1) to be a requirement to enter a college or university in China as an undergraduate student.
2) to exempt the holder from taking certain language courses in China.
3) as a basis for employers to evaluate job applicants' Chinese language proficiency.

1) Interpretation of the scores of HSK Elementary §C Intermediate:
A subscore of HSK Elementary - Intermediate is a scale score with 50 as the mean and 15 as the standard deviation. The total scores is a scale score with 200 as the mean and 60 as the standard deviation. These scores show the relative position of the candidate in a standard HSK sample group. In table 2.1, it indicates the relative position of a candidate in the whole group. The column on the right gives the percentage of those whose scores are lower than the corresponding scores in the standard HSK reference group. The total score is not equal to the sum of all the subscores.
Table 2. 1 Percentile of the scores of HSK Elementary-Intermediate

HSK Score		Percentage
Total score	Subscore
400	100	100
277	69	90
250	63	80
231	58	70
215	54	60
200	50	50
185	46	40
169	42	30
150	37	20
123	31	10

2) Table 2. 2 shows the subscores of HSK Elementary-Intermediate as well as the types and grades of the certificate of HSK Elementary-Intermediate.

Table 2. 2 HSK subscore ranking standard and types, grades of Elementary and Intermediate certificate.

Types and Grade		Grade Level	Score Range
Types	Grade		Listening	Grammar	Reading	Cloze	Score Range
Elementary Level		Bottom Line	29-37	28-36	30-38	28-36	115-151
	C	Line 3	38-46	37-45	39-47	37-45	152-188
	B	Line 4'

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