With the increasingly pessimistic employment prospects, the employment problem of college students is expanding, and more and more college students choose the road of postgraduate entrance examination, which has become a matter of concern to many college students. Although postgraduate entrance examination has become the goal pursued by many college students, there are also many college students who take postgraduate entrance examination not because of their enthusiasm for scientific research, but because of many practical considerations, which lead to various maladjustments after postgraduate entrance examination. This paper analyzes the motivation and reasons of postgraduate entrance examination. Why do more and more college students want to take the postgraduate entrance examination?

1, get a higher diploma

With the rapid development of the whole society and the continuous expansion of the enrollment scale of colleges and universities, the regulations on skilled talents are becoming more and more harsh, which urges college students to choose postgraduate entrance examination in pursuit of perfection and higher academic background. Most students show that the postgraduate entrance examination is to ensure their thinking ability and scientific research ability, and expect to make some achievements in the academic field in the future, and quite a few graduate students have plans to study for a doctorate again. In fact, the students who really take the postgraduate entrance examination and do scientific research are very interested in learning, which shows that I like my major and have my own ideals. I hope that I can further enrich myself and study cultural knowledge seriously during my graduate studies. This kind of motivation can also stimulate my personal potential. Although there are not many such students, they do not adhere to the utilitarian concept, which will eventually make students go further and further on the academic road and eventually become experts, scholars and experts.

2. Complete the dream of a prestigious school

"Entrance to a prestigious university" is an important factor for college students' enthusiasm for postgraduate entrance examination, especially for those college students who failed in the college entrance examination and could not be admitted to an ideal university. This "dream of a prestigious university" has a vital influence. In today's society, the standard of employing people is getting higher and higher, and the teaching mode of colleges and universities is mostly "many but not precise", and the teaching content is wide and deep, which makes college students lack the grasp of professional knowledge and the improvement of their ability, and cannot meet the requirements of employers. So many college students choose to go to graduate school in order to find a better job. With the development of society and daily life, the status of famous universities is more serious, and some college students choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination to meet the dream of "prestigious schools" for men in high school.