Goethe B2: Reading
One timer for all five Teile.
Lesen · 65 minutes
| 1. opinions: who says what | Items: 9 · Format: match |
|---|---|
| 2. magazine article | Items: 6 · Format: mcq |
| 3. commentary | Items: 6 · Format: mcq |
| 4. reader letters | Items: 6 · Format: match |
| 5. guidelines and rules | Items: 3 · Format: match |
Listening · Writing · Speaking
FAQ
How long is Reading?
Reading is 65 minutes.
What are the tasks in Reading?
1. opinions: who says what; 2. magazine article; 3. commentary; 4. reader letters; 5. guidelines and rules
What score do you need to pass?
Each module is marked out of 100 and passes at 60. In this app you are marked ready when every module is at least 70.
How to prepare
B2 reading asks who holds which opinion, then a magazine article, a commentary, reader letters, and a short guidelines text. The opinion match is easy to rush and easy to miss, because two people can share a topic and differ on the conclusion.
Read the statement, then hunt the conclusion, not the example. Examples repeat nouns. Conclusions use verbs like bezweifeln, fordern, warnen.
A worked example
Die Stadt sollte die Straße sperren, auch wenn der Handel dagegen ist.
This person wants the street closed and already knows the shops object. A statement “she agrees with the shops” is false.
auch wenn introduces the other side. It is not agreement.
What usually drops the point
- Matching a person because their paragraph contains the same noun as the statement.
- Answering the commentary from the first paragraph when the claim is in the last.
- Spending the guidelines Teil as if it were the long article.
How to use the mock
On matching tasks, write the person’s letter next to the statement as soon as you are sure, and do not reuse a person if the instructions forbid it. Box the long article. Leave the guidelines for last only if you have actually left time.
- Take four short opinions from a course text and write one statement each.
- Find the sentence in a commentary that contains the author’s demand.
- Do one B2 reading mock and tag every error as “same noun” or “missed contrast”.
Author: Fahrplan Deutsch. Last reviewed 2026-10-27. reviewed: false. A native-speaker review is still open. This page is not a Goethe-Institut paper.