I Have a Research Support System

Xu Qiu returned to the dormitory, only Tao Yan was there, and Ren Bin returned home not long after the holiday.

Xu Qiu, have you seen the email sent by the counselor Yu Qiang? Tao Yan said.

I haven't read it yet. Is it about tomorrow's interview arrangement? Xu Qiu asked.

Yes, tomorrow's interview is divided into two sessions, morning and afternoon. In the morning, there are postgraduate students from other schools, and in the afternoon, postgraduate students from our school. The three majors of our school have separate interviews. I am in the conference room on the third floor of the first floor of the material. , The materialization seems to be in the advanced material building, you can confirm it yourself later. Tao Yan said:

By the way, how is your preparation for the interview going?

Do you need to prepare? Xu Qiu asked.

It is said that during the interview, you will be asked about the content you have learned in the material course, so you can prepare in advance. Tao Yan said.

It's too late to hug Buddha's feet now, Xu Qiu said:

Anyway, I haven't fully returned the knowledge of professional courses to the teacher. I guess they will ask some conceptual or common sense questions. It shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

I don't know about this, Tao Yan said in distress:

The content of this year's professional courses is not bad. I didn't listen to many courses in the previous three semesters. I can't do it without a surprise.

Okay, then you can continue to attack, I'll check the mailbox. Xu Qiu said.

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Turn on the computer and check the counselor's email.

The location of the interview tomorrow is the conference room on the second floor of the Advanced Materials Building. It will start at 1:30 in the afternoon. The interview sequence will be arranged according to the student number.

Because Xu Qiu's student number is relatively high, he was arranged for the second interview.

Relatively speaking, those who are interviewed at the back will have certain advantages, because they can get some useful information from the students who finished the interview first, such as:

The general form of the interview, who are the interview teachers, what questions are generally asked and so on.

Although the content of the interview is not allowed to be disclosed in principle, it is difficult for the departments to prevent students from communicating in private.

There are a total of 25 guaranteed research places in the Department of Materials, including direct Ph.D., professional master's degree, and master's degree in science. They are tentatively allocated to 10 people in materials physics, 9 people in materials chemistry, and 6 people in electronic science and technology.

Although there are only 9 places for materialization, there are 11 people on the interview list.

Xu Qiu was puzzled, is the department going to conduct differential admissions?

He felt that there might be some news from Tao Yan, so he asked him:

Have all the students who submitted the application for postgraduate insurance have been interviewed? It shows that 11 people were interviewed, but there are only 9 places.

I also saw this situation, so I asked Fang Guangwu, the deputy dean in charge of admissions, Tao Yan said:

He said that considering that there are international students in the department, this interview only screened out students who did not meet the school's rigid regulations, that is, students who did not have a GPA of 2.8 or who failed a course.

However, at the time of admission, it is still based on the grade points of the graduate students in each major, from high to low, and the interview score is only related to the priority of the type of graduate school.

Oh, I understand. International students don't occupy the quotas in the department when they apply for graduate studies, so there may be a few more places for graduate studies in the end, Xu Qiu said:

Students who rank 10th and 11th in terms of grade points will have a chance, so they are all called for an interview, otherwise they will be admitted by then, and another interview will be arranged for them.

It's almost like this. What Fang Guangwu said at the time was quite vague, but what I read from his words is this. Tao Yan said:

And I guess, for those students who are very willing to study in graduate school, or who have very good interview results, the department will definitely be able to find one or two places for them through the operation of the department.

I think it's the same. The internal operation of the department is relatively easy. Xu Qiu said.

By the way, have you checked your grade points? Tao Yan said:

I heard that the department's grade point ranking is based on last Friday's grade point. That is to say, courses that haven't been graded by last Friday will not be included in the grade point of the graduate school.

I checked a few days ago, and only four of the six courses were awarded, a total of 8 credits, two B+, two A, this semester's grade point is 3.65, Xu Qiu said:

However, compared with the previous GPA, the total GPA basically hasn't moved much, from 3.46 to 3.47, an increase of 0.01.

Haha, my grade point this semester is 4.0 out of 14 credits, and now my total grade point has been pulled from 2.98 to 3.10. Tao Yan said proudly.

It's so fierce. The main reason is that I have already taken more than 120 credits. Even if I get all A's in the rest of the courses, the GPA will be increased by at most 0.05. I have no motivation to score. Xu Qiu said.

Most of those who compete for grades this semester are to go abroad to apply for a better school or to get a full scholarship. Although foreign countries may not recognize domestic grades, at least they look good, Tao Yan said:

I look at the rankings. I have three full grades this semester, and I have a few 3.8 and 3.9 grades, but maybe I'm the only one who scored grades for the sake of research.

Fortunately, Zhou Mathematics' Material Preparation and Processing was released late. As soon as that course came out, it is estimated that many people's grade points will be scored below 3.7.

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On the afternoon of July 28.

Xu Qiu and other students majoring in materials and chemistry arrived at the meeting room on the second floor of the advanced materials building ahead of time and waited in the corridor outside.

Since they are all students of the same major, even if there is not much intersection, at least they can remember their names and faces, so they greet each other when they meet.

Girls get together in twos or threes, while boys mostly act alone.

The teachers in charge of the interview also arrived one after another.

Mathematics teacher Zhou was the first to come. His office is in this building, and he can just take the elevator down. He greeted his classmates and entered the meeting room.

Following him is one of his graduate students, Ji Zezhong, who is in charge of doing student work here.

After a while, the counselor Yu Qiang also arrived. After encouraging each student one by one, he walked into the conference room.

Then, several teachers majoring in materials and chemistry arrived one after another.

Finally, Xu Qiu saw Teacher Wei.

Teacher Wei was actually one of the interviewers, and he was wearing a formal suit today, with a briefcase in his hand, and nodded towards him.

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One thirty in the afternoon.

Ji Zezhong held the roster in his hand and shouted:

Yi Sijia, is classmate Yi Sijia here?

I'm here. A petite girl came out and responded.

Afterwards, she and Ji Zezhong entered the conference room together.

The other students couldn't see what was going on inside, so they could only look at the door of the conference room and wait patiently.

After about twenty minutes, Yi Sijia came out.

After walking a few steps, she was surrounded by her girlfriends who asked her about the interview.

It's a pity that Xu Qiu didn't have a chance to hear anything.

Xu Qiu, is classmate Xu Qiu there?

Yes. Xu Qiu replied.

He took a deep breath and pushed open the door of the conference room.