Goethe-Zertifikat B2 · Lesen · Teil 5
Ordnen Sie den Paragrafen eines offiziellen Textes die richtige Überschrift aus dem Inhaltsverzeichnis zu.
Three numbered paragraphs of an official document — a Studienordnung, a Hausordnung, a Benutzungsordnung — matched against eight headings from its table of contents. Three items for six minutes, and four headings will go unused.
The German here is unlike anything else on the paper: nominal style, passive and Passiversatz, "gemäß §", "Der Gesamtumfang … beträgt", "Der Prüfungsausschuss entscheidet auf Antrag". Candidates lose this Teil to register, not to reasoning, and they lose it by trying to read all three paragraphs properly inside six minutes.
What actually works is reading for function. Each paragraph does one administrative job — sets a condition of entry, fixes a duration, prescribes a form of teaching, defines how something ends — and the heading names that job. The four unused headings name jobs that a document like this could do but this extract does not, so matching on a shared word is exactly the wrong move.
The register. It is the most formal German on the paper — administrative, nominalised and full of legal formulae — and it arrives last, when time is shortest. Three items are only worth about six minutes, so it is also the Teil most often rushed.
Identify the administrative function of the paragraph in one phrase — entry requirement, duration, teaching format, completion — and find the heading that names it. Do not match on a shared word; the unused headings are written to share words with the text.
