I entered myself for the HSK1 exam in September, so I have two months to prepare. The photo shows my notes that I made today. The numbers to the left are those assigned by Heisig, on whose book I am relying to learn individual characters.

HSK1 requires you to know 150 words. Most are compounds, so the total number of characters is a bit more than that. In the photo, the numbers highlighted in pink are characters that I already know well; I’m currently up to 360 characters in Heisig’s programme and expect to hit 400 within a few days.