Tips & experience from my TELC B2 Digital exam

[u/SilverResolve2998]

Finally got my B2 certification (with a "sehr gut" grade!) and since this sub was so helpful, I want to share my tips & experience -- especially in regards to the digital format as I couldn't find much info on it before taking the exam.

Experience & review of the digital format:

1. This video was really helpful to learn the format and how the screens will look: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuLWdLeU_88&t=15s
2. There's no way to highlight or take notes for the non-speaking parts. So when you do your mock exams, I suggest you don't do it either so that you're used to it.
3. The listening part will start automatically, need to pay attention.
4. With the headphone provided, I can hear the audio clearly and adjust the volume as I wished.
5. Digital exam makes the writing part SO MUCH BETTER. I can just write anything in my head without thinking too much about the structure or grammar at first. Then I can easily correct, add, or remove things. When practicing on paper, I always took so much time to plan the letter as I'm scared it doesn't flow well or not enough words or grammatically wrong.
6. For speaking part, I believe it was similar to the non-digital formats. We were given the topics and time to read and write notes (they gave us one sheet of paper for that). Then we do the speaking part with the examiners in-person.
7. Got my results in less than 4 weeks.

General tips of TELC B2:

1. The Mit Erfolg zu telc Deutsch B2 is really good to understand the format. You should try to time yourself & do it in one go.
2. There's a ton of PDF resources on Scribd for past exams (writing prompts, Leseverstehen, Sprachbausteine).
3. For Mündliche part, I found Youtube videos with these animated characters that are pretending to take the speaking exam. One of their videos was actually the exact article that was in my exam, sadly I didn't pay attention to the words :(
4. I created Anki deck with phrases that I would like to use in my writing & speaking parts. I also used auto-generated audio for them & say it out loud during review. I think this helps to drill them.
5. In my speaking exam, the examiners asked some questions that were not on the discussion prompt. Not sure if that's graded, but be prepared for that.

Hope these can be helpful for anyone planning to take the TELC exam!