2024 Postgraduate Entrance Examination English: When the examiner asks you about your shortcomings, how should you answer?

The answer to the second round exam of postgraduate entrance examination English can be divided into two parts. The first part is an English interview. That is, if the interviewer asks questions in English, you can also answer them in English. The second part is the written listening part, which varies from school to school. Some schools or some majors do not set this part, so let's focus on the first part.

Almost every candidate who enters the second interview will have to face the English interview part. The examiner will examine your ability to communicate in English, including your basic knowledge of yourself. We call this type of question basic cognitive questions, such as: "What are your hobbies", "What is your greatest shortcut coming" , "introduce your university", etc; It also includes questions about academic exchanges, such as professional questions and answers about your own professional knowledge. Such questions vary from person to person. But our basic cognitive questions actually have a "routine" -- if we are asked the question of "shortcomings", what routine should we follow to answer it?

Some boys will think of "I love playing games" and "I don't study hard" when they hear the question of "shortcomings". Women will want to answer "I love online shopping", "I have procrastination", or some old Versailles may want to answer "I am a perfectionist", "the biggest shortcoming is too serious" and so on. But remember, This kind of answer can never appear in our re examination room. So what kind of problems should we focus on?

You must remember that the shortcomings asked by the examiner are actually a kind of "stress test" for you. You should be able to examine yourself correctly and propose effective correction methods. For example, answering "poor sense of direction" or "easy to forget things, poor memory" is a perfect breakthrough point, because it is not a fatal shortcoming, but also has a highly operational correction scheme. But just pointing out the shortcomings and giving the correction plan can not meet the time required for answering (the best answer time for each question is one and a half minutes to two minutes, so students need to prepare about 200-250 words when preparing the manuscript), so we also need to add "examples" among us to make our answers more convincing and easier to make the examiners feel the same. So we concluded that the answer process to the "shortcomings" question should be: position (point out your shortcomings) -- example -- ways to correct -- conclusion.