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.
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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
3 sections, 20 questions, 20 minutes of section time.
Six short recordings. In this practice section each recording plays twice and cannot be paused or rewound, so listen for the whole sentence rather than a single word. Choose the answer that matches what you heard.
Audio rules for this section
Eight items: short texts, matching, sentence building and gap filling. Read the whole line before you answer — most of the wrong options are true words placed in the wrong slot.
Six items on the patterns beginners use every day: 是, 不 versus 没, 吗 questions, question words, measure words and 了. Each wrong answer here maps to one grammar lesson in your study plan.
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: 20 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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