Some students always have this kind of entanglement when they are beginners in competitions: If you don't want to engage in scientific research in the future, how necessary is it to engage in competitions now?
In fact, despite the fact that there are a lot of people studying competitions, there are many talents who enter Qingbei through competition awards every year, but after the screening of undergraduates, masters and doctors, there are very few talents who are really capable or interested in scientific research. The process is also a process of talent selection.
Then there are some students who have to ask again: Do you have to take the road of competition if you want to engage in scientific research? How much help do learning competitions help in scientific research?
Regarding this question, Sister Centroid would like to borrow the answer from Mr. Sun Peng. Mr. Sun Peng was recommended to Peking University through physics competition. Now he is the physics competition teacher of Centroid Education. I believe that with his many years of experience and experience, he will definitely be able to satisfy everyone. Answer.
1. Is there anyone who does not engage in competition but has strong scientific research capabilities?
There must be. But in recent years, more and more new researchers have a background in competition.
On the one hand, for scientific research, many abilities are very important, such as intelligence, perseverance, and practical ability (experimental), which many people do not want to admit, luck, etc. The degree of overlap with the needs of the competition is relatively high.
On the other hand, you can actually think in reverse. If a person is already a little ignorant of scientific research at the middle school stage, he has good intelligence, practical ability, and perseverance, and he has the opportunity to have access to better educational resources. This is almost inevitable. Choose the race route. (A few of them now start to take the scientific research route directly from the high school stage), mainly because the current simplification trend of the college entrance examination will make these people feel too boring.
2. Why should competitions be used in the selection of talents related to scientific research?
There are several reasons: First, the college entrance examination is not suitable, and the competition is good. The college entrance examination is simplified. The high scores in the college entrance examination are selected for people who are serious and meticulous, and the repetitive training is very intense, and they almost turn the questions into muscle memory. I am not saying that scientific research does not need to be serious and meticulous, but that the current college entrance examination model is too selective for serious and meticulous.
It is not enough for the intelligence, practical ability, and screening just mentioned. In the current situation of the competition, the learning intensity is very high. The first step of competition learning in some middle schools is to quickly finish the knowledge of the college entrance examination in half a year or even less, and to test whether these students have the ability to learn a lot of knowledge in a short time.
And during this period, use some difficult thinking questions to test whether these students have the ability and interest to think deeply. After relatively high-intensity training, some students even learned general physics, the four mechanics, and even more in-depth knowledge after one or two years. In the current competition, some questions adapted from the frontiers of science are gradually being added.
Secondly, other screening methods have not developed to a very common situation. Now Peking University, Tsinghua University, and many other first-class schools have many independent recruitment opportunities, various "plans" and various recruitment activities. The goal is to have a more flexible and effective way of screening talents. It can be seen from the conditions listed by each school to participate in these plans and enrollment activities, most of which are related to competition awards. At present, apart from the five university discipline competitions in China, few middle school students can participate in activities that are well-screened and have credibility that are widely recognized across the country.
Furthermore, the national government and social forces are working hard to improve the selection process and related resources of the competition, increase educational resources and educational opportunities, so that talented and capable people who want to do scientific research can have a better environment for learning and growth. . Both universities and high schools are promoting the use of some basic university courses in open classes or other methods to enable students who are interested and capable in high schools to better do this transition from high school to university.
Many university professors and students participated in competitions and trainings in many disciplines. Everyone is to make the competition "more helpful" for the future growth of students. The development of online education has also provided many people with resources and opportunities for in-depth learning in the middle school stage. Although there are still many problems at this stage, everyone is working hard to improve.
3. Is there any serious disconnection between the current competition learning and selection process and scientific research?
Yes, it is quite obvious. For example, the proportion of various "trick" in the competition is indeed not small. When you see the description, you can think of the equation. What kind of differential equations look like, you can guess what the solution looks like right away... There are too many such tricks.
Regarding these, I think that because of the existence of the two conditions of screening mechanism and insufficient educational resources, there must be a large proportion of tricks. After all, the competition test lasts for a few hours. Obviously students who are skilled in tricks will have an advantage.
To solve this problem, on the one hand, we must pay more attention to applicability from the perspective of questioning, reduce traditional old models, and reduce the use of tricks. On the other hand, by increasing educational resources, capable students who are interested in scientific research who are not skilled enough in trick can have more opportunities to contact and join scientific research.
4. What about the parts of scientific research that cannot be covered at all by subject competitions?
There are several obvious characteristics of scientific research work, and subject competitions are completely incompatible. For example, there is no "correct answer" for scientific research...As a screening test, it is impossible to get a bunch of subjective questions or open questions, and the time for the exam is not allowed...
Also, the real scientific research work is very "long-term." This kind of decomposition of long-term goals and attempts at possible directions. Current scientific research institutions often have top scientists to lead everyone and gradually guide graduate and undergraduate students to study. of. The possibility of joining in the middle school stage is very small, and it is difficult to cultivate this ability through competition in the middle school stage.
More importantly, the growth and training of true scientific researchers is a relatively long-term process. The competition is very effective in early screening and logical training. Many, many problems later cannot be solved by competitions. Some people also mentioned how to balance scientific research work and life. Obviously, competitions cannot help... The key choice in life is whether to take the scientific research road or not, competitions can't help a lot...
To put it bluntly, competitions can help you open the door to scientific research. Whether you continue to work hard to open the door and walk over, there are still many things to do. In such a comparison, it seems that the college entrance examination can only send people to this door, even the cracks cannot be opened...
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