The number of HSK words and non-HSK words in a HSK6 writing section

[becky82]

This YouTube video did an analysis of the HSK6 past exam question: the writing section of the 5th exam paper in 《汉语水平考试真题集（六级）2018版》.  I have this book, and the questions therein are quite similar to the actual exam.

 

 

They enumerated 515 words from this article and categorize them (I assume they count duplicates, and use the HSK2.0 standards).

 

In the first column, they list the number of HSK words at each level.  They find the HSK words split as follows: HSK1 (36%), HSK2 (15%), HSK3 (11%), HSK4 (10%), HSK5 (12%), HSK6 (5%).

 

The second column has four entries: (a) 重组词汇 (3%) [e.g. 环保 = 环境保护] and 减字词汇 [e.g. 部 = 部门] (9%) which are different variants of HSK words, (b) 基础词汇 (10%) which are non-HSK words but everyone knows [e.g. 天], (c) and 超纲词汇 (9%) are the extra-curricular words [e.g. 订单 and 满怀信心].

 

So in this one article alone, there were 46 extra-curricular words, which is more than the number of HSK6 words (i.e., 25).

 

 

[Jan Finster]

It would be interesting to know if not knowing hose words matters. Can you still grasp the meaning of the sentence from context?