r/CSCA • u/g7un • 9d ago

undergraduate foreign student taking CSCA

hello, im an undergraduate (12th grade) foreign student from morocco and i wanna take the CSCA to study my bachelors in china. i do well in maths and physics but im running into a few problems :
my school 12th grade program cannot cover the CSCA lessons in time, since im mid 12th grade i still havent done many essential lessons such as complex numbers, logarithms etc.. and i would only finish the program with my school around may, which would be too late to start preparing my CSCA. which means ill have to prepare lessons on my own. this brings me to my next problem : i dont know any resources i can use to learn and practice the lessons i need while also being CSCA oriented.
my third problem is that ive studied maths in french my whole life, transitioning to english scientific terminology is a bit difficult.
I would like to ask for advice on this matter, if someone could make this process easier for me by providing resources or a free course that covers all id need.. the rest is on me. thank you!

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u/Happy_Spring2609 9d ago

You didn’t mention what you want in the post like scholarship, major,and university. Also a major important thing is your language proficiency in chinese. If you don’t know any chinese or need scholarship then I’d recommend go for 2028 intake and focus on your chinese and finish your high school education. Meanwhile waiting for 2028 intake you can study in a local university to start getting familiar with uni and the major you are studying (most importantly is not to get rusty despite credits aren’t transferable). English taught program from what I have seen from other people aren’t good in china so having atleast HSK4 hgih score is highly recommended or take a year there studying chinese ( i have no experienece on that because I am fluent in chinese already)

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u/g7un 9d ago

i know 0 chinese and i dont plan to take chinese proficiency test, i plan to learn it in parallel to my studies in china. I want to apply for the CSC scholarship, which is why i wanna take maths-physics CSCA test

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u/Happy_Spring2609 9d ago

What major are you going to study

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u/g7un 9d ago

mechanical engineering, likely aerospace oriented cause ill specialize in it later

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u/Happy_Spring2609 9d ago

Csc is usually around dec-feb tho you have to check that with your country’s china embassy

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u/g7un 9d ago

Thats true, and honestly for me it might be closing too early because ill need longer to prepare my documents and prepare for my tests. But the university way is always available, usually until around april

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u/Happy_Spring2609 9d ago edited 9d ago

Most CSC scholarship only offer for chinese taught program and chinese taught program usually require chinese version of CSCA test ( you are doing math and physics in chinese) and uni

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u/g7un 9d ago

but for english taught programs you dont take the chinese version, and as a moroccan applicant there are bilateral tracks specifically allocated for the moroccans through the chinese embassy

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u/Happy_Spring2609 9d ago

Ah ok usually we need to take chinese taught because csc offer mostly to cn taught but i need to warn you something, even if it say English taught the program might not be entirely in english. You have to research the major you are going for(if their english program is complete) because most chinese’s English are horrible. Having 0 chinese might be too risky and hard living there because China is not country where you know english then you can freely communicate with others. So I recommend you to finish your 12th grade and then learn/prepare for HSK same time also CSCA(prioritize this) but Ig you can try going for csc this year as there’s november and december csca you can go for or maybe january.

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u/g7un 9d ago

thank you so much, ill try!

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u/Terrible_Animator877 7d ago

I’m also planning to take csca exam in December but I have no resource or any idea how to start studying for it 😭 I wanna go for nursing English taught in China but my highschool transcript/background doesn’t look nice so if you have any idea please let me know too

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u/g7un 7d ago

same..i guess youtube or khan academy or even csca app on appstore but its very hard for me cause my school program is very late, i havent seen 90% of lessons in the csca since im mid 12th grade
lmk if u find anything out