What are the methods to fill in the college entrance examination application form?

This article is provided by the College Entrance Examination Reform Network./
The college entrance examination results have been announced. When personal academic performance and college entrance examination results permit, how to choose a university and major that suits you from a large number of colleges and universities to study? The key to solving this problem is to establish the idea of matching students with schools, and get rid of the misunderstandings of blind belief and blind selection of which university (major) can be admitted based on the score.

How to achieve student-school matching? Referring to the famous person-job matching theory and its three-step method in career guidance, candidates can also try the three-step method when choosing a university or major that suits them

The first step is to comprehensively analyze the candidate's personal and Family Characteristics and Needs

For candidates, their learning foundation, interests and activity experiences in middle school, personal regional preferences for future study, career interests, graduation expectations, etc. will all affect their expectations for college and university. Professional choice. As far as the candidates’ families are concerned, whether they are a first-generation college student family, parents’ educational level and occupation type, the family’s economic and social capital, parents’ expectations for their children’s future academic qualifications, and parents’ expectations for their children’s future employment will all affect the relationship between candidates and their families. College and major judgment and choice.

The second step is to have an in-depth understanding of the target university and target major

For most candidates and their families, people can only get information about the university from the Internet and news reports. Fragment information. So, what other methods can candidates and their families use to improve their understanding of target universities and target majors?

When entering high school, you should start searching for target universities and target majors. Strictly speaking, choosing a university or major that suits you is not something that can be done in one or two months before and after the college entrance examination. It is a process of long-term thinking and exploration. Studying in the senior year of high school is not only for getting a good score, but also for It is important that schools and families guide students from the beginning to think about what do I like to learn? What will I be suitable for in the future? What kind of person do I want to be? What kind of life do you live? From the perspective of promoting students' lifelong development, the cultivation of career awareness and interest should be advanced to the primary and junior high school stages. Unfortunately, our country's primary and secondary schools generally lack curriculum settings such as student career planning. This is also the reason why candidates choose to take the college entrance examination. This is an important reason why I often feel at a loss when filling out forms.

Under the premise of roughly determining the scope of target universities and target majors, conduct actual research as much as possible. For example, take advantage of opportunities such as university open days and college entrance examination consultation days to conduct on-site inspections at target universities in advance to understand the admissions standards, training goals, curriculum, teaching staff, graduation destination and other information of the target majors, and at the same time experience the campus atmosphere immersively. . You can also contact current students and graduates of target universities through various methods to understand their feelings and evaluations of their majors and share their impressions of their alma mater.

The third step is to match candidates with universities and majors, and choose a university and major that suits their characteristics and is likely to be admitted

Psychologists believe that interest is Another way to describe a person's personality is that when a student's self-interest type matches the university and major he/she is studying, the student can maximize his or her potential while studying, instead of just earning the same amount of money as other students. A decent grade point. However, filling in the college entrance examination application form is a process of constant compromise. When it is difficult to achieve a complete match between candidates and schools and majors, try to find adjacent and similar schools and majors. The result of such person-school matching is often a matching combination. , according to the degree of matching from high to low, forming the candidate's optimal choice and several sub-optimal choices in the process of volunteering.

In an environment where my country's higher education enrollment rate is rising year by year and the return on investment in higher education is decreasing year by year, whether it is candidates and their families, or various institutions and personnel engaged in college entrance examination volunteer application guidance, The focus of thinking should be from whether I can go to college? What kind of university can I go to? A gradual shift to Why go to college? How to spend your college years? In the long run, what really changes a person's destiny is the continuous accumulation of knowledge and abilities, rather than the simple accumulation of academic qualifications. Therefore, choosing the university and major that suits you, and being prepared to go through the critical years in the future with a positive and serious attitude, is a rite of passage for a candidate at the end of his high school career.