在刚刚过去的2012年12月四六级考试中，估计许多同学一拿到考卷的section I作文单项，一看到题目和那个诡异的图表，许多人的脑子立刻blank了，心都碎了——只因为，曾几何时，他们过于相信某些人类的相关“押题”，导致的是自己根本没有实际的动脑，也没有动手去做一些作文练习，掌握些句子，运用些段落。但此次作文单项并非传说中的丧心病狂，下面就此次作文题目进行一些具体分析：
　　第一步肯定是审题。题目中涉及的“education pays”容易被理解为“教育支出”，但我们不妨回想一下，2003年六级真题为it pays to be honest也考察了pay这个单词做动词的用法，因此此处可以理解为接受教育得到的回报，是值得的。
　　接下来就是动手写，这次考试作文材料来源于美国劳工部网站的一份统计表，本次作文截取了其中一部分数据，并对时间做了修改。四级作文归纳为社会热点、观点对比、图表、谚语、书信五大类，虽然重点讲解了前两大类，但是对于后三类话题也没有忽视，对同学们的要求是：掌握段落结构。在近年来的英语四、六级考试中，图表作文已经成为非常“难得一见”的题型。但据统计，1991年和2002年的英语四级考试中考过图表作文，加上这次考试，几乎是10年才会考到一次。所以拿到新题型，切莫慌张，深吸一口气，仔细回忆上课所讲图表题写作结构和思路，相信凡是上课认真听讲的同学，应该可以轻松hold住作文。
　　根据上课笔记，图表题第一段应该包含三个部分“现象概述+总体描述+细节描述”，分三句话来描述就好，因为这是图片题，所以先上句“应景”的废话“as is impressively demonstrated in the bar chart above”总体描述需要总体把握学历和失业率的总体关系，而细节描述需要选取几个有代表性的特殊值。图表题最难的部分在第一段、第二段和反复强调的社会热点话题一样，要写成总分结构，要从原因结果来谈，要分层来谈，要用第一第二连接词。这些都是课堂上的老生常谈，这里就不再赘言了。在写作文的时候，我们要用正确的语言来表达清晰的思路，所以先想清楚到底是什么导致了这个现象。
　　写完后一定要检查一下自己的作文确保自己没有犯一些低级错误，保证创作的正确性。
　　除此之外，值得关注的是，这次四级考题和考研英语二作文是几乎如出一辙，而回忆2012年6月份的六级考题，和2009年考研英语一作文也是异曲同工。这冥冥之中似乎在暗示着我们，国内四六级和考研考试正趋于一体化，四六级正往考研考试类型上靠拢，建议各位同学在以后的复习过程中，如果学有余力，可以用一些高端考试的真题来训练自己，这样有利于提高自己的英语应试水平。
　　最后，附上笔者原创范文一篇，还望能对大家起到一点借鉴作用：
　　The past few years has witnessed the phenomenon that numerous individuals are in the blind pursuit of diplomas or vocational credentials. According to the statistics impressively demonstrated in the bar chart above, education degree does have a relationship with earnings, contrary to the recent theory of useless education. Those who possess a doctoral degree earn 1,551dollars median weekly, ranking first among people of other education level. The median weekly earnings of people with associate degree and below can not reach the average of 797 dollars, ranking from 768 dollars to 451 dollars.
　　Ample reasons can account for the issue of Education Pays，while the following one might be the most critical. To begin with, compared with those with comparatively lower education degree, people who have received higher education possess considerably wider knowledge, more remarkable learning and research ability, greater innovation and most of all, resourceful social network, all of which can ensure a distinctive handsome-income work. Apart from that, with the advancement of technology and the adjustment of industrial structure, quite a few high-tech industries emerge overnight, which leads to a soaring demand of workforces with high educational degree, thus, it is natural that graduates with bachelor’ and higher degree get a high pay-packet and enjoy a stable and ideal job. Without a systematic and scientific acquiring of knowledge, students can hardly enjoy a competitive edge in the employment market.
　　To my way of thinking, the issue mentioned above will bound to generate more consequences if we keep turning a blind eye and deaf ear to it. Therefore, we should appeal to the relevant administration departments to strengthen substantial education investment. And，it is high time that all of us ,parents，educators，and the authorities, make combined efforts to tell the young the fact about the Education Pays. Only when we mesh with the social needs can we fulfill our dreams, and correspondingly build an ideal paradise where life can be enjoyed to the uttermost.