Considering taking the national Chinese proficiency exam? Or are you just wondering how good your mandarin really is? The HSK offers a reasonably objective way of measuring your progress towards fluency, which is why we are pleased to present this listening test for students preparing for level four on the new HSK exam. This is the equivalent of the low-intermediate level on the older HSK test. If you think your Chinese is getting good, why not take a listen and see how you do?

Worth noting: our HSK tests attempt to emulate the real exam as closely as possible, even to the point of structuring our questions in groups of fifteen. That said, while there's no limit to the number of times you can listen to each question on our online exams, in a real exam situation you will only be able to listen to each audio passage once. Good luck!

 said on
February 11, 2012
Would it be possible for the dialogue transcript to be posted?
 said on
February 11, 2012
@tysun.chan,

Right now they'll show up in the online system when someone answers a question incorrectly. We don't have them in the PDF yet in part to avoid giving people the answers.

I can look at tweaking the format so the transcripts are there too - that's a good idea. In the meantime, if there's any question that is particularly opaque, please feel free to ask in the comments section, since this won't be an overnight change.

Thanks,

--david