Goethe B2 study plan

Skim two B2-level newspaper articles per session and mark the main claim of each paragraph before reading it in full

Build a personal list of 40 connectives and discourse markers (jedoch, allerdings, insofern, zumal) and sort them by function: contrast, cause, concession, addition

Listen to one 4-minute German radio news segment daily and note only the five key nouns and three verbs you hear

Identify the five most frequent distractor patterns in multiple-choice reading items (near-synonym, reversed causality, overgeneralisation) and label examples you find in your own practice texts

Complete two full reading sections under 65-minute timing and record where you lost time

Paraphrase each correct answer option back into the wording of the source text to prove the match

Practise listening for numbers, dates and negation (nicht, kaum, keineswegs) by transcribing ten short audio clips

Summarise one 3-minute monologue in five German sentences without replaying it

Write one 80-word informal email per session answering a prompt fully within 20 minutes

Apply a fixed email frame (Anrede, Einleitung, zwei Inhaltspunkte, Schluss, Grussformel) to every message

Extract ten reusable B2 structures from model texts and rewrite them in your own sentences

Self-correct each email against a four-point checklist: task coverage, register, verb position, connectors

Write one 150-word formal message (complaint, request, application) per session using Sie-form consistently

Build a bank of 15 formal openings and closings and use each at least once

Reduce grammar errors in your own texts by tagging every mistake as case, verb form, word order or vocabulary and counting the categories

Read one opinion piece and reproduce its argument structure in a 120-word German summary

Record yourself giving a 4-minute structured statement on a controversial topic using the pattern claim, two reasons, counter-argument, conclusion

Listen back and mark every pause longer than three seconds and every self-correction

Practise the dialogue task by preparing questions for a partner scenario and answering them aloud without notes

Shadow one native speaker audio for ten minutes daily to stabilise rhythm and sentence stress

Deliver a 5-minute presentation on a self-chosen topic with a visible structure and a short question-and-answer follow-up

Reduce filler words (halt, irgendwie, also) to fewer than five per minute

Rewrite two of your earlier written texts as spoken scripts and deliver them from keywords only

Practise the planning task aloud by summarising a short text and negotiating a decision with a study partner

Run two complete mock reading and listening sections back to back under exam timing

Review every wrong answer and write the exact line of the text or audio that justified the correct option

Drill the listening formats you score lowest on with three repetitions each

Cut your average reading time per item by ten percent compared with week 2

Produce one timed informal email and one timed formal message within the official time limits

Record both oral tasks in one sitting without rehearsal to simulate exam conditions

Revise your personal error list and confirm that the top three error categories are resolved

Rehearse the exam sequence end to end so that timing and task order become automatic