【寫作題目】

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My View on Postgraduate Craze. You should write at least 150 words following the outline given below:

1. 目前考研正形成熱潮
2. 分析這股熱潮產生的原因
3. 你的看法

【參考范文】

My View on Postgraduate Craze

For many college students, at the beginning of each fall semester, they will repeatedly be haunted by pamphlet ad distributors employed by various postgraduate tutoring schools. Indicative of those postgraduate tutoring ad is the popularity of college students applying to take the entrance examination for postgraduates.

Undoubtedly, those postgraduate applicants have many concerns. Firstly, due to the fierce competition in the job market, many college graduates believe postgraduate degree holders will have a competitive edge in the job market. Secondly, as many college students are not current degree education, they want to pursue their studies in prestigious universities. In addition, many white collar workers decide to quit jobs and study in college again, which increases the boom of master's degree pursuers.

However, a master's degree is not a guarantee of a decent job. As the number of master's degree graduates increases, many will have difficulty in finding their ideal jobs after investing so much time, energy and money.

【寫作點撥】
本文要求考生就大學生熱表自己的看法。在布局上，根據題目中給出的提綱來展開即可。第一段指出考研熱這種現象，可以從自己或者身邊的同學說起，也可用其他的實例或報道來說明；第二段分析造成這股考研熱潮的原因，比如圓名牌大學夢，逃避就業壓力等；第三段闡明對這一問題的看法，并說明理由。