Felix, the AI examiner — for Sprechen
Felix marks Schreiben and Sprechen on the assessment criteria of the Goethe-Zertifikat B2. Here he marks what you actually said: a grade from A to E on each criterion, the points that come to, and the exact words to say better.
Felix does not mark Aussprache: he works from a transcript, and a transcript cannot show how you sound. The result is an estimate, not an official result of the Goethe-Institut. Only the examiners at your exam centre award your points, and Felix does not replace them.
Two exercises in every Sprechen Teil are free to try, no account needed; a free account with a confirmed email gets one preview of the marking. Felix’s full marking comes with Exam Prep and Complete Prep — compare the passes.
Every Sprechen task gives you the same box: press the microphone and answer out loud, and your words appear as you say them. No microphone, or somewhere you can’t speak? Type the answer instead — the exercise finishes either way, and so does the marking.
Anything the recogniser mishears you can fix before you submit, and it would not be held against you anyway.
The writing Felix corrects your text line by line. The speaking Felix can’t — and shouldn’t. You were talking, so he judges what counts when you talk.
You speak; the browser writes it down in German. Felix marks that transcript — how you actually talked, not a tidy text you had time to polish.
The text came from speech recognition, so odd capital letters, missing full stops and the occasional misheard word are ignored. He judges the language and the content, never typos.
Aussprache is worth 16 of the 100 points, and it needs your voice, which is not sent for marking. So Felix marks the other 84 — and in a whole Modellprüfung tells you how many Aussprache points you would still need for 60.
The same criteria and the same points as the Bewertungsbogen of the Goethe-Zertifikat B2 — whole grades from A to E, no halves in between, and your points computed from them.
Teil 1 and Teil 2 are marked on different criteria, exactly as in the exam. Each criterion gets one grade from A to E, and the grade sets the points.
Did the talk do what the task asks — describe the alternatives, go into one in detail, weigh up pros and cons and evaluate them?
An introduction, a main part and a conclusion; ideas linked, not listed; speech that flows rather than stalls.
How wide and how precise your vocabulary is — and whether slips get in the way of being understood.
How varied and how accurate your grammar is: word order, endings, subordinate clauses, Konjunktiv.
Answering the questions on your talk — and asking your partner a question about theirs. The heaviest criterion of Teil 1.
Exchanging positions, responding to the other side's arguments and summing up at the end whether you are for or against.
Starting, keeping up and closing the conversation — reacting to what was actually said, in the right register.
The words to argue with: agreeing, disagreeing, weighing up — used precisely.
Grammar under pressure: the structures that carry an argument, and how accurate they stay.
Points for A · B · C · D · E
Worth 16 points in the real exam, judged from sound: sentence melody, word stress, individual sounds. Not marked here — record yourself and listen back, or ask a teacher.
One rule overrides the rest, as in the exam: if Erfüllung is graded E, the whole Teil scores 0 — however good the German was.
Each Teil asks for something different, so each is checked against its own task before the language is judged at all.
Did you cover all three points on the task sheet, with an introduction and a conclusion — speaking freely rather than reading? Did you answer the questions on your talk, and ask your partner one?
Did you state a position and give reasons, take up your partner's arguments instead of talking past them, and sum up at the end? Felix plays the partner — one who holds the other view.
“Use more advanced vocabulary” helps nobody. Every result ends with things you actually said, each with a stronger German version and one line on why it is better — so you have something concrete to practise before the next attempt.
Every result gives a grade for each criterion and adds up the points — out of 44 for a Vortrag, 40 for a Diskussion — against the 60 % line. A whole Modellprüfung adds both Teile up, out of 84. It lists what worked and what to fix, with corrections in German and the explanation in your language. If you barely spoke, he says so and marks it low — no wall of compliments.
Pick a Teil and answer it out loud. Felix marks what you said and shows you what to say differently.
