Syllabus · Language

Professional Chinese — full syllabus

Humanities and STEM streams — sit the one matching your major (Chinese only, no English option). Fully English-taught programs are exempt; Chinese Language majors may be exempt with HSK Level 4. Open any topic for its dedicated lesson page.

Topic map summarized from the official syllabus documents — download the PDFs on csca.cn; this page is a study map, not the official text.

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CN only

language

90 min

duration

80 MCQ

questions

0–100

score

1. Reading Comprehension 2. Vocabulary 3. Grammar 4. Writing Mechanics

4 modules · 12 topics

Last reviewed Sep 2026 · GetCSCA editors

Reading Comprehension

3 topics

Academic passages in Humanities or STEM contexts
Main idea, detail and inference questions
90 minutes for 80 items — pace is the real test (~65s each)

Vocabulary

3 topics

Academic and subject-specific terms (stream-dependent)
Near-synonym discrimination
Collocations and formal register

Grammar

3 topics

Sentence structure and connectors
Common error types in formal Chinese
Classical-to-modern transfer items

Writing Mechanics

3 topics

Cohesion across paragraphs
Punctuation and style norms
Revision-type items: pick the better sentence

12 topics · one system

Pick a topic and start learning.

Full lessons with formulas land on each topic page next.

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