The difference is not big, the content, method and diploma of the exam are exactly the same; The difference lies in the different ways of learning: society studies while working, with self-study as the mainstay; However, self-study social assistance is generally a full-time study at school.

First, the social self-study exam.

Social self-study refers to self-study. Candidates take a single subject examination, pass a subject and issue a certificate of conformity. After all subjects are passed, you can apply for graduation and issue academic certificates.

The social self-study exam has no academic system restrictions. You can apply for graduation as long as you have completed all the subjects in your major and passed the exam, that is, you can graduate in five years a year, as long as you have completed the exam in eight years. The relevant time policy is based on the policy situation of the year.

Social self-study exam will have stricter conditions than self-study exam; Most of the social self-study exams are studying while working, but you can choose your major completely freely in combination with your own work. Self-taught students are organized to create learning conditions for self-taught candidates and provide course guidance and self-study guidance. The most common is the full-time self-study class in private colleges and universities, that is, the establishment of full-time tutorial schools (classes) to teach students comprehensive and systematic courses in the form of classroom teaching, but this does not apply to on-the-job students.

Second, self-study social assistance self-study exam

Social aid for self-study examination is an activity of government functional departments, enterprises and institutions, democratic parties, social organizations and individuals. According to the requirements of the professional examination plan and course examination outline published by the competent department of higher education self-study examination, organize self-study classes, create learning conditions for self-study candidates through face-to-face, correspondence, radio, television, audio and video recording, and provide course counseling and self-study guidance. The most common is that private colleges and universities run full-time self-study classes.

The forms of social assistance can be divided into:

(1) unified assistance from business departments, such as internal assistance organized by committees and bureaus entrusted by examination majors, including national unified assistance and regional unified assistance;

(2) unit assistance;

(3) Amateur course counseling, such as self-taught classes in colleges and universities, can help candidates with different needs and levels, that is, face-to-face, publication, correspondence, etc. ;

(4) Full-time tutoring, such as full-time self-study classes in private colleges and universities, is to set up full-time tutoring schools (classes) to teach students comprehensive and systematic courses in the form of classroom teaching.

After systematic study, those who have achieved the required results through graduation thesis defense and degree English examination and meet the requirements for degree application may apply for the award of adult bachelor's degree.

Third, the higher education self-study exam

Referred to as "self-taught examination", it was established with the approval of 198 1 the State Council. It is a national examination of higher education for self-learners, a form of higher education combining individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and an important part of China's socialist higher education system. It is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through national examinations, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, train and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, and improve the ideological and moral quality and scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation to meet the needs of socialist modernization.