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Free Goethe B1 Mock Test: Schreiben (Writing)

These are the writing tasks from a full Goethe B1 practice exam — 3 tasks in 3 parts. Read them, attempt them, time yourself — no account needed. We time you with a stopwatch rather than a countdown: the Goethe-Institut publishes the official length for this section and your exam centre confirms it for your session, and we do not state a duration we have not verified.

Read this before you start: what you write here is not marked. B1 writing has no answer key — it's judged by an examiner against the official criteria, and that judgement is what an account and a pass cover. Said now, not after an hour of work.

3 tasks · no account needed · not marked

What this part asks of you

Three tasks, deliberately different from each other: a personal message to someone you know, a short opinion piece responding to something you've read, and a formal message — a cancellation, a complaint, an apology to an employer or an institution.

The opinion piece is where candidates separate. It's not asking for an essay — just a position, one reason, and staying on topic, in a few sentences. Writing more usually scores worse.

How it's marked in the real exam

Task completion, coherence, vocabulary and grammatical accuracy — each marked separately, and any one of them can sink the part on its own. Because B1 is modular at most centres, writing is certified independently: a part you can pass, fail and retake on its own.

What you can do here without an account

See all three tasks exactly as the exam presents them, write your answers, and time yourself. The marking — feedback criterion by criterion, and a score you can trust — needs an account; the full AI examiner needs a pass.

Frequently asked questions

Can I get my B1 writing marked for free?

Not on this page, and we tell you before you write. Reading and listening are marked free because they have an answer key. B1 writing doesn't, and judging it against the official criteria is the work a pass covers.

Is B1 writing marked separately from the rest of the exam?

At most exam centres, yes — B1 is modular, writing is certified on its own, and can be retaken on its own. That's why it's worth knowing where this part stands before you book.

Do I need an account to see this task?

No. You get the task, your time, and the marking criteria with no account and no email address. An account is only needed for the marking.

Why isn't my text marked?

Because marking it honestly means judging grammar, vocabulary, task completion and register against the official criteria — a judgement, not a lookup. Prüfungsmeister does that with an AI examiner trained on the criteria, and that's what the pass is for. We'd rather tell you now, before you write, than after.

Is this a real Goethe-Institut exam paper?

No. Old exam papers belong to the Goethe-Institut. This is a practice paper built to the same structure — the same parts, the same number of questions, the same task types — and it's one of the real papers inside Prüfungsmeister, not a shortened version.

Can I try the other parts too?

Yes. Every level has a free page for reading, listening, writing and speaking, plus one for the full exam. Reading and listening are marked automatically; writing and speaking are shown to you as tasks, because marking them needs an examiner — and that's what a pass covers.