Postgraduate entrance examination for English majors in South China Normal University is the basis of English teaching, and its bibliography is Sun Peiqing's History of Education in China, East China Normal University Press, fourth edition; Wu Shiying, A Course in the History of Foreign Education, People's Education Press, Third Edition; Wang Daojun, Guo Wenan, Pedagogy, People's Education Press, seventh edition; Contemporary Educational Psychology, Liu Rude, Beijing Normal University Press, Third Edition; How to learn a language? Letterborn & Nina. Spada. Oxford, No.4; A Course in Linguistics, Hu Zhuanglin, Peking University Publishing House, Fifth Edition.

The score line of subject English postgraduate entrance examination in South China Normal University is very high, and the retest line is around 350-400.