Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · 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. The Teile are deliberately unalike: matching nine statements to four people who may each be right more than once, putting six sentences back into a text from a bank of eight, six multiple-choice items on one long article, matching headings to short opinion posts, and finally three paragraphs of an official document — a Hausordnung or a Studienordnung — against a contents list.
That last Teil is the register jump nobody warns you about. It is nominal-style administrative German: "Der Gesamtumfang beträgt", "gemäß §", "auf Antrag des Prüfungsausschusses". Three items, six minutes, and the vocabulary is nothing like the rest of the module.
The common thread across the whole module is that the answer is a paraphrase, never a word match. Where a statement and a text share a word, that is usually the distractor: another person mentioned the same subject and took the opposite view. Practising the Teile separately is the only way that pattern becomes visible.
65 min for all 5 Teile, and you may start with whichever you like. The printed guidance splits it 18 + 12 + 12 + 12 + 6 minutes, leaving about five minutes to transfer answers — in the digital exam that transfer disappears and the time comes back to you.
Teil 5 for most candidates, because of the register rather than the difficulty — three items in an official document written in a German nobody speaks. Teil 1 is the one people mismanage: candidates assume each person must be the answer the same number of times and "balance" their sheet, but the instructions say a person may be chosen more than once, and they mean it.
18 of 30. Nothing is deducted for a wrong answer, so an unanswered item is simply a thrown-away chance.
