By Raymond on Mar 10, 2009 in Exams and Tips | 0 Comments
Some students think that I am a bit naive when I talk about science and dreams. Reality is cruel. Statistics shows that students with higher grades can get offers from better graduate schools, and students with poor ranking like me rarely have opportunities to get an offer. The safest approach is to be practical. By [...]
By Raymond on Mar 1, 2009 in Application to Graduate School, Exams and Tips | 7 Comments
Finally I have been selected to be within the 10 students of hundreds of applicants who are offered admission to PhD programs of Duke and Harvard University. Thanks a lot for the support from my friends and family. Special thanks to Tian Ju, my lover, and Wenjia, my good friend, for their consistent encouragement. Also [...]
By Raymond on Feb 28, 2009 in Exams and Tips | 3 Comments
清华大学的学生对考试的态度如何受考评制度的影响
Let me share my exam report for my last semester.
Compared with other universities, students in Tsinghua care a lot more about exam score. Besides that they were selected through a very keen competition of advanced level exam in high school, an important factor which is often overlooked is the grading system: (1) 100% grading is [...]
