The HSK 4 Essay: 80 Characters That Score
HSK 4 is the first level where writing carries real weight, and it scares people more than it should. The tasks are smaller than candidates imagine. You are not writing an essay in the literary sense — you are ordering words into correct sentences and producing a short, clear passage from a single prompt word.
At HSK 4 you are working with a vocabulary of about 1,200 words. The writing section does not expect anything beyond that. It expects you to use what you already know without grammar mistakes and without panicking.
Here is exactly what the section asks and a template that handles it.
The two writing tasks
The HSK 4 writing section splits into two parts.