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Tips and strategies to help you ace your HSK exam

Listening - Viewing images and matching images with audio

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Read the answers while listening and catch keywords!
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After listening once, quickly read the answers to determine true/false.
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For types of sentences that do not directly mention the answer, guess based on given information.
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Use the elimination method to increase accuracy.
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Listen carefully to the content answering the questions: Who? Doing what? Where? When?
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Common mistake: Not reading the answers beforehand, unable to guess the main information.

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Don't forget to read the answers beforehand.
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Common mistake: Students close their eyes while listening to the question, then start reading the answers after listening.
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The content of the conversation is mainly about daily life, social activities...
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The conversation aims to check information about the people in the conversation (occupation, age, plans, attitudes, emotions, purpose).
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The conversation aims to check the relationship between the two people.
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If the answer is time, pay attention to listen and note the timing of each action.
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Time-related questions: "... ... 要多长时间?", "几点?" or "要几个小时?"
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If the question is "谁?" or "什么关系", pay attention to keywords related to occupation, relationship.
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Location-related questions: "... ... 从哪儿来?", "几点?" or "想去哪儿?"
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Occupation or identity-related questions: "... ... 男的/女的最可能是做什么的?"
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The conversation aims to check: time, location, mentioned objects, cause, result.
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While listening, imagine being one of the people in the conversation to identify the correct information.
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Common questions: "关于男的/女的, 可以知道什么?", "怎么了"...
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Common mistake: Unable to catch keywords based on the answers.
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Cause or reason-related questions: "男的/女的为什么 ... ...?"
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Inference-related questions: "... ... 是什么意思?", "根据对话，可以知道...."

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Don't forget to read the answers beforehand.
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The content of the conversation is mainly about daily life, social activities...
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Listen while catching keywords.

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Read the questions and answers in order.
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Use the elimination method.
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Questions about word combination: identify the object, questions to determine the answer.
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Pay attention to verbs or verb phrases between the two parts of the sentence.
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Pay attention to the semantic relevance between vocabulary.
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Understand the vocabulary related to the same topic.
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Based on some expressions of agreement or opposition to make judgments.
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Questions about the meaning of words: clarify words in the same vocabulary field. For example: 开车 - 辆车, 渴 - 喝水.
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Verbs usually appear after the subject, before the aspect particle, complement.
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Adjectives need to pay attention to structures like: 太... 了, 有点儿, 真...
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Nouns indicating time usually appear before or after the subject.
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Nouns in the structure: Number - Quantity - Noun

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Read the answers and determine the word type to fill in the blanks.
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Understand the usage and position of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs...
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Nouns usually denote people, objects, time, location, position.
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Nouns indicating direction often go with "来", "去", or "在".
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Verbs usually appear after the subject, before the aspect particle, complement.
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Adjectives need to pay attention to structures like: 太... 了, 有点儿, 真...
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Adverbs usually appear before verbs or adjectives.
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Prepositions to note structure: 把, 被, 在, 除了, 跟, 关于, 为了
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Conjunctions to note structures like: 虽然 ... , 但是, 先 ... 后, 一边... 一边
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Nouns indicating time usually appear before or after the subject.
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Nouns in the structure: Number - Quantity - Noun
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Nouns indicating food, drinks often go with "吃", "喝".
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Pay attention to some fixed phrases: 打篮球, 打电话, 对... 感兴趣, 玩游戏, 有... 爱好...

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Read the answers, skim for keywords.
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Find the core components in the sentence in order: Verb, Subject, Complement.
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Common mistake: Encountering difficult words making it hard to choose the answer.
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Skip difficult words, find the core components of the sentence.
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For time-related questions, quickly skim the given time points in the sentence.
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When encountering a lot of noise information, compare the answer information.

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Identify verbs, subjects, complements to arrange.
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Do not forget punctuation when writing.
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Adverbs usually appear before verbs or adjectives.
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Modal verbs appear before the verb.
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Verbs appear before modal particles.
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Verbs appear before complements.
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Pay attention to structures like: 要 ...... 了, 在 ... ... 呢, 正在 ... ..., 有点儿 + state verb, Verb + 一点儿.
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Understand the usage of the preposition "在".
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For sentences with "把", "被", note finding the verb, subject, object.
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Understand the basic and advanced comparative structures.
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"是 ... ... 的", "是" can be omitted.
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"是 ... ... 的", the elements between this structure are usually: time, location, or method of performing the action.
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The negative form of "是 ... ... 的" is "不是 ... ...的".

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For computer exams, if you encounter new words, you can guess and type the word according to pinyin!
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If you can't guess the pinyin, you can type according to the following trick: type u + the components in the word. For example: the word "哨" will be typed as "ukouxiao".