The principle of urban planning examination aims to recruit graduate students majoring in urban and rural planning, and its evaluation standard is that outstanding undergraduate graduates from colleges and universities can reach the passing level or above, so as to ensure that the admitted students have basic professional theoretical quality.

The difficulty of Chongqing University 356 (theoretical code) is relatively low, which is roughly equivalent to that of Xijian University and South China University of Technology. Compared with Southeast Asia and Tongji University, the coverage of knowledge is smaller and the depth of the questions is shallower, so the questions are simpler.