What is the öSD Zertifikat A1 and who runs it?

The ÖSD Zertifikat A1 (Grundstufe Deutsch 1) is the Austrian German A1 certificate, run by the Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch — a state-supported examination system shared by Austria, Switzerland and Germany's education ministries. It is accepted for Austrian residence and visa purposes and sits at öSD-licensed centres worldwide.

How is the öSD A1 paper different from Goethe or telc A1?

Task types first: öSD uses matching tasks (situations to ads by number), a Hören Notizblatt where you write the information you hear, and a banded 10-item form in Schreiben. Scoring second: the written module is 75 points (Lesen 30, Hören 30, Schreiben 15) with a pass at 38 — and per-section floors, so a very weak section can fail the module even on a passing total. Third: öSD is modular — the oral is its own module with its own certificate.

What exactly is in the kit?

Three full öSD A1 mock papers — matching tasks, the Notizblatt, the banded form and the oral — each with its own solution book and transcripts, plus five cheat sheets built for öSD's own formats rather than reprinted Goethe sheets. Texts are plurizentric: Vienna, Graz and Basel, like the real paper. Everything is interactive and graded against the official bands and floors.

Is this an official öSD paper?

No. These are Germanium's own mock papers calibrated to the öSD's published Modellsatz format. The official Modelltests are free on osd.at and worth doing; this kit is the additional rehearsal material — more papers, worked reasoning on every item, and the band tables applied to your answers automatically.

What score do I need to pass öSD A1?

The written module: 38 of 75 points, with floors — Lesen at least 6 of 30, Hören at least 6 of 30, and the Schreiben form band not left empty. The oral module: at least 12 of 25. Modules can be sat and repeated independently at the centre.

ÖSD A1 · ZERTIFIKAT A1 (ZA1)

The Austrian paper. Rehearsed end to end.

Three complete ÖSD Zertifikat A1 mock papers in the official format — matching tasks, the Notizblatt, the banded 10-item form — each with its own solution book, plus five cheat sheets on exactly what this paper grades. Vienna, Graz and Basel included: the öSD is plurizentric, so is the practice.

BEFORE YOU BOOK — ONE WARNING

You have been practicing for the wrong exam. Goethe and telc share one paper — the öSD wrote its own. Different tasks, different points, different traps.

Sit a Goethe mock and then the real öSD A1, and the room feels wrong from minute one: there are no a/b/c boxes — you WRITE numbers, matching situations to ads and texts to pictures. Hören asks you to take notes while listening, with a phone number worth two points that evaporates if one digit is wrong. And Schreiben is scored in BANDS, not per answer. None of that exists in the other A1 exams. This kit is the rehearsal the öSD paper deserves.

full öSD mocks — matching, Notizblatt, banded form, all of it

solution books with the official per-Aufgabe band conversion

cheat sheets anchored to öSD's own task formats, not reprints

110+

pages of öSD-specific rehearsal

THE ÖSD QUIRK EVERY CANDIDATE LEARNS TOO LATE

The öSD is the only A1 certificate where you can pass half the exam and still fail — and the only one where half the exam can be RETAKEN ALONE.

THE MERCY

Written and oral are separate modules with separate certificates. Fail the oral, pass the written — you keep the written certificate for a year at the same center, and re-sit ONLY the oral. No other A1 body offers this.

THE TRAP

The written module has section floors: below 6 points in Lesen or Hören, or 4 in Schreiben A2, the whole module fails — even with a passing total. The exam rewards balance, and punishes the candidate who ignored one skill.

Every mock in this kit scores you the öSD way — total, floors, bands — so the first time you meet a floor is not exam day.

THE ÖSD A1 PATTERN — WHAT THE DAY LOOKS LIKE

—Lesen 25 min: A1 five situations → six ads (number matching, one extra) · A2 three ads × two Ja/Nein questions · A3 five texts → six pictures.
—Hören ~10 min: A1 five texts → pictures, heard ONCE · A2 the Notizblatt — one message heard TWICE, you write the info · A3 five short interviews, once.
—Schreiben 20 min: A1 a 10-item form (banded 5→0) · A2 a reply e-mail answering three Leitfragen, ~30 words.
—Pass the written module: 38/75 — but every section has a FLOOR (Lesen ≥6, Hören ≥6, Schreiben A2 ≥4). The oral is a separate module: 25 pts, pass 12, own certificate.

ALL THREE PAPERS FOLLOW THIS EXACT SHAPE. 55 MINUTES OF WRITTEN, THEN THE ORAL AS A SEPARATE MODULE. LISTEN FOR THE PLURIZENTRIC VOICES — WIEN, GRAZ, BASEL: THE öSD MIXES AUSTRIAN, GERMAN AND SWISS SPEAKERS, SO DO WE.

WHY öSD PRACTICE IS RARE — AND WHAT THE GENERIC BOOKS MISS

THE GENERIC A1 BOOK (kursbuch & CO.)

×A1 sections written for the Goethe/telc format — because that's the mass market. The öSD-specific tasks appear as a short appendix, if at all.
×One Modelltest at most — after it, you're rehearsing from memory, not from the clock.
×No Notizblatt training. The hören-und-notieren discipline — writing WHILE listening — is simply never drilled.
×Flat answer keys. No band conversion, no floors, so you never learn how the öSD actually counts.

THE GERMANIUM öSD KIT

✓Every task built from the official Modellsatz: matching with decoys, Ja/Nein with the two-crosses-equal-zero rule, the Notizblatt, the banded 10-item form.
✓Three papers — sit them a week apart; each one measures something new.
✓A countdown that locks at 0:00 and submits for you — plus per-Aufgabe band conversion on every solution page.
✓The scoring console: total, floors, and sehr gut / gut / bestanden — the öSD verdict, not a generic percentage.

THE EXAM IS DIGITAL-FIRST. THE öSD PRACTICE ISN'T.

ösd.at gives you exactly one Modelltest for free — a PDF. You print it, you self-mark it, you guess your band. Then what?

Here, the matching tasks are clickable, the Notizblatt is typeable with umlaut buttons, the clock locks and submits like the real room, and your attempt is saved as your baseline. Practice where you'll perform — on screen, on your phone, on the U-Bahn home from your Sprachkurs.

WHO SITS THE öSD A1 — AND WHY THIS KIT FITS THEM

—Austrian visa and residence applicants — the öSD A1 / Österreich variant is what the authorities name.
—Candidates in South-East Europe and Türkiye, where öSD centers are often closer and cheaper than Goethe — and the certificate is equally accepted.
—Anyone whose employer, university or Anerkennungsstelle said „öSD“ and whose course only taught the Goethe format.

THE COMPLETE ÖSD A1 KIT

€9

One-time. Three full öSD mocks, three solution books with band conversion, five cheat sheets — less than one failed seat (~€130), and the only öSD-format practice you can sit against a clock.

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QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK BEFORE BUYING

What is the öSD Zertifikat A1 and who runs it?
The ÖSD Zertifikat A1 (Grundstufe Deutsch 1) is the Austrian German A1 certificate, run by the Österreichisches Sprachdiplom Deutsch — a state-supported examination system shared by Austria, Switzerland and Germany's education ministries. It is accepted for Austrian residence and visa purposes and sits at öSD-licensed centres worldwide.
How is the öSD A1 paper different from Goethe or telc A1?
Task types first: öSD uses matching tasks (situations to ads by number), a Hören Notizblatt where you write the information you hear, and a banded 10-item form in Schreiben. Scoring second: the written module is 75 points (Lesen 30, Hören 30, Schreiben 15) with a pass at 38 — and per-section floors, so a very weak section can fail the module even on a passing total. Third: öSD is modular — the oral is its own module with its own certificate.
What exactly is in the kit?
Three full öSD A1 mock papers — matching tasks, the Notizblatt, the banded form and the oral — each with its own solution book and transcripts, plus five cheat sheets built for öSD's own formats rather than reprinted Goethe sheets. Texts are plurizentric: Vienna, Graz and Basel, like the real paper. Everything is interactive and graded against the official bands and floors.
Is this an official öSD paper?
No. These are Germanium's own mock papers calibrated to the öSD's published Modellsatz format. The official Modelltests are free on osd.at and worth doing; this kit is the additional rehearsal material — more papers, worked reasoning on every item, and the band tables applied to your answers automatically.
What score do I need to pass öSD A1?
The written module: 38 of 75 points, with floors — Lesen at least 6 of 30, Hören at least 6 of 30, and the Schreiben form band not left empty. The oral module: at least 12 of 25. Modules can be sat and repeated independently at the centre.

THE PAPERS — SIT THE WRITTEN IN ONE 55-MINUTE BLOCK

THE CHEAT SHEETS — GRAMMAR THE PAPER CAN ASK

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