telc Deutsch B1 Leseverstehen has three parts and 25 items worth 75 points, and it shares a single 90-minute block with Sprachbausteine - nobody tells you when to switch, so the timing is your decision.
Teil 1 - matching headings. Several short texts, and a longer list of possible headings than there are texts. The surplus headings are the difficulty: they are written to look plausible for the wrong text. Read the text first and only then scan the headings, never the reverse.
Teil 2 - one longer text with multiple choice. A single article of several hundred words followed by comprehension questions with three options each. The questions follow the order of the text, which is the single most useful fact about this part: if you have answered question 3, the answer to question 4 is below, not above.
Teil 3 - situations and adverts. Short everyday situations ("you want to have a bicycle repaired") matched against small ads. There are more ads than situations, and some situations match none - the correct answer is then "negative". Candidates lose marks here by forcing a match rather than accepting that none fits.
Leseverstehen and Sprachbausteine are handed out together and share 90 minutes. That makes time allocation part of what is being assessed, even though it appears nowhere in the criteria.
The trap: Leseverstehen is worth 75 points and Sprachbausteine only 30, so spending proportionally more time on reading feels right. But Sprachbausteine items take seconds each once you know the material, while a hard reading item can swallow five minutes and still be wrong. Doing Sprachbausteine first - 20 to 25 minutes - locks in 30 points before the clock becomes a problem.
Leave three minutes at the end to transfer answers to the answer sheet. Answers written only on the question paper are not marked.
Skimming for gist before reading closely, so Teil 1 and Teil 3 stop being word-by-word translation. Recognising paraphrase - the correct option almost never repeats the words of the text, which is exactly what makes it correct.
There is no separate time limit. Leseverstehen and Sprachbausteine share one 90-minute block, and you allocate it yourself. A workable split is about 60 minutes for reading and 25 for Sprachbausteine, leaving a few minutes to transfer answers.
75 points from 25 items - a quarter of the 300 total, and the largest single block in the written exam. Each item is worth the same, so an easy matching item counts as much as a hard inference one.
No. No dictionaries or reference material are allowed in any part of the exam.
Guess and move on. There is no penalty for a wrong answer, and every item carries equal weight, so a minute spent on the hardest item costs you the two easy ones you did not reach.
Drill this section on its own, with instant scoring and an explanation for every answer.