When applying for civil servants, it is generally required to have an "ordinary full-time" undergraduate degree. When I say full-time, I mean full-time undergraduates who have passed the general college entrance examination. When they graduate, they will get a full-time undergraduate diploma in general education and a very important registration certificate. Registration certificate is the status symbol of full-time students. It is a unified undergraduate course and is included in the national employment plan. The number of undergraduates enrolled each year is planned and limited.

China's higher education is divided into general higher education, adult higher education and higher self-study examination. Only the first one belongs to full-time education, while the latter two are not. Self-taught examination is nothing more than taking part in the self-taught examination organized by the state. Nowadays, many schools or examiners hold so-called "full-time self-study exams" in order to make money, which is actually deceptive. This kind of full-time self-study exam is really the same as ordinary undergraduates, but its nature and identity are different. "Full-time self-study exam" is a training course that everyone can enter without any threshold. Attending this training course, you can get the training course completion certificate issued by the corresponding school, but this certificate is invalid. Only the school where they take the exam admits it, and society will certainly not admit it.

You take the self-study exam after studying at home, or take the self-study exam after attending the so-called "full-time self-study exam" and other social assistance training classes, and the diplomas you get are exactly the same, without any difference. There is no full-time self-study diploma.

The full-time required by civil servants must refer to ordinary full-time, that is, unified recruitment of undergraduate courses. Some civil servants can also take the exam themselves, such as Fujian Province.