Mock examinations

Forty minutes in two parts — twelve listening items and twelve reading items — for beginners who want a sitting long enough to feel like the real thing. Everything here is original HSK Guide material, built from the words and patterns a first-level learner meets. This is not an official paper: the length, the timing and the scoring are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and the result is an estimate of where you stand, not an examination score.

minutes

40

Sections

2

Questions

24

Unofficial practice material

Fifteen minutes of listening only, at first-level difficulty: names, numbers, times, prices, family and simple statements about what someone does or does not do. Use it between full papers, when the gap report says the problem is in your ear rather than in your reading. Everything here is original HSK Guide material and this is not an official paper.

minutes

15

Sections

1

Questions

15

Unofficial practice material

Twenty minutes of original HSK Guide practice items at beginner level. The listening and reading parts follow the format beginners are used to; the third part isolates sentence structure, so the gap report can tell a missing word from a missing rule. This is not an official paper, and the result is HSK Guide’s own estimate of where you stand — not an examination score.

minutes

20

Sections

3

Questions

20

Unofficial practice material

Fifty-five minutes in two parts — fourteen listening items and sixteen reading items — for learners who have left the single-word answer behind and now meet aspect (了, 过, 在), comparison with 比 and the first two-clause sentences. Everything here is original HSK Guide material. This is not an official paper: the length, the timing and the scoring are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and the result is an estimate of where you stand, not an examination score.

minutes

55

Sections

2

Questions

30

Unofficial practice material

Twenty-five minutes of original HSK Guide practice items for learners who already handle the beginner patterns and are now meeting aspect (了, 过, 在), comparison with 比, and the first two-clause sentences. The third part isolates structure so the gap report can separate a vocabulary problem from a grammar problem. This is not an official paper, and the result is HSK Guide’s own estimate of where you stand — not an examination score.

minutes

25

Sections

3

Questions

25

Unofficial practice material

Twenty minutes of reading only, at second-level difficulty: gap filling, short notices and passages, matching and sentence building. Use it when the gap report says your listening is ahead of your reading, or when you want to practise the item types without the pressure of a recording. Everything here is original HSK Guide material and this is not an official paper.

minutes

20

Sections

1

Questions

18

Unofficial practice material

Eighty-five minutes in three parts — fourteen listening items, fourteen reading items and eight writing items — for learners working with 把, the 得 complement, result and direction complements, and two-clause connectors. The writing part asks you to build a sentence from its pieces and to produce the character behind a syllable, which is where reading knowledge and writing knowledge come apart. Everything here is original HSK Guide material. This is not an official paper: the length, the timing and the scoring are HSK Guide’s own practice settings.

minutes

85

Sections

3

Questions

36

Unofficial practice material

Twenty minutes on structure alone, at third-level difficulty: 把, result and direction complements, 得 against 地, 一 … 就 …, 除了 … 以外 …, the double-object verbs and the paired connectors. Nothing here depends on understanding a passage, so a wrong answer points at one grammar point and nothing else. Everything is original HSK Guide material and this is not an official paper.

minutes

20

Sections

1

Questions

20

Unofficial practice material

Thirty minutes of original HSK Guide practice items for learners moving past single-clause sentences. The material leans on the patterns that carry this level — 把, the 得 complement, two-clause connectors and comparison — and the listening is now made of exchanges rather than isolated lines. This is not an official paper, and the result is HSK Guide’s own estimate of where you stand, not an examination score.

minutes

30

Sections

3

Questions

26

Unofficial practice material

Thirty-five minutes of original HSK Guide practice items for learners moving into abstract material: the passive with 被, connectors that carry a whole argument (尽管, 既然, 无论 … 都 …), and passages whose point is stated once and never repeated. The third part isolates structure, so the gap report can tell a vocabulary problem from a grammar problem. This is not an official paper, and the result is HSK Guide’s own estimate of where you stand, not an examination score.

minutes

35

Sections

3

Questions

30

Unofficial practice material

A seventeen-minute speaking workout in two parts: first repeat sentences you hear, then answer everyday questions aloud. Every prompt is original HSK Guide material for beginner speakers. This is not an official paper, the timings are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and the model answers are one good version among many — not the only acceptable reply.

minutes

17

Sections

2

Questions

10

Unofficial practice material

Seventeen minutes of speaking in two parts, for the sitting after the first beginner set. The sentences to repeat now run to two clauses (今天是星期六，我不用上课), so you have to hold a phrase in your head rather than echo a few syllables; and the questions ask for a reason or a description — why you like a dish, how you travelled here, tell us about your family — instead of a single fact. Every prompt is original HSK Guide material. This is not an official paper, the timings are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and the model answers are one good version among many.

minutes

17

Sections

2

Questions

10

Unofficial practice material

A twenty-one-minute speaking workout in three parts: repeat what you hear, describe a scene, then answer open questions aloud. Every prompt is original HSK Guide material for speakers who can already hold a short conversation and now need to keep talking for a minute at a time. This is not an official paper, the timings are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and each model answer is one good version among many — not the only acceptable reply.

minutes

21

Sections

3

Questions

11

Unofficial practice material

A twenty-five-minute speaking workout in three parts: retell a short narrative you have heard, read two passages aloud, and argue a position on two open topics. At this level fluency is assumed and what is being built is shape — a retelling that keeps the point, a reading that respects the punctuation, an argument that does not collapse after the first sentence. Every prompt is original HSK Guide material. This is not an official paper, the timings are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, and each model answer is one good version among many.

minutes

25

Sections

3

Questions

7

Unofficial practice material