When preparing for the exam in the first year, I only reviewed it for less than two months. I have been preparing for GRE and TOEFL exams abroad before. Later, because of poor GPA, unsatisfactory language test results, and because it is a cross-major, it has been entangled between going abroad and taking the postgraduate entrance examination. Finally, I decided to give up the road of going abroad and concentrate on the postgraduate entrance examination. The first exam was the national unified exam, and finally I failed the professional course, with a total score of only 300. Surprisingly, I got 7 1 in the political examination without any review. I didn't know why until today. This time, it took me 29 days to complete the complete set of teaching materials "World History of China and Shi Jia" published by Beijing Normal University at a speed of about 150 pages per day, with a total of about 3,500 pages. Later, I bought counseling books and exam outlines such as Shandong Big Ben, which seemed useless, but wasted a lot of time. Only played the role of psychological comfort.

In the second year, I felt that my potential had not been fully tapped. The score of 300 points gave me great comfort, because the national line in Area A seems to be only 295. This year, I rented a room around the school to review on the spot. Based on the feeling of last year, I focused on extensive reading. Because the goal at that time was Peking University, I spent a lot of money to find all the representative works of professors in the direction of world history in the Department of History of Peking University, and then read them one by one. Some students may ask what to do if they don't understand. My answer is that if such a question prevents you from opening a book, then the question itself is a problem. So be bold and read more of these teachers' works. Of course, this is a school for independent propositions. I think it is definitely not enough for students who take the unified examination to rely on only one set of textbooks. Only by "fishing with exhaustion" can we lose as few points as possible in the examination room.

In the past three years, my review has focused on specialized courses, because the total score of specialized courses is 300, and political English is only 200. Moreover, political points are easy and quick, but there is not much room for improvement in English points. Therefore, I think the importance of specialized courses can't be overemphasized, whether for preparing for the exam or for postgraduate life in the future.

In one year's review, I used the traditional six-volume edition plus the relatively new four-volume edition of higher education, and one * * * ten books as basic reading materials. I read the six-volume book seven or eight times before and after, and the four-volume book about three times. I think these two sets of textbooks are highly complementary, and the knowledge points in the six books are very detailed, but many viewpoints are relatively old; The cited documents and academic viewpoints in the four volumes are relatively new. Therefore, it will be better to combine the two sets of teaching materials. In addition, the review of specialized courses should be expanded as much as possible. My idea of expanding is to read a number of books around the theme of "general history" from the perspective of the general history of the world, such as He Shunguo's "World History: Taking the Evolution of Civilization as a Clue".

A brief history of western civilization by Jackson J. spiwagger l (volume I), a history of western civilization by Lerner (volume I) and so on.

Then read a number of books according to the clues of national history, such as General History of Britain, French History by Miguel, Outline of American History by Yang, Give Me Freedom: An American History by Fang Na, etc. This series focuses on the historical clues of Britain, France, Germany, Japan and other big countries, which can further deepen the grasp and understanding of the whole historical context. Then we can read some works with the theme of time period from another angle, such as Valov's History of Ancient Rome, Sonny's History of Medieval Western Europe and so on.

Of course, the overall reading volume of this review method is very large, and the author has only achieved a small part of the original plan, but it is really helpful to consolidate professional knowledge and basically breaks away from the dependence on various summative counseling materials sold in the market. Personally, I think there are great problems in the quality of this kind of counseling books. If you really want to do academic work, you can completely replace those superficial combing with higher-level academic works. The process of summarizing yourself is also a process of strengthening memory and improving ability.

As for the question of how to answer the subjective questions asked by many people, my understanding is that the real high-scoring answer should be the combination of the basic knowledge pointed by the topic and the comments on some academic viewpoints or masterpieces in this field. In fact, every subjective question can be written as a propositional composition, and the answer should be an article with beautiful words and complete structure. Many students regard subjective questions as pure answers, completely ignoring grammar and rhetoric, which makes the written answers "unsightly", which is also a big problem that affects subjective questions' scores. Practicing more pens at ordinary times and improving writing level will have obvious benefits for improving subjective scores.

Our teacher gave me great inspiration on how to grasp the key points of review, especially how to search the knowledge points that look like examination questions. In addition, teachers have been working hard in the academic field all the year round and have a deep foundation. Learning to read according to the teacher's ideas makes me feel more efficient and effective. Although the course is only a few days, the amount of knowledge in it is very large and it takes a long time to digest. The handouts handed down by the teacher are very valuable, and it is always instructive to take out the stumbling places in the review.