The change represents a victory for Chinese schools, Chinese groups and Chinese academic research institutions who had in recent years lobbied to have an achievement test given in Chinese.
之所以會有這項改變，得歸功近幾年來中文學校、中國社團及中文學術研究等機構不斷地向美國政府建議﹘ ﹘應將中文列入考試科目之一。