First experience with Hujiang Online School’s CET-4 smart course: Is it reliable to pass the CET-4 easily for 29 yuan?

For many college students, CET-4 has become an unavoidable hurdle. However, when they enter society and start working, some industries have rigid requirements for CET-4, which forces those who have not passed the test in school to accept this challenge again.

When there are hundreds of students in large classes, tens of thousands of real test questions and several thousand yuan for passing the CET-4, there is a set of English CET-4 courses that is only claimed to cost dozens of yuan. Many people must have doubts about its authenticity and effectiveness.

Can you really pass the CET-4 easily with just the price of a lunch? Noticing the Hujiang Online School CET-4 Smart Course, which is claimed to be the first adaptive learning product in the field of college English proficiency test in China and currently costs only 29 yuan, we decided to try it ourselves.

Pre-school survey provides basis for personalized learning

Unlike traditional CET-4 courses, Hujiang Online School's CET-4 Intelligent Course is not in a hurry to impart exam content to you at the beginning, nor does it use a few fixed course models for students of different English proficiency levels. Instead, it first recommends users to complete a "pre-school test" to provide a basis for customizing personalized learning plans for different groups of people.

Taking the CET-4 test date on June 17, 2017 as a benchmark, users first need to set their expected target scores, including 425-500 points, 500-550 points, 550-600 points and above 600 points. Not everyone is a learning genius, so it is quite necessary to set appropriate goals for yourself that can be achieved in the short term.

The types of pre-school tests include the five major ability assessments covered in the CET-4 exam: Listening, Reading, Writing, Translation, and Language in Use, which can comprehensively measure students' true level of ability in coping with the exam.

Even if you answer questions through the computer network, Hujiang Online School's Level 4 intelligent course can still completely restore the answer format of the English Level 4 exam, from multiple-choice questions to writing and translation questions.

After finishing the test and submitting the answer sheet, Hujiang Online School's Level 4 Intelligent Course will also remind users of the questions they have missed and not answered, to prevent the overall assessment of students' abilities from being affected due to incomplete answers. This is a very thoughtful consideration.

Finally, Hujiang Online School's Level 4 intelligent course will evaluate users in the five major aspects of Listening, Reading, Writing, Translation, and Language in Use through multiple dimensions such as the accuracy, time, and score of the pre-study test. It will visually display the learners' shortcomings in the form of charts, and at the same time, provide a reasonable study plan based on the previously set score goals and the remaining time for the exam.

For example, according to our experience, it took only 5 minutes to achieve a 24% accuracy rate. Before the formal exam, at least the first 104 lessons should be completed, which means studying for at least 3.47 hours a day. You can feel the time pressure, but it is not an exaggeration.

Real-time adjustment of learning plans highlights the advantages of intelligence

We always hope that English learning will no longer be rigid and boring as before just to cope with exams. Just like after mobile phones become smart, their ease of use and humanization are greatly improved. The "intelligence" in Hujiang Online School's Level 4 smart course is also to make the way to pass the English Level 4 exam more flexible.

Based on the pre-school test results and goals completed in the early stage, Hujiang Online School will tailor the course to each person's different English proficiency level.

At this point we can find that the various questions answered in the previous pre-school test all have targeted purposes, which is reflected in the smart learning courses by marking the courses with relevant links for priority learning.

Of course, the most "intelligent" aspect of Hujiang's Level 4 smart course is the dynamic adjustment of the learning process. It is no longer a linear, daily timed and quantitative completion of goals, but a dynamic task planning to find the fastest way to improve grades. For example, in the formal learning process, based on the different staged abilities of users, basic/intensive stage tests and mock exams will be introduced in stages to test the user's ability status, so as to strengthen and improve weaknesses in a targeted and planned manner, and achieve the purpose of strengthening skills, making up for shortcomings and improving scores.

For example, during the learning process, Hujiang Online School's Level 4 intelligent course recommends completing the dynamically pushed learning reinforcement package. In the "class homepage" which is equivalent to the learning homepage, users can also have a comprehensive understanding of the completion status of different learning projects, popular discussions, and even the learning progress of other students. The graphically designed interface is intuitive and easy to understand. On the other hand, working hard to complete the daily progress bar has also become an interesting motivation to complete learning tasks.

Surprisingly cost-effective CET-4 test preparation solution

As a professional Internet learning platform, Hujiang Online School launched the CET-4 smart course, which emphasizes finding the most efficient way to pass the CET-4 exam through intelligent and precise assessment and customized methods. It even dares to use the slogan "free retake if you don't pass" to provide an additional "contract guarantee". If you finish the course and take the College English Test Band 4 in June 2017 but don't get a passing score, you can retake it once for free, which is an additional guarantee of passing the CET-4. After some experience, we can see the source of their confidence in the product.

Modern people say that when choosing a product, one should consider the "price/performance ratio", and price/performance ratio is exactly what the Hujiang Online School's Level 4 Smart Course can most directly make users feel.

First of all, in terms of price, you can enjoy a full set of 102 lessons for 29 yuan. Each lesson not only includes detailed preparation lectures, knowledge point exercises, stage tests for each unit, and online mock exams, but also famous teaching assistants such as Mr. A Li, a senior teaching expert in CET-4 and CET-6 who has 20 years of English teaching experience. Such rich learning content has been reduced from the original price of 1,139 yuan to 29 yuan, and the cost-effectiveness is self-evident. In addition, Hujiang Online School's Level 4 smart course can help users arrange and use time more reasonably, and intelligently adjust their study plans. Coupled with the platform's own PC, mobile phone, and iPad full-platform compatibility advantages, users can take classes anytime, anywhere, and their energy investment is more targeted, thereby greatly improving their learning efficiency.

Hujiang Online School’s Level 4 Intelligent Course officially started on March 1st. Faced with such an affordable price, we did become one of the first users with a "nitpicking" mentality at first. However, judging from its actual performance, this intelligent course did not disappoint.

As a "new thing" in people's common sense, the concept of Internet intelligence is often difficult to directly connect with the traditional education industry. However, for the price of a lunch, people taking the CET-4 test have enough reasons to try a new tutoring program and find a new way to achieve their goals.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.