HSK 3 practice test — a full paper, on the clock
80 questions across listening, reading and writing, 90 minutes, scored out of 300 against the real 180 pass mark. Every attempt draws new questions. Free, and nothing is stored.
What is on the paper
| Section | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| 听力 Listening | 40 | 100 |
| 阅读 Reading | 30 | 100 |
| 书写 Writing | 10 | 100 |
| Total | 80 | 300 |
- 90 minutes for the whole paper. One clock, not one per section — the real exam times each section separately, and this does not pretend to.
- Pass mark 180 / 300, the same as the real paper. Each section is worth 100.
- Listening questions have a play button. Press it as often as you like — that is more generous than the real exam, which plays each item twice at HSK 3.
- You can skip and come back. Nothing is submitted or stored, and there is no sign-up.
Question palette — answered questions are filled in.
Your score
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out of 300 · pass mark 180
Every question, marked
Words to take away
The words behind the questions you missed. Tap to save one to your review deck, or the word itself for its dictionary entry.
Where these questions come from
Every question is built from material published elsewhere on this site: the official HSK 3 word list, the hand-written example sentences on the dictionary pages, and the graded readers — whose comprehension questions are reused exactly as they were written. Word boundaries in the gap-fill and word-order questions come from the same segmenter the translators use, so a question can never disagree with the dictionary about where a word starts.
That also means the paper is different every time: there is far more material at this level than one sitting can use, so retaking it is a new exam rather than a second look at the same one.
Questions people ask
Is this the real HSK 3 exam?
No — it is a practice paper with the real paper's shape: the same sections, the same number of questions in each, the same 90-minute working time and the same 180 / 300 pass mark. The questions are generated from HSK 3 material, not taken from a past paper.
Why is there only one clock?
The real exam times each section separately and plays the listening once or twice at a fixed pace. This gives you the whole 90 minutes to use as you like and lets you replay any listening question. It is a study tool, and being stricter than that would make it worse at teaching.
Why is there no HSK 5 or HSK 6 paper?
Honesty about the material. A paper needs a large stock of example sentences, and this site currently holds hundreds at HSK 1–4 but only about twenty each at HSK 5 and 6 — so those papers would recycle the same handful of sentences several times in one sitting. They will appear when the sentences behind them do. In the meantime the HSK 5 and HSK 6 word lists carry their own vocabulary tests.
Prepare for HSK 3
- HSK 3 vocabulary list — every word with audio, plus a free printable PDF
- HSK 3 flashcards — the same words one card at a time
- Vocabulary size test — find out how much of the list you already know
- Graded readers — the passages in the reading section come from here
- Review your saved words — spaced repetition on everything you missed above
- HSK explained — levels, formats, scoring and how long each takes