B1 Listening oefenexamen simulator

What the Listening exam asks of you

Six conversations played once, no replay. Each question gets its own 25-second reading window before its short audio chunk plays. Always 3 options. At B1 you get 39 questions in 90 minutes. The Staatsexamen NT2 passes at a scaled score of 500, set per sitting rather than a fixed percentage. The most recently published cesuur (lowest passing raw score) for this part was 26 out of 39. Every paper above runs that whole section end to end under its real time limit, so the first time you meet the pressure is not the day it counts.

What comes up

• Work & study conversations
• Health & services
• Neighbours & everyday situations
• Opinions & attitudes
• Public information
• One video fragment

Three things that save marks

• You hear each fragment only once. There is no replay, so use the 25 seconds before each question to know exactly what to listen for.
• The audio plays in short chunks, one per question, not one long recording followed by all the questions.
• Several questions ask what a speaker thinks or feels, not just what happened. Listen for opinion and attitude, not only facts.