Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Hören
Each Teil trains a different listening skill. Two of them are played once only, as in the exam.
4 Teile, about 40 min, scored out of 100 on its own — and the single most important fact about it is that not every recording plays twice. Teil 1 and Teil 3 are played once. Teil 2 and Teil 4 are played twice. Candidates who have prepared on material that always repeats lose Teil 1 before they have understood what is happening.
The Teile test genuinely different things. Teil 1 puts five short unrelated recordings in front of you, each with a richtig/falsch item about what the speaker is talking about and a multiple-choice item about a detail or an opinion — global comprehension and detail, back to back, with one listen. Teil 3 asks who said what in a three-way discussion. Teil 2 and Teil 4 can afford denser information precisely because they repeat.
The distractor pattern is worth learning explicitly: the wrong option is usually something a speaker did say, but not in answer to the question asked, or said by the wrong person. The reading time before each recording is part of the audio and cannot be paused — using it properly is a skill in itself.
Not all of them. Teil 1 and Teil 3 are played once; Teil 2 and Teil 4 are played twice. The player here enforces the same rule in exam mode rather than letting you rewind, because rewinding is the one thing you cannot do on the day.
18 of 30, the same line as Lesen. Since nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, guess every item you are unsure of before the recording moves on.
