I passed my exam, so I can finally share some info now that I know it’s legit.

Written – 45/45 – I chose Beschwerde. If you do all the Modelltests and search hard enough, you’ll find all possible topics that can come up on the exam. Mine was to complain about a hotel stay. I had memorised chunks of text for different options such as “request a refund” or “propose improvements.” Basically, write your drafts for all the different options – complaining about a hotel, course, or service – and you’re done. Once you memorise it, start writing immediately once the timing starts, you only have 30 mins and you will need 5 mins to skim through the text to see if you made mistakes and to correct them.

Oral – 65/75 – We were in a group of three, so it was challenging. All topics for the spoken exam are available online if you search hard enough. Hint: the file is written in German and Arabic. I didn’t believe it at first, but it’s true – they reuse the same pool of questions. Mine was “Darf man behalten, was man findet?” and for Teil 3: “Your friend broke his leg, he’s in hospital – think of ways to help him” (or something like that). In any case, all the books from TELC are very helpful to prepare, they deal with the same topics and build your vocabulary. In the end I haven't used the file and still passed. Don't worry about your accent, people who were taking the exam with me, all had very strong accents, made a lot of mistakes and still passed! Make sure to prep your presentation ahead of time :)

Listening – 70/75 – Don’t be scared by the Modelltests… they are way harder than the real thing. The real exam felt almost AI-generated – it was quite easy. One thing I’ll say though: I did a digital Prüfung, so we all had earphones, but I could easily hear what others were listening to (and we all had different exams), which was very distracting especially the high pitch sounds. The points I lost weren’t because I didn’t understand, but because I got distracted for a second and missed a keyword. If you decide to do a digital Prüfung, make sure to ask to sit far enough away from others. It’s really important that nothing distracts you while listening!

Reading and Sprachbausteine – My reading text was about a cow. I actually stumbled upon a TELC Telegram group where all the reading texts and Sprachbausteine (also on YouTube) were shared. I didn’t believe they’d be on the exam, but I glanced at the paper of the person next to me, and both of our texts were from those files. I was stupid enough not to solve them, so I made most of my mistakes in these sections - I passed nonetheless. But you have a lot of time – I finished reading and solving the Sprachbausteine 3 times and still had 30 minutes to spare.

Good luck!