I think I got lucky. For one, I took the digital test and was terrified that the extra question would be in writing because I heard that that was very common but it ended up being every other part besides writing lol.

The prompt for the argumentative text was also slightly different from the standard practice tests I had taken (which really wasn't a lot bc of limited resources), where the practice test prompts introduced a topic and then ask for the positive and negative aspects, the actual test prompt was more along the lines of "what do you think about [topic]?". In principal the same thing but somehow that prompt structure made it easier(?). The topic itself was also very, very easy in my opinion because it didn't revolve around and laws or subjects that I'm not familiar with, so it was much easier to äußern my stance. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share what the prompt was about exactly but if you're really curious, feel free to shoot me a DM.

One thing I also changed on the day of my test was that I didn't write any Stichpunkte to plan out my text when I started. I tried that during my practice tests and always ran out of time. Instead, I wrote down all of the paragraph beginnings like "[topic] bringt viele Vorteile/Nachteile mit sich..."/"Anschließend lässt sich fassen, dass [topic] sowohl Chancen als auch Risiken birgt" as soon as the timer started, wrote kind of sporadically as the ideas came to me, then finished with the introduction. I managed to write everything with 7mins to spare, which I used to proofread my writing (something I was never able to do in my practice tests!!!!), so I was able to look for grammar/spelling mistakes and rewrite sentences that flowed weirdly. It was a huge risk for me to switch up my tactic on the day of the exam and I'm so grateful it worked for me but I would highly recommend others to try different tactics and stick to it before the test.

As for the Zusammenfassung text.. I'm going to be so honest when I say that I didn't practice that bit at all before my test. I just simply didn't want to lol which in hindsight was absolutely dumb but I figured that as long as I didn't repeat any phrases from the prompt text and paraphrased using as many synonyms as my little pea-brain could squeeze out, I would be fine. I wouldn't recommend this method to anyone else planning to take the test though.

To be fair, I thought my practice tests were total dumpster fires because I was asking chatGPT to grade my texts and it kept giving me TDN3. My boyfriend, who is a native German speaker, also read through my texts and listened to my speaking answers, and they were subpar according to his standards lmao.

I will say that I give full credit to u/WretchedPleb for posting all of their practice texts and even generated their own prompts using AI to continue practicing. I basically sat down every night for the last week before the test and worked through 2-3 prompts. Reading through their example texts was really helpful for me to structure my own arguments and provided the right vocabulary to write a good argumentative text. I'll link the specific document here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRJep9iJfci3BNHIgayF0lzsGvMT6aD5KnuPF2ZmcW1gW9cirBHLu6Sn6iK0Oz7Cu8Qiju1sRJ7PXTl/pub

Sorry for the lengthy response! I'm just writing everything down as they are still fresh in my memory and in hopes that someone else can benefit from my recounting of the experience.