According to the requirements of colleges and universities. If colleges and universities have requirements for choosing tutors, they should choose tutors when preparing for review. If there is no requirement in colleges and universities, you can go all out to prepare for the initial test and achieve an ideal result. After the exam, you can estimate the answer and score, and combine the previous admission line (adjusted according to the difficulty of the exam in that year) to roughly estimate whether you can enter the second interview. Know more about the basic situation of the teachers before the results come out. After the score comes out, choose the tutor in both directions.
What needs special reminder is that it is generally necessary to contact the tutor in advance to participate in transfer.
2. What kind of tutor do you choose?
The ideal frame of reference is:
(1) A mentor with good character. In the postgraduate stage, the teacher's personality will inevitably have an immeasurable impact on you and even the society. Good tutors are generally modest, respect students, give graduate students a very relaxed and free research atmosphere, and trust you and know that you have been working hard and assiduously. This can only be learned by seniors, and of course it can also be seen in contact with tutors.
(2) a mentor with strong scientific research ability. The main purpose of graduate students is to improve their scientific research strength and prepare for entering the work role quickly after graduation. The scientific research ability of graduate students is formed under the guidance of tutors. If the tutor's scientific research ability is not good, it will be more difficult to make achievements in a certain aspect if he relies entirely on graduate students' own exploration. In addition, in today's economic and technological integration, the tutor's poor scientific research ability may mean that the tutor's scientific research funds are less, and the lack of scientific research funds can not guarantee the smooth progress of some experiments. Therefore, before you apply for the exam, you should try to know something about the research projects and research funds of your tutor. See whether the research funds of the tutor are sufficient, whether there are more research topics and whether they are more cutting-edge. Of course, for most famous schools, the research funds of the tutor are not a problem.
(3) a mentor who is consistent with his own personality. First of all, we should analyze what our personality is like, whether it is active, extroverted, cheerful and lively, or passive, introverted, silent and inactive. Teachers with different personalities have their own styles and like different types of students, but usually you are not qualified to ask teachers to accommodate your personality.
(4) The research direction of the tutor is consistent with his own interests and professional pursuits. As far as possible from their own interests, in-depth understanding of the research direction of instructors, choose those instructors whose research direction is consistent with their own interests. This can be understood through the tutor's recently published papers and recent research topics.
In addition, we must pay attention to the following points: See whether you like theory or practice. If you like theoretical research, you should tend to be a theoretical tutor when choosing a tutor, so that you can find a professor-level teacher and feel that you are suitable for emphasizing practice. You should also be inclined when choosing tutors, so that you can find more tutors for engineering projects. As for the level of tutors, it is not very important. It depends on whether you plan to study abroad for a doctorate in the future. If you want to go abroad, you should choose a tutor with a returnee background. If you want to study for a PhD, you should choose a professor-level tutor. If you want to find a job after graduation, the choice of tutor is relatively less important.
As for choosing a young or old mentor, it depends on personal preference. Often, older tutors have more guidance experience and scientific research funds, while younger tutors are relatively inexperienced, but they will have higher requirements and greater enterprise in scientific research.
3. How to find tutor information?
After you have a general idea of what kind of tutor to choose, you need to get the information of teachers in your professional direction, define some teachers according to the information, and then contact these designated teachers by email or telephone. The basic methods of understanding information are as follows:
(1) Introduction of teachers in professional fields on the school website.
(2) Search the tutor's graduation school, research funding, research direction, contact information and other information through Baidu, Google and other websites. These introductions may be brief, and some of them are even out of date, but through this method, the purpose of preliminary screening can be achieved.
(3) The students in the school discuss the information about the altar.
(4) communicate with teachers' students or senior students.
4. How to communicate effectively with the tutor?
After choosing the ideal tutor, you should get in touch with the tutor in time to prevent others from getting ahead of you, because the number of graduate students that the tutor can guide is limited after all, and if you contact again in the future, you may be at a disadvantage or even directly rejected. In addition, contacting the tutor in time may be of great help to your second interview. You can tell him sincerely that you are interested in his/her research direction and admire him/her.
Of course, this process requires certain communication skills and skills. Communication ability is the most important ability, and how to communicate effectively with teachers is also a very concerned issue for graduate students. Many people are afraid to contact their teachers because they are afraid to communicate with them, or they are afraid that they will not communicate with themselves.
Communication is an important aspect of interpersonal communication. Friends with poor communication skills can improve their communication skills by reading more books on interpersonal communication, listening to more lectures and chatting with friends around them.
There are many ways to communicate with your tutor. Generally speaking, if you are good at oral expression, you can contact me by phone first. If you are not good at oral expression, send an email to the teacher first, stating your postgraduate entrance examination plan and personal situation (your major, grade ranking, practical experience in scientific research, awards, etc. ), graduate program (what are you interested in, what to do during graduate school, whether you plan to study for a doctorate) and so on. Finally, I express my admiration for my tutor, thank him for reading, and hope to get a reply from him.
After the tutor replies to the email, you can continue to keep in touch with the email, or you can call the tutor to tell him that you have received the email. Thank you for your concern and guidance, and ask a few related questions by the way. Unless you have a close relationship with your tutor, the telephone conversation time with your tutor should be controlled within 15 minutes.
As for the language skills of email contact or telephone communication, it's up to you to consider. In short, I am modest, confident but not conceited, modest and prudent, and show the vitality of young people at an appropriate time. Remember: Tutors are human beings, just like the teachers around them. Most tutors generally like students and are willing to answer questions for them.
Finally, please remember two points:
(1) Seek truth from facts. Don't tell lies, say whatever you have, and don't hide your shortcomings. It doesn't matter if you have poor ability or poor background. The key is to be sincere, open-minded, enterprising, diligent in learning, brave in challenges and boldly change your destiny. The final success of the postgraduate entrance examination depends on the results of the initial test, the written test results of the second test and the interview results. If the written test scores of the initial test and the second test are high, from a large number of cases, the tutor will generally not embarrass you in the interview. Although many school teachers have decided to admit you during the second interview, they will give you "difficulties" from different angles. However, this is just to let you know that there are still many things you don't understand and you can't be proud.
(2) make a bold attempt. There are indeed some tutors who are indifferent to students' postgraduate entrance examination, because they don't know you, and they don't know whether you can get in, or they may be busy with their own work. Don't be discouraged at this time, don't be discouraged. As long as you try boldly and try a few times more, you may always meet enthusiastic teachers. Even if you don't meet the requirements, you can feel at ease if you work hard, because other candidates will get the same treatment. It may be much easier to face-to-face with the teacher during the second interview.
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