The Importance of the Multiple Candidates Re-examination in the Unified National Graduate Entrance Examination in Mainland China

Abstract

 Postgraduate education is a way to provide high-level innovative talents for the society, which has high requirements for graduate students’ scientific research ability and practical ability. To speed up the construction of a big country of postgraduate education, strict and critical screening conditions and standards should be formulated when selecting postgraduate students. However, the criteria for re-examination in the Unified National Graduate Entrance Examination in mainland China may not be perfect at present. This article critically illustrates the importance of increasing the number of students participating in the re-examination from three points: the benefits of the multiple candidate system, the partially covered recommendation system, and the possible negative consequences of excessive planned admission, and attempts to analyze the implications of the current re-examination situation on higher education through a positive case and a negative case.