Admissions

Admissions to SCIE Arts academy 2024-2025

Grade Group: IGCSE student (G1)

Grade Equivalent: Students who have completed Junior 3 or Junior 2 in July 2024

Admission Quota: about 20 (Art & Music)

Music student Art student
  • Students whose main instrument should be from strings families (violin, viola, cello, double bass), piano, woodwind instruments, brass instruments, or musical theatre singers.
  • Students must have at least Grade 7 in music (Local exam board) or Grade 6 in Music (International exam boards e.g., ABRSM, LCM, RSL, Trinity, or equivalent)

Students should be skilled in traditional skills of drawing and painting.

Written Test Subject: English

Apply Process:

Jan 8,2024

  • Make an enrollment application on the school page ( please click HERE or WeChat Official Account: SCIE-2003)
  • Start date: Jan 8th,2024
  • The government issued ID card or Passport
    Students in Mainland of China should register with your ID Card Number; Students from Hongkong China, Macau China and Taiwan China, please register with your Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong,Macao and Taiwan Residents; Foreign students should register with your passport number and upload the passport scanning copy or photo.
  • Electronic photo of candidates for uploading
    Format: less than 3M; passport photo size

Jan 8 - Mar 10, 2024

Music Student ONLY

Submit your work online for prescreening between January 8th to March 10th, 2024

Music student

The candidate shall submit a prescreening recording which should include a personal statement and the instrumental/voice performance, total a maximum of 15 minutes.

  • For the personal statement, it shall be about 3-minute and delivered in English. The content should include an introduction of yourselves, your artwork, and your creative interests. When the personal statement was recorded, you can start to perform.
  • For the instrumental/voice performance, please select two contrasting pieces of your choice, 7-10 minutes. You may use equipment from home or school, or even use your mobile devices. The most important is that the sound quality of your recording is excellent and clearly show the student's technique. The repertoire does not have to be memorized.

After creating your recording, please upload it to a video hosting platform such as Youku, iQIYI, or WeTV. Subsequently, copy the link to your video and paste it into the designated section on the SCIE Application Platform.

Mar 18, 2024

Music Student ONLY

The results of prescreening will be released on March 18th, 2024.

If a candidate does not meet the requirements in the prescreening, they will be transferred to the traditional stream automatically and take the written exam on March 24th.

Mar 24, 2024

  • Exam Date: March 24th, 2024
  • Subject: English (no mathematics test for art & music students)

Mar 30, 2024 (TBD)

Release of the written test results: March 30th, 2024 (TBD)

Students who pass the written test will attend the interview next weekend.

Apr 6, 2024 (TBD)

Interview Date: April 6th, 2024 (TBD)

Interview and audition with the specialist. The music/art teacher will also test candidates’ English-speaking ability and overall quality during the audition.

Music student Art student
  • Candidates perform a selection of contrasting music of your choice in a program of 5-10 mins.
  • Candidates must present an instrumental/voice performance. The performance must be on your primary instrument.
  • Candidates should plan to perform a solo with or without accompaniment (If you need an accompaniment, please provide it yourself). Candidates should select pieces that are technically and musically appropriate for your stage of musicianship.
  • 2.5-hour drawing exam: pencil
  • 3-hour painting: acrylic or watercolour

April 8th/11th, 2024 (TBD)

Release of the enrollment results:

  • Art: April 11th, 2024 (TBD)
  • Music: April 8th, 2024 (TBD)

SCIE would rank candidates based on their performance in both the specialist and English test

Tuition Fee: 298,000 RMB for the academic year 2024-2025

(Includes physical examination fee, campus insurance fee, extracurricular activity fees; not includes international examination fees, field trips or internships off campus, or summer camps/programs.)

Accommodation Fee: 16,800 RMB (excluding weekends), or 19,800 RMB (including weekends) for the academic year 2024-2025.

Curriculum Arrangement

  1. All the Academy art/music students should learn the CAIE art/music course at SCIE for 4 years, and should choose an art/music-related pathway when they apply to university.
  2. Except for the traditional compulsory subjects, the specialist students in G Level should study one more core subject: art/music. The period of the specialist (Art/ Music) subject will be doubled for the specialist student. Art and music students will be supported by the faculty staff for all of their years during their study at SCIE.
  3. In G-level, specialist students must study English, Mathematics, Chinese, PE, Combined Science or Chemistry (1 out of 2), and other 2 options.
  4. IGCSE specialist students would learn 2-year IGCSE mathematics or the regular Maths course that most G1 students had taken.
  5. In principle, specialist Academy students are not allowed to transfer to the traditional stream. But if specialist students want to apply, they should send the transfer application after finishing the year of G2. The specialist students who want to transfer to traditional stream need to fulfil the following conditions:
  •  There is a vacancy available in related subjects.
  •  Pass the subject entry test.

For appropriate optional subjects’ selection, students can ask suggestions from arts academy staff and UCO.

Notice: Candidates who haven’t decided their pathway can apply as a traditional student and choose art/music subject as an option (traditional CAIE art/music class).

There would be only one round of entry test for the specialist students in 2024. If the student doesn’t pass the specialist test, you can also apply the second round of entry test on May 5th of 2024 through the traditional stream.

Admissions Office

Shenzhen College of International Education