German

• Oral (speaking)
• Written
• Aural (listening)
• Reading

The Exam

Section Higher Level Ordinary Level

Speaking 25% 20%

Listening Comprehension 20% 25%

Reading Comprehension 30% 40%

Writing 25% 15%

At Higher Level the Reading Comprehension has a journalistic reading text, followed by questions testing comprehension, language awareness, applied grammar and your ability to give an opinion on the topic. The written section has a formal or informal letter or an essay-type response to a picture.

At Ordinary Level you do one literary and two journalistic comprehensions with similar exercises to Higher Level. Written exercises include letters, telling a story from a given series of pictures or writing a dialogue.