The 2023 National Postgraduate Admissions Examination is approaching, and the student experience shared by Nanjing guy Chen on social platforms has inspired many postgraduate students.
In the past 10 years, he has counterattacked from a junior college student with a score of more than 180 in the college entrance examination to a master student in a first-class university.
Not long ago, he successfully signed a contract with a middle school in Zhenjiang City with excellent results, and he will become a people's teacher after graduation next year.
After reading his growth story, some postgraduate students left a message: "Thank you for making me more confident. I was motivated in an instant, and everything was in time." Shared the story behind studying.
Ziniu News trainee reporter
Yan Chunxu
Been a programmer and worked as a security specialist
On November 27, Chen, a boy from Nanjing, shared the article "My 30 Years Old: Junior College, Security, Double First-Class Master, Compiled by Teachers from South Jiangsu" on the social platform, telling his growth story in the past 10 years.
During the college entrance examination, Chen only scored more than 180 points (out of 480 points), and only reached the second batch of junior college scores in Jiangsu Province. (Network Engineering and Information Security) professional admission.
Although he did not study the major he wanted to study, Chen did not give up his dream of becoming a teacher.
After graduating from a junior college, he worked as a programmer and a security guard. In order to become a teacher, he chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination.
After two years of hard work, he was admitted to Henan University with an excellent score of 378 points.
Recently, he is about to graduate and successfully signed a contract with a middle school in Zhenjiang City, and he is about to become a teacher.
After Chen shared his story on social platforms, it inspired many postgraduate students who were studying hard.
Some netizens left a message: "Seeing your experience, I have confidence again, thank you stranger!"
In an interview with the Yangzi Evening News/Ziniu News reporter, Chen said that he had the idea of becoming a teacher when he was in junior high school, "The history teacher at that time gave very interesting lectures, and I was very active every time I took class, so my history scores were very good. "
Coincidentally, when he was in junior college, he met a friend from a famous domestic school on the Internet.
In the summer vacation of 2012, he and this friend went to Dali, Yunnan Province to teach, and found the feeling of being a teacher for the first time.
Chen said: "I originally wanted to travel, but my friend helped the local middle school students with their homework and encouraged me to support teaching together. Under her influence, I also participated in supporting teaching, explaining historical knowledge to the children."
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"After returning from supporting teaching, Chen felt that being a teacher was very meaningful." At the end of 2017, he quit his job as a programmer and worked as a security guard for a security company in Nanjing.
When he was on duty at night, an uncle security guard said to him: "You are still young, it would be a pity to be a security guard for the rest of your life, and you should make more breakthroughs while you are young." The uncle's words touched Mr. Chen very much, and he ignited again. After fulfilling his dream of becoming a teacher, he has the willingness to resign again.
In September 2019, Chen took the postgraduate entrance examination for the first time, and applied for the subject teaching (history) major of Henan University at that time.
In the eyes of friends around him, Chen's postgraduate entrance examination is nothing short of whimsical.
Amidst everyone's doubts, he started his two-year preparation for the exam.
At the beginning of preparing for the exam, English for the postgraduate entrance examination became the biggest problem faced by Chen. "My English for the college entrance examination is only 30 points, and my foundation is too poor." A friend reminded him, "Start learning English for the postgraduate entrance examination, and the learning effect will be better. Some." Chen began to do the real English test questions for the postgraduate entrance examination every day, forcing himself to memorize every word in the real test questions, translate them one by one, and then connect them into a sentence.
He transcribed the words he didn't know, memorized them every night, and spent three or four hours memorizing an article.
"For the first postgraduate entrance examination, I spent a lot of time on English every day, which resulted in unreasonable time arrangement and very little time for other subjects." After the preliminary test results came out, Chen got more than 330 points in the test, including 65 points in English. Passed the national line, but ultimately failed to enter the school retest line.
So, classmate Chen found a temporary job in a children's playground in Nanjing. He worked for more than half a year and earned three to four thousand yuan a month.
In the summer of 2020, he resigned again and rented a house near Henan University for his own study.
He said: "I never thought of giving up. Since I chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, I must pass it. I study near the school, and I look at the school every day, which makes me more motivated."
Afraid of his lack of self-control, Chen asked a classmate to supervise him, "I go to the self-study room at 7 o'clock every morning and take pictures of him to prove that I am studying. I return to the rental house at 11 o'clock in the evening and take pictures of him again. , to prove that I have completed my studies today. If I fail to do so, I will pay him a fine of 50 yuan each time, and supervise in this way to ensure that I will not be lazy."
With the first test preparation experience, Chen became more confident and reviewed step by step.
Hard work paid off, and he finally scored 378 points in the 2021 National Graduate Admissions Examination, including 75 points in politics and 70 points in English, and was admitted to the College of History and Culture of Henan University.
Will become a middle school teacher to encourage more postgraduate students to build self-confidence
When he learned that he passed the exam, Chen became very calm. "I may have encountered more problems than many people. I didn't know how many times I cried in secret, but I survived. When I left the exam room, I I knew I would pass the exam this time. I have practiced many times, and I have done all the knowledge in the exam. I am familiar with it like an old friend, and I am very confident.” After learning about his son’s grades, Chen’s parents are grateful for their son’s success in the past. "He insisted on going his own way", proud of his persistence, but also very distressed, "It's too hard for the child to prepare for the exam!"
After studying in graduate school, Chen did not relax himself, but studied harder.
He not only worked hard to learn the basics in the classroom, but also actively participated in various voluntary activities and teaching competitions inside and outside the school, "I understand the principle that the stupid bird flies first. If my own foundation is poor, I must pay a hundred times or a thousand times harder. "After a year of study, his grades changed from the third last in the class at the time of admission to the first in the class, and he also won the first-class scholarship and outstanding postgraduate scholarship.
In November this year, Chen participated in the school recruitment of a middle school in Zhenjiang City and successfully signed a contract.
Classmate Chen told Ziniu News reporter that he is currently preparing his graduation thesis, "After I finish the thesis, I will go to practice. During this period of time, I will read more books on pedagogy, teaching management, and history education, and do a good job in connection with it." Get ready for the job."
As the 2023 National Postgraduate Entrance Examination is approaching, Chen also has a lot to say to the students who are preparing for the exam this year, "As an ordinary person, the only thing we can rely on is the belief that God rewards hard work. No pains, no rewards. Be confident on the road, and firmly believe that as long as you work hard, your dream will come true in the end.”
Chen said that many things have happened in the past 10 years, and every step he took was carefully chosen by himself.
He told the Ziniu News reporter: "Now, I have the opportunity to become a glorious teacher of the people. I hope my story will not end. I want to be a well-known history teacher and a teacher loved by students. I I think a lot, but I believe that dreams will come true slowly.” (Source: Yangzi Evening News)