HSK (Levels 7-9) has a total of 98 questions, divided into listening, reading, writing, translation, and speaking sections. The entire exam takes about 210 minutes. HSK (Levels 7-9) provides six scores, including listening, reading, writing, translation, and speaking, and provides level evaluation results.

Test structure		Test content	Number of test questions（items）			Test duration(minutes)
			Objective questions	Subjective questions	Total
Listening	Section 1	Includes news reports, business negotiations, debates, interviews, speeches/lectures, documentaries, conference speeches, etc.	10	——	40	About 30
	Section 2		9	3
	Section 3		15	3
Reading	Section 1	Involves news reports, scientific articles, survey reports, academic literature, Chinese culture, and overview of China.	28	——	47	60
	Section 2		5	——
	Section 3		——	14
Writing	Section 1	Description and analysis of charts; express and defend opinions on given topics.	——	1	2	55
	Section 2		——	1
Translation	Section 1	Translate explanatory, narrative, and argumentative texts from foreign languages to Chinese, both in written and oral forms.	——	2	4	41
	Section 2		——	2
Speaking	Section 1	Paraphrase or express one's perspectives on application documents, narrative texts, argumentative texts, etc.	——	1	5	About 24
	Section 2		——	3
	Section 3		——	1
Total			67	31	98	About 210

HSK (Level 7-9) report provides six scores, including listening, reading, writing, translation and speaking, and provides the rating results.

Level Setting: According to the Chinese Proficiency Grading Standards for International Chinese Language Education (GF0025-2021), the test takers are classified into four levels: "Below HSK (Level 7)", "HSK (Level 7)", "HSK (Level 8)" and "HSK (Level 9)", based on the ability values measured by the Item Response Theory (IRT) , as well as the content & difficulty of the test items.

Report Score: The ability value for each skill of the test takers’ Chinese proficiency is calculated by using the IRT model, based on the raw scores of the test takers. Besides, the measurement model is further used to obtain the report score of each skill range from 0 to 100.