If the thesis defense fails, with the consent of the defense committee, the thesis should be revised within 6 to 12 months and re-applied for defense. Those who fail to complete the revision of the thesis within the time limit, or fail the second interview, will no longer accept their application for dissertation defense.

In the face of the annual similarity check of graduation thesis, all major universities have used duplicate checking software, such as HowNet, VIP, Wanfang and so on. In order to deal with this matter, students can check their own papers in advance by using China HowNet's paper duplicate checking system, and then submit them to the school for duplicate checking after the repetition rate is qualified, so as to ensure foolproof.