Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Goethe B2 · Practice by Teil
Short exercises on a single Teil, for when there is no time for a whole module.
No account needed. Pick a Teil and its first free exercise opens.
Full Lesen mock module, freeGoethe-Zertifikat B2 is four modules — Lesen (65 min, 5 Teile), Hören (about 40 min, 4 Teile), Schreiben (75 min, two texts of circa 150 and circa 100 words) and Sprechen (about 15 min per pair) — and the thing worth knowing first about them is that they are separate exams. Each is scored out of 100, each is passed on its own at 60, and there is no compensation between them: a brilliant Lesen cannot carry a failed Schreiben.
That is the whole argument for practising one Teil at a time. Because the modules stand alone, the useful question is never "what is my overall level" but "which module am I under 60 in, and in which Teil of it do I lose the points". A full mock tells you your total; Teil-level practice tells you that you lose half your Lesen marks in one Teil specifically, or that one Hören Teil goes wrong because you are waiting for a second listen that never comes.
The modules can also be sat in any combination and repeated as often as you like, so a failed module costs you one module fee and one sitting, not the whole exam again. That makes targeting worth real money, and it is why this site is organised by Teil rather than by mock test.
Each module above opens into its Teile, and each Teil holds a set of exercises in the real format — same task type, same instructions, same answer pattern. There are 510 exercises for this exam, plus 60 full module tests for when you want a whole module under exam timing.
A sensible order: start with the module you are furthest from 60 in, because that is where the points are. Do three or four exercises of one Teil in a row rather than one of each — the point is to learn what that task rewards, and that only becomes visible across repetitions. Every answer comes with an explanation of why it is right, so a wrong answer is worth more than a right one.
Schreiben and Sprechen work differently: you produce an answer and Felix, our AI examiner, marks it on the exam's four criteria — Erfüllung, Kohärenz, Wortschatz and Strukturen — with sentence-level comments and the points each task would earn. Sprechen accepts either a live transcript from your microphone or typed answers, so it still works if you are somewhere you cannot talk out loud.
The first two exercises in every Teil of Lesen, Hören and Sprechen and the first two tasks of each Schreiben Textsorte are free with no account, and so is one Modellprüfung (a full module test) per module. The rest of the bank and Felix's marking come with a one-off timed access pass rather than a subscription — though an account with a confirmed email gets one free preview of the marking per module.
510 exercises for this exam and 60 full module tests, spread across all four modules and every Teil of each. New material is added to the bank rather than rotated, so nothing you have already done disappears.
No. They are original exercises written to the published Goethe-Zertifikat B2 specification — same task types, same lengths, same answer formats — and this site is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to the Goethe-Institut. For official sample material, use the Modellsatz the Goethe-Institut publishes; use this bank for the volume of practice that a handful of samples cannot give you.
60 points out of 100 in each module you sit, counted separately. In Lesen and Hören that works out at 18 of the 30 items, because each item is worth ten thirds of a point and nothing is deducted for a wrong answer — which is why you should never leave one blank. At 60 the module is "ausreichend"; 70 is "befriedigend", 80 "gut" and 90 "sehr gut".
Up to a point, and that point is feedback. An unmarked Forumsbeitrag teaches you very little, which is why Schreiben and Sprechen here are marked on the exam's four criteria, with specific comments rather than a score alone. Felix, our AI examiner, does not mark Aussprache, and his result is an estimate. It is not a substitute for a teacher who knows you, but it is the difference between practising and just producing words.
