Tsinghua High School students participated in the first national exam of China's Advanced Placement courses in 2015

April 11 and 12, 2015，China Advanced Placement Program，The first national test was held in the cities where the first batch of pilot schools are located，The test subjects are calculus, linear algebra and General Academic English, which have been offered in the pilot schools。A total of 74 students from the High School affiliated to Tsinghua University, which initiated the Advanced Placement course in China and was one of the first pilot schools, took the test at the Beijing Jiaotong University test center。

据悉，The first national examination of Advanced Placement courses in China is organized by experts from the Examination Center of the Ministry of Education，Part of the implementation of the national postgraduate examination channel，Test centers have been set up in the cities where the first batch of pilot schools of China's Advanced Placement program are located，The test center is a local university，Twenty-four universities, including Beijing Jiaotong University, East China University of Science and Technology, and Northeast Normal University, have exam centers。According to incomplete statistics, 1,516 students from 50 pilot schools including Renmin University High School, Beijing No. 4 High School, Tsinghua High School and Shanghai Jiao Tong University High School participated in the exam。The test subjects are calculus, linear algebra, and General Academic English，The calculus and linear algebra exams will take two and a half hours，It is different from the usual examination form in middle school，The format of the exam is mainly solution questions，It mainly examines the students' grasp of basic concepts and basic methods and the corresponding mathematical thinking methods。The English test is composed of two parts, the 11th test is mainly written, the oral test is held in late April through face-to-face online video with the examiner, the two parts of the score is added to the final total。With the challenge brought by the new college entrance examination reform plan, the differentiation of college entrance examination is reduced, and colleges need a new scale with differentiation。If the Advanced Placement program is successful and the time is ripe, the score will likely be included in the comprehensive evaluation system of many universities' independent admissions。

China Advanced Placement (AP) is a project initiated by Tsinghua High School, led by the Chinese Society of Education, and in cooperation with Higher Education Press。The test was held for the first batch of students to participate in the course, which began in 51 pilot schools across the country in September 2014。The Chinese Advanced Placement exam is given twice a year, once in the spring and once in the fall。