A Comparative Study of Chinese Vocabulary in the Chinese Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT 7.4) with Vocabulary in the New Chinese Proficiency Test (New HSK)

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to survey and analysis of Chinese vocabulary in the Chinese Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT 7.4) by comparing with the New Chinese Proficiency Test (New HSK), to classify these vocabularies in two alphabetical A-Z groups, and to specify their parts of speech. The samples in this study were vocabularies collected from the Chinese Professional and Academic Aptitude Test (PAT 7.4) in different years and the New Chinese Proficiency Test (New HSK) in six levels. The statistics used in this survey research to analyze the data were frequency and percentage. The research results revealed that in PAT 7.4: 1) the various vocabulary categories had an unbalanced distribution of the types of vocabulary functions; 2) the proportions of the types of vocabulary functions in the various categories were unbalanced; 3) the proportion of words vocabulary in various categories is not balanced; 4) vocabulary in PAT 7.4 that is the most repeated with vocabulary in New HSK is 72.66 percent, the least is 15.58 percent, with fewer repetitions as the level of the New HSK exam increases.