Overview of the Extra Credit Examination

The Extra Credit Examination offers students the opportunity to take it on a voluntary basis, helping them to improve their overall score if they do not score enough points on their national university entrance exams. Since the 2010 education reform, the Spanish university entrance exam has increased from 10 to 14 points, while the Chinese university entrance exam only counts for a maximum of 10 points. To get the extra 4 points, students have to take an additional credit exam.

Examination rules and structure

Students may choose up to four subjects, but only the two highest scores will count towards the final grade. Each subject is worth 10 points and scores equal to or higher than 5 will count towards the final grade, while scores below 5 will not be taken into account.

Conversion of grades and grading factors

Each university and program has a different grading factor, which can be 0, 0.1 or 0.2. For example, if a student obtains 8 points in Mathematics II and the grading factor for the Faculty of Economics at the Complutense University of Madrid is 0.2, the subject adds 1.6 points to the total grade. A score lower than 5 does not count towards the total.

Recommended examination subjects

– Matemáticas

– Matemáticas aplicadas a las Ciencias Sociales

As we have found in our previous training sessions, both courses are generally easy to understand and master, especially for beginning Spanish students, and the math is primarily calculation-based, with fewer subjective questions, and correct answers lead directly to a score. In addition, the math content covered in the Extra Credit exam is primarily high school level knowledge, making it ideal for improving performance through short-term review.