I just finished a PETS3 examination yesterday, and I just arrived home in the evening yesterday。
Now, I plan to write an article to summary the examination and think about what to do next. The following is the brief information.
- the reason why I try to pass the PETS3 examination.
- preparation before the exam: sign up, buy textbooks, time schedule, scheduling
- question format
- study plan, learning methods, process.
- exam process
- next plan: find a front-end development job opportunities.
This is my first attempt at writing a blog in English, learning English I mean it. I try to write blog in English as much as possible, although it takes a lot of time at first, things will gradually get better.
昨天我刚刚完成了PETS3考试，昨天晚上刚回到家。
现在，我计划撰写一篇文章来总结检查并考虑下一步该做什么。以下是主要内容。
- 报考PETS3考试的原因；
- 考试前准备：注册、买书、时间安排、行程安排；
- 试题格式；
- 我的学习计划、学习方法及过程；
- 考试过程
- 下一步的打算：寻找前端开发的工作机会。
这是我第一次尝试用英语写博客，学习英语，我的意思是。我尝试尽可能多地用英语写博客，尽管起初需要大量时间，但事情会逐渐变得更好。

下面的内容以英文的形式呈现，如果你感兴趣但英语不好，请找一些浏览器插件或翻译吧。

Reason

In March last year, I found a job of front-end development in Shanghai。 Due to the changing times, this may be the last stop of my career. I worked very hard to familiarize myself with the project, optimize the performance of the mini program, and optimize the quality and efficiency of project development, but I found it difficult to give full play to my potential. After about 7 months, I decided to leave the company. I stayed in that company for 8 months. I know the economy is bad, I know a programmer's career is short, the Chinese Internet companies don't seem to welcome programmers over 35 years old, or even 32 years old. But I enjoy programming. Compared with those excellent computer science graduates, I have strong ability of computer programming, which those they can't learn in three to five years. I am not afraid of being tired, I don't care about salary that much anymore (about this issue I will talk about later). Those were the reasons why I decide to take a chance.

But what is the relationship between finding a job and learning English?

The computer was invented by Americans, all computer languages are designed in English, and many new technical articles and software documentations is English, and when looked for a job early last year, I found that many positions required English skills. so I desided to learning English and try to got a certificate.

But there is one thing I cannot ignore about the impact of AI: Is learning English really useful?

This is a real story that you and I must face bravely.
Japanese art student suicide

Today, AI technology can easily complete real-time translation between any two languages. Is learning English still meaningful?

Here are some reasons that learning English is necessary.

English is a language which logic is strictly forbidden, If you translate it to Chinese by machine or software, it will lose or misunderstand some extra infomations, such as tense、voice and mood, and etc.

For instance: "It is the time you went to bed.", google translate, baidu translate, deepseek and x.ai don't translate it exactly.

The exactly meaning is "你早该睡觉了"！ The implicit meaning is：“这个人平时在这个时候已经在睡觉了”。

Similar examples include:

English	Chinese	diff
Lu Xun was a writer	鲁迅是一名作家	在英语语法中对已故之人的描述要用一般过去时，而非一般现在时；当然这句话也不是说鲁迅过去是作家，现在就不是了。
If he had time, he could go with us.	如果他有时间，他可以和我们一起去。	这句话的英语语法是虚拟语气，隐含一层意思是：他其实没有时间！
He could swim when he was five	他五岁时就会游泳	这句话用could时表示的是他过去的能力，而非现在，至于他现在会不会，不得而知，试体会一下
I have gone to Shanghai	我去上海了	这句话用现在完成时，隐含对现在的影响 “所以你现在找过到我”
I went to Shanghai	我去了上海	这句话用一般过去式，表示我过去去过，但现在可能已经回来了

and so on ...

Quoting a famous quote from Beijing University professor Xiao Zhen:

"We say knowledge changes destiny, but a superficial understanding of knowledge may make your destiny worse!" (我们说知识改变命运，但是对知识的一知半解可能会是你的命运更差！)

I would like to add that this statement is especially true in the financial field.

If you are an experienced software engineer, you may agree that the quality of code written by different people is different results, and there are many codes that are gegative assets, and some bosses may not realize this problem, especially those who don't know programming.

AI is expensive, especially chatGPT5 is difficult to produce. AI is not a good business

Althouth deepseek has significantly reduced costs. but compared with ChatGPT, I feel it has may shortcoming, such as slow response, unstable service, and other languages (besides Chinese) issues can't deal well, and some answer I dissatisfaction.

This year's PETS3 paper has an article about that learning mutiple languages can delay certain diseases. I just checked.

Finally, I make a summary.

I can't make out whether it's too late to learn English now because that AI evolution too fast! Just like some postgraduates who find that they can't find a better job than those who graduated with a bachelor's degree in three years.

But I don't regret. I try to use the fastest time to pass the PETS3. Life is an experience. Some people may consider that life is all about eating, drinking and having fun, but I have my own ideas. Even if I'm dealt a bad hand, I will still play it seriously.(即使拿到一手烂牌，也要认真的玩下去) .

Preparation

Introduction

The brief introduction of PETS3

You can understand like this, PETS3 equals CET4, PETS4 equals CET6.
Once you have graduated from college, you can only apply for PETS.
There are two opportunities to apply for the exam each year. one is in March, the other is in September.
You can follow some WeChat public accounts
- 公共英语等级考试
- 各省公众号：浙江考试、江苏招生考试
- 中国考试网全国英语等级考试

Schedule

The examination schedule is as follows.

December 26th, open register.
open sign up from 6 o'clock 7th January to 9th January
Print Admission Ticket: 12th March
Exam Date: 22nd March - 23rd March
Result Query: about early May.

这段内容很重要我翻译下

考试时间表如下。

开放注册： 12月26日。
开放报名： 1月7日-1月9日
打印准考证：3月12日
考试日期：3月22日 - 3月23日
结果查询：5月初

Sign Up

Sign up is very important and really difficult.

The information I learnt from Jiangsu Examination Institute is as follows:

The second half of last year, there are 89000 people sign up, but only 41000 people sign up successfully.
If you can't sign up, you have to wait until 6 o'clock the next day to reqister, because there are some people who don't pay within 24 hours, it will be refunded.
Later, I learnt there is a business, proxy sign up. You can find someone to help you register on Taobao through WeChat official accounts. It is said that the success rate of this sign up is 95% . I suggest you use taobao because it is more cheap.

Examination Analyze

The PETS3 exam consists of two parts: a written test and an oral test.
written test: 120 minutes, score of 60 will pass
oral test: 10 minutes
- Two examiners will grade you separately
- 1/3 The examiner who talks to you
- 2/3 The examiner who takes notes

Here are some suggestions:

You can buy textbooks and test paper from taobao.
Read the listening questions immediately when you receive your test paper. The listening section will start playing in a few minutes.
After listening, do the first four reading questions, then the writings, and finally do the fifth reading question, because time is not enough.

Study-Process

Frankly speaking, my English is very bad, I have almost no grammer foundation. I remember that I gave up learning English in my third year of high school. I unexpectely got score of 90 in the college entrance examination. I didn't study any English at all in college. I only took the CET4 exam once, and I seem I got score of 325 (Full score: 750). Now, ten years has passed, I forget almost everything, I guess I only know more than 1000 words, including the words I vaguely remember.

I planed to use four months preparing for PETS3, I guess three months is enough, one month is extra preparing.
But, actually, I only prepared for 3 and a half months. The reasons are as follows
- This year's exam is 9 days earlier than last year, and I was surprised.
- The Spring Festival delayed for me 5 days.
- The previous learning of computer operation knowledge postponed me for 3 days, until December 4th when I started learning English.
I underestimated the difficulty of the exam or I overrestimated my English proficiency. The preparation work was very tight, I basically gave it my all.
- According to my diary, I have devoted approximately 800 hours to learning English
- During this period, I spent nearly half of my time learning English grammar, and I took three courses, English Rabbit Course from youtube.com, New Oriental's New Concept English Grammar Course, Hign School English Grammar.
- I only learnt the first half of the textbook, but I studied very seriously. The text and some listening parts reached the level of listening audio and silently writing the original text， buy using a voice recorder
- Actually, I lost some refills.

Daily chores take up about 1.5 hours on average per day.

like teach my daughters, read financial knowledge or news, watch the stock.

Besides programming skills, I also have some financial management skills， which allow me to increase the value of my money. However, I am very clear-handed, I can only make a little money here, otherwise it will become an adventure and gambling. I control myself and rarely look at the fluctuations of the stock market. I know the right way is to learn English as soon as possible and then find a job.

Overall, I tried my best.

Advantages and disadvantages of this method of leaning Enlish

Unable to detect progress in learning
- I didn't do any test papers in the first two months. I hate reading articles that I can't understand. I just learnt grammer, and the vocabulary is far from enough.
- Grammar learning is not very useful for exams, because there are no grammar questions, and it can only be reflected in the composition.
- I insist on learning grammer because I really want to learn English well and be able to speak it in the future, not just for a certificate.
- There were still three weeks before the eaxm. I done several past exam papers(历年真题) but failed all the them, I felt very frustrated.
- I tried to recite new words from paper.
- Last week before examination, I did two mock tests and estimate passed it.
Listening is good, reading is a little bit poor, and I can't finish the reading.
- Because most of words in the listening section are simple and common, I listened to the audio repeatedly.
- I prepared about 4000 words, but the vocabulary was not enough. I didn't prepare accounding to the outline because I think learning words is not just for memorization, but for making sentenses, I learn new words from the text,
- When doing reading, due to not know some of the words, it takes me much time to guess its mean, and I can't finished all reading parts.
I probably get a high score on the compositions due to I prepared 7 compositions, and silence written every several day.
One benefit of learning English grammer is that I will dare to speak English. This requires me to remember the word's class and meaning, then I can make sentences. I know the tense, voice, mood and person. I know the order of the various words in declarative sentences, Then I dare to speck English, but it is a bit slow and I still make grammatical mistakes because I am not proficient. I need more practice.

During the exam

As mentioned earlier, applying for the exam is difficult. I live in Hangzhou, I was supposed to take the exam in Hangzhou, but the policy in Hangzhou is not friendly, The let some people pre-register for the exam first, and then require that they must pay social security in Hangzhou in the recently.

So I chose to take exam at Jangsu, but not expect the person who registered to report to Lianyungang for me. As I hardly take exercise, on the day of the exam and the day before I walked a long way, during the oral exam, I could hardly walk any long!

The night before the exam, I had some insomnia. During the written test, I drank two bottle of drink which containing caffeine and can refreshing, but I still felt a little sleepy.

Maybe it was an echo from the classroom, the listening of the playback was not very clear.

But there were only minor issues ahead, I fell like I should be able to pass because the two essays are based on the model essays I memorized before.

The results will be announced in early May. May I success!

Next-Plan

Quickly learn how to use AI, especially the deepseek.

Review computer front-end knowledge, organize my resum, and find a job.

Supporting for my Family!

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