HSK Scheduling Confusion

[magnakaser]

So I am more than a little confused about this. I graduated from university with a but of Chinese under my belt, but wanted to do China-related stuff so I moved over here to teach English and study Chinese. A year later I was all ready to take the HSK and get ready for grad school and stuff.

I originally found this site: http://www.hsk.org.cn/TestInfo/TestInfo2010Schedule_C.html giving me a bunch of 2010 test dates for the HSK and whatever the 改进 HSK is. I had seen this months ago and was planning on signing up for the 初，中exam it says for November 28th. From what I've read here though it seems that that site is old and all the information on it is useless. Is this true or false?

So I went over to chinatesting.cn and looked around, decided 4 (or maybe 5 if I'm feeling adventurous) was about good for me and checked that out, which it says is on November 14th according to the schedule.

HOWEVER, when I go to actually register it says my test date is December 5th.

Basically I have no idea what is going on here. Should I assume December 5th is the definitive day or what?

[zhouhaochen]

have been planning to take the HSK on December 5th for some time now, but also confused. Anyone knows?

[gato]

The old HSK is conducted by BLCU and is probably being offered for the last time this year. The new HSK is conducted by Hanban （汉办).

See below for the registration info for each:

http://www.hsk.org.cn/Onl_reg_C.html

Old HSK registration

http://www.chinesetesting.cn/goliuchengtu.do

New HSK registration

http://www.chinesetesting.cn/gonewcontent.do?id=1133734

New HSK 2010 testing schedule

[Chinadoog]

it seems like they're doing the new hsk on dec. 5 at my school here in yantai