"Higher vocational college entrance examination", also known as "3+ certificate college entrance examination", is aimed at vocational middle school students. In other words, only vocational middle school students can participate. High school students are not allowed to participate. High school students can only take the general college entrance examination. In addition, only vocational secondary school students with Guangdong household registration can take the "Higher Vocational College Entrance Examination". Vocational school students with foreign household registration must meet several conditions if they want to take the college entrance examination. In addition, students who must have a national computer grade certificate or a national English grade certificate are eligible to take the exam. (any grade certificate)

"Higher Vocational Education College Entrance Examination" is a unified examination held by Guangdong Education Examinations Institute on June 7th and 8th every year. The examination items are Chinese, mathematics and English. The test knowledge difficulty of these three subjects belongs to the simplest difficulty of Chinese, numbers and English in high school. Each subject 150, with a total score of 450. Take the reference students of 20 16 as an example. In 20 16, there were 25,000 candidates taking the college entrance examination. The average score of these 25,000 students in higher vocational college entrance examination is 258.