Required. Since you are applying for an art major, you must take the art exam, which is a state-stipulated enrollment method. Music production is an art major, so the music production major requires an art exam. The Joint Art Examination refers to a comprehensive professional examination held at the end of the first semester of the third year of high school by major art colleges or art departments of major colleges and universities that are relatively authoritative in China and registered with the Ministry of Education. . Those who pass the exam will receive a professional certificate from the college they applied for. They can take the college entrance examination with this certificate. After the college entrance examination results are announced, each art college will conduct selective admissions.