All in a nutshell. examination components.

  1. Written examination held in groups (190 minutes)

    • You will read factual texts from books as well as commentaries, reviews and/or reports. In the associated exercises, you will show that you can cope with larger amounts of text, e.g. by reproducing excerpts.
    • You will listen to dialogues, telephone conversations, interviews or radio reports, make notes on them and categorize statements.
    • You express yourself in a well structured text on a topic. You will receive information on this in the form of a diagram.
  2. Oral examination held individually or in twos (15 or 10 minutes)

  3. In the first part of the examination, you will comment briefly on a short text. In a dialogue with your conversation partner, you will then try to find a solution in a project.

Assessment

The The Goethe-Zertifikat C1 is conducted and assessed the same way all over the world. Each candidate’s written papers and oral performance are evaluated separately by two examiners at the examination centre in question who apply uniform criteria.

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