The Listening Exam: What to Expect on Screen — Listening A2

The Listening exam runs on a computer with headphones. Before you practice vocabulary or specific traps, look at how the screen actually works on exam day. The screen mechanics decide your whole strategy.

For each question, you get 25 seconds of pre-read time before the audio starts. The question and the three options (A, B, C) are already on the screen. The audio then plays one time. There is no pause button, no rewind, no replay. The first listen is the only listen.

This changes how you study. You cannot listen, think, and re-check. You must already know what you are listening for before the audio begins. In those 25 seconds you read the stem, scan the three options, and decide what kind of word to catch — a time, a place, a name, a reason.

If you miss the answer during the audio, do not freeze. Make your best guess and click. There is no penalty for wrong answers, and freezing costs you the pre-read window for the next question — and that next 25 seconds is worth more than the question you already lost.

On the screen you will see instructions like Kies het juiste antwoord or Wat is juist?. Three options, one play, 25 seconds to prepare. That is the whole exam in one breath.