The short version
The learning portfolio (學習歷程檔案) you build on your high school's platform over three years is the main source of your Personal Application review materials (審查資料). For the 116 school year (2027 entry), review materials have five parts: course records, course learning results, diverse performance, a learning portfolio statement, and other. Each part is one PDF of up to 5MB. You can pick up to 3 course learning results and up to 10 diverse performance items. Which parts a program wants, and how much they count, is in that program's own rules (校系分則). Uploads open on 29 April 2027 and close on each program's own date. Once you confirm, you can't change anything.
Where the learning portfolio comes from
Under the Ministry of Education's operating guidelines for high school learning portfolios (高級中等學校學生學習歷程檔案作業要點), your school's platform collects four kinds of record:
- Basic information.
- Course records (修課紀錄).
- Course learning results (課程學習成果): assignments, work and other results from your courses. You upload them each semester by your school's deadline, and the subject teacher must certify them. Each year you pick up to 6, and the school submits them to the central learning portfolio database (學習歷程中央資料庫).
- Diverse performance (多元表現): flexible learning time, group activities and other achievements. You upload them each school year and pick up to 10 for the central database.
After the school submits, it posts a list of what was received so you can check it, for at least three days. If you don't confirm or raise a problem in time, it counts as confirmed. When you apply to university, the K-12 Education Administration (國教署) releases your central database records to the programs you apply to only with your consent and selection. The records are sealed five years after you finish high school, and after that you can ask for them to be deleted.
Personal Application: five parts and the A to T codes
The University Admission Committee's general rules (簡章總則) split review materials into five parts, and each program's rules use codes A to T for the items it wants. Once you know the codes, you can read any program's rules.
| Part | Codes and contents |
|---|---|
| Course records | A course records |
| Course learning results | B written report, C practical work, D natural science inquiry and practice results, E social studies inquiry results (D and E can also be results from special-type classes) |
| Diverse performance | F self-directed learning plan and results, G club activities, H leadership roles, I service learning, J competitions, K work outside your course records, L certificates and licences, M proof of special achievements, N diverse performance summary |
| Learning portfolio statement | O reflection on your high school learning, P motivation for applying, Q future study plan and career plan |
| Other | R, S, T set by each program |
When a program asks for course records, it looks at them together: required subjects, advanced electives, school-set required courses, diverse electives and comprehensive high school courses.
How to upload, and the limits
- How Everything is uploaded (or picked) online through the admission committee, unless a program says otherwise. For course learning results and diverse performance you either pick items from the central database (勾選上傳) or upload your own PDF (PDF上傳); one method per program. If the central database has no records for you, you upload PDFs.
- Files Each part is one PDF, up to 5MB per part.
- Course learning results Pick up to 3 from the central database, or combine them into one PDF.
- Diverse performance Pick up to 10 from the central database, or combine them into one PDF. You also upload a diverse performance summary (多元表現綜整心得) PDF of up to 800 characters in total and up to 3 images.
- Learning portfolio statement One PDF you make yourself. The general rules set no word or page limit; each program's rules may. "Other" is also one PDF you make.
- Course records For current seniors, semesters one to five come from the central database and your school uploads semester six. Graduates from the 109 school year or earlier, applicants with qualifications from outside Taiwan and those with equivalent qualifications upload their own, covering all six semesters and stamped (or watermarked) by the academic affairs office.
- Confirming You can upload again as often as you like before you confirm. Once you confirm, nothing can be changed for any reason. The system then produces an upload confirmation form (審查資料上傳確認表), which you show if you raise a problem.
For current seniors at vocational high schools (專業群, 技術型), the senior-year portfolio is only fully submitted at the end of May 2027. Picking from the central database only covers semesters one to four; to include senior year, upload a PDF instead.
Some programs ask for certain items by post or another way, so you may need to upload online and post things too. After the deadline, the committee sends each university everything you confirmed, and everything you uploaded (or picked) but didn't confirm. If you upload nothing at all during the upload period, your central database records are not sent.
Good to know: Programs can weight each item differently. Apart from items a program makes compulsory, you don't have to submit every item, but missing items may affect your score.
Upload dates, 116 school year
- Test system 9 to 14 April 2027. You can view and check your central database records. If something is wrong, tell your high school by 12 noon on 15 April.
- Uploads open 29 April 2027 for every program. Each program sets its own closing date.
- Hours 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. every day.
The admission committee's website has guides to saving review materials as PDF, including from Word.
How departments describe what they look for
In the 116 school year, Personal Application covers 64 universities and 2,240 programs. Many departments publish a separate preparation guide (審查資料準備指引) saying what they look at. The committee's preparation guide page links each university's guides. When we checked, it said its links were still for the 115 school year and would be updated for 116 in March 2027. Some departments give the date in their rules: several National Tsing Hua University (國立清華大學) departments say their guide is posted on 27 January on the university's admissions site and the department's website.
Two examples from the 115 school year:
- National Changhua University of Education, Department of English (彰化師範大學英語學系) lays out "review focus" and "preparation guide" in a table. It says it will not use the number of courses or credits in your course records as the only measure, and looks mainly at languages, social studies, technology and your overall grades. The diverse performance summary and the learning portfolio statement are 500 to 800 characters each, in Chinese or English.
- National Chengchi University, Department of Sociology (政治大學社會學系) says it looks at motivation and four core abilities (analysing problems on your own initiative, social care, communication and teamwork, and self-awareness). It describes its review as "an overall assessment, not a points-collecting assessment", and lists guiding questions for each item. Reflection, motivation, study plan and autobiography are up to 1,000 characters each, and missing an item it lists "will not lose points".
Another place to look is ColleGo! (大學選才與高中育才輔助系統), run by the joint association of university admission committees with Taipei Medical University (臺北醫學大學) operating it. Each department page has tabs for the department, courses, careers and abilities (能力特質). The abilities tab gives the abilities and traits the program values as percentages adding up to 100%: the higher the percentage, the more it counts. For example, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University's Department of Computer Science (陽明交通大學資訊工程學系) lists mathematics and science 20%, active learning 20%, programming 20% and concentration 15%, among others (updated 7 October 2026).
We did not find a published scoring rubric (評量尺規) from the committee or ColleGo!. Departments usually describe a "review focus" (審查重點) instead.
New items: AI use statements and recommendation letters
- AI use statement (AI使用聲明): some departments make it compulsory. National Chengchi University's Department of Business Administration and Department of History ask for one under "Other (R)", downloaded from the department website. Several National Sun Yat-sen University (中山大學) departments, such as Biological Sciences, ask you to put the university's personal information and AI use statement form on the first page of your learning portfolio statement. National Chung Hsing University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering (中興大學材料科學與工程學系) asks the same.
- Recommendation letters: a few departments want them. National Taiwan University's School of Medicine (臺灣大學醫學系) asks for two letters from teachers under "Other (R)", uploaded directly to the committee's system. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University's 屯蒙 admission allows up to two letters on its own form: the recommender fills it in and you scan and upload it.
Examples by field (116 school year program rules)
The tables show how stage two counts toward the final score, the review material codes, and what the department adds. They are examples of what program rules look like; for your own programs, read their rules.
Engineering and computing
| Program | Final score | Review materials and notes |
|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University, Mechanical Engineering | GSAT 40%, review materials 30%, written test 30% | A, B, D, G, H, L, M, N, P, R (other helpful material). The test covers mathematics and physics, "mainly high school material, but not limited to it". |
| National Cheng Kung University, Electrical Engineering, group A | GSAT 50%, review materials 35%, group interview (with written test) 15% | A, B, D, F, J, L, M, N, O, P, Q. Fill in a personal information form and book an interview session on the department website. |
| National Tsing Hua University, Power Mechanical Engineering | GSAT 50%, review materials 40%, written test 10% | A, B, C, D, F, J, K, L, N, O, P, Q, R. |
| National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Computer Science, group A | GSAT 40%, review materials 50%, group interview (with written test) 10% | Diverse performance can list APCS, programming, mathematics and science, or English competitions, with proof. The first page of the learning portfolio statement is the university's personal information form. |
Medicine and health
| Program | Final score | Review materials and notes |
|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University, Medicine | GSAT 0%, review materials 10%, biology and chemistry written test 10%, oral exam 40%, biology and chemistry practical 40% | Includes R, two letters from teachers. The diverse performance summary includes a one-page personal information form from the department website. |
| National Cheng Kung University, Medicine | GSAT 10%, review materials 15%, interview 75% | Under "Other", upload a declaration and a consent form for video recording. |
| Fu Jen Catholic University, Medicine | GSAT 15%, review materials 25%, interview 60% | The learning portfolio statement is a form downloaded from the department website. Applicants from economically disadvantaged backgrounds get 10% added to their raw review materials score. |
| Taipei Medical University, Nursing | GSAT 30%, review materials 30%, interview 40% | A, C, D, H, J, L, M, N, O, P. What to prepare is in the preparation guide posted by the university's admissions section. |
Design, architecture and art (portfolios)
How you hand in a portfolio differs a lot: some departments want it uploaded, some posted, some brought to the interview.
| Program | Final score | How the portfolio is handed in |
|---|---|---|
| National Cheng Kung University, Architecture | GSAT 10%, review materials 40%, interview (with test) 50% | Upload the portfolio under course learning results (C, practical work) or Other (R); don't bring it to the interview. |
| Tunghai University, Architecture | GSAT 10%, review materials 40%, basic design (written) 20%, interview 30% | Three paper copies, A4, about 30 pages at most, posted to the department by 5 May 2027 (postmark date). The work must be your own, done alone. The department says applicants need not worry about having a record in drawing or other art. |
| National Cheng Kung University, Industrial Design | GSAT 35%, review materials 30%, design camp (with written test and interview) 35% | You must take part in the whole design camp. |
| National Taiwan Normal University, Design, visual design group | GSAT 35%, review materials 20%, oral exam 15%, practical exam 30% | Bring one portfolio on the day of the oral exam: design or art work, 10 pieces or more, A4 prints or bound photos. Not uploaded; returned after the exam. |
| Shih Chien University, Fashion Design | GSAT 0%, review materials 45%, practical exam "creative design" 20%, portfolio interview 35% | Design, literature or art work from the last three years, with a short self-introduction. Printed and bound, brought on the interview day only; don't post it beforehand. |
| National Taiwan University of Arts, Visual Communication Design | GSAT 20%, review materials 25%, original work review 10%, oral exam 25%, practical exam 20% | Bring three original or applied visual design works, reviewed during the oral exam. |
| Taipei National University of the Arts, New Media Art | GSAT 50%, review materials 25%, interview 25% | The learning portfolio statement covers a self-introduction, your field, why you are applying, why the department should admit you, and your future plans. R is art or technology work (programming, science fairs, photography, APCS scores and more), in any format or medium. |
Business
| Program | Final score | Review materials and notes |
|---|---|---|
| National Chengchi University, Business Administration | GSAT 40%, review materials 25%, interview 35% | The learning portfolio statement (O, P, Q) uses a downloadable template, at most 3 pages in total. An AI use statement is also required. |
| National Taiwan University, Business Administration, management group | GSAT 40%, review materials 30%, oral exam 30% | Each part of the learning portfolio statement is at most two pages. R is a personal information form of one page; S is other helpful material, such as proof of a gifted class. |
| Fu Jen Catholic University, Business Administration | GSAT 40%, review materials 30%, interview 30% | A, B, C, F, G, L, M, N, O, P, Q. |
Humanities and languages
| Program | Final score | Review materials and notes |
|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan University, Chinese Literature | GSAT 40%, review materials 25%, language written test 20%, writing test 15% | A, O, P, Q and N are compulsory. B only for essays in literature, history or philosophy; C includes creative writing and editing publications; J only for literature, history or philosophy competitions; K only for published work. O and P up to 600 characters each, Q up to 300. |
| National Chengchi University, History | GSAT 50%, review materials 50% (no interview or written test) | A, E, F, N, O, P, Q and an AI use statement. |
| National Tsing Hua University, Foreign Languages and Literature | GSAT 40%, review materials 30%, English reading and writing 30% | The template for the learning portfolio statement is on the department website from 9 April. Proof of special achievements can include up to three published pieces. Applicants who don't submit review materials are not admitted. |
| National Taiwan University, Foreign Languages and Literature | GSAT 50%, review materials 20%, English essay test 15%, English oral test 15% | L means an English proficiency certificate. |
Education
| Program | Final score | Review materials and notes |
|---|---|---|
| National Taiwan Normal University, Education | GSAT 50%, review materials 20%, oral exam 30% | A, B, E, F, G, H, M, N, P, Q. |
| National Taipei University of Education, Education | GSAT 30%, review materials 30%, interview 40% | You can explain, within the existing items, why you chose education, how you understand education issues and your study plans. Formal teaching experience, numbers of certificates or service hours are not required. |
| National Tsing Hua University, Education and Learning Technology | GSAT 30%, review materials 30%, interview 40% | See the program's rules. |
Review materials for four-year technical selection
Selection admission to four-year and two-year technical programs (四技二專甄選入學) is run by the joint admissions committee for technical colleges (技專校院招生委員會聯合會). When we checked, its 116 school year brochure was not yet out, so the item and file rules below come from the 115 school year brochure. The official 116 brochure is the one that counts.
- The review materials (學習歷程備審資料) are course records, course learning results, diverse performance and material you write and upload yourself, uploaded (or picked) online when you register for stage two. If you have central database records, choose between picking them and uploading your own PDF; once submitted, you can't switch.
- Codes: B-1 project work and practical subject results (including skills areas); B-2 other course results or work; C-1 flexible learning time results, C-2 clubs, C-3 leadership roles, C-4 service learning, C-5 competitions, C-6 work outside your course records (such as workplace learning), C-7 certificates and licences, C-8 proof of special achievements; D-1 diverse performance summary, D-2 learning portfolio statement (reflection, motivation, study and career plans), D-3 other helpful material.
- Project work and practical subject results (B-1) are scored on their own, and you must upload at least one. Everything else is scored as review materials.
- If you upload your own PDFs: one PDF per field for B-1, B-2 and C (no audio or video files), up to 4MB times the program's maximum number of items. The brochure's example is B-1 1 item / 4MB, B-2 2 items / 8MB, C 4 items / 16MB. D-1, D-2 and D-3 are one PDF each, up to 4MB.
- Proof of certificates or awards for extra points: a PDF of about 4MB, one page only.
- If your review materials are incomplete, you can still take part in stage two as long as you paid the assessment fee and uploaded project work or similar results.
- 116 school year uploads 4 June to 9 p.m. on 11 June 2027.
Questions
Do I have to prepare every part of the learning portfolio?
Not always. Apart from items a program makes compulsory, the general rules say you don't have to submit everything, but missing items may affect your score. Some departments are stricter: National Tsing Hua University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literature says applicants who don't submit review materials are not admitted. Check each program's rules.
Can I change my files after uploading?
Before you confirm, you can upload again as often as you like. Once you confirm, nothing can be changed for any reason.
Do I upload my portfolio, post it, or bring it to the interview?
It depends on the department. For example, National Cheng Kung University's Architecture wants it uploaded with your review materials, Tunghai University's Architecture wants paper copies posted by 5 May 2027, and National Taiwan Normal University's visual design group wants it brought to the oral exam.
Related pages
→ Personal Application interviews
→ Practical exams, written tests and hands-on tests
→ How Personal Application works
→ Four-year and two-year technical programs
→ Practise an interview with an AI assistant
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Checked November 2026.
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