Goethe-Zertifikat B1 · Lesen
Each Teil of the module trains a different reading skill. Pick the one you want to work on.
5 Teile in 65 min, scored out of 100 on its own, and the five Teile are five different jobs. Teil 1 is a personal blog post or e-mail with six true-or-false statements that follow the order of the text. Teil 2 is two short newspaper articles with three multiple-choice items each. Teil 3 is matching: seven situations, ten small ads, and one situation for which no ad fits. Teil 4 is eight reader comments on a disputed measure, one of them the example, with a yes-or-no question about each of the other seven writers. Teil 5 is a set of rules — a Hausordnung, a course regulation — with four multiple-choice items.
The rule people miss is in Teil 3: one of the seven situations has no ad at all, and the answer for it is 0. A candidate who feels that every situation must have a solution forces a wrong ad onto it — and usually takes an ad away from a situation that had one. The ad that almost fits, and fails on a single condition (only in the mornings, only for children), is written into the task on purpose.
What all five Teile share: the answer is in the text but never in the same words. The information is paraphrased — a synonym, a negation instead of an affirmation, a different sentence — and a word that appears in both the statement and the text is more often a trap than a sign. Teil 4 adds a second trap: a comment that calls a measure too weak is still for it, and one that starts with the other side's argument may end up on your side.
65 min for all 5 Teile, and you may start with whichever you like. The printed guidance suggests about 10, 20, 10, 15 and 10 minutes, but only the total is binding. On paper you also plan a few minutes for copying your answers to the answer sheet, inside the total; in the digital exam that step disappears.
18 of 30. Nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, so an unanswered item is a chance thrown away — except in Teil 3, where 0 is a real answer.
0. One of the seven situations has no ad, and the instructions say so. Decide the six you are sure of first, and if one situation is left and every ad fails on a condition, that is your 0. Every ad may be used only once, and the one in the example is already taken.
Ask one thing of every comment: would this writer vote for the measure? After a concession (“zwar …, aber …”) the real view comes after the “aber”. A writer who says the measure does not go far enough is still for it; one who proposes something else instead is against; a rhetorical question is often a no in disguise. Read to the end of the comment before you decide.
