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Honest study guides, vocabulary breakdowns, and exam tactics — written for serious learners, not auto-generated for clicks.
CTI has set December 13, 2026 as the first official HSK 3.0 sitting. What each band tests, word counts from the 2025 syllabus, and which sitting to pick.
All three HSKK levels are scored out of 100 and you pass at 60. But the score report is a single number, so it never tells you where you lost points, and for scholarship applications the pass mark is often exactly the cut-off. What 60 sounds like, when it is enough, and how to measure yourself before you register.
HSKK Advanced runs about 24 minutes with 10 minutes of preparation and three parts: listen and retell, read a passage aloud, and answer a topic question. How to handle each part, the sentence patterns worth memorising, where Advanced candidates lose points, and a week-by-week plan.
HSKK Intermediate runs about 21 minutes with 10 minutes of preparation and three parts: listen and repeat, describe a picture, and answer an open question. A 3-step frame for the picture, a 4-step frame for the opinion answer, the topics that keep coming up, and how to spend the 10 minutes.
HSKK Beginner runs about 20 minutes with 7 minutes of preparation and three parts: listen and repeat, listen and answer, and questions about yourself. What each part asks, what to prepare in advance, and a 4-week plan for a first-time test taker.
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