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.
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This is unofficial practice material written for HSK Guide. It is not a past paper and is not endorsed by any examination authority.The section lengths, the timings and the scoring below are HSK Guide’s own practice settings, chosen so that a wrong answer points at one identifiable skill. They do not describe any examination authority’s rules — confirm those with your test centre.
Sections
2 sections, 24 questions, 40 minutes of section time.
Twelve short recordings: single sentences and two-line exchanges. In this practice section each recording plays twice and cannot be paused or rewound. Read the question before the audio starts — knowing what you are listening for is half the work at this level.
Audio rules for this section
Twelve items: gap filling, short texts, matching, sentence building and picking the right question. Nothing here needs a word you have not met; what is being tested is whether each word is in the right slot, so read the whole line before you answer.
Questions, options and answers are not shown on this page — the paper is only meaningful if you meet it for the first time inside the timer.
Before you start
The timer runs on the server, so refreshing will not give you extra time. Listening audio plays a fixed number of times, as set for this practice paper.
Total: 40 minutes.
No timer. Audio can be replayed freely and answers are explained immediately.
The play count and the seek and pause rules are stored on each section rather than hard-coded in the player, so an editor can change them without a deployment.
Your result
A score is the least useful part of a mock examination. The report is built to change what you study tomorrow.
A score per section and per skill, so a listening problem cannot hide behind a good reading result.
Accuracy broken down by question type — matching, cloze, ordering, true/false — because they fail for different reasons.
The exact words the wrong answers tested, taken from the diagnostic tags on each question.
The patterns behind the wrong answers, each linking straight to its grammar lesson.
Where you stalled. A slow correct answer is a different problem from a fast wrong one.
An estimate against your target level, built from coverage, recall strength and recent results.
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