Self-taught examination was established with the approval of 198 1 the State Council. This is a self-study exam for higher education. It is a form of higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination, and it is an important part of China's socialist higher education system. Its task is to promote a wide range of individual self-study and social assistance activities through the national examination, implement the relevant provisions of the Constitution to encourage self-study, and conduct the national examination of higher education with academic qualifications as the mainstay. Cultivate and select professionals with both ability and political integrity, improve the ideological and moral, scientific and cultural quality of the whole nation, and meet the needs of socialist modernization. Self-taught examination is an important part of China's higher education. It is a national examination system for higher education based on academic qualifications. It is a form of higher education that combines individual self-study, social assistance and national examination. After systematic study, students who have passed graduation thesis defense and degree English examination can apply for granting adult bachelor's degree, take postgraduate examination and continue to study for master's and doctoral degrees.