Ninety timed questions at HSK 5 difficulty, from formal connectors to newspaper-style passages, with your result projected onto the 300-point scale.
The real HSK 5 exam has 100 questions: listening (45, about 30 minutes), reading (45, 45 minutes) and writing (10, 40 minutes), about 125 minutes in all. It is scored out of 300; 180 is a pass. Engame's HSK 5 mock test runs the listening and reading sections with the same question counts and timing. It has no writing section yet, so your listening and reading share is projected onto 300 as an estimate.
| Section | Questions | Minutes | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening | 45 | ~30 | 100 |
| Reading | 45 | 45 | 100 |
| Writing | 10 | 40 | 100 |
| Total | 100 | ~125 | 300 |
Sources: chinesetest.cn: HSK 5
| Section | Questions | Minutes | Task types on Engame |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listening | 45 | 30 | hear a word, pick how it is written; hear a sentence, pick its meaning |
| Reading | 45 | 45 | grammar gap-fill; read a meaning, pick the word; read a text, answer questions |
| Total | 90 | 75 |
Engame converts your share of correct answers to the 300-point scale: score = correct answers ÷ 90 × 300, rounded. 180 or more is shown as a pass.
| Correct answers (of 90) | Engame score | Result shown |
|---|---|---|
| 45 | 150/300 | below the pass mark |
| 54 | 180/300 | pass |
| 63 | 210/300 | pass |
| 72 | 240/300 | pass |
| 81 | 270/300 | pass |
HSK 5 is where the official description mentions reading Chinese newspapers and magazines, watching films and plays and giving a full speech. The HSK 2.0 list grows to 2,500 words, and passages use the written register: 之所以…是因为…, 即使…也…, 不仅…而且….
The 2010 table equates HSK 5 with CEFR C1; most teachers outside China would call a fresh HSK 5 pass solid B2. It is a frequent requirement for postgraduate study in Chinese and for jobs where you read and write Chinese every day.
Most learners take HSK 5 after HSK 4 plus a long period of extensive reading. The vocabulary gap between the two levels, 1,300 new words, is the largest step in the HSK 2.0 system.
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不少人有午睡的习惯，但也有人发现，中午睡了一个多小时，醒来反而头昏脑涨，整个下午都提不起精神。这是为什么呢？研究人员解释说，人的睡眠分为浅睡和深睡几个阶段。入睡大约半小时后，人就会进入深睡阶段，这时候如果突然被叫醒，大脑还没有完全“开机”，人就会感到更加疲劳。因此，午睡时间最好控制在二十分钟左右，既能让大脑得到休息，又不会进入深睡。另外，吃完午饭不要马上躺下，最好先散散步，过十几分钟再睡。如果实在没有条件躺下，靠在椅子上闭目养神，也能起到一定的作用。当然，午睡只是一种补充，并不能代替晚上充足的睡眠。
Many people take a nap at noon, but some find that after sleeping for over an hour they wake up groggy and can't get going all afternoon. Why is that? Researchers explain that sleep has several stages, light and deep. About half an hour after falling asleep, a person enters deep sleep. If woken suddenly at this point, the brain hasn't fully "booted up", and the person feels even more tired. So a nap is best kept to about twenty minutes, which lets the brain rest without entering deep sleep. Also, don't lie down right after lunch; it is better to take a short walk first and sleep ten or fifteen minutes later. If you really can't lie down, leaning back in a chair with your eyes closed to rest can also help to some extent. Of course, a nap is only a supplement and cannot replace a full night's sleep.
A. 人在深睡时被叫醒了 Being woken suddenly during deep sleep makes people more tired.
D. 二十分钟左右 "午睡时间最好控制在二十分钟左右".
D. 闭上眼睛休息一下 "闭目养神" means closing your eyes to rest, not a long sleep.
D. 竟然 以为…没想到… signals an unexpected result: 竟然. 果然 clashes with 没想到; 难怪 and 何必 do not fit.
A. 万一 The clause 就来不及了 needs a supposition before it: 万一. 以免 cannot be followed by 就, and 从而 and 难怪 do not fit.
A. 反而 The outcome runs against expectation, so 反而 fits. 何况, 毕竟 and 以免 cannot express this reversal.
B. 凡是 凡是 + a noun phrase means all who…, followed by 都. 不管 needs a question word, and 尽管 and 即使 need a clause.
About 125 minutes including 5 minutes for personal details: roughly 30 minutes of listening, 45 of reading and 40 of writing.
180 out of 300 to pass. Some universities and employers set a higher total than the pass mark, so check the exact requirement.
2,500 in the HSK 2.0 syllabus, which includes all 1,200 HSK 4 words.
10 questions in 40 minutes: 8 sentence-ordering items and 2 short compositions of about 80 characters each.
No. It is projected from listening and reading only, which is why it is labelled an estimate.
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