German Practice Test: CEFR A1 to C2
A German practice test is useful when it names a CEFR band and a written skill, then lets you repeat that cell. My Path's General German bank is that grid: four skills, six levels, not an official certificate, not a school-leaving exam, and not a classroom substitute.
This is the product overview. Skill slices: German grammar practice online, German reading practice by CEFR level, German vocabulary practice from A1 to C2. Sitting walkthrough: learn German with practice tests.
What General German is on My Path
General German is one of the four language practice tests on the Education hub. The live bank is about 576 signed-off items. The grid is the same shape as General English, General Spanish, and General French: vocabulary, grammar, reading, and writing, each available at A1, A2, B1, B2, C1, and C2.
You open it from Education, not from a personality-test catalogue. Education is exam preparation — study, practise, pass — separate from IQ and from For Me. The German card lives on the Practice shelf. There is no live Exams-shelf German paper; named school-leaving qualifications that used to sit there are off.
The items are written German. No listening, no speaking. If your next official exam is built around an oral or an audio section, this bank will not rehearse those parts. It will rehearse the written core that still decides a large share of classroom marks.
Four skills, six levels
CEFR is a description of what a user can do with a language, not a brand of exam. A1 is survival: fixed phrases, simple forms, texts you can decode because the situation is familiar. C2 is control: you can follow dense argument, choose a precise word, and keep syntax stable when the sentence gets long. The four skills on this bank are the written slice of that scale.
Vocabulary is whether the word you need is actually available, at the right register, without a dictionary in your hand. An A1 sitting is not a C1 sitting with fewer items. The words themselves change. That is the point of a level-shaped bank, and it is why mixing bands in one sitting would make the score unreadable.
Grammar is whether the sentence you produce, or the sentence you are asked to complete, is structurally German rather than English with German words. Cases, verb position, and adjective endings are the kind of thing this skill is for. You do not get a published inventory of every construction in the bank; you get a skill filter and a level, and you work inside that cell.
Reading is comprehension of a passage at that band, not trivia about German exams. You are asked to do something with a text: recover meaning, follow a relation, choose the option that the passage actually supports. A1 reading and C1 reading are different activities even when both are "multiple choice."
Writing is still a written item — a completion, a transformation, a choice that only works if you can produce or recognise well-formed German. It is not a marked essay. Treat it as production-adjacent practice, not as a substitute for someone reading a paragraph you wrote.
The grid matters because German does not fail in one place. People who know the words still drop case. People who can decline a table still lose a relative clause when the verb waits until the end. A mixed sitting hides that. A named cell does not.
What this is not
My Path is not affiliated with the Goethe-Institut, ÖSD, or any other official German examining body. A score on General German is a score on our bank, at the band and skill you chose. It is not a certificate, not a scaled official result, and not evidence you can submit to a university or an employer as if it were.
It is also not Abitur. The German school-leaving exam is not in the live catalogue. If you need Abitur German, this product will not give you that paper. What it can give you is CEFR-shaped written practice, which is a different object with a different purpose.
It is not a full four-skills course. No audio, no speaking partner. Apps that drill listening and platforms that sell an official mock are doing other jobs. Use those if that is the gap. Use this when the gap is written German at a named level.
A practice test that implies it is the official exam wastes the hour, because you think you measured something you did not. General German measures the cell you sat: one CEFR band, the skills and topics you filtered, on our items.
One CEFR band per sitting
On language tests the axis is labelled Level, not Grade. You pick one CEFR band per sitting. Multi-band pools are refused. If you somehow select more than one level, the session rolls a single band — it does not blend A2 items into a B2 paper so the average looks kind.
That constraint is the product, not a missing feature. An A2 accusative item and a C1 nominalisation item can both be "German grammar" and still tell you nothing when they share a score. Why grade bands matter in practice is the same argument on the maths side of Education: complexity is not comparable across bands, so the sitting has to name one.
A practical way to use the constraint: sit the band you think you are in, then sit the band below if the first sitting was a slog, or the band above if it was comfortable. Do not chase a mixed-level paper that does not exist here. The comparison you want is this week's B1 grammar against last week's B1 grammar, not B1-ish against a soup of everything.
Between bands is a common place to be, not a bug. Sit both, on the same skill, a few days apart. Train in the one that produces a stable score with room to miss a few items. Visit the one that collapses; do not live there.
How a sitting is set up
From the Practice card you choose size, timer, feedback, and navigation before you start.
Size is 10, 20, or 60 questions. The default is 20. Ten is a probe: enough to see whether this cell is the right cell. Twenty is a normal session. Sixty is a long drill when you already know the cell and you want volume. None of these is an official paper length. They are practice sizes.
Timer is off, relaxed, or exam mode. Off is for learning the item type. Relaxed keeps a clock in view without turning the sitting into a sprint. Exam mode is for when you want the pressure of a limit. German reading in particular behaves differently under a clock; if you have never sat a timed reading at your band, do at least one before you trust an untimed score.
Feedback is immediate, or review at the end. Immediate is slower and better when you are still forming the rule. End-of-sitting is closer to a test. If you flip between them randomly, you will not know whether a better score is learning or a different mode.
Navigation is free, or forward-only. Free lets you flag and return. Forward-only is closer to a paper you cannot leaf back through. You can skip with "I don't know" and you can flag for review either way. Skipping is not a moral failure; it is how you keep a sitting from stalling on one item while the clock runs.
The topic filter is a real closed list, not a search box that pretends to understand you. Combined with the skill filter, it is how you stop sitting "German" in the abstract and start sitting, for example, B1 grammar. That is the difference between a score you can act on and a score you can only admire.
After you finish
The review screen is the part that turns a quiz into practice. You see the score, and you see correct, wrong, and skipped as separate piles. From there you can retry the wrong items, retry the flagged items, or retake the full sitting. Retry-wrong is the default next action when the sitting was at the right band. A full retake is for when you changed a setting — timer, size, feedback — and you want a clean comparison.
AI gap analysis is available if your plan includes the Education entitlement and you have tokens for it. It is a reading of the sitting, not a replacement for looking at the items you missed. If you skip the item review and only read a summary, you will get a fluent paragraph about your gaps and still not have retrieved the form that failed.
Mastery on the hub is per-topic, complexity 1–5, with a topic master badge at 80%. Other badges exist; they are light. The reason to sit is that a named cell, sat more than once, moves. Use mastery as a map: a high A2 vocabulary bar and a low A2 grammar bar is a study plan. A blended "German" percentage is not.
Who this is for
This bank fits if you can name a CEFR band, even roughly, and you want written practice you can repeat: course homework that does not give enough retrieval; German after a gap; extra written volume next to an official mock.
It fits less well if you have never seen German script, if your only goal is conversation this month, or if you need a named body's certificate. Start with a course, a tutor, or the official provider, and come back when there is a band to sit.
Teachers can set one band, one skill, 20 items, review at the end — a homework object you can discuss the following week.
Plans that include Education
Education is subscription-only. The sittings are the entitlement; you do not buy General German as a one-off. Only Student and Monthly include unlimited Education. For Me and Around Me include none, including during any trial those plans may have. Signup grace days do not open Education either.
| Plan | Price | Education |
|---|---|---|
| For Me | €4.99 / month | none |
| Student | €9.99 / month | unlimited |
| Around Me | €9.99 / month | none |
| Premium (Monthly) | €19.99 / month | unlimited |
GBP mirrors EUR at £4.99 / £9.99 / £19.99. PLN is zł24.99 / 49.99 / 99.99.
Student has no trial. The CTA is Get Student — €9.99/month. Monthly has a 7-day trial at €1.99. Student and Around Me cost the same and are alternatives, not a ladder: Student is For Me personality tests plus unlimited Education, without People/child profiles. Monthly is the full cabinet, including Education, with a much larger token budget and priority support.
If Education is the reason you are here, Student is the plan that matches. The longer walkthrough of that trade is the Student plan on My Path. How Education sits next to the rest of the cabinet is Education on My Path.
Sister languages on the same grid
If German is not your only language, the other three live on the same hub with the same sitting rules. English is a slightly larger bank (~577 items); French and Spanish match the ~576-item grid. Habits transfer: one band, a skill filter, 10 / 20 / 60, retry wrong. Scores do not. Sit each language in its own cell.
Start on the Education hub
Pick General German. Set Level to one CEFR band. Set a skill if you know the gap. Leave size at 20 unless you have a reason not to. Decide now whether you want a clock. Sit it. Retry the wrong items before you open a second sitting at a different band.
That is the product loop. Mastery, badges, and gap analysis hang off a sitting you can describe in one sentence.
Open Education when you are ready to sit a band. See plans if you still need Student or Monthly.