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The liberal arts comprehensive ability test, referred to as "liberal arts comprehensive" or "literature comprehensive", refers to the examination paper composed of ideology, politics, history and geography in the college entrance examination, that is, the "3" in the "3+X (comprehensive)" test refers to Chinese, mathematics (divided into liberal arts mathematics and science mathematics) and English.

"X" refers to comprehensive literature composed of ideology, politics, history and geography or comprehensive science composed of physics, chemistry and biology, and its score is twice that of the three major subjects (comprehensive literature or comprehensive science is 300 points, and both Chinese and English are 150 points). Candidates choose whether to study liberal arts or science. If liberal arts is a comprehensive literature composed of thought, politics, history and geography, then the corresponding is "science synthesis".

Relevant regulations:

1In February, 1999, the Ministry of Education issued the Opinions on Further Deepening the Reform of Enrollment System in Colleges and Universities, and decided to try out the "3+X" college entrance examination model in Guangdong Province, which opened the prelude to a new round of college entrance examination reform, thus making the college entrance examination reform once again a hot topic of general concern in education and even the whole society.

In 2005, all the subjects of college entrance examination in all provinces and cities in China adopted the new curriculum, and the mode of college entrance examination will not change much except some provinces and cities may make some fine adjustments (for example, the mode of college entrance examination in Guangxi in 2005 was changed to "3+ small comprehensive" mode).