<p>Is it handwritten? Like, do you have to know how to handwrite all the characters you write?</p>
<p>Or do you get to write pinyin if you don't know the characters.</p>
<p>I heard somewhere that it's actually administered through computers and you use the whole "pinyin + character selection" to do it. This can't be true...right?</p>
<p>yes, the writing part is entirely typed using either pinyin (or bopomofo if you like). You don’t need to know the characters besides for correcting a character if the computer gets it wrong (there’s auto correct though).</p>
<p>Oh God that makes things so much easier. Thank the Lord.</p>
<p>But honestly…that seems alot like cheating. Not having to memorise characters makes the exam infinitely easier than similar exams in Singapore.</p>