Characters per level differ by exam board
Chinese-character proficiency exams are run by several boards, and two levels with the same name can cover different numbers of characters. This page therefore has no table built in. You enter the character count from the notice for the exam you are taking, add your daily load and how many days a week you study, and it works out how long the characters left will take and whether that fits before the exam date.
How it is calculated
Study days needed are the characters left divided by the daily load, rounded up. Calendar time assumes progress only on study days, so a five-day week advances five days out of seven, and the leftover days in the final week count only as themselves rather than a whole week. The per-day pace needed to make the date divides the characters left by the study days that actually fall inside the days remaining, rounded up.
Limits
Pass or fail is not decided here. For a verdict from a score and a cutoff, use the character proficiency exam pass checker. Forgetting is not modelled either, so review time has to be planned on top of this.
Frequently Asked Questions
No. The levels and the characters they cover differ by board and get revised, so the count stays an input. Take the figure from the notice for the exam you are sitting.
Because rest days fall in between whenever you study fewer than seven days a week. Ten study days at five days a week takes twelve calendar days.
Yes. When calendar time equals the days left, it reads as 0 days to spare rather than as short. Review time is not included though, so zero to spare is a tight plan.