My B1 Exam

I gave my B1 exam yesterday in Germany.

\- Lesen was no surprise, it was doable

\- Hören, The whole teil 3 was on train announcements. I would highly recommend practicing more with this.

\- Schreiben: Reply to a friend's letter

(Reaction to the letter, suggest Deutsch Kurs Abschiedsparty planning, Musik Suggestion, Any Urlaub plans?)

\- Mündlich Prüfung

(Teil 1 introduction

Teil 2- my topic was Abenteuer, the guy likes doing Adrenalinekik sports, my partner got the same topic but the woman likes visiting cities, monuments,etc

Teil 3- Planning for a Vorbereitung of Deutsch Prüfung between two friends. Wo, Wann,...)

My experience:

I had a paper based exam. They provided me pencils and we must use only pencil for the whole schriftlich section.

I think my strongest section was Lesen. I did very well, at least that's what I think until I get my result. Sprachbaustein was okay. Section 2 of it was a bit challenging to me. I think more practice could help here. Hören section 3 about the train announcements was super confusing. I could have done better by practicing more here, the other two sections were good and doable. In Schreiben, I expected this topic to be in sprechen. Anyways I could easily write this one. One thing to remember is to not underestimate the time. The letter reading and gathering points itself takes 10 min and you will have only 20 min to write. You need to be really quick.

In mündlich Prüfung, they gave me the question paper only during 20 min of preparation. While speaking I had just my notes I wrote. That was weird not looking at the question again. One thing I could have done better was speaking a bit slow, it's fine to not cover all points because you get only 3 min or less to speak in each section. Quality is important over quantity. I could have done teil2 in this better. My pronunciation was not clear sometimes when I got too nervous to pronounce big words like Abenteuerlich. In Teil 3 try to listen to what your partner is speaking, I know we all have our points in mind, but reacting to them is equally important.