2. Higher self-study examination, referred to as self-study examination for short, 198 1 was established with the approval of the State Council, and it is a national examination of higher education for self-learners. It is a form of higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and it is an important part of China's socialist higher education system. Its task is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through the national examination, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, and conduct the national examination of higher education with academic qualifications as the mainstay. Cultivate and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, improve the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation, and meet the needs of socialist modernization.

3. Correspondence is a learning form of adult college entrance examination (adult college entrance examination is a type of adult education), and other learning forms of adult college entrance examination include amateur learning (evening college) and full-time learning (note: after 2008, ordinary colleges and universities cancelled full-time graduation certificates of adult college entrance examination, and now only a few remain). Passed the national adult college entrance examination and was admitted to colleges and universities, and issued admission notices. Belonging to the national education series, the state recognizes academic qualifications, participates in the national unified adult college entrance examination and enrollment examination, and all provinces and regions organize enrollment in a unified manner.