The wind and the grass (choose the history of industrial design)

2. Exam question types

Previous The types of questions in the exam include multiple-choice questions, noun explanations, connected questions, fill-in-the-blank questions, essay questions, and short-answer questions. The test quantity tends to be streamlined. Last year, there were only three types of questions: term explanations, short answer questions, and essay questions, and the total number of questions was only six. This means that if a question is not answered well, you may lose ten or even dozens of points. You need to train your thinking in answering questions when preparing for professional courses.

Design history content

3. Preparation time for professional course 1

●Before 6 months

Don’t rush to memorize some during this period Things, because human memory is very limited, and there are a lot of things to memorize in the history of design, which are very complicated. It is better to memorize based on understanding. What needs to be done during this period is to prepare well for subjects such as English and hand-drawing, which require a relatively long-term foundation. For design history, you can read books first. Read those two books, especially the history of industrial design, several times. Don’t memorize them at the beginning. !?Must not do this!!? Otherwise, it will easily lead to memory confusion. In fact, the content of the history of industrial design is compiled based on various design styles and the time when they were formed. The most important thing when reading is to clearly understand the timeline. Leave some impression in your mind. Every time you read a book, it is best to finish it in one go. Don't read a few pages and then continue reading for several days. This way you gain nothing at all. I was like this at the beginning. I started reading the book as soon as I got it, but I couldn't quite understand it. I found it boring and boring, and then I felt sleepy. I had to read a line of text several times before it came into my mind. After reading a few pages, I read a few more pages over the next few days. Don’t be like me at the beginning! It’s really a waste of time. When you read it for the second time, you have no impression of what you saw the first time. It is recommended to read it all at once, and read it no matter whether you can understand it or not!? Trust me, As I watched, I slowly understood.

●July-August

In this period, everyone has a preliminary understanding of the history of design development, and can start to endorse and collect materials!? And entered the best Preparation time - summer vacation!? (I strongly recommend that if you have ideas during the summer vacation, you can stay in school to study!? Really, it is difficult to control yourself at home. I just kept thinking about having fun at home and did not study hard. The school also has a library. Watching everyone study will make you motivated. If you make good use of the summer vacation, you will be overtaken by others. If you don't make good use of the summer vacation, you will be overtaken by others. And if you have already graduated during World War II, there will be no dormitory to live in. , if you want to come to school to prepare for the exam, you will have to rent a house, which is very troublesome).

Knowledge points that need to be memorized include the time of creation of various design styles, countries, representative figures, character design concepts, character design, influence, evaluation, significance, etc. All kinds of things need to be memorized. It is recommended that you take a notebook and list the various knowledge points about the design styles of each period, and then recite them. Pay special attention not to confuse them, because each style may have its own influence. Don’t confuse the influences of different styles. Moreover, the influence, meaning, and evaluation of a style are also different, so be careful not to confuse them.

Historical theory is the same as political topics. It means memorizing more points. As long as you memorize all the knowledge and reach the point where one knowledge point can be associated with a series of knowledge points related to it, it is equal to success. Sixty percent of it!? You need to memorize all the knowledge points at least once during the summer vacation.

Some students will choose to enroll in theoretical classes during or before the summer vacation, but I did not enroll in the class myself. Regarding the issue of enrolling in classes, I think it varies from person to person, and the main considerations are your own funds, time, and self-control. One advantage of enrolling in classes is that you will have a teacher to take you to study, and you will be supervised, and you will not have much self-control. It is better for good friends to actively study, but in fact, the most important thing is to rely on yourself and remember it in your brain. What the teacher can tell the students is those knowledge points. They can explain it in different ways, but if they can’t remember it and can’t recite it, the same will happen in the examination room. You won't get points, but another advantage of signing up for a class is that most institutions will help you collect materials, and you can memorize them directly, so you don't need to spend time looking for information yourself.

Let’s talk about finding case materials. If no one helps you find them, you need to collect some materials yourself, which are some real-time design cases in recent years. What are the better designs? You can look for it according to different design categories. For example, for green design, you can look for some good environmentally friendly designs. Just know the designer, design application, and design concept of this design. The collected materials are later used as arguments in essay questions.

●September-November

At this time, it is necessary to consolidate the previously recited things in two and three rounds. Professional courses require memorization, but you must definitely form your own A set of knowledge structure can be straightened out by drawing a mind map or making a tree diagram, because the history of design is the history of design, and it is carried out according to a certain time, and the design styles produced at different times have an impact. As for the relationship, everyone must clarify their thoughts when memorizing. If you don’t have a clue when summarizing by yourself after reading a book, you can just memorize it directly with "One Hand" or "The Wind and Grass". In short, the more points you can memorize, the more detailed and proficient you are, the better.

●December

This is the absolute sprint stage!? There are only a few weeks until the exam, but based on previous efforts, everyone has memorized the knowledge points very well. It's ten. At this time, you need to consolidate it one last time, record the places where you are not reciting very fluently, and recite more. Seize the spare time to check yourself repeatedly, memorize the collected modern design cases with each knowledge point, and be able to use them. To take a mock exam, you need to write at least two or more sets of real questions according to the exam time before the exam. It is best to find a senior student who has gone to school to help you look at your shortcomings. In addition, the writing speed also needs to be improved, because during the exam, you can hardly stop during the whole process and you have to keep writing. During the exam, I wrote 11 pages in a row, and some classmates wrote 12 pages.

(2) Experience in preparing for professional course 2 (hand-drawing)

1. About enrolling in hand-drawing classes

I think it is useful to enroll in hand-drawing classes, and it is recommended to apply for admission around the school For hand-drawing classes, you can look at the price and the hand-drawing level of their previous students. Because the design majors of each school are different, the focus of hand-drawing inspections is also different. Training institutions around the school generally compare this school. Familiar. Moreover, the quick questions in the postgraduate entrance examination are quite different from the sketching, watercolor, oil painting, etc. that you may usually learn. Of course, you can also learn it by yourself, but the effect may not be that good, and there will not be a more professional teacher to comment on your hand-drawing.

Hand-drawing practice

2. Preparation of hand-drawing training tools

Sakura eraser, marker (Fakale (first generation)/Copic), marker refill , A3 paper (thicker than 80g), Faber-Castell 399 pencil, Faber-Castell 499 pencil, Faber-Castell colored pencils, needle pens, highlight pens, etc.

Fakal markers (prepare some commonly used colors)

3. Time planning for preparation for professional course 2

I am in my junior year with my friends. I started learning hand-painting when I was a kid, and signed up for a hand-painting class near the school. Because I was a science student before going to college, and I had no foundation in painting. Although I took some painting courses arranged by the school during college, I still learned relatively little. So I signed up for a hand-drawing class and started training with basic lines until I could draw quick questions independently.

●During my junior year

I signed up for a hand-drawing class and followed the class once or twice a week. I started practicing from the most basic line drawing and learning basic knowledge, and later I was able to shape my own shapes.

Line draft shaping

●Winter vacation of junior year

The hand-drawing class assigned winter vacation homework, draw 20 hand-drawn sketches, and start to have a certain layout. If you If you have never learned to draw before, you need to arrange your winter vacation time reasonably at this time, further deepen your hand-drawing skills, be able to shape well, and pay attention to the perspective.

●March-June

At this time, you need to start learning marker coloring techniques. It may be your first time coming into contact with marker pens, so it will take a while. During the adaptation period, you need to practice more frequently, become more and more proficient and master the color matching skills, so that the whole picture looks comfortable and has certain memory points, and forms your own style.

●July-September

It’s the very important summer study time again. It’s time to start practicing quick questions for hand-drawing. Carry out simulation exercises based on previous years’ real questions. You can use previous years’ questions. You can also draw up a topic for yourself and start practicing hand-drawing according to the topic. The hand-drawing requirement of the Design Department of Central South University of Forestry and Technology is to draw two full sheets of A3 paper. However, during the summer vacation, you have just started to practice quick questions. There is no need to set a time limit for drawing. You can keep drawing until you finish, but each set of hand-drawn drawings must be completed according to the highest standards. It is best to complete ten sets of quick questions during the summer vacation.

Two A3 papers for the exam

●October-November

At this stage, when continuing to simulate quick questions, gradually speed up the hand-drawing speed. It takes five or six hours to draw a picture. I must improve my efficiency. When I draw, I think about layout, how to make the layout more beautiful, and form my own layout style. I also start to prepare several sets of templates that I can draw quickly, once a week. Start training.

●December

You must complete at least 5 consecutive full-scale simulations of drawing two paintings within the specified time before the exam. The time during the exam is really very tight. If It would be a real pity if you can't finish the painting. The first thing the teacher sees is the completeness of the hand-drawing, so you must contact the templates you prepared.

Coloring manuscript

(3) English test preparation experience

Because I did not do well in the English test, I asked other friends who had English 8 to give them Share your experience:

1. Vocabulary

●Words are the most important thing and must be memorized all the time. You can try to use vocabulary software, so that you can seize the odd time to memorize words. . Any software will do. Download more and try more. If there are differences, you have to find the vocabulary software that suits you.

●Repeat the words you memorized before every day, review is the most important. Because words will be forgotten if you memorize them, they need to be repeated many times.

She started clocking in every day in May last year, 160 in the morning (40 new words, review 120, it takes about an hour, one every 3 seconds, don't stay too long, the exam hall will not give you that many If you can’t remember the time, go to the next one), and adjust it again at night before going to bed depending on the situation. Make sure you memorize it and review it every day.

●5500 and the real test words are the most critical. Unless you have spare energy, you don’t have to memorize anything else and just keep repeating it.

Memorize words every day

2. Reading

Reading is the top priority. Getting reading points is basically enough to take the postgraduate English exam. Reading must be Start after one or two rounds of vocabulary. Don't rush. Otherwise, students with poor foundation will have a hard time doing it, which will dampen your motivation to learn English. Don't learn random skills. Words are the basis of reading. Skills without vocabulary are nonsense. If you have poor reading foundation, it is recommended to use "The Truth about Postgraduate Entrance Examination".

"The Truth About the Postgraduate Entrance Examination"

Study with the course taught by Teacher Tang Chi. This teacher teaches very well. Teacher Tang Chi is a reading teacher recommended by many people taking the Postgraduate Entrance Examination. He has a very good reputation. It will be classified according to common question types in reading, and then I will tell you some ideas for answering the questions based on the real questions. Sometimes you can get it right without reading the article.

Tang Chi’s Reading Class

3. Composition

Students with poor composition skills should make up for the grammar and tenses as soon as possible (but most of them will be able to do it later) It’s a template), the composition is too basic. I don’t recommend New Oriental here. Tang Chi Xiaoyan doesn’t recommend it. To be honest, it’s not basic enough for me. For those who have a particularly poor foundation, I recommend reading the video to watch the up interpretation.

4. Gestalt + Translation + New Question Type

These three question types are relatively targeted. It is recommended that you watch videos to study later. New Oriental teachers’ classes are all Yes, you can do it one question type after another. The feeling will come when you do too many questions.

5. Timeline planning for English test preparation

●Basic stage (before summer vacation, that is, before July): word memory, mastering grammar, and practicing long and difficult sentences.

Mastering a strong vocabulary is the basis for learning English well, so remember the words until the day before the exam! It is recommended that everyone spend 0.5-1 hour a day memorizing English words. In the basic stage, you should learn and recite the 5,500 vocabulary words required by the postgraduate entrance examination syllabus (in the middle and later stages, you should repeatedly memorize about 2,000 core required words).

Students with a weak English foundation should also spend some time learning grammar knowledge in the basic stage, so that they can understand basic grammar and analyze common sentence structures, and insist on practicing 1-2 long sentences every day. Difficult sentence. I recommend teachers Tian Jing and Liu Xiaoyan, who have their WeChat public accounts.

Teacher Tian Jing

Recommended review materials for the basic stage: Zhu Wei's "Love Words" ("5500 Words from the Postgraduate Entrance Examination English Exam Questions" and supporting videos)/"The Red Book of English Vocabulary for the Postgraduate Entrance Examination"/ "Chen Zhengkang takes you to memorize mother words"/Liu Xiaoyan "Are you still memorizing "single" words" + Tian Jing "Grammar and long and difficult sentence test-taking strategies"

●Intensive stage (July-10 End of the month): word memory, practice of real questions, and mastering the methods of solving questions.

The memorization of words must be carried out every day, and reinforcement cannot be interrupted at any time. During the reinforcement stage, you must memorize the "Love Words" notes carefully several times, and at the same time learn and memorize the vocabulary in the real test reading, and put 2,000 words into it. Memorize the core required words by heart.

In the intensive stage, the focus of English review is to practice and thoroughly understand the past papers. You should do the past 20 papers (especially reading comprehension) more than two times, and summarize the methods of doing the questions. You can buy more papers. Sets, you can buy them for just a few dollars on the shopping platform, just swipe!

Postgraduate English test papers from past years

●Sprint stage (November - test day): word memory, practice and consolidation of real questions, and memorizing large and small compositions (templates).

During the sprint stage, you should spend at least 30 minutes memorizing words every morning until the day before the English test. In the sprint stage, the most important task is to practice and memorize large and small compositions. By reading excellent composition examples, excerpting excellent beginnings, endings and fixed sentence patterns (flash sentences), you can sort out your own large and small composition templates.

Before the exam, you can use the real questions from the previous two years as test papers to conduct a full simulation to get a feel for the feeling in the examination room (real questions are precious, and it is recommended to keep two sets of real questions from recent years for mock exams).

(4) Political exam preparation experience

1. Preparation materials

Xu Tao’s video online course + "Xiao Xiurong’s 1000 Questions" + "Concise Lectures" + Leg Sister (Lu Yufeng)'s Sprint Recitation Manual. You can find the course at Bilibili or other channels. The materials are sold on various shopping platforms. You must buy the latest version for the year of the postgraduate entrance examination! Because there are new things added to the exam every year. Some knowledge points and hot spots are different every year.

2. Teacher recommendation

●Xiao Xiurong, the most powerful thing about this teacher is his concise lectures, 1000 questions, and the last four and eight sets of papers. It's very awesome, but the teacher's courses are usually taught not by himself, but by members of his team, so you can just buy the materials.

Be sure to buy the latest version of political materials

●Xu Tao, Xu Tao’s intensive online course is currently the best online course for explaining the basic stage. Xu Tao’s lecture style is humorous and can explain obscure topics. Ma Yuan's lectures are very clear, and the examples he gives are very vivid and easy to understand. It is very suitable for those who are just learning to listen. However, Teacher Xu Tao's lecture speed is relatively slow. It is recommended to double the speed. Be sure to listen to each section and then do it. Question!!? It’s useless to just listen without doing.

Teacher Xu Tao

●Sister Leg, a very powerful beautiful teacher, her lectures are not boring and she speaks very fast. I later started to listen to Sister Leg after listening to Teacher Xu Tao’s class. , very rewarding.

Leg sister

3. Online course channels

It is best to buy genuine courses if you have the ability. If you have insufficient budget, you can also find other ways to take courses.

4. Timeline planning for political examination preparation

The overall review of politics can be divided into the basic stage from July to September, the improvement stage from October to November, and the sprint stage in December. In the basic stage and improvement stage, you only need to review multiple-choice questions. In the sprint stage, late November is used as the dividing line. The first half is mainly about multiple-choice review, supplemented by the review of analytical questions. The second half is mainly about the review of analytical questions, with multiple-choice questions. Review is supplementary.

●July-September

In the basic stage, the focus should be on English and professional courses. Politics is only an auxiliary subject at this stage. Review time can be placed in less efficient periods of the day. , such as after lunch and dinner, watch online classes and brush up on questions during these periods. It is recommended that about 2 hours of time be spent on politics every day, but it must be done slowly and gain something every day. It is best to follow Xu Tao's courses during the summer vacation and brush up on "Xiao Xiurong's 1000 Questions".

●September-October

The second brush of "Xiao Xiurong's 1000 Questions" has improved the question book of the first brush. The second brush is a quick brush and will not take too much time. Set aside 20 minutes every night to review the new material learned in all subjects that day.

●October-November

Leg Sister Skills Class (Review of Question-Making Skills) + "Xiao Xiurong 1000 Questions", Leg Sister Skills Class has come out at this time, and the skills class will almost Lasting until late October, Sister Leg's skills classes are divided into subjects. Each class is 2 hours long. Follow along, Sister Leg will talk about some technical things, and you will discover a new world by taking multiple-choice questions.

●November-December

At this time, many teachers’ test papers will come out one after another, so you can buy them and do them. Keep the habit of answering questions and multiple-choice questions. The sense of the question is very important, and your hands must not be raw. The big questions can be memorized one after another according to the key points in the Leg Sister course. (Because there is too much content in "Essential Lectures", you may not be able to read it. Later, you can use Sister Leg's "Sprint Recitation Manual" to record knowledge points)

"Sprint Recitation Manual"

Politics is a subject that takes up most of your time in December, because English and professional courses have been basically finalized. Politics can take advantage of this period of sprint to get good results, and try to get as many as possible Spend some time in politics. Especially when the four and eight Chinese zodiac signs come out, go through the multiple-choice questions several times and memorize the big questions directly. I believe that memorizing will get more points. Of course, just memorizing the four and eight zodiac signs is not enough. If you have enough energy to study, you can memorize the four sets of questions from Leg Sister.

Written at the end

If we look at some tables and data, we can probably know how many papers have been taken in the postgraduate entrance examination in recent years, and then we will have the confidence to work hard (I list these data in the hope that everyone You can be mentally prepared and put in enough effort to do this well! Don’t let it go after you read this~ Hurry up and learn!)

The above are some of the things I learned from the postgraduate entrance examination last year. I hope my experience can help everyone, but in fact everyone’s learning habits, strengths and weaknesses are different, and the most efficient method will be different for everyone.

What is suitable for me may not be the most suitable for you. I hope everyone can find the most suitable preparation method for themselves, successfully get on board, and achieve success!!