Today we're pleased to present another practice HSK exam for students preparing to take the Chinese government's official test of mandarin proficiency. These fifteen questions are designed to be fairly easy, but they can still be a challenge if you're just starting out and/or are not accustomed to reading Chinese characters, so good luck!

The format for these fifteen questions is identical to a format that regularly appears on the New HSK exam at the first level of difficulty. In each of the fifteen questions in this test, your challenge is to read a simple Chinese sentence and be able to place it in context. Should you understand the sentence, your challenge is to pick the most appropriate response from among the four options provided. Let us know if you have any questions.
adamwkeats
 said on
April 17, 2013
i have to pay for this?

trevelyan
 said on
April 17, 2013
Adam,

It depends what exactly you want. If you are starting with the HSK, a good place to start is our HSK Test page. It has a list of free resources, including a test archive containing over 3000 questions.

Lesson materials beyond the podcasts (transcripts and quizzes) are reserved for site supporters. If you have any questions about what is what, please feel free to send us an email.

Best,

--david
world_wanderer1
 said on
April 19, 2013
Hi, Sorry - I don't seem to be able to access / see the 3000 HSK questions. From this page I select "quiz", but I am not ending up in a quiz -I am asked to upgrade. Thanks -
trevelyan
 said on
April 20, 2013
@world_wanderer,

You can't access lesson-by-lesson materials without a premium subscription. For the free materials, which includes a massive archive of always-on tests, visit our HSK Test page:

http://popupchinese.com/hsk/test
user59400
 said on
July 1, 2013
SO its just a big marketing wank. Typical. Stop wasting our time.
trevelyan
 said on
July 1, 2013
@user59400,

Thanks for the insightful comment. Had you actually visited our HSK test page as recommended above, you could have clicked on the button that reads "Get Started Now" to start working through test questions online. Alternately, you could have downloaded various official study resources we've manually digitized, or installed our HSK test app which includes something like 3000 questions. Somewhat atypically, there is no advertising on any of this material.

But otherwise -- yes -- if you insist on accessing the test content in the one format that actually requires you to pay for access, then you will have to pay for access. We have yet to figure out a workaround for this problem.

Best,

--david

george6992
 said on
September 23, 2013
People are silly. I hope you guys don't take it personally. You guys have great stuff, and you really don't advertise. I found this through iTunes. Lucky me! Here is the only place for listening practice at a normal pace, rather than my textbook's cd with baby talk. And $100 is so little. I am happy to pay. I bought rosetta stone for $400. It was a good start, but this is better.

George Curtis

Student at Kent State University
trevelyan
 said on
September 24, 2013
@george6992,

Thanks for the support George! Brendan is better at snark than I am. At least for me, this sort of thing can be irritating, but is also a sign we need to get better at organizing the HSK materials, which is in the works.

Best,

--david

damon.ferris
 said on
September 29, 2013
All of the links to the HSK test page in this line of comments just take me back here.
trevelyan
 said on
September 29, 2013
@damon.ferris,

As above, the proper URL is:

http://popupchinese.com/hsk/test

If there are issues with the links, you can also just click on the "study center" from the main page, and then the link that says "hsk test". Sorry for the trouble.

Best,

--david

tnarloch
 said on
October 31, 2013
This site is....AMAZING.

David, or "trevelyan" (not sure which you prefer) can I commend you on such a comprehensive, well-thought out, thorough and eloquent website. It is a genuine pleasure to be able to work through at a leisurely pace, ticking off my progress and to be able to consolidate my progress in conjunction with, and reliance upon, your exemplary resources.

You are to be commended for not having ads here on the site; though I cannot help but feel that this would bring additional revenue for the site, and seems a fair tradeoff. This is not a rebuke, please do not take it as that. I am stunned at the level of stuff here on the site.
trevelyan
 said on
November 2, 2013
@tnarloch,

Thanks for the kind words. We don't want to put advertising on the site because it would be a distraction. That said, I seriously doubt putting up ads would make much money since we don't get much organic traffic from search engines.

Fundamentally, Popup Chinese is a community supported site, and so we rely on people stepping up and supporting us. If anyone wants to help with this, the easiest way is probably still just helping spread word of mouth.

--david

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