B1 Writing oefenexamen simulator

What the Writing exam asks of you

Twelve tasks in one sitting: eight short sentence-completions, two form/detail tasks, two longer written pieces. Typed on a computer, not handwritten, so spelling counts. At B1 you get 12 tasks in 100 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 25 out of 47. 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

• Sentence completions with a grammar target
• Form and detail-completion tasks
• Picture-set or table description
• Longer email or message writing
• Register and cohesion
• Content coverage over style

Three things that save marks

• In the sentence tasks, the word right before the gap tells you the grammar you need: 'want' wants a hoofdzin, 'zodat' wants a bijzin.
• This is the easiest part to pass on raw points: the cesuur is only around 53%, and covering the content matters more than polish.
• You choose the task order. Many candidates do the eight short sentence tasks first, then the longer pieces.