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The Contents of HSK
2004-12-10

7.1. HSK (Basic)

Test Contents

Test Items

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Listening Comprehension

Listening 1

15

50

About 35 minutes

Listening 2

15

Listening 3

20

Grammatical Structure

Grammar 1

20

40

40 minutes

Grammar 2

20

Reading Comprehension

Reading 1

20

50

60 minutes

Reading 2

30

Total

140

About 135 minutes

 

7.2. HSK (Elementary-Intermediate)

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Item Proportion

Test Duration

Listening Comprehension

50

29.4%

About 35 minutes

Grammatical Structure

30

17.7%

20 minutes

Reading Comprehension

50

29.4%

60 minutes

Cloze Test

40

23.5%

30 minutes

Total

170

 

About 145 minutes

 

7.3. HSK (Advanced)

Tests

Test Items

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Objective Test

Listening Comprehension

40

About 25 minutes

Reading Comprehension

40

40 minutes

Comprehensive Expression

40

40 minutes

Total

120

About 105 minutes

 

Subjective Test

Writing

1(400-600 words)

30 minutes

Oral Test

10 minute recording

10 minutes preparation,10 minutes test,total 20 minutes

Total

 

50 minutes

Total

 

About 155 minutes

 

7.4. HSK (Young Learners)

Level 1

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Listening

22

About 12 minutes

Reading

30

22 minutes

Writing

18

16 minutes

Total

70

About 50 minutes

 

Oral

5

7 minutes

 

Level 2

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Listening

21

About 15minutes

Reading

41

35 minutes

Writing

13

20 minutes

Total

75

About 70 minutes

 

Oral

7

8 minutes

 

Level 3

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Listening

25

About 20 minutes

Reading

50

40 minutes

Writing

5

30 minutes

Total

80

About 90 minutes

 

Oral

7

10 minutes

Notes: HSK (Young Learners) Oral Test will be divided into stages and batches.

 

 

7.5. HSK (Business)

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Objective Test

Listening

50

About 40 minutes

Reading(including some Cloze Test and simple questions)

50

55 minutes

Subjective Test

Oral

3

5 minutes preparation,10 minutes recording,total 15 minutes

Writing

2

40 minutes

Total

 105

About 150

 

7.6. HSK (for Secretaries)

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Objective Test

Listening

33

About 38 minutes

Reading and Language Knowledge

47

55 minutes

Subjective Test

Writing

2

40 minutes

Oral

2

About 17 minutes

Total

84

About 150 minutes

 

7.7.         HSK (for Tourism)

Test Contents

Item Numbers

Test Duration

Objective Test

Listening

(Including some writing questions after listening)

50

About 40 minutes

Reading

(Including some written answers to questions after reading)

45

50 minutes

Subjective Test

Writing

2

45 minutes

Oral

2

15 minutes

Total

 99

About 150 minutes

 

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