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tdlamini343

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aking the HSK? Already taken it? Report in here!
Last year I took the Basic in late April back home and got a 3; this year I'll probably take next month's 初、中 and I'm hoping for a 6 at least (well, 8, to be honest, but that's just daydreaming).
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Djsexyv

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I did the HSK Intermediate Exam in Sydney in October 2008.

听力43

语法 37 (the bottom mark on the bottom grade - I assume I nearly failed )

阅读53

综合55

总分191=level 3

I just downloaded an HSK sample paper HSK（初中等）样卷 (Word 21p 304kb)

from

http://www.rmit.com.au/browse;ID=9djrykkbzeml1;STATUS=A;SECTION=2;PAGE_AUTHOR=Som%20%20Sengmany

and found my 语法 has improved to 56

I'm doing the exam again in Sydney on October 18th .

I'm aiming for a level 6.

My main challenge is to improve my 听力 . This forum has shown 100 is possible -congratulations by the way . I am open to ideas. Of course listening to audio works (eg Deutsche Welle, below) .

I am hoping to develop a strategy for enhancing audio comprehension. I try to notice what works and what doesn't. For instance I notice reading and audio differ in at least one important way - with reading our eyes can flick ahead - a process known as 'saccading' - whereas our ears can't. My impression is we use our short term audio memory to assemble meaning - I am trying to work out how to leverage this insight into a time-effective strategy.

祝好

LSJ
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smaseko

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HSK 8 has been pretty elusive for me in the past (only missed it by measly 4 points once), but I finally got it in the March term this year, so I naturally want to show off

My grades were as follows:

听力100

语法97

阅读82

综合83

总分361

Well, it was kind of a narrow hit this time as well, 2 points less in 综合 and it would have been 7, even though my total score would still be well above 337 needed for 8. But that time invested in listening to Deutsche Welle (an excellent resource, which I wouldn't have otherwise found, were it not for this forum) during the last year really paid off... pity I can't go for the HSK Advanced here in Czech Republic, we only have Basic and Elementary-Intermediate here (I might well be the only one here wanting to go for the Advanced level). But I think it might be sensible to wait until they fully implemented the revised version and prepare for that one instead (hopefully there will be more good prep materials for that soon).

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Okikasamuel

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At the moment I'm doing practice papers for the basic level HSK exam - to take it on 16 May (in the UK).

Can someone who's taken it tell me about the ordering of the reading comprehension texts on the real papers?

In the practice papers, for the listening section, the first section is the easiest, the second section is harder, the third section is at the highest level. In the reading comprehension section the texts are mixed up as regards level - easier and harder are in no particular order. Is it like that on the real paper?

This makes a difference to how I approach things as I'm expecting to only get level 2 (or might only even get level 1). I know it's a waste of time for me to try and spend a lot of time on the higher level reading texts - wasting time, in effect.
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