Abstract: The hands-on practical ability and capacity are highly valued skills in surveying course, so almost half of the total class hours have been taken to experiment teaching.It does not like some other experimental teaching of basic science, surveying experiment has its own characteristics and requirements such as high precision and integrity of instruments, extensive field for outside experiment and weather conditions, a positive teamwork spirit and so on.This paper discussed and analyzed the present problems of surveying course in experiment and practice teaching in our university. Targeted and constructive solutions are proposed to these problems.These solutions will be of some value for coming experiment teaching reform of surveying course.