HSK 1: Format

In HSK 1, characters are not the most important thing, as Pinyin is still provided.

Part 1: Listening

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1-5: The first 5 questions require you to listen to a tune twice and then determine
whether the picture is right or wrong, in other words whether it has something to do
with the text you heard or not.

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6-10: The second part gives you 3 choices and you need to choose the one fitting best
to the text you hear.
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11-15: Question 11-15 confront you with some pictures (more than on the picture
above) and 5 questions and you need to enter the letter where the picture fits best with
what you hear.

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16-20: The last listening questions give you 3 choices again and you need to pick the
one fitting best to the text you are listening to.

Part 2: Reading
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21-25: The first 5 questions ask you determine whether the picture and the vocabulary
fit.

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26-30: Part two, like listening part 3, gives you some pictures (more than on the
picture above) and 5 answers, and you need to put in the letter of the picture fitting
best to the sentence.
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31-35: Coming to questions 31 to 35 you face some questions on the left and
responses on the right and your task is to connect the fitting ones by filling in the
correct letter.

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36-40: Finally you have some words with capital letters in front of them and you need
to put them into the gaps of the sentences as shown in the graphic.

Scoring System

The maximum score for this test is 200 with 120 required to pass. There are 100
points for listening and 100 points for reading.

More Information

The sample pictures above as well as the information where taken

from chinaeducenter.com. On this website you can find further information, the
outline of the 150 vocabularies as well as a mock test with mp3 needed for the
listening (as part of the outline vocabulary download package). Have a look at this, it
might be very helpful in the course of preparing for the test