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Back at 216 in Handancai, Xu Qiu received an email from the counselor about the evaluation and application of the scholarship.

The annual scholarship evaluation of Shanghai University of Magic City is declared at the end of September, and selected and announced at the beginning of October.

For postgraduate freshmen, the freshman scholarship students have been directly arranged in order according to the type of student source.

Xu Qiu took a look at his freshman scholarship level, and then found that he was the second prize for freshmen, and the first prize was awarded to several consecutive master's and doctoral students of the school.

However, Xu Qiu intends to apply for a national scholarship. The first and second prizes for freshmen are not important to him. Anyway, he can only get one at most and cannot be stacked.

This system is supposed to give more opportunities to students, but it is actually a forced equalization of wealth.

Of course, from the school's point of view, there is nothing wrong with doing so.

After all, the total amount of scholarships is limited, and students who want to achieve 100% coverage can only do average.

Otherwise, if the person in the head wins both the National Award, the Title Award, and the First Prize, all the money will be taken away by him, and the 50,000 scholarship will be exclusive to one person, while the others will not get any points.

There are four types of scholarships, national scholarships, national inspirational scholarships, general academic scholarships, and named scholarships.

The National Encouragement Scholarship is given to poor students, and the amount is lower than the National Award. For undergraduates, the National Award is 8,000, and the Encouragement Scholarship is 5,000. In fact, it is a bit of a student aid. Only poor students can apply, and it is relatively easy to obtain .

Among the other three types of scholarships, national scholarships are quite special, and they have two sets of standards compared with ordinary academic scholarships and title scholarships. The former needs to fill in the application materials by themselves, while the latter two are directly ranked according to the scholarship scores. The higher the ranking, the higher the amount you will get.

According to Wu Feifei, who has experience in participating in the selection process, the national award mainly examines academic achievements and on-the-spot defense ability.

There are about 10 national awards for master’s students and doctoral students in the Department of Materials Science and Technology each year. The master’s and doctoral students of different grades are put together to compete against each other. Therefore, the higher the grade, the greater the advantage.

There is a difference in the defense. Generally, the number of interviewees is 1.5-3 times the total number of places. It depends on the situation of students each year. If there are more bosses, more people will be admitted, but the number of awards is fixed.

The defense is mainly used to distinguish those who barely enter the defense, so that the good performance on the spot will win the prize. Of course, there is no telling if there are inside stories.

When applying, as long as you think you can do it, you can apply. However, in order not to cause trouble for the counselors, students who are generally second and third graduates will first participate in the general scholarship.

Then after the selection results come out, usually students who meet the first-class academic scholarship standards will apply for the national award. Finally, the departments and counselors will be screened to confirm the national award defense list.

If you take the third prize to participate in the national award, there is a high probability that you will not be able to enter the national award defense, and the counselor and department will have to review it for you, which is very troublesome.

If you are a new student, because there is no reference, you can only estimate it yourself.

The lower limit standard for general freshmen to be selected for the national award defense is the one with the worst academic achievement among the students selected for the national award defense in other grades.

Other freshmen may still wonder whether they are qualified enough to apply for the national award, but for Xu Qiu, this is not a big deal.

His academic achievements, not to mention the lower limit, the upper limit will blow you away.

Therefore, Xu Qiu directly downloaded the application form for the National Award and began to fill it out.

The application form for the national scholarship is very simple and rough. It contains some basic information such as name and student number on the top, and there is a large blank column below to fill in the academic achievements according to the format.

Academic achievements, or articles, must be the first unit in Shanghai University, that is to say, the work of graduate students from other schools and postgraduate entrance examinations in the original school does not count.

For Xu Qiu, it was enough to exclude Mo Wenlin's first article.

Xu Qiu took a careful inventory of his work, and found that in the past year, he had written a total of 16 second articles! There are 9 articles in one article!

There are also several articles that are ranked second in the same first work, and they are also counted as second works.

If you only look at one work, there are a total of 5 articles in the first district of SCI, including two articles from AM, one article from NC, one article from Angew, and one article from AEM.

There are also 3 SCI Division II papers, including two from ACSAMI and one from Macromolecule;

Finally, there is an article in the new journal ACSEL that has not been released in the division. If ACSEL is released in the division at the end of the year, it will definitely be in the first district of SCI, but the school’s regulations are dead. It can only be counted as the fourth area of ​​SCI.

In addition, there is also an AM article and an article on "Natural Energy", which of course cannot be counted as this year's achievements.

Statistical work is really troublesome, but Xu Qiu is quite proud of his academic achievements that can't be written on a page of application form.

After sending the application documents to the counselor Bao Wei, Xu Qiu looked at the other partners in the research group, and they were all busy with scholarship applications.

Seeing Xu Qiu approaching her computer screen, Chen Wanqing said with a smile, "Xu Qiu, it's great that you're not from Bosan."

Duan Yun echoed, "Yes, yes."

Xu Qiu was stunned: "Senior sister, senior brother Duan Yun, why can't I understand what you are talking about?"

Wu Feifei also added: "It's a good thing you're not from Ph.D. Er, otherwise..."

Xu Qiu was even more confused: "Do you dare to say more than half of what you say?"

Chen Wanqing did not explain, but sent him a Word file: "You will understand after reading our award rules."

Xu Qiu returned to his seat, received the senior sister's documents, and asked Wu Feifei for a copy of the award rules for the second year of Ph.D., and began to study.

The award rules for graduate students are generally similar, but they are quite different from those for undergraduate students.

Whether it is Wu Feifei's second detailed rules, or Chen Wanqing's and Duan Yunbo's third detailed rules, there are generally three parts of indicators, including grade points, scientific research papers, and moral conduct, but different grades have different emphasis.

Ph.D. 2 pays more attention to grade points, because the second grade is actually the evaluation of the work during Ph. 1, so the proportions of the three are 40%, 30% and 30% respectively.

Ph.D. 3 pays more attention to scientific research papers, and reviews the work during Ph. 2. The proportions of the three are 20%, 50% and 30% respectively.

As for the work during the third year of Ph.D., I will not participate in the awards, because if I don’t postpone my graduation, I will have already graduated when I was in the fourth Ph.D., and I will not be in school anymore. Naturally, I will not get a scholarship.

Therefore, some research groups will play tricks. Students do not sign their own names on their work during their third year of Ph.D.

In this way, when freshmen enter school, they inherit several high-quality articles and can directly win the national award. Even if they fail to win the national award, it is very easy to get a title award.

Pass the article on when the freshman is in his third year of Ph.D., thus forming a perfect cycle.

In this regard, the old professor Wang Shaoxian said: "Inappropriate signature, academic misconduct!"

Xu Qiu tried to simulate and calculate the score according to the detailed rules of senior sister Bo San.

The first block, grade points.

This is easy to calculate, with a full score of 4.0, then directly multiplying by 5 can be converted into a 20-point system.

This part seems to have 20 points, but in fact, the gap cannot be widened at all, because they are all doctoral students, and the GPA will basically not drop below 3.0, and there are very few who can get more than 3.6 points, so everyone is on this item. The actual score is basically 15-18 points, and the difference is equivalent to only 3 points.

The second piece is conduct and morality.

This is a percentage system, and then multiplied by 0.3, converted to 30 points.

Xu Qiu found that there are many sub-questions here, such as:

The postgraduate tutor will score, excellent 30 points, good 20 points, pass 10 points, poor 0 points;

Counselor scoring, full score 20 points;

The postgraduate teaching secretary will score, with a full score of 10 points, mainly to check whether the students submit the project proposal report, mid-term evaluation and other postgraduate training materials on time.

These three items account for 60 points out of 100 points, and basically everyone can get more than 50 points.

First of all, 99% of the tutors’ scores are excellent. Generally, there are no tutors who cheat students like this. Even if they PUSH, they will not do things that harm others or benefit themselves. They deliberately prevent students from getting good scholarships unless they have animosity with students.

Secondly, the 10 points of the postgraduate teaching secretary are also free, as long as the materials are submitted on time, it is not too difficult to do.

Finally, the counselor will score, although there will be a difference in scores, but usually at least a pass will be given, and then according to the normal distribution, ranging from 12 to 20 points, the class committee and the like may have higher scores, which is different from the tutor's The situation is similar, basically you will not give too low a score, if you only give a few points, it is tantamount to tearing your face, how can we meet in the future.

And the remaining 40 points, most people can't get it, so the gap can't be widened.

For example, class committee members, cadres of the Youth League and Student Union, cadres of the student union, etc., will each receive five points, with a maximum of 10 points;

Participate in various campus cultural activities and spiritual civilization construction of the school, and those who have won honors at the school level or above will receive a maximum of 5 points for each item, with a maximum of 10 points;

Actively participate in the submission of information work, and those whose submitted papers are accepted by the relevant departments of the school or department, will get 2 points for each accepted article, and the total number of points will not exceed 10.

Actively participate in voluntary blood donation, 10 points.

Graduate students of science and engineering are busy with scientific research. How can they have time to contribute to spiritual civilization construction and information work? Maybe liberal arts graduate students are so free.

Not everyone is willing to donate blood voluntarily. This thing is said to be very harmful, but no one knows what the actual situation is.

Xu Qiu went to donate once, 200CC, and got a blood donation certificate.

Hmm... In fact, the main purpose is to check the blood type. The blood type in the household registration book has always been "unknown", which is very uncomfortable.

Calculated in this way, most people's conduct and morality are around 60 points, converted into a 30-point system, that is, a minimum of 18 points, and no matter how large the difference is, it is generally within 10 points.

Moreover, those who can get high scores in this item basically have a high probability of not being superior in scientific research work, because people's energy is limited, and you can't expect one person to be able to shoulder all kinds of student work and It is almost impossible to do a good job in scientific research.