Is ÖSD Zertifikat B1 the same exam as Goethe-Zertifikat B1?

They share one grid — the same five Lesen Teile over 30 items, the same four Hören Teile over 30 with Teil 2 and Teil 3 heard only once, the same three writing tasks at 40/40/20, the same five-slide oral, the same 60/100 per module. They are not the same certificate and not the same examining body: you sit ÖSD through ÖSD, you are marked by ÖSD, and the paper sounds different. ÖSD's own Modellsatz prints reader letters dated in Graz, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Cuxhaven, and its audio speaks Austrian and Swiss as readily as German. That is the difference this kit rehearses.

What is the pass mark for ÖSD B1, and can I repeat a module?

Each module is passed on its own at 60 of 100. Lesen and Hören give 30 items each, scaled × 3,33 onto 100 Ergebnispunkte — so the line is 18 of those 30 items. Schreiben and Sprechen are reported on 100 directly. Every module can be repeated as often as you need, and a passed module earns its own Modulzeugnis. The one deadline to know is the certificate: ÖSD issues the Gesamtzertifikat only when all four modules are passed within one year at the same Prüfungszentrum, and that year starts with your first result — not when you decide to finish.

How long is the ÖSD B1 written exam, and what is heard only once?

One 165-minute sitting in the recommended order LESEN (65) → HÖREN (40) → SCHREIBEN (60), with at least fifteen minutes between the modules — and the five minutes needed to transfer each module's answers to the Antwortbogen are inside that time, not extra. Hören Teil 2 (Vortrag or Führung) and Teil 3 (a conversation between two people) are played exactly ONCE; Teil 1 and Teil 4 twice. The recording is not paused between the Teile, so a slow read of the items is taken directly out of the audio.

Why does the paper say „In diesem Fall schreiben Sie 0“?

That is Lesen Teil 3: seven situations against ten ads A–J. The ad used in the example is burned, each ad is used only once — and for exactly one situation there is no matching ad at all, so the instruction is to write 0. Candidates who have never met the rule spend that item hunting for a match that does not exist and lose the ad that another situation needed. The rule is printed on the task here, marked in the key, and the 0 is a real button.

Can the ÖSD B1 be taken digitally?

Yes — since 1 January 2024 the exam can also be sat on screen, and ÖSD states that the structure and the task formats of the digital and paper versions are identical. Practising on paper with a pencil is therefore rehearsal for the older of the two formats: here the Kreuz boxes click, the ad letters are real buttons, the transcript stays hidden until you submit, and the countdown locks at 0:00 the way a screen-based sitting does.

What exactly is in the ÖSD B1 kit?

Four full ÖSD Zertifikat B1 mock papers — five Lesen Teile with the „0“ ad task and the Ja/Nein ban column, four Hören Teile with Teil 2 and Teil 3 heard only once, three Schreiben tasks at 40/40/20, and both Teil-2 Sprechen topics each with their own five Folien — every one with a separate solution book: keys with worked reasoning on all 60 items, transcripts of everything you heard, and the ÖSD thresholds applied module by module. Plus five cheat sheets, including the pluricentric sheet on Austrian and Swiss vocabulary and the Redemittel for all three oral tasks.

One rule in the writing task can zero a whole text — what is it?

Erfüllung. Every Schreiben task is marked on four criteria — Erfüllung, Kohärenz, Wortschatz, Strukturen — and if Erfüllung scores 0, the entire text scores 0 no matter how good the German around it is. That happens automatically when the text is under half the required length or misses the task. It is the most expensive rule in the paper and the least discussed, so the solution books state it in the words the examiners use.

Is this an official ÖSD paper?

No — and the page says so plainly. These are Germanium's own mock papers calibrated to the official ÖSD Zertifikat B1 grid and cross-checked line by line against the Klett Übungsbuch „Mit Erfolg zum Goethe-/ÖSD-Zertifikat B1“ (Hantschel/Weber). ÖSD's own Modellsatz is free on osd.at; this kit is the additional rehearsal: four papers instead of one, reasoning on every item, and the per-module verdict printed automatically.

ÖSD B1 · ÖSD ZERTIFIKAT B1 (ZB1)

Four modules, one year — and the audio is Austrian as well.

Name: Germanium ÖSD B1 Exam Kit — 4 mock papers + 5 cheat sheets
Price: 9 USD
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Four full mock papers in the official ÖSD Zertifikat B1 grid — the same grid Goethe examines, marked by ÖSD, and rehearsed with Lesen's five Teile including the ten-ad task and its „0“, Hören's four Teile of which two are heard only ONCE and which run in Austrian, Swiss and German voices, Schreiben's three tasks at 40/40/20 under the Erfüllung rule, and the five-slide oral presentation, where ÖSD gives you two topics instead of three — each with its own solution book, plus five cheat sheets that include the pluricentric vocabulary sheet.

ÖSD ZERTIFIKAT B1 (ZB1) — ONE GRID WITH GOETHE, MARKED IN VIENNA

You have paid € 205 and booked the date. The ÖSD B1 share one grid with Goethe — so the paper will not surprise you. What it can cost you is what you hear, and the clock you did not know was already running.

ÖSD Zertifikat B1 and Goethe-Zertifikat B1 share one grid, one threshold and one set of task types — which is exactly why the ÖSD is not a softer paper. What differs is yours alone: the audio speaks Austrian and Swiss as readily as German, and Teil 2 of Sprechen hands you TWO topics rather than Goethe's three. The exam is not measuring the year of evenings you have already put in. It is measuring whether you rehearsed its four formats under its own rules — and nobody finds that out in the room.

€ 205

already paid at your centre, before a single module has been measured

€ 68 a module

what a module you repeat costs on top — a second date, a level three months colder, a one-year window still ticking

9 USDT

this kit, once — all four modules measured tonight, in the Austrian voices you will actually hear

full ÖSD B1 mocks — the whole ZB1 grid, Austrian voices, transcripts and keys

solution books with the ÖSD thresholds applied module by module

cheat sheets — including the pluricentric sheet no other pack has

240

auto-graded items — every Kreuz and typed gap, checked as you submit

THE ÖSD GRID IN ONE LOOK — AND THE FOUR NUMBERS THAT DECIDE IT

Lesen	4 Teile · 30 items · 30 raw points → 100 · the „0“ task in one Teil	pass at 60
Hören	4 Teile · 30 items · Teil 2 and Teil 3 heard ONCE · Austrian and Swiss voices in the audio	pass at 60
Schreiben	3 tasks — private e-mail 40 · Diskussionsbeitrag 40 · half-formal e-mail 20 · four criteria each	pass at 60
Sprechen	Einführungsgespräch unmarked · planen 28 · Präsentation 40 · Feedback 16 · Aussprache 16	pass at 60

Every module is passed on its own at 60 of 100 — 18 of the 30 objective items. ALL FOUR PAPERS FOLLOW THIS EXACT SHAPE: 165 MINUTES of written in one sitting, then the oral in pairs with 15 minutes of preparation alone. Since 1 January 2024 the ÖSD B1 can also be sat on screen, with identical structure and task formats — which is why rehearsing on paper alone rehearses the older format, not the harder one.

THREE THINGS THAT COST ÖSD CANDIDATES A MODULE — AND THAT A FREE MODELLSATZ DOES NOT CORRECT

The voices are Austrian and Swiss as well as German

Kassa, Bankomatkarte, Sackerl, Perron, Velo, Jänner — the Modellsatz prints reader letters from Graz, St. Gallen and Winterthur, and the audio speaks that range. A candidate who only ever heard a Berlin studio loses items to vocabulary, never to grammar, and no answer key shows it. That is why the fifth cheat sheet is ÖSD's own: the pluricentric pairs, side by side.

Teil 2 gives you two topics, not three

Goethe prints three and lets you choose; ÖSD prints TWO — Thema 1 und Thema 2 — each with its own five Folien, and 15 minutes of preparation alone. Less choice means less room to dodge the topic you have been avoiding, so our papers print BOTH topics with both Folien sets.

One situation has no ad at all

„Für eine Situation gibt es keine passende Anzeige.“

Lesen Teil 3 pairs seven situations with ten ads A–J: the example's ad is burned, every ad is used once, and for exactly one situation you write 0. We print the rule on the task, mark it in the key, and make the „0“ a real button.

THE ÖSD RULE THAT DECIDES WHETHER YOUR MONEY WAS SPENT WELL

Each module can be repeated as often as you like. The certificate still only exists if all four land inside one year at the same centre — and that year starts with your first passed module.

Lesen, Hören, Schreiben und Sprechen werden getrennt bewertet und getrennt bestanden. Jedes Modul erhält sein eigenes Modulzeugnis und kann beliebig oft wiederholt werden. Das Gesamtzertifikat gibt es, wenn alle vier Module innerhalb eines Jahres am selben Prüfungszentrum bestanden sind — die Uhr läuft also ab dem ersten Ergebnis, auch wenn das Modul selbst beliebig wiederholbar ist.

No centre refunds the parts you sat while you wait: at the Austrian centre this page cites, one module is € 68 against € 205 for the complete ZB1. So the exam you hoped to sit once becomes a second bill, and then a third — each with its own date, none of them covered by the money already spent. The module you would fail is not random. It is the one you never sat under a clock.

THE ÖSD DAY — EVERY RULE THE REAL ROOM APPLIESOPEN +

—Written: ONE 165-minute sitting in the recommended order LESEN (65) → HÖREN (40) → SCHREIBEN (60), with at least fifteen minutes between the modules. Die Losungen werden am Ende jedes Moduls auf den Antwortbogen übertragen — planen Sie dafür fünf Minuten INNERHALB der Prüfungszeit ein.
—Hören Teil 2 und Teil 3 hören Sie nur EINMAL, Teil 1 und Teil 4 zweimal. Ein Beispiel gibt es nur vor Teil 1 und vor Teil 4 — nie vor Teil 2 und Teil 3.
—Lesen Teil 3: sieben Situationen gegen ZEHN Anzeigen A–J. Die Anzeige aus dem Beispiel ist verbraucht, jede Anzeige wird einmal benutzt — und für genau eine Situation gibt es keine Anzeige: Schreiben Sie 0.
—Lesen Teil 4: sieben Kommentare, eine Frage für jede Person — ist sie für ein Verbot? Ja oder Nein. Lesen Teil 5 hat kein Beispiel, und die Aufgaben stehen nicht in der Reihenfolge des Textes.
—Schreiben: drei Aufgaben (private E-Mail ca. 80 Wörter, Diskussionsbeitrag ca. 80 Wörter auf eine Gästebuch-Vorlage, kurze E-Mail ca. 40 Wörter) — 40 + 40 + 20 = 100 Punkte. Vier Kriterien; Erfüllung = 0 setzt den ganzen Text auf 0.
—Sprechen: Einführungsgespräch (unbewertet), Teil 1 planen 28 P, Teil 2 Präsentation über FÜNF Folien 40 P — Thema 1 ODER Thema 2, Teil 3 Rückmeldung und Frage 16 P, Aussprache und Intonation 16 P. Paarprüfung ca. 15 Minuten, Einzelprüfung ca. 10, Vorbereitung 15 Minuten allein.
—Bestanden: JEDES Modul separat mit 60/100 — das sind 18 von 30 Items. Jedes Modul kann beliebig oft wiederholt werden; das Gesamtzertifikat gibt es aber nur, wenn ALLE VIER Module innerhalb eines Jahres am selben Prüfungszentrum bestanden sind.
—Seit 1.1.2024 ist die Prüfung auch digital ablegbar, und die ÖSD stellt ausdrücklich fest: Prüfungsaufbau und Testformate beider Versionen sind ident. Wer auf Papier übt, übt für den Bildschirm.

THE PREPARATION BOOKS — AND WHAT A BOOK CANNOT DO

The books are honest about the format — they just cannot sit you down inside it. For an ÖSD candidate there is one more thing they cannot do, and it is not a matter of quality:

WHAT NO BOOK CAN DO

×No 165-minute sitting — nobody finds out in week six that the Vortrag went past once.
×No verdict: a key gives the letter, never why the trap caught you.
×No modular arithmetic: which module would pass this morning is what it cannot say.
×A German-German CD cannot tell you Perron is a platform and Sackerl a bag — both appear in the items.
×A printed test is spent once — then you pay for the module again.

WHAT THE KIT DOES INSTEAD

✓Every task from the official ÖSD ZB1 grid, both Teil-2 Sprechen topics with their own five Folien.
✓A countdown that locks at 0:00 and submits for you, module order and breaks included.
✓Lesen, Hören and Schreiben scored separately against 60/100 the second you submit.
✓Reasoning on all 60 items, the pluricentric vocabulary in play, every transcript.
✓The Erfüllung gate explained in the examiners' own words, on the three writing tasks.

THE BOOKS THEMSELVES, STATED AS THEY ARE

•Klett, Mit Erfolg zum Goethe-/ÖSD-Zertifikat B1 — Übungsbuch (ISBN 978-3-12-675850-5): one grid, two examining bodies, and the book this kit was calibrated against.
•Its audio is a CD in German-German voices, transcripts at the back. ÖSD's own Modellsatz sounds different — Graz, St. Gallen, Winterthur, Cuxhaven on the reader letters, Kassa and Velo in the ads. That gap never shows up in a book's answer key.
•Cornelsen publishes a B1 Prüfungstraining title too. We have not read it, so we print no specs for it rather than guess.

WHO SITS ÖSD B1 — AND WHAT THIS KIT IS FOR

—Anyone booked at an ÖSD centre who was handed the Goethe B1 book: same grid, different exam body, different audio.
—Candidates whose certificate has a deadline — settlement and citizenship, care recognition, Studienkolleg entry.
—Anyone who cleared A2 and assumes B1 is „more of the same“: 40 items become 60, two audio parts come once.
—Learners who already spent their one free Modellsatz and learned that one test cannot measure readiness.

VERIFIED AGAINST — THE SOURCES BEHIND EVERY CLAIMOPEN +

The task types, per-Teil times, play-once and play-twice rules and point values in these four papers follow the official ÖSD Zertifikat B1 Modellsatz and the Durchführungsbestimmungen, Stand Oktober 2023, and were cross-checked against the Klett Übungsbuch „Mit Erfolg zum Goethe-/ÖSD-Zertifikat B1". ÖSD publishes no national fee — every licensed centre sets its own („Die Prüfungsgebühren werden vom jeweiligen Prüfungszentrum festgelegt") — so the fee figures quoted here are one centre's published list, labelled as such. The repeat rule and the one-year window for the Gesamtzertifikat are printed on ÖSD's own Prüfungsorganisation page. Build checks compare every number on this page with the papers and with those sources — a claim that stops being true fails the build.

THE COMPLETE ÖSD B1 KIT

9 USDT

One-time, yours on every device you sign in to. Four full ÖSD B1 mocks, four solution books with the modular thresholds applied module by module, five cheat sheets — including the pluricentric sheet that answers what the Austrian and Swiss voices actually say.

Four evenings of honest rehearsal now, or a failed module later: a module fee on top of the exam you already paid for, a new sitting months away, everything you have learned three months colder — and a one-year window that started without asking you. 9 USDT once, today, against a second bill for the module you could have measured tonight.

ÖSD does not set the fee — each licensed centre does („Die Prüfungsgebühren werden vom jeweiligen Prüfungszentrum festgelegt“). The figures above come from one centre's published price list (abc Bildungszentrum, Vienna, 2026): € 205 for the complete ÖSD Zertifikat B1, € 68 for a single module. Your centre's list is the only binding one, and it is worth reading closely, because the structure is the whole story: a module costs about a third of the exam, so the modules you fail are bought back one at a time — each with its own fee and its own date. And ÖSD certifies that arithmetic in writing: a single passed module earns a Modulzeugnis, and the full certificate is issued only when all four are passed within one year at the same centre.

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QUESTIONS PEOPLE ACTUALLY ASK BEFORE BUYING

Is ÖSD Zertifikat B1 the same exam as Goethe-Zertifikat B1?
They share one grid — the same five Lesen Teile over 30 items, the same four Hören Teile over 30 with Teil 2 and Teil 3 heard only once, the same three writing tasks at 40/40/20, the same five-slide oral, the same 60/100 per module. They are not the same certificate and not the same examining body: you sit ÖSD through ÖSD, you are marked by ÖSD, and the paper sounds different. ÖSD's own Modellsatz prints reader letters dated in Graz, St. Gallen, Winterthur and Cuxhaven, and its audio speaks Austrian and Swiss as readily as German. That is the difference this kit rehearses.
What is the pass mark for ÖSD B1, and can I repeat a module?
Each module is passed on its own at 60 of 100. Lesen and Hören give 30 items each, scaled × 3,33 onto 100 Ergebnispunkte — so the line is 18 of those 30 items. Schreiben and Sprechen are reported on 100 directly. Every module can be repeated as often as you need, and a passed module earns its own Modulzeugnis. The one deadline to know is the certificate: ÖSD issues the Gesamtzertifikat only when all four modules are passed within one year at the same Prüfungszentrum, and that year starts with your first result — not when you decide to finish.
How long is the ÖSD B1 written exam, and what is heard only once?
One 165-minute sitting in the recommended order LESEN (65) → HÖREN (40) → SCHREIBEN (60), with at least fifteen minutes between the modules — and the five minutes needed to transfer each module's answers to the Antwortbogen are inside that time, not extra. Hören Teil 2 (Vortrag or Führung) and Teil 3 (a conversation between two people) are played exactly ONCE; Teil 1 and Teil 4 twice. The recording is not paused between the Teile, so a slow read of the items is taken directly out of the audio.
Why does the paper say „In diesem Fall schreiben Sie 0“?
That is Lesen Teil 3: seven situations against ten ads A–J. The ad used in the example is burned, each ad is used only once — and for exactly one situation there is no matching ad at all, so the instruction is to write 0. Candidates who have never met the rule spend that item hunting for a match that does not exist and lose the ad that another situation needed. The rule is printed on the task here, marked in the key, and the 0 is a real button.
Can the ÖSD B1 be taken digitally?
Yes — since 1 January 2024 the exam can also be sat on screen, and ÖSD states that the structure and the task formats of the digital and paper versions are identical. Practising on paper with a pencil is therefore rehearsal for the older of the two formats: here the Kreuz boxes click, the ad letters are real buttons, the transcript stays hidden until you submit, and the countdown locks at 0:00 the way a screen-based sitting does.
What exactly is in the ÖSD B1 kit?
Four full ÖSD Zertifikat B1 mock papers — five Lesen Teile with the „0“ ad task and the Ja/Nein ban column, four Hören Teile with Teil 2 and Teil 3 heard only once, three Schreiben tasks at 40/40/20, and both Teil-2 Sprechen topics each with their own five Folien — every one with a separate solution book: keys with worked reasoning on all 60 items, transcripts of everything you heard, and the ÖSD thresholds applied module by module. Plus five cheat sheets, including the pluricentric sheet on Austrian and Swiss vocabulary and the Redemittel for all three oral tasks.
One rule in the writing task can zero a whole text — what is it?
Erfüllung. Every Schreiben task is marked on four criteria — Erfüllung, Kohärenz, Wortschatz, Strukturen — and if Erfüllung scores 0, the entire text scores 0 no matter how good the German around it is. That happens automatically when the text is under half the required length or misses the task. It is the most expensive rule in the paper and the least discussed, so the solution books state it in the words the examiners use.
Is this an official ÖSD paper?
No — and the page says so plainly. These are Germanium's own mock papers calibrated to the official ÖSD Zertifikat B1 grid and cross-checked line by line against the Klett Übungsbuch „Mit Erfolg zum Goethe-/ÖSD-Zertifikat B1“ (Hantschel/Weber). ÖSD's own Modellsatz is free on osd.at; this kit is the additional rehearsal: four papers instead of one, reasoning on every item, and the per-module verdict printed automatically.

THE PAPERS — SIT THE WRITTEN IN ONE 165-MINUTE BLOCK

THE CHEAT SHEETS — GRAMMAR THE B1 PAPER GRADES

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