Chinese proficiency test HSK6 paper 5, HSK 3.0 format

82 questions 30 + 40 + 45 min official total 125 min, admin included

Which format is this?

This test follows the renewed HSK 3.0 format, published by Chinese Testing International in December 2025 and due to apply from July 2026.

Sittings for levels 1 to 6 still use the previous format at the time of writing, and no changeover date has been announced. If your exam is soon, expect the older paper on the day.

The vocabulary is the same either way: the HSK 3.0 word list is what you have to know for both formats, and that is what this test drills.

Writing

Part 1 (81)

Write the piece asked for, covering every element the task lists and respecting the minimum length. A Chinese keyboard is required.

Practice — this part is not marked

The real exam asks you to write freely here, and a human examiner reads it. No browser can mark that, and this page does not invent a score: these questions do not count towards your result. Write them anyway — it is the only practice this part allows, and a possible answer is offered once you have handed in.

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你有一套房子要租出去，请你写一则出租的启事贴在小区门口，内容包括房子的位置和情况、租金和对租的人的要求，以及联系的办法，字数在一百五十个以上。

You have a flat to let. Write the notice you will put up in the entrance of your residential compound: where the flat is and what it is like, the rent, what you ask of the tenant, and how to reach you. At least 150 characters.

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出租启事：本人有一套房子出租，地址是本小区三号楼二单元六楼，八十平方米，两个房间加一个客厅，朝南，白天不用开灯。楼下就是公交车站，走到地铁口十分钟，附近有小学和市场。房子里的家具和电器都可以留下：床、柜子、洗衣机、冰箱、空调，上个月刚换过热水器。租金每个月三千二百元，水电和网络另算，先付三个月，一年签一次。对租的人有三点要求：第一，不养猫狗，楼上楼下都住着老人；第二，不转给别人；第三，搬走的时候把房子打扫干净，东西放回原处。想看房子的，请在晚上七点以后打电话，或者直接到楼下找我。

This is only one answer among many: yours may be quite different and just as good. It uses nothing beyond your level, which is what proves the task can be done without going outside the word list.

Part 2 (82)

Take a position on the question and argue for it, respecting the minimum length. A Chinese keyboard is required.

Practice — this part is not marked

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有人认为，年轻的时候就应该开始储蓄，为将来做准备；也有人认为，钱应该趁年轻花在经历上。请就这个话题谈谈你的观点，字数在三百个以上。

Some hold that you should start saving while you are young and prepare for what comes; others that money should go, while you are young, into what you live. What do you think? Set out your own view on this question, in at least 300 characters.
What the task asks for
1. Open with your position. A third way is acceptable, provided you state it in one sentence rather than leave it to be guessed.
2. One reason per paragraph, each carried by a case you could put a date on: the task is not asking for a moral.
3. Grant the opposing view what it gets right, naming it precisely, then say what it leaves out of frame.
4. Close on what you would do, not on what one ought to think.
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我的看法是：两样都要，而顺序比比例更重要——先存下一笔能让自己说不的钱，再把剩下的花在经历上。先说为什么必须先存。钱在这里的作用不是财富，也不是金钱本身带来的安全感，而是选择。一个手里有半年生活的钱的人，可以拒绝一份不合适的工作；一个没有的人，只能接受。我见过两位同学，能力差不多，毕业三年以后走得完全不同，区别不在谁更强，而在其中一位可以等三个月。这笔钱不必多，它的价值不在数量，在它让你敢。再说为什么不能只存。有些东西只有在某个年龄才换得到。二十五岁一个人去一个陌生的地方住两个月，和四十五岁去，带回来的东西完全不一样——不是因为身体，而是因为那时你还没有答案，所以你会真的问。把这些年全部用来存钱，存下的数字会变大，可是那些年就空了，而空下的部分补不回来。所以我反对的并不是储蓄，也不是花钱，而是两种极端的说法。说年轻时不花、老了后悔的人，大多没有遇到过真正需要钱的那一天；说先存够再说的人，常常发现够的标准一年比一年高，永远到不了。我自己的做法很简单：每个月先把一部分放进一个平时不动的地方，剩下的随便花，也不后悔。这样过了几年，我发现两件事都没有耽误。

This is only one answer among many: yours may be quite different and just as good. It uses nothing beyond your level, which is what proves the task can be done without going outside the word list.

Chinese proficiency test HSK6 paper 5, HSK 3.0 format

Listening

Part 1 (1–8)

Part 2 (9–28)

Part 3 (29–40)

Reading

Part 1 (41–50)

Part 2 (51–60)

Part 3 (61–80)

Writing

Part 1 (81)

Part 2 (82)

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