Directional students refer to a policy formulated to help remote areas, ethnic minority areas and industries with difficult working environment to train talents and ensure that they obtain a certain number of graduates. Candidates are required to voluntarily fill in the orientation employment enrollment volunteers in colleges and universities. Once they are admitted as orientation students according to relevant policies, they must sign relevant orientation employment agreements with universities and orientation employment units before enrollment.

For various reasons, some schools can recruit some students who have failed in the college entrance examination. There are two kinds of admission: matriculation or orientation.

Preparatory class refers to the year before the formal undergraduate course, that is to say, you are not qualified for undergraduate course at present. After studying for one year, you will be eligible to go next year, that is, others will graduate in four years and the preparatory class will graduate in five years.

Directional students, also known as substitute students, refer to the number of talents trained by the school for a unit every year after signing a talent training agreement with the school and sending them to work after graduation.

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Orientation refers to the orientation of employment direction, that is, after applying for the exam, the oriented students must return to the designated unit for employment after graduation, and many units also require that they must stay in the unit for 3-5 years or even longer before they can change jobs. Orientation students are generally military orientation, as well as the orientation of cooperation between some units and schools and some unpopular majors (such as how many years will nuclear physics orientation students require to work in a laboratory before leaving their jobs after graduation). Due to various restrictions, the scores of directed students will be slightly lower than the normal line.